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Fielden Fowles creates “living laboratory” in Natural History Museum gardens

August 5, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Planted landscapes are woven around a pair of timber-framed buildings in the Natural History Museum gardens in London, revamped by local studios Feilden Fowles and J&L Gibbons. Overhauled for the first time in the museum’s 140-year history, the gardens have been divided into different zones with planting and signage that aim to tell the story

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Fielden Fowles creates “living laboratory” in Natural History Museum gardens

August 5, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Planted landscapes are woven around a pair of timber-framed buildings in the Natural History Museum gardens in London, revamped by local studios Feilden Fowles and J&L Gibbons. Overhauled for the first time in the museum’s 140-year history, the gardens have been divided into different zones with planting and signage that aim to tell the story

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RIBA unveils Stirling Prize 2024 shortlist

July 30, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

The Royal Institute of British Architects has unveiled its shortlist for this year’s Stirling Prize, made up of six British buildings that are “purposeful yet unassuming”. All shortlisted projects are in England, with just two of the six located outside of London. These are Phase 2 of the Park Hill estate regeneration in Sheffield by

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Paris 2024 aftermath “most dangerous time” for Olympic Village says Dominique Perrault

July 30, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Next in our Olympic Impact series, we speak to French architect Dominique Perrault about his ambitions for the Olympic Village in Paris beyond the games this summer. “We don’t want to build a village, we want to build a district, a new district,” Perrault told Dezeen over video call from his office in Paris. “I

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Dubai to convert 64-kilometre-long highway into “human-centric” Green Spine

July 25, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Architecture studio Urb is planning to convert a 64-kilometre-long arterial road in Dubai into the “world’s greenest highway”, designed as the emirate’s answer to New York City’s High Line. Green Spine will replace the Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Road, also known as E311, with what Urb is dubbing the “world’s greenest highway”. The road will

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Snøhetta designs sweeping holiday home for foothills of Mount Yōtei

July 23, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A crescent-shaped volume will enclose this holiday home, which architecture studio Snøhetta has designed for hospitality brand Not A Hotel in a ski resort on Hokkaido Island, Japan. Proposed for a site within Rusutsu Resort on the foothills of Mount Yōtei, Not A Hotel Rusutsu will have a “clean, minimal form” that draws on the

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Snøhetta designs sweeping holiday home for foothills of Mount Yōtei

July 23, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A crescent-shaped volume will enclose this holiday home, which architecture studio Snøhetta has designed for hospitality brand Not A Hotel in a ski resort on Hokkaido Island, Japan. Proposed for a site within Rusutsu Resort on the foothills of Mount Yōtei, Not A Hotel Rusutsu will have a “clean, minimal form” that draws on the

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MVRDV designs Pixel as alternative to “nondescript” housing in Abu Dhabi

July 22, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A communal plaza and stepped terraces encourage residents to spend some time together outdoors at Pixel, a cluster of seven staggered housing blocks in Abu Dhabi by Dutch studio MVRDV. Located in Makers District on the capital city’s Al Reem Island, the development comprises 525 apartments alongside various public amenities organised around a public courtyard.

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Eight contemporary kitchens brightened by skylights

July 20, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Residential kitchens illuminated by skylights are the focus of this lookbook, which includes homes everywhere from Australia to Mexico and Japan. A popular feature in many contemporary kitchens, skylights are typically used to maximise natural light in rooms that sit below ground or in the depths of a plan. However, they are also helpful for

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Byró Architekti creates wooden garden pavilion with folding facade

July 4, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Czech studio Byró Architekti used the foundations of a dilapidated cottage to determine the scale of Garden Pavilion, an outbuilding in Prague with an openable wall and blackened-wood cladding. The pavilion is located at the end of a large garden near the Vltava River and is designed for the clients to use as a shed

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