AAU Anastas and GSA Research Laboratory use digital technologies to create self-supporting stone pavilion

May 7, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Three hundred individually cut and mutually supporting stone pieces form this latticed canopy in Jericho, which was developed as a prototype to demonstrate new possibilities for building with stone. Stonematters is part of an exploration into stone construction techniques developed by Scales – the research department of Bethlehem studio AAU Anastas – and the Geometrie

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Cabinet Gallery / Trevor Horne Architects

May 7, 2017 Cristobal Rojas 0

Charles Asprey, who financed the development, and the directors of Cabinet Gallery, Martin McGeown and Andrew Wheatley, had been looking for nearly a decade to find a permanent gallery space.  They eventually found a site in the former Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens a venue for music, dining and art established in 1729.  The site was the irregular footprint of the demolished Lord Clyde Pub, next to a former service road.  Working with friends of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens and Lambeth Council Trevor Horne Architects were able to consolidate the site and enlarge the public park by incorporating the road.

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Dome of Visions 3.0 / Atelier Kristoffer Tejlgaard

May 7, 2017 Rayen Sagredo 0

Dome of Visions 3.0 is the third dome in a series of experiments. DoV is an experiment that aims to create knowledge about how it affects our architecture and our well-being to build inside a greenhouse and work with a passive and solar heated space as a building envelope that generates a third climate, as the majority of the area we use.

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Dome of Visions 3.0 / Atelier Kristoffer Tejlgaard

May 7, 2017 Rayen Sagredo 0

Dome of Visions 3.0 is the third dome in a series of experiments. DoV is an experiment that aims to create knowledge about how it affects our architecture and our well-being to build inside a greenhouse and work with a passive and solar heated space as a building envelope that generates a third climate, as the majority of the area we use.

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West Virginia home by GriD Architects perches above Potomac River

May 6, 2017 John Trujillo 0

Maryland-based GriD Architects has taken cues from vernacular Appalachian houses and local rock formations to create this West Virginia home on a forested hillside. Having lost their original West Virginia home to a fire, a couple commissioned GriD architects to build a new residence on the rural site. The clients asked for a house that

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