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Call for Submissions: Best Architecture Drawings 2017

July 18, 2017 AD Editorial Team 0

In the thousands of posts we publish yearly, we have the privilege of seeing a large number of impressive architecture drawings. They are submitted by established practices, architecture students, artists and, occasionally, our readers. From precise, old-school hand drawings to architectural representation that pushes the boundary of collage, photography and digital sketching, drawings hold a particular intrigue in the hearts of architecture lovers. 

Nendo designs Tokyo store interior to look like “melted ice cream cake”

July 18, 2017 Lucy Wildsmith 0

Stacked soil walls resemble layers of cake in this chocolate and ice cream shop in Kichijoji, Tokyo, designed by Japanese studio Nendo. Glace et Chocolat has been designed as a sister store to adjoining patisserie À Tes Souhaits!. The interior features striped soil walls of varying tones, made to appear like a cut ice cream cake with layers of different

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MAD Architects Designs Futuristic Headquarters for the “World’s Fastest-Accelerating Electric Car”

July 18, 2017 Patrick Lynch 0

MAD Architects has unveiled designs for a new campus for Faraday Future (FF), makers of “the world’s fastest-accelerating electric car.” Located on the site of a former Naval base on Mare Island, adjacent to the Napa River in Northern California, the campus has been envisioned as a “zero-emission base” that will support not only the company’s research, development, and manufacturing headquarters, but also public outreach programming and ecological restoration of the river.

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BDP Selected to Restore London’s Iconic Palace of Westminster

July 18, 2017 AD Editorial Team 0

Following a two year-long bidding process, British-based international practice BDP (Building Design Partnership) have been chosen to restore and safeguard the future of the Palace of Westminster, the seat of the United Kingdom’s parliament. Outbidding Foster + Partners, Allies and Morrison, and HOK the project is expected to run into billions of pounds and could see the two chambers—the House of Commons and the House of Lords, plus all ancillary support staff—move out of the iconic building for to a decade.