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Rippling robot-carved stone facade defines urban winery by Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect

March 19, 2020 India Block 0

Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect has designed a curving facade carved out of sandstone by a robot for the Delas Frères Winery in France’s Rhône Valley. The winery and wine shop were built next to a historic Manor House, which is one of the many vineyards that cover the terraced hillsides above in Tain l’Hermitage that

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This Writer’s Studio Was Designed As A Place Of Solitude

March 18, 2020 Erin 0

Architect Eric J. Smith has designed a small writer’s studio that’s located in Connecticut and is home to a 1,700 volume collection of poetry. The studio is a place where its owner can write and read poetry as well as escape from aspects of modern life. It can also be used to meditate among tall […]

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New Stone Age exhibition demonstrates material’s “potential to revolutionise construction”

March 18, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
New Stone Age exhibition

New Stone Age at London’s Building Centre shows the potential of stone as a modern construction material. Curator Steve Webb picks five projects from the exhibition that use it in innovative, practical and sustainable ways. The exhibition demonstrates how stone can be used as a structural material to create contemporary buildings. “We want to show

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Groupwork designs 30-storey stone skyscraper

March 10, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Stone skyscraper by Amin Taha's studio Groupwork and Webb Yates

Amin Taha’s architecture studio Groupwork has collaborated with structural engineer Webb Yates to design a conceptual 30-storey stone office block that would be cheaper and more sustainable than concrete or steel equivalents. Groupwork and Webb Yates designed the skyscraper to investigate how the cost and sustainability impact of a tall building with a stone structure compared

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Make uses bronze and stone for St James’s Market redevelopment

February 20, 2020 Siufan Adey 0
St James's Market redevelopment by Make

Make architecture studio has completed the first phase of St James’s Market redevelopment, featuring a block with a ribbon-like stone and bronze facade and the restoration of a late 19th-century building, as shown in this video produced by Dezeen. Located on Regent Street St James’s – formerly known as Lower Regent Street – the scheme

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Eric J Smith cantilevers Writer’s Studio over forested hillside in Connecticut

February 13, 2020 Jenna McKnight 0
Writer's Studio by Eric J. Smith

American architect Eric J Smith has used stone, oak and glass in this poet’s writing studio, to “reinforce its sense of belonging” in the Connecticut woods. Located on a wooded property in Connecticut town Greenwich, Writer’s Studio was built for retired banker John Barr, who served as a longtime president of the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation.

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The Whidbey Island Farm Retreat Is Nestled Between Large Douglas Fir Trees

February 4, 2020 Erin 0

Seattle based mwworks have designed the Whidbey Island Farm Retreat in Washington, for their clients who wanted a modern house that would act as a residence for a growing family. The home is situated on the edge of a forested hillside, overlooking chicken sheds, a weathered red barn, cattle fields, and a fishing pond. Architect […]

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Grafton Architects completes colonnaded Town House at Kingston University

January 29, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Town House by Grafton Architects for Kingston University, UK

Stone colonnades frame the open-plan interiors of Town House, the mixed-use teaching building by Grafton Architects for Kingston University in London. RIBA Gold Medal-winning studio Grafton Architects designed the six-storey Town House to act as “the university’s front door and a gateway to Kingston upon Thames” – the town in which it is located. It

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Forest house of stone and glass is reflected back in water

January 20, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
House BRAS by DDM Architectuur

A stone-clad house in woodland close to Antwerp by DDM Architectuur features an indoor pool and a double-height music room overlooking a pond. Called House Bras after its location in the municipality of Braschaat, DDM Architectuur clad the home with slabs of Muschelkalk stone, so it sits like a boulder among the trees. A pond

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