From the architect: The task, transform the outdated fortress-like 1960s Neuberger Hall (currently named Fariborz Maseeh Hall) into a modern, interactive, light-filled academic hub. The five-story building was originally built in the Brutalist-style, a common campus aesthetic which reflected the pragmatic and inwardly focused buildings...
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As part of Boston Dynamics’ Early Adopter Program, Foster + Partners has been exploring the use of Spot®, the agile robot that climbs stairs and traverses rough terrain with ease as a tool to capture and monitor progression on-site. The practice’s Applied Research + Development...
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Despite of the limitations caused by stepped terrains for design and construction, they also provide an opportunity to rethink about the site and the mass relation. Instead of compressing the volume on the nearest step of the site to the road and in order to...
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CRA unveils Caffetteria, an innovative project in Lavazza's brand-new Flagship Store in London’s Regent Street. New technologies – from germicidal materials to lights with disinfecting properties – are employed to rethink the quintessential Italian coffee experience with one objective in mind: rebuilding social proximity...
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Rotterdam’s skyline is about to receive a new distinctive silhouette: Barcode Architects’ CasaNova, a 110-meter-tall triangular residential tower at Wijnhaven 65. The tower will provide a boost to the area’s revitalization with a transparent plinth on all sides, opening the ground floor activity to the...
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The plan launched to great fanfare in 2015. Copenhagen would plant 100,000 new trees in the Danish capital by 2025. Like many similar tree-planting pledges, the commitment was pitched as a key prong of its plan to reduce carbon emissions. But six years later, many...
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Marking the start of the Milan Design Week 2021, Artemide has launched the latest addition to its range of innovative lighting solutions - an understated portable battery-powered lamp named Takku...
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Tokyo based studio KIAS renovated an existing residence into a lush flower shop. ‘sorcery dressing ephemeral’ in daikanyama, Tokyo is located near shibuya at the leisurely neighborhood surrounded by café, restaurants, and high brand fashion stores. the existing two-story concrete building was originally used as...
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Situated in a small plot in Pegeia – Paphos, a 100sqm house stands above ground, enclosing outdoor spaces into a functional circuit of semi covered and covered areas, exposing “Akamas peninsula” plants and rocky grounds. The design suggests living in between (the inside and outside space). Plants...
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Located at the southernmost point of the Norwegian coastline, where the sea storms from the north and south meet, the project is situated at a unique confluence. Marine species flourish here in the both briny and brackish waters to produce a natural abundance in biodiversity...
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What’s the last best place for the world’s largest pedestrian bridge? If your answer is suspended 500 feet over a river gorge, you may have a new post-Covid bucket list destination. That is the predicament for the newly-opened 516 Arouca, which this week began accepting thrill-seekers...
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Kengo Kuma and Associates, together with OUD+ Architects, has recently been awarded first prize in the competition to redesign the Gërmia building into a concert hall and will lead the conversion of Prishtina’s architectural icon into a cultural landmark for Kosovo. The proposal preserves the existing...
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Studio Zhu-Pei has completed the Imperial Kiln Museum in the porcelain capital of the world, Jingdezhen, China. The museum is comprised of more than half a dozen brick vaults whose forms mirror the shape of a traditional kiln. These vaults, each one uniquely sized, are...
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In Western England, the City of Bristol has been working for years on partnerships and schemes designed to improve environmental quality and reduce emissions. The hard work paid off in 2015 when Bristol was honored with the award of European Green Capital by the European...
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Located at the intersection of St. Leonard and Pi?tkowska Streets, the building designed by Easst Architects has both commercial and residential function. It was built on a degraded space that had previously been a parking lot for years. In the design assumptions, when thinking about...
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With the increase of urban density and the decrease in the availability of land, the verticalization phenomenon has intensified in cities all over the world. Similar to the vertical growth of buildings — which is often a divisive issue for architects and urban planners —...
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Read MoreArchitecture studio ABIBOO has unveiled its plans for the creation of the first sustainable city on Mars. The agency hopes to have it completed and ready for residents come 2100, with construction beginning 2054. Located on Tempe Mensa, the city of Nüwa is expected to feature...
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Wooden and ceramic louvres that reference musical scores will decorate the Shenzhen Conservatory of Music, a group of buildings that Spanish studio EMBT has designed in China. The 129,700-square-metre complex will be built on the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Shenzhen campus and include a theatre,...
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This spatial installation is an artwork by MAT Office delivered to the 2019 UABB?Shenzhen) XICHONG SUB-VENUE; and the exhibiting topic is “post-collective era”. The artwork was conceived in 30 days, 7 days installed on-site and will lasts 90 days for the biennale. Text following description...
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This bold home has been conceived to be dramatic, mysterious and delicate all at once. Cubic in form, the floating box structure adds an air of mystery and intrigue as it sits suspended in the street. Sheathed in the ancient Japanese method of shou sugi ban, it allows...
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Across the world, urban clusters have —to a greater or lesser extent— social and economic differences. Reflected in space, these imbalances of income and access to education, health, sanitation, and infrastructure generate ruptures more or less visible —although drastically felt. Although a daily reality for some,...
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Housed in a monumental building on Hong Kong’s waterfront, the new museum of visual culture is due to open to the public later this year The building for Hong Kong’s new M+ Museum – dedicated to visual culture of all kinds, including art, architecture and moving...
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Guided by the philosophy of live design, FAINA has stopped frequent production of items during 2020. Their collection will now be renewed twice a year — during the Winter and Summer solstice, days with powerful terrestrial and solar energy. “Living design, like all living things, depends...
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The design and architecture studio used light and material to create an immersive clubbing experience at Potent Over the last year, nightclubs – like most nightlife or entertainment venues – have been hit hard financially by lockdowns and social distancing restrictions brought on by the pandemic....
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In the fishing village of Shiroka, Casanova + Hernandez’ project provides an inclusive public realm inspired by local carpet weaving. Rotterdam-based Casanova + Hernandez Architects has completed a large-scale public realm redevelopment project for the Albianian fishing village of Shiroka. Located on Shkodra Lake, near the...
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A humble path seductively leads to a filtered stonewall with a mysterious presence. There are no windows and no reference to any grand entrance. Rather, a dense and naturally grown vegetated surroundings filtering the Agahnia house, to its almost disappearance. A door opens to discover...
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Dutch artist, architect, and one-man collective Atelier Van Lieshout (Joep van Lieshout) is well known for his provocative sculptures and anti-capitalist views that frequently show up in his work. Now, Lieshout has partnered with developer RED Company to design a Brutalist “inspired” neighborhood in Rotterdam. Lieshout,...
Dutch artist, architect, and o...
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Lithuanian practice Balcytis Studija has completed a new bus station in Vilkaviškis, a small city in the south-west of the country. Situated across from the Vilkaviškis Cultural Centre, the new 11,300 sq m station project was designed to function both as an efficient piece of transport...
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The wooden furniture piece by Agata Nowak features an ‘offline pocket’ for smartphones, to help people disconnect Polish designer Agata Nowak has launched Troost, a bedside table fitted with an ‘offline pocket’ to block wifi and mobile signals – in order to help people ‘switch off’...
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Valencia-based creative consultancy Masquespacio has completed its latest interior design project for Kaikaya, the first tropical sushi restaurant in Valencia, Spain. The restaurant’s founder is a Valencian almost converted into a Brazilian and passionate surfer, so the design combines Japanese elements with elements of Brazilian...
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There are plans to revitalise Paris' famous Champs-Élysées by making it more pedestrian-friendly with exciting new attractions, including a seasonal urban beach and an ice-rink around the Arc de Triomphe. While many tourists consider the Champs-Élysées “la plus belle avenue du monde” — the most beautiful...
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Starting from a question “How do you make a family, each of which already has a busy and fairly dense activity in the midst of the hustle bustle of the city of Jakarta, when they come home they can experience bonding each other in a...
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The world is changing faster than any of us could expect, architects must transform or risk becoming obsolete along with their designs. This project continues the trend of trying to incorporate as many sustainable and eco-friendly principles as possible. The project is located in the south...
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Originally designed by Pierre Paulin in 1971 for French President George Pompidou’s smoking lounge at the Elysée Palace, Ligne Roset partnered with Paulin in 2007 to bring this iconic design into people’s homes. As suggested by its name, soft, organic contours and firm seating comfort characterize...
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Vacons Architects delivered a modern office design for technology start-up, One Mount Group, located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. One Mount Group – a leading startup of technology, nurture young talents and keep up with the trend. That is an idea that makes the...
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Since the collapse of communism thirty years ago, Warsaw’s hyper-centre has become a testing ground for all sorts of rapidly expanding corporate architectures. At the same time, public space seems to have been frozen and barely evolved in its monumental scale and socialist form. It...
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Diaspora is an inspiring single-story house located in South Korea, designed in 2018 by L’eau Design. ‘Diaspora’ has the meaning of national dispersion or separation in its etymology. It also refers to the residing place and community where the members of an ethnic group have scattered across different pats of...
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From the architects: In a bustling tech innovation campus in Binan City, Philippines, finding a way to connect with faith is essential to ensure personal wellbeing and growth. Part of a larger university master plan, also designed by CAZA, La Salle Church weaves together culture and...
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Located in the preserved Danish forest, EFFEKT’s Camp Adventure project grants visitors the opportunity to experience nature in a new and interesting way. Copenhagen-based architecture practice planned the public pathway in such a way that disturbances and damage to the natural environment are minimized. The key focus of the project...
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International design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Bouygues Immobilier have unveiled the design of ILOW, a new building in Paris that aims to act as a bridge between La Défense, the French capital’s financial powerhouse, and the nearby Tours Nuages (Cloud Towers), one of...
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Design collective Mutual Atelier has won the competition to create a new Central Square in Rahovec, Kosovo. One of numerous proposals that explored new solutions to the square, the design was selected for its elegant formal solution and careful consideration of Rahevec’s city center. The scheme's circular form...
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The very familiar task of renovating and extending an ageing, unavailing nineteenth-century Victorian terrace in inner-Melbourne quickly developed itself into a larger and more concerning conversation about how our constantly changing society lives and responds to the ageing and preservation of architecture of the past. Our response...
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As the cultural, academic and civic centre of China, Beijing has also developed into one of the world’s centres of communication and scientific research. With its own station on Line 15 of the Beijing Subway, the International Exhibition Centre is located next to the city’s...
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Studio Ben Allen Designed Flexible Furniture to Provide Extra Space for a London Flat Designed for a flat in London’s Barbican Estate, the brief was to find space for a children’s bedroom within the existing layout of a one bedroom apartment, a workspace to enable working...
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Apple opens Apple Marina Bay Sands, the first Apple Store to sit directly on the water. Appearing as a sphere floating on the iridescent Marina Bay, the store introduces a new and captivating retail experience at one of the most iconic locations in Singapore. Entirely surrounded...
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BIG–Bjarke Ingels Group and WeWork’s collaboration and belief in creativity manifest through the first WeGrowschool in New York City. The interactive learning landscape supports a conscious approach to education, nurturing the growth, spirit, and mind of the 21st-century child. The 10,000 sqft learning universe for...
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A Finnish building company NEAPO has reported about an outstanding sea voyage. Its new three-storey office building, 33 metres long and 12 metres tall, was transferred in one piece by water to its plot on Hirvensalo Island near Turku, Finland. The voyage of this 220-tonnes...
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Several malls in China feature indoor artificial beaches – Chengdu’s New Century Global Centre, for example, houses a seaside resort within its 1.76 million sq-m. And yet the high-end King Glory Mall, in Shenzhen, recently opened a spot that might provide the same oasis-like feeling...
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HORSELAND is a public space project comprising a combination of landscape design and different outdoor facilities in a single space, such as sport features, playscape features for kids and leisure features for adults. https://www.youtube.com/embed/lW1i68ss0Ic From the architect: It is located in the hilly topographies of Chongqing, positioned...
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Brazilian architecture studio AMBIDESTRO has designed an office interior for Zavagna Gralha Advogados, a Porto Alegre based law firm. Located in one of the noblest corners of the city, the office has 520 sqm (5,597 sqft) of a unique experience of working and collaborating. AMBIDESTRO: “As a...
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