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Artist Alicja Biała decorates MVRDV project in Wrocław with floor-to-ceiling murals

December 23, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Alicja Biala mural for Concordia Design by MVRDV

Polish visual artist Alicja Biała has painted a set of colourful large-scale murals inside the Concordia Design building in Wrocław, Poland, as part of its renovation and extension by architecture firm MVRDV. The murals cover 500 square metres of the office building and rise as high as ten metres. The art was informed by the

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Kamp C completes two-storey house 3D-printed in one piece in situ

December 22, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Exterior of 3D-printed house Kamp C, Westerlo, Belgium

Kamp C, a centre for sustainability and innovation in construction, has built what it claims is the first house to be 3D-printed in one piece in Westerlo, Belgium. The house, which was printed on the largest 3D concrete printer in Europe, has two floors and was printed on-site in just three weeks. “What makes this

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Kengo Kuma designs tessellated Botanical Pavilion as “tridimensional puzzle”

December 19, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Botanical Pavilion, NGV Triennial, by Kengo Kuma and Geoff Nees

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and Australian artist Geoff Nees have created a tactile, circular pavilion using timber collected from Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens. Botanical Pavilion slots together like a puzzle without the need for metal supports. Kuma and Nees’s design was commissioned for the NGV Triennial in response to Korean artist Lee Ufan’s 2017 painting named

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Dezeen’s top 10 carbon-neutral buildings of 2020

December 19, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Exterior of Powerhouse Telemark by Snøhetta in Porsgrunn, Norway

For our 2020 review, we take a look at 10 of the best examples of carbon-neutral design, including zero-carbon and carbon-negative buildings, such as a floating off-grid office and a house made of hempcrete. Hotel Bauhofstrasse, Germany, by Von M The snow-white, shingle-clad Hotel Bauhofstrasse in Ludwigsburg was built to be the first carbon-neutral building

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Architecture49 tops Le Littoral holiday home with off-centre volume

December 11, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Canadian studio Architecture49 has completed Le Littoral, a holiday rental property in Charlevoix, Québec, which was informed by local architecture but has been given a contemporary feel with an off-centre upper level. The house, which is set next to the Saint Lawrence River in Canada, was built from a skeleton of locally sourced, FSC-certified wood

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Carlo Ratti Associati stacks tennis courts on top of each other for Playscraper building

December 11, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Carlo Ratti Associati's Playscraper tennis tower

Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati and architect Italo Rota have designed a concept for a tower called Playscraper, which is a temporary structure that consists of eight tennis courts layered on top of each other. The conceptual Playscraper rises 90 metres (300 feet) into the sky and has 5,500 square metres (60,000 square feet) of

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Enter Projects Asia weaves rattan sculptures through Spice & Barley restaurant in Bangkok

December 10, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

View of Spice and Barley by Enter Asia Projects

Architecture studio Enter Projects Asia has created a design installation for the Spice & Barley gastro lounge in Bangkok using rattan sculptures and gold hues to fuse Thai tradition with modern design. Enter Projects Asia, which is based in Phuket, Thailand, used 3D-modelling to create large sculptures that weave through the 300 square-metres space at

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Dezeen’s top 10 bridges of 2020

December 9, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

World's longest glass-bottomed bridge in Huangchuan Three Gorges Scenic Area in southern China

Continuing our review of 2020, we spotlight 10 of the most interesting bridges unveiled this year, including Renzo Piano’s Genoa bridge, a curved cycling bridge in Copenhagen and the world’s longest glass-bottomed bridge. Glass-bottomed bridge, China, by Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University This 526-metres-long bridge across the Lianjiang River in Guangdong Province, which

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Hooba Design Group clads Tehran office building in brick panels that adjust to the sunlight

December 8, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Sharif Office Building in Tehran by Hooba Design Group

Local architecture studio Hooba Design Group has completed an office building for the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, which features a smart brick facade that adapts to different times of the day. The Sharif Office Building was designed as a communal workspace for the Sharif Innovation Zone next to the university. It was

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Dezeen’s top 10 cabins of 2020

December 6, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

In a year when the coronavirus pandemic caused travel restrictions, cabins offered a welcome sense of escapism. As part of our review of 2020, here are Dezeen’s top 10 cabins, including one made from infested wood and another with a titanium roof. Bruny Island Cabin, Australia, by Maguire + Devin The wood-lined Bruny Island Cabin

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