Month: September 2021

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Lipton Plant Architects converting bunker into holiday home with “bomb blast” windows

September 2, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Holiday home in world war two bunker

UK studio Lipton Plant Architects is set to convert a windowless world war two bunker in Dorset, England, into a holiday home. The studio has won planning permission to create a two-bedroom holiday rental property within the bunker, which was originally built in 1939 but has long been abandoned. “We are taking a windowless concrete

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“The Art of Pattern is the Legacy of our Grandparents”: Koen Mulder on the Brick Bond as a Composition Tool

September 2, 2021 Fabian Dejtiar 0

“Welcome to this strange book. With all the drawings, it might appear like a manual, but it isn’t. The book is as much about joints as it is about pieces. Above all, it seeks the order that is inherent in things“. These words are part of the introduction to Koen Mulder’s book, “The lively surface: Masonry associations as a pattern art and tool of composition”. Available in German, the 160-page manual, rigorously illustrated, presents a universe of possible pattern variations that can be created when you start designing.

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Pirelli Learning Center / Onsite Studio

September 2, 2021 Alexandria Bramley 0

The new corporate building is located inside a historic industrial neighborhood north of Milan, Bicocca, transformed at the end of the 80s into a new residential and services district following a master plan designed by Vittorio Gregotti.

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Bicycles and Electric Scooters Parking Space / m2 arquitectas

September 2, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

In recent years, users of large office buildings are increasingly demanding safe proper space to bike or scooter from their homes to their workplaces. Barcelona city has a generous network of bicycle lanes, but it is now time to update the new mobility systems interiors that have already invaded the city. Colonial Inmobiliaria is committed to this new model of sustainable transport and based on this premise, it detects the obsolescence of space in the basement of a building that is being underused as a storage room.

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Minsheng Wharf Block E15-3 / EID Architecture

September 1, 2021 Collin Chen 0

Located at Minsheng Wharf in Pudong of Shanghai, Minsheng Wharf Block E15-3 designed by Atelier Ping Jiang/ EID Arch is a new waterfront development intended for urban regeneration. Primarily consisted of grade A office space and amenities, the project site is bookended in-between century-old industrial silo warehouse, historical houses with landmark status, and a neoclassical luxurious residential neighborhood designed by American architect Robert Stern. With a GFA of 38,240 sqm, Minsheng Wharf Block E15-3 aims to create an urban structure that mediates and reconnects the complex urban conditions.