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Woods Bagot and Peddle Thorp Win Auckland Skyscraper Competition

October 9, 2018 Eric Baldwin 0

Woods Bagot and Peddle Thorp have been announced as the winners of the international competition to create a new high-rise tower in central Auckland. Drawn from five finalists including Warren and Mahoney, Cox Architecture, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Elenberg Fraser, the winning design will stand 180m high. The building design is inspired by New Zealand’s natural landscape and the country’s unique geology and fauna.

BIG builds “winding wall” of affordable housing in Copenhagen

October 9, 2018 Amy Frearson 0

Bjarke Ingels’ firm has completed Dortheavej Residence, an affordable housing development in Copenhagen made up of prefabricated modules stacked on top of one another. BIG designed the five-storey building for Danish non-profit housing association Lejerbo, as part of a masterplan developed by urban designer Jan Gehl. It creates 66 new homes for low-income residents ranging between

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Treow Brycg House / Omar Gandhi Architect

October 9, 2018 Diego Hernández 0

Located adjacent to the wild landscape of Kingsburg Beach on the south shore of Nova Scotia, set amongst tall grasses, roaming deer and the raw scent of the sea. The dark silhouette of the fortress-like structure, one of few things seen through the thick fog. Leaning forward with a canted back shell inspired by local gambrel-rooved barns, the residence braces itself for the unpredictable Nova Scotian weather.

Leth & Gori builds pop-up house on staircase of OMA-designed BLOX in Copenhagen

October 9, 2018 India Block 0

The work of architecture studio Leth & Gori is currently on show at the Danish Architecture Centre in Copenhagen, in a full-scale model house built on top of a staircase. Copenhagen-based Leth & Gori has installed its exhibition The Art of Building in the Stair Gallery of the architecture centre, which forms part of the new BLOX complex designed by OMA. In

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A House between a Museum and a Kitchen / Jesús Aparicio Guisado

October 9, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

The renovation considers dividing the apartment into two areas: the servant and the served spaces. The first one is developed in the rear area of the house, taking advantage of the lighting and ventilation through the interior patios of the building. The only room structured with furniture is located along the main façade and facing to the most important art gallery since the XVIII century in Madrid.