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Smritivan Earthquake Memorial Museum steps up slope below Indian fort

June 2, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Vastushilpa Consultants has created a museum and memorial in India to honour the victims of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake and celebrate the resilience of the local Kutch community. Vastushilpa Consultants placed the Smritivan Earthquake Memorial Museum on a hill below a fort, which was restored as part of the project, on the outskirts of the

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Studio Other Spaces designs “anti-monument” to Ethiopia’s former prime minister

May 30, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann’s firm Studio Other Spaces has designed five buildings and seven pavilions within the Meles Zenawi Memorial Park in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Created in memory of the country’s former prime minister, the buildings in the 65-hectare park, located directly to the north of the city, were developed over a decade by Studio Other Spaces.

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MVRDV designs demountable office building as “source to harvest materials from”

May 26, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has created Matrix One, a laboratory and office building in Amsterdam designed to be dismantled into reusable parts. The six-storey building has a steel frame structure and prefabricated hollow-core concrete floor slabs, which were assembled without fixed connections so that parts can be detached and reused after the building’s life span.

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Largest-ever Norman Foster retrospective opens at Centre Pompidou in Paris

May 18, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

An exhibition dedicated to the work of British architect Norman Foster has opened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, showcasing drawings and original models produced by the architect over the last six decades. The exhibition, which according to the Norman Foster Foundation is the largest-ever retrospective display of Foster’s work, features around 130 of the architect’s

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Gensler and Civilian transform 1930s Detroit post office into workspace and technology centre

May 17, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

American architecture studio Gensler and interior design studio Civilian have restored the historic Book Depository building in Detroit and transformed it into the headquarters for technology company Newlab. Gensler and Civilian transformed the art deco building to be usable by tech companies, adding purpose-built prototyping labs, open-plan co-working spaces and outdoor green spaces. The 270,000-square-foot

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Grid Architects designs women’s-only social housing tower for London

May 5, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Planning approval has been granted for a housing development in London that will provide 102 affordable homes to women, designed by architecture studio Grid Architects for the Women’s Pioneer Housing association. Named Brook House, the social housing tower will have a 15-storey core with 11- and 13-storey wings on either side. Located in the district

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Workshop Architects renovates and expands purple Mérida home

May 4, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Local architecture studio Workshop Architects has renovated a Spanish colonial house in Mérida, Mexico, and added two concrete buildings in its garden. Named Casa Pulpo, the 235-square-metre residential project is characterised by lilac-hued exterior walls and traditional pasta floor mosaic tiling in the interiors. “The traditional architecture of Mérida uses pasta tile for the floors,

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Grimshaw and UEL develop Sugarcrete blocks that “could replace the traditional brick industry”

May 4, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Grimshaw and the University of East London have collaborated to create Sugarcrete, a biomaterial construction block with an interlocking shape made from the sugarcane by-product bagasse. Sugarcrete was developed to be a low-cost and low-carbon reusable construction-material alternative to brick and concrete. The concept, design and fabrication of the material were led by staff

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FMT Estudio connects two Mexican dwellings with swimming pool courtyard

April 28, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Local architecture practice FMT Estudio has completed two concrete houses on either end of a narrow plot in Mérida, Mexico, connected by a central courtyard. FMT Estudio designed the El Tirón residential project to have a minimal footprint, aiming to reduce the amount of resources needed in construction while creating a tranquil home. The studio

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Ten key projects by RIBA Royal Gold Medal-winner Yasmeen Lari

April 27, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Following the news that Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari has won this year’s Royal Institute of British Architects’ Royal Gold Medal, we’ve rounded up 10 of her most notable projects. The medal was awarded to Lari, Pakistan’s first qualified female architect, in recognition of her humanitarian work since retiring in 2000. In 1980, the architect co-founded the

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