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Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal to star in movie about Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House

February 8, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

The story of Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House is set for the silver screen, with Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges set to play the famous modernist architect. The feature film will follow the relationship between Van der Rohe and his client, Chicago nephrologist Edith Farnsworth, during the design and construction of the glass-box dwelling.

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Movie shows climbers’ shelter by OFIS being airlifted into remote Alpine spot

February 8, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

In this movie, Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti shows how the tiny Alpine cabin it designed for climbers was helicoptered into its precarious mountain-top position.  OFIS Arhitekti designed the Kanin Winter Cabin to withstand extreme weather conditions on Mount Kanin and was commissioned by the Slovenian Mountaineer Association. The cabin measures just less than 10 square metres but is designed to sleep

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AR Design Studio replaces landslide-damaged holiday home with cluster of larch-clad blocks

February 8, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

This holiday home on the West Dorset coast is made up of four irregular larch-clad blocks, and was designed by AR Design Studio to replace a house destroyed in a landslide. Hampshire-based AR Design Studio was originally asked to extend an existing holiday home on a cliff top on the coastline of Lyme Regis. But half way through

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Moon Hoon creates housing with owl-like features in South Korea

January 4, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

A concrete frame angles out from a window at the top of this irregularly shaped housing block in South Korea, which was designed by architect Moon Hoon to resemble an owl. South Korean architect Moon Hoon designed the four-storey Busan Times building for the city of Busan and included plenty of windows to offer views across the urban landscape. A series

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Murmuur Architecten uses engineered wood and tiles for holiday home in rural Belgium

January 3, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Dark clay panels and light green tiles cover the cross-laminated timber structure of this holiday home created by Murmuur Architecten for a spot in the Flemish Ardennes countryside. The Belgian studio designed the holiday home named Buikberglos in Horebeke, a municipality in Belgium’s East Flanders. The structure is built from cross-laminated timber – a strong type of engineered wood that is becoming

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Grey brick Amsterdam townhouse by 31/44 Architects features large rooflight and sunken living room

January 3, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

James Jeffries of 31/44 Architects has designed a spacious and light-filled Amsterdam townhouse for his family, faced in grey brickwork and illuminated inside by a large skylight. Architect Jeffries, who co-founded of the London- and Amsterdam- based practice with William Burges and Stephen Davies, designed the three-storey townhouse to slot into a narrow plot. The aim was to reference the

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Hermansson Hiller Lundberg adapts Adolf Loos concept for brick House Juniskär in Sweden

January 3, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture firm Hermansson Hiller Lundberg has completed a monolithic brick house for a sloped site in Sundsvall, Sweden, featuring staggered interiors based on Adolf Loos’ Raumplan concept. Stockholm-based Hermansson Hiller Lundberg designed House Juniskär for site in the Swedish city that steps down from the higher entrance level to the lower garden at the rear. To adapt to the

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