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BIG Designs a 21st Century Ruin for Oakland’s Coliseum

January 25, 2019 Eric Baldwin 0

After revealing the design for the new Oakland Athletics baseball stadium, Bjarke Ingels Group has proposed a new use for the existing 51-year-old Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The existing stadium will be overhauled into a new commercial and housing hub to create new economic, cultural, and recreational opportunities. The Coliseum will be converted into a sunken amphitheater at the heart of a new municipal park.

Jade + QA unveils “groundscraper” hotel in Chinese quarry

January 25, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Quarry hotel: Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental Hotel in China by Jade+QA

The Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental hotel has opened within a 88-metre-deep abandoned quarry near Shanghai. Designed by London- and Shanghai based Jade + QA, the 337-room hotel descends 16 storeys below ground level within the former quarry and is described by the studio as a groundscraper. Architect Martin Jochman created the concept for the quarry hotel while working

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