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A double-leveled café and bar ‘Iskra’ (‘Sparkle’), serving grilled chicken and a variety of sparkling wines, is located in one of the most authentic neighborhoods in Moscow. Kitai-Gorod is a part of the old city, once hidden behind the vallum that adjoined the Kremlin. Pokrovka 38A is a classicist building constructed in the late XVIII century that used to be the private residence of a noble Moscow family. After the building was nationalized by the Soviet government, a light and spacious bedroom with a vaulted ceiling — taking up 35 sq m of the ground floor — was turned into a local dairy shop. This space is now Iskra’s upper-level café with a secret bar (ironically called ‘Public Bar’) occupying the basement beneath.

didzis jaunzems designs a load bearing structure, which is easy and quick to assemble and dismantle for pavilion re-use in different locations.

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The Atelier House at Charlote Village, affectionately called by the working group as “warehouse”. The building is settled in an unusual site at Presidente Prudente city, whose dimensions are 7.00 x 21.00m, what has been taking place in the surrounding neighborhoods to the downtown area as a quick response to the high price of the land.

the sculpture’s precarious balanced form, half buried beneath the ground, half projecting into the air, demonstrates the unstable nature of the crown.

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When applying for architecture jobs, it’s often necessary to self-evaluate your skill at various tasks. However, with many of these tasks–especially software–it can be difficult to give an accurate assessment since you often don’t know what you don’t know about the skill. This article, originally published by ArchSmarter as “Where Are You on the Path to Revit Mastery?” will help you come to an objective assessment of your skill level with one of the most complex and powerful pieces of software available.

Eight minutes. That is the length of time UK-based company Ten Fold Engineering’s self-deploying structures can transform itself from a portable rectangular container into a fully habitable space that can be used for either the residential or service sector. Transported by truck, the company offers a shelter that is energy efficient, eliminates labor costs, and is highly customizable in an effort to revolutionize the possibilities of prefabrication and construction. 

SUMMARY has taken the constructive system of sewer pipes and re-designed it in order to make it habitable, maintaining stability of the canalization shells.

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Michiru Tanaka Designs Patterned LED Tiles inspired by Japanese Craftmanship.

The Mulegn Powerplant is located approximately in the middle of the flat stretch of the Ragn d’Err stream between the Kantonsstrasse and the inflow into the Gelgia river, on the northern side of the stream. Access to the building is via the main road running parallel to Ragn d’Err stream. The building is designed so that it is as safe as possible in the event of flood.

Zaha Hadid Architects’ new passenger terminal for Beijing Airport (currently known as Beijing Daxing International Airport) is poised to become the largest aviation hub in the world. The vast structure, defined by five limbs spreading out from a central core, will cover an area of 313,000 square meters. It has been reported that each “arm” will use images from Chinese culture, including “silk, tea, porcelain, farmlands, and Chinese gardens.”