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Recycled Shipping Containers as Backyard Swimming Pools
From high rises to housing to kiosks and disaster relief, shipping containers have become a more common architectural tool over the past few years. Now, Canada-based company Modpool has unveiled yet another use for shipping containers—backyard swimming pools and hot tubs.
AAU Anastas and GSA Research Laboratory use digital technologies to create self-supporting stone pavilion
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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esrawe and cadena imagines utopian-influenced interior for mexican ice-cream shop
a playful and imaginative concept has been given to gelatoscopio, a new ice cream shop in mexico city.
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Cabinet Gallery / Trevor Horne Architects
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.
Industrialized Ceramic Elements That Create a Variety of Urban Furnishings
In 1855 the German machinery manufacturer Carl Schlickeysen issued the patent he had recently created, the “Universal Patent Brickmaking machine”, the first machine created to manufacture bricks by extrusión as an industrial process.
#donotsettle Gives a Critical Tour of Perkins+Will’s Shanghai Natural History Museum
In #donotsettle’s latest escapade, architect Kris Provoost scrutinizes Perkins+Will’s Shanghai Natural History Museum. The boyishly charming and ever-inquisitive vlogger presents a unique POV tour of the unusual building situated in the middle of the Jing’an Sculpture Park.
Dome of Visions 3.0 / Atelier Kristoffer Tejlgaard
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.
Dome of Visions 3.0 / Atelier Kristoffer Tejlgaard
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.


