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Open Architecture designs conical Sun Tower as “a giant sundial”

November 4, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Chinese studio Open Architecture has completed the 50-metre-tall Sun Tower, which has a conical concrete form designed to follow the path of the sun, in Yantai, northeast China. Located in Yantai’s Yeda Development Zone, the cultural and community venue comprises exhibition spaces, a semi-outdoor theatre, a library, a viewing deck, a cafe and a bar. According

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BIG wraps Copenhagen headquarters with 140-metre-long concrete staircase

October 29, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Danish architecture studio BIG has completed its own concrete headquarters on an industrial harbour in Copenhagen. Situated along a pier in the city’s Nordhavn neighbourhood, the 27-metre-tall BIG HQ is wrapped by a protruding staircase that connects its seven floors. Expansive glazed openings arranged in a checkerboard pattern break up the monolithic form, which is

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Elías Rizo reinterprets vernacular Mexican cabin in concrete

October 28, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Mexican studio Elías Rizo Arquitectos has balanced a concrete house with a steep gabled roof on a hillside in Tapalpa, Mexico near Guadalajara. Known as El Mirador, the 2023 house measures 230 square metres (2475 square feet) and serves as an “ode” to the site’s preexisting landscape. “We wanted to design a house that became

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MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects adds concrete extension to Quebec spa

October 27, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Canadian studio MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects has expanded a thermal spa and baths complex in Quebec, adding a concrete plinth that houses an outdoor swimming pool and a hidden relaxation room. The Balnea Spa and Thermal Reserve is tucked away close to the ski town of Bromont in the Appalachian Mountains, southeast of Montreal and north

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Piers Taylor completes “low-key” rural retreat in Greek countryside

October 24, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

The founder of British practice Invisible Studio, architect Piers Taylor, has created the concrete House in an Olive Grove for his family in Corfu, Greece. Set amid a rural olive grove, the minimalist structure has been designed to accommodate the basic needs of shelter, shade and sleep, while offering flexibility for future modifications. It was

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OFIS Arhitekti converts brutalist printworks in Slovenia into offices

October 19, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti has transformed the brutalist structure of a former Ljubljana printing house into a block of offices that “preserves the memory of its former use”. The studio renovated the Mladinska Knjiga Printing House, which was originally designed in 1966 by Slovenian modernist Savin Sever and is considered an important example of post-war

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ETH Zurich explores novel fabrication method for light and reusable concrete staircase

October 14, 2024 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Material-saving and reversible construction approaches are showcased in the spine-like Cadenza concrete spiral staircase, created by researchers at technology university ETH Zurich working with ROK Architects. The Cadenza staircase is the latest contribution to the NEST building, a laboratory for experimental fabrication techniques that ETH Zurich shares with other research institutes in the Swiss city

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CCA shades Mexican baseball stadium with concrete umbrellas

October 10, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Mexican design studio Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica (CCA) has created a series of buildings in Jálpa de Mendez, Mexico, centred around a sports complex and baseball stadium shaded by monumental concrete umbrellas. The design of the stadium and surrounding complex was completed in 2023 to revitalize public life in Jálpa de Mendez and “renew the

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“Gives off a cool Bond villain vibe” says commenter

October 4, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a submerged concrete and glass house in California, designed by local studio Donaldson + Partners. Seven years in the making, the circular structure features large concrete parabolic arches and was envisioned as a “house for the twenty-first century”. “Those views, yet the house is so introverted” Commenters

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“Gives off a cool Bond villain vibe” says commenter

October 4, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a submerged concrete and glass house in California, designed by local studio Donaldson + Partners. Seven years in the making, the circular structure features large concrete parabolic arches and was envisioned as a “house for the twenty-first century”. “Those views, yet the house is so introverted” Commenters

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