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Folded facades invited visitors into iADC Design Museum in Shenzhen

July 22, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
iADC Design Museum in Shenzhen's Bao'an district by Rocco Design Architects 

Hong Kong studio Rocco Design Architects has created the folded facades of the iADC Design Museum in Shapu to be a visual representation of Shenzhen’s “design spirit”. Rocco Design Architects designed the International Art Design Center (iADC) to anchor the Shapu Art Town, which has been built in Shenzhen’s Bao’an district. “The Museum is intended to be a visual

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Omer Arbel Office films concrete tree-like forms that will become House 75.9

July 21, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
House 75.9 near Surrey in British Columbia, Canada, by Omer Arbel Office

Designer Omer Arbel’s Vancouver studio has made a film documenting the concrete forms of House 75.9, which is being built on a hay farm near Surrey in British Columbia, Canada. The video shows the partially complete home that is being used as a testbed to continue Arbel’s experiments into the properties of concrete on the scale of

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SHoP Architects reveals Botswana Innovation Hub nearing completion in Gaborone

July 21, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Botswana Innovation Hub and HIV Research Lab, Gaborone, Botswana, by SHoP Architects 

US studio SHoP Architects and local studio Nutall Smith have released a set of photos showing their innovation hub and HIV research laboratory almost complete in Gaborone, Botswana. Being built on the outskirts of the Botswanan capital city near the Kalahari Desert, the three-fingered block will house offices and laboratories for several government departments as well as space

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Sameep Padora & Associates creates stepped temple in Andhra Pradesh

July 20, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Temple to Balaji & Varahaswamy in Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, India, by Sameep Padora & Associates

Sameep Padora & Associates has designed a Hindu temple complex partially surrounded by a moat for the village of Nandyal in Andhra Pradesh, India. The architecture studio created the stepped temples from local black limestone slabs to create a modern take on the traditional Hindu temple forms. “More than the temple being different from its predecessors, I

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Neil Dusheiko Architects contrasts pale-brick extension with charred-wood garden sauna

July 19, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
House and sauna in Cambridge by Neil Dusheiko Architects

A slender-brick extension wraps around this semi-detached house in Cambridge, which has been renovated by Neil Dusheiko Architects to also include a charred-wood sauna and gym in the garden. The London-based architecture studio refurbished the Victorian semi-detached home, called Sun Slice House, by adding a rear extension that wraps around one side of the building, in

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Fala Atelier combines geometric forms and concrete finishes in Porto micro-homes

July 17, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Porto micro-homes by Fala Atelier 

Architecture studio Fala Atelier has arranged six micro-homes around a communal garden in Porto, Portugal. The Portuguese studio renovated a pair of granite buildings to create a row of five 30-square-metre homes alongside a slightly larger detached house that all share a similar internal arrangement, materiality and finishes. Each home has a living area on

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Fala Atelier combines geometric forms and concrete finishes in Porto micro-homes

July 17, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Porto micro-homes by Fala Atelier 

Architecture studio Fala Atelier has arranged six micro-homes around a communal garden in Porto, Portugal. The Portuguese studio renovated a pair of granite buildings to create a row of five 30-square-metre homes alongside a slightly larger detached house that all share a similar internal arrangement, materiality and finishes. Each home has a living area on

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Angelo Renna proposes turning San Siro into tree-covered coronavirus memorial

July 17, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
San Siro coronavirus memorial by Angelo Renna 

Italian architect Angelo Renna has suggested planting 35,000 cypress trees in Milan’s San Siro stadium to turn it into a public memorial for those that lost their lives during the coronavirus pandemic. Renna made the proposal to save the iconic San Siro stadium, which has been home to Italian football clubs AC Milan and Inter Milan since 1926, from demolition

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Angelo Renna proposes turning San Siro into tree-covered coronavirus memorial

July 17, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
San Siro coronavirus memorial by Angelo Renna 

Italian architect Angelo Renna has suggested planting 35,000 cypress trees in Milan’s San Siro stadium to turn it into a public memorial for those that lost their lives during the coronavirus pandemic. Renna made the proposal to save the iconic San Siro stadium, which has been home to Italian football clubs AC Milan and Inter Milan since 1926, from demolition

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Kitrvs winery’s facades built from 13,596 individually rotated bricks

July 16, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Kitrvs winery's parametric facades built using augmented bricklaying by Gramazio Kohler Research at ETH Zürich

Researchers from Swiss university ETH Zürich have created the facades of a winery in Greece from 13,596 individually placed bricks using a technology they have named “augmented bricklaying”. Built at the Kitrvs winery in Pydna near the foot of Mount Olympus, the building will be used to process and store wine from the local vineyards. Its

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