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Park Ex House in Montreal has voids that flood its basement with light

April 28, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Park Ex House by Nicholas Francoeur and Joel Fontaine Lortie

Architecture graduates Nicholas Francoeur and Joel Fontaine Lortie have renovated a steel-clad house in Montreal to include two cut-outs in its floors that fill the basement with sunlight. Called Park Ex House, the dwelling is positioned on a corner in the Park Extension neighbourhood of Montreal, known by locals as Park Ex. Current architecture interns

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Snøhetta designs research facility for Ford on its Dearborn campus

April 27, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Architecture firm Snøhetta has unveiled the design of the curved glass Central Campus Building for American car company Ford in Michigan. Called Central Campus Building, the new development is an extension of Ford’s existing Research & Engineering (R&E) Campus in the city of Dearborn, where the company has its headquarters. The building is designed to provide

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David Rockwell’s “intimate and grand” Oscars set recalls glamour of early ceremonies

April 26, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Architect David Rockwell designed the sets for last night’s Oscars ceremony within LA’s art deco Union Station to reflect the feeling of past Academy Awards nights. Rockwell transformed Union Station’s main ticket hall into the venue for the 91st Academy Awards main ceremony, which was delayed by two months due to the coronavirus pandemic. The architect, who

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Ravi Handa Architect and AAmp Studio build cedar-clad lakeside barn

April 22, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Ell House by Ravi Handa Architect and AAmp Studio

Ell House by architecture firms Ravi Handa Architect and AAmp Studio is a cedar-clad holiday home in rural Ontario with a gable roof that takes cues from the region’s barns. The L-shaped house is positioned along Lake Ontario in Wellington, an area of Prince Edward County in eastern Ontario, Canada. Designed by Montreal-based Ravi Handa Architect

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Vaulted tunnel runs through brick house by Batay-Csorba Architects

April 16, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Canadian studio Batay-Csorba Architects has carved a barrel-vaulted tunnel through a brick home in Toronto designed to evoke the architecture of ancient Rome. Named High Park Residence, the new-build home has two storeys and a basement and was designed for homeowners with Italian heritage. The ground and first floors exist within a barrel-vaulted archway that

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SO-IL builds Las Americas affordable housing development in Mexico

April 15, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

New York firm SO-IL has completed this low rise yet high-density affordable housing development in León, Mexico, with apartments arranged around courtyards. The project, called Las Americas, is a six-storey concrete block of homes divided into 60 apartments. Maximising the plot’s buildable footprint, the homes hug two interior courtyards that provide cross ventilation to the development.

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Safdie Architects to expand Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

April 13, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Safdie Architects Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Safdie Architects is set to double the size of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas with a design that includes two new galleries connected by a bridge. The architecture firm, which has its headquarters in Boston, will return to build an extension for the museum that it designed a decade ago. Construction will

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Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego photograph colourful Soviet architecture across Central Asia

April 4, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

The State Academic Russian Theatre in Kazakhstan

Mosaics and murals feature in this photography series of Soviet-era architecture from Central Asia by photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego. The duo’s Soviet Asia series documents architecture constructed between the 1950s and 1991 in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The Soviet Union, or USSR, was a Russian socialist state that

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Dallas photographer Nikola Olic finds poetry in architecture

April 1, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Skyscrapers tucked behind tower-blocks and nature imitating architecture are themes in Nikola Olic’s urban photography series, which he describes as a collection of “individual poems”. Dallas-based photographer Nikola Olic has curated Structure Photography, an online collection of 88 digital photographs he took of architecture from cities across America, as well as Europe and Asia. Each

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Mighty Buildings plans neighbourhood of 3D-printed homes for California

March 31, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Construction technology company Mighty Buildings has announced plans to build 15 homes using prefabricated 3D-printed panels in Rancho Mirage, California. The project is a collaboration between California-based Mighty Buildings and developers Palari Group. Construction will begin at the end of this year with the homes set to be finished by Spring 2022. Once complete, Mighty

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