From the architect: The task, transform the outdated fortress-like 1960s Neuberger Hall (currently named Fariborz Maseeh Hall) into a modern, interactive, light-filled academic hub.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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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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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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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...
Located at the southernmost po...
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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...
Studio Zhu-Pei has completed t...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Tokyo is going to be a city with the most impressive public restrooms. Within the Tokyo Toilet Project founded by the Nippon Foundation, 16 world-renowned architects, including Tadao Ando and Shigeru Ban, were invited to design 17 public toilet facilities around the Shibuya ward. “Public toilets...
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A decorative roof and curved weathered-steel wall will enclose the Amersham Vent Shaft that Grimshaw has designed for the High Speed Two railway. Built within a road junction in the town of Amersham, England, the cylindrical headhouse will become one of the only visible elements of...
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Modern two-storey residence designed by Marcelo Sodré situated in São Paulo, Brazil. In this design, contemporary style, the architect Marcelo Sodré, created a townhome with integrated around a central landscaped courtyard environment, providing privacy and keeping the modernity of the work over the years. The topography initially...
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OPA designs its faceted ‘shapeshifter’ house outside reno, nevada for two art collectors and dealers specializing in contemporary art and art of the american west. Following the clients’ move from the arid high desert outside of reno to a less remote site overlooking the city,...
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In collaboration with AKT II and Hilson Moran, Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled a new digital architectural platform for creating sustainable modular homes in Roatán Próspera, a semi-autonomous Economic Development Hub set to break ground on the north bay of Honduras’ island of Roatán. The platform...
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The architecture and design of Sangini House explore ways to respond to the context and spirit of the heritage in which it stands. This office building for the Sangini group characterizes new strategies for a flexible, column-free space that creates a new urban venture in...
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Although deploying four months later than normal (due to an obvious, unforeseen roadblock), the Metropolitan Museum of Arthas revealed its 2020 Roof Garden commission, tapping Mexican artist Héctor Zamora to drop a timely intervention across the New York City institution’s outdoor terrace. Lattice Detour will open...
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A remarkable private house designed by SOMA, built in 2017 in Lebanon. On the North side of Jounieh Bay, where the mountains plunge into the sea, Calypso hovers over the water like a crystal emerging from the rocks. Nestled on a small strip of rugged...
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Taizhou Contemporary Art Museum is situated inside the Shamen Grain Depot Cultural and Creative Park with unique historical context. Taking advantage of a large area of existing factories and warehouses in the former Soviet Union style within the park, the new project aims at reintegrating...
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A courtyard with a swimming pool lies at the heart of this inward-facing dwelling in northern Mexico by architecture studio Cadaval & Solà-Morales. Casa Ombra is 608-square-metre house located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, a town within the sprawling metropolis of Monterrey. The property is approximately...
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A new wall is making headlines - and it is not a border wall. The unveiling of the “largest living wall in Europe”, the Citicape House by Sheppard Robson, in London aims to combat global warming and growing greenhouse gases and improve local air cleanliness...
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Commanding a prominent corner site in the center of Gwanggyo, a new galleria designed by OMA / chris van duijn has opened its doors to the public. Marking the sixth outpost of Korea’s first and largest upscale department store franchise, the huge stone-like volume intends...
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Plants sprout from coolers and plastic pots. There is reflective silver mylar everywhere, and animal skins. On the kitchen shelf cookbooks offer instructions on foraging and recipes call for cockroaches. This is the Singaporean apartment of the future as imagined by the U.K. design studio...
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Crossboundaries’ latest installation is imagined as a fun inducing manifesto of future schools, where you can experience and imagine little glimpses of its principles. The installation is a part of the group exhibition for 2019 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale. The group exhibition contains five installations in...
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The Coronavirus pandemic has been taking over the news for a few months now, and has imposed unimaginable changes on the daily lives of the world’s entire population. Although the situation is worrying, and rather devastating in some cases, being aware of the virus's behavior...
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The underground railway service in Helsinki was opened in 1982 and consisted of a single line, which ran from the city centre to the eastern suburbs, where it then divided into separate branches. Plans already existed in the 1990s to extend the underground in a...
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This was the second “Low Cost House Series” project by JYA-RCHITECTS, sponsored by Korea Child Fund to improve a living environment for low-income families. The house was situated in a small rural village of Jangheung town in southeastern province of Korean peninsula and was a...
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The site can reach downtown Yangjiang via S365 Provincial Highway (approximately 25 minutes drive), Yangdong District via Shixing Road (approximately 15 minutes drive), Jiangcheng District via Yabai Line West (approximately 35 minutes by car), and seashore in the east. It has extremely convenient traffic conditions...
The site can reach downtown Ya...
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A new wall is making headlines — and it is not a border wall. The unveiling of the “largest living wall in Europe”, the Citicape House by Sheppard Robson, in London aims to combat global warming and growing greenhouse gases and improve local air cleanliness...
A new wall is making headlines...
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Designed by Finnish practice JKMM, Amos Rex – a major new art museum in Helsinki – is completed. Amos Rex continues the work of Amos Anderson Art Museum (1965-2017) that was established at the bequest of Amos Anderson (1878-1961), a highly regarded Finnish philanthropist, art...
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Studio Symbiosis, a multidisciplinary architectural firm, has recently proposed a serie of solutions to clean up Delhi’s air, to fight against the already pervasive pollution: The inhabitants breathe 25 times more toxic air than the limit set by the World Health Organization. The first part...
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The Danish architecture firm COBE, headed by Dan Stubbergaard, has designed a new multi-purpose building for the world-famous sports brand adidas’ corporate headquarters in Germany. The building was officially opened last year, and now, the photos have been released for publication. In 2019, the iconic sports...
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Located in Cinere, just outside Indonesia’s capital city of Jakarta, the two-story Flick House stands out with its contemporary brick facade and its focus on sustainability. Jakarta-based DELUTION designed the residence for a family of six who wanted their home to be "humble and warm"...
Located in Cinere, just outsid...
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