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Overlapping stone and concrete layers form Casa SAB by PSV Arquitectura

May 24, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Argentinian firm PSV Arquitectura developed this grand concrete slab house in Córdoba in longitudinal strips so that all of its spaces would face north. Casa SAB, which backs onto the Cañuelas Country Golf club in Argentina, is entirely shielded from the strong western sun, while each of its rooms enjoys good light from its northern

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Bit.Bio.Bot exhibition shows how algae can be used as air purifiers and protein source

May 24, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

EcoLogicStudio has designed the Bit.Bio.Bot exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which invites visitors to taste freshly harvested algae and consider growing it in their own homes. Combining architecture and microbiology, the exhibition shows how city dwellers could purify the air, sequester carbon, gain a sustainable food source and enjoy a greater connection to nature

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MVRDV to transform Eindhoven’s Heuvel shopping centre with glass “Music Mountain”

May 24, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

MVRDV will “break open” the Heuvel shopping centre in Eindhoven to connect it with the city, in plans that will also add a music venue topped with a climbable glass mountain. In a proposal that’s being unofficially called “The Hill Quarter & The Music Mountain”, MVRDV envisions radically transforming the ageing inner-city shopping centre to

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Snøhetta references libraries for Oslo pop-up store A Better Place to Think

May 21, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Architecture firm Snøhetta has created a library-informed respite from the digital world with A Better Place to Think, an Oslo pop-up shop for tablet brand reMarkable. Located just off the city’s main shopping street, the temporary store was made to showcase the brand’s tablet, which has a paper-like surface. Snøhetta looked to libraries for the

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Dutch Pavilion questions the premise of Venice Biennale with Who Is We? exhibit

May 20, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Entry to Who Is We? exhibition with video work

In response to the Venice Architecture Biennale’s theme How will we live together?, architect Afaina de Jong and artist Debra Solomon have answered with another question in the Dutch Pavilion: Who is we? The Netherlands’ contribution to the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale is coordinated by the Het Nieuwe Instituut. Its team argues that the “we”

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Sebastian Cox creates subtle treehouse from scorched larch

May 19, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Treehouse in Hertfordshire by Sebastian Cox

Designer Sebastian Cox has designed a treehouse in the English countryside that features scorched larch cladding, a shingled roof and a balustrade of chestnut branches. Cox’s studio created the treehouse in Hertfordshire for the children of a client, who now have a private play area within sight of the family home. Made in collaboration with

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BIG designs battery-metals plant, ships and underwater robots for The Metals Company

May 14, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Rare earth metals processing plant designed by BIG for The Metals Company

BIG has designed a factory and a number of waterborne vehicles for The Metals Company, which aims to reduce the environmental impact of battery production by extracting metals from the seafloor. The proposed designs will facilitate an alternative to the mining of nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese. These metals are essential for batteries such as

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Chybik + Kristof brings light and life into brutalist Zvonařka Bus Terminal

May 13, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Exterior of Zvonarka bus terminal by Chybik + Kristof

Czech studio Chybik + Kristof has completed its redesign of Brno’s Zvonařka Bus Terminal, a brutalist building that the architects fought to preserve in a self-initiated project. Chybik + Kristof first reached out to the site’s owners ten years ago with a proposal to restore and redesign the 1988 building by architect Radúz Russ in

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Helsinki calls for proposals to transform Makasiiniranta port into cultural precinct

May 12, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

The Helsinki port will be turned into a cultural hub

The city of Helsinki has launched a competition to create a new waterfront cultural and leisure district on the South Harbour, which will include a design and architecture museum complex. The Makasiiniranta area is the last remaining section of old harbour cut off from public use and is currently home to terminals and parking. The

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Alexander Owen Architecture adds bold colour and curves to London home

May 2, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

London studio Alexander Owen Architecture drew on its clients’ love of modernism and pop art to create a colourful kitchen and terrace for at Amott Road in East Dulwich. Geometric shapes, timber curves and bold pigments characterise the project, which also involved adding a modest side extension to the end-of-terrace property in southeast London. Owners Simon

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