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Königsberger Vannucchi designs São Paulo’s tallest skyscraper as “monolith carved into the landscape”

March 10, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Local studio Königsberger Vannucchi Arquitetos Associados has completed Platina 220, the tallest skyscraper in São Paulo, which has a central block flanked by three shorter volumes. The skyscraper has been completed in Brazil after eight years of construction as part of a 2014 master plan to redevelop parts of the city. It is located in

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BIG and ICON design 3D-printed campground hotel in Marfa

March 8, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Danish studio BIG and 3D-construction firm ICON are designing a desert campground and housing project called El Cosmico for hotelier Liz Lambert, in Marfa, Texas. The project for Lambert will cover 65 acres in the west Texas town and consist of lodging for the hotel with amenities as well as permanent housing. Using ICON’s 3D-printing

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Selldorf Architects to lead Art Gallery of Ontario’s seventh expansion

March 6, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Selldorf Architects, Diamond Schmitt and Two Row Architect have released designs for a gallery to be added to the complex of buildings at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. The design incorporates a brand-new building on top of a pre-existing parking lot, next to the Frank Gehry-designed 2008 expansion. Called Dani Reiss Modern and

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New York designers create garden structure from repurposed architectural mockup

March 3, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

New York design studio New Affiliates and architect and historian Samuel Stewart-Halevy have created a prototype of their Testbeds project, which repurposes architectural models used for large projects. Originally announced in 2020, the team has completed a garden shed, greenhouse and community space in the New York City borough of Queens that was made partly

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Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly dies aged 78

March 3, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Breaking news: Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly, who designed hundreds of projects including skyscrapers 432 Park Avenue and the Walkie Talkie, has passed away aged 78. Viñoly passed away early today in New York City, according to an announcement made by Elisa Carrió, an Argentine politician and friend of Viñoly’s. The news was reported in Latin American

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SOM tops Kansas City airport with giant timber-clad canopy

March 1, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

International architecture studio SOM has completed a terminal for Kansas City International Airport that features a large wood-clad canopy. The SOM-designed terminal opened last week in Kansas City, Missouri, replacing a three-terminal structure that served as the city’s primary airport since 1972. It comprises a two-storey structure with airline facilities, gates and concourses. Each of the

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Thomas Randall-Page completes Cody Dock Rolling Bridge in London

February 28, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

British designer Thomas Randall-Page has installed a footbridge in south London that is made from weathering steel and oak and rotates via manual levers to let boats pass. Called Cody Dock Rolling Bridge, it is part of a masterplan by London studio PUP Architects that is reviving the former Victorian dock on the River Lea

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Travelling exhibition From the Ground Up highlights unsung Black architects

February 27, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

The racial paradigm in the United States means that Black architects must continue to operate against the grain in order to get projects built, says From the Ground Up exhibition curator Hasaan Kirkland. Kirkland believes that barriers to entry and recognition continue to disadvantage people of colour in architecture, making it important to highlight the

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Erre Q Erre replaces parking lot with stone pavilion in Mexico City

February 24, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Local architecture studio Erre Q Erre has created the Environmental Culture Center, a stone-clad pavilion and garden that replaces a parking lot in Bosque de Chapultepec, a large park in the centre of Mexico City. The 90,000-square-metre project was designed as an “environmental node” to strengthen the park’s environment biologically and culturally by adding more

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“Every work is very different” in organic architecture says Javier Senosiain

February 21, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Organic architecture is less a style or school and more a set of principles, Mexican architect Javier Senosiain and Noguchi Museum curator Dakin Hart tell Dezeen in this interview. Senosiain calls his work organic architecture – a term first coined by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright – but said that the term is mainly a

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