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Whitestone Gallery Beijing 798 / Kengo Kuma & Associates

April 22, 2024 Hana Abdel 0

The Beijing 798 Art Zone was originally a factory campus built in the 1950s with the help of the Soviet Union and East Germany, designed in the Bauhaus style for electronic equipment production. Since the 2000s, it has been revitalized as an art street and transformed into an area housing influential galleries from around the world. We designed the first White Stone Gallery on the Chinese mainland in this 798 district, following those in Taipei and Hong Kong.

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BIG designs all-wood cubic structure as “living curriculum” at University of Kansas

April 22, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Danish architecture studio BIG, alongside faculty at the University of Kansas, has unveiled its design for the mass-timber Makers’ KUbe in Kansas, USA. The structure will serve as an educational building for the University of Kansas (KU) School of Architecture & Design in Lawrence, Kansas. BIG’s design was chosen as part of an open call,

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Chris Pratt destruction of Ellwood house in LA symptom of “systemic problems” says Docomomo

April 22, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Unprotected historic homes are at risk of demolition where land holds greater value than architectural importance, says conservation group Docomomo US in response to actor Chris Pratt’s tearing down a mid-century home designed by modernist architect Craig Ellwood. Pratt and his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger drew attention online when news broke that the couple had begun

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Foster + Partners designs tiered Park Avenue supertall skyscraper

April 22, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has designed a tiered, 62-storey supertall skyscraper on Park Avenue in New York. Located at 350 Park, the supertall skyscraper will rise approximately 1,600 feet high (487 metres), holding office spaces and a public plaza at ground level. Renderings show a tiered tower made up of rectangular volumes that

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Product Of The Week: Beautiful Glass Conches

April 22, 2024 HD Staff 0

A crystalline homage to the sea, these glass conch shells swirl with the mystery of ocean depths and the whisper of a mermaid’s secret. Recommended Reading:  51 Iconic Design Objects from Mid-Century, Postmodern, and Contemporary Designers For more regular updates from Home Designing, join us on Facebook. If you are reading this through e-mail, please […]

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Casa GR / Studio Roque Arquitetura

April 22, 2024 Andreas Luco 0

Located in a traditional neighborhood of Brasília, Guará, Casa GR occupies a narrow lot of only 145 m², with no lateral setbacks, which presented significant challenges for the incorporation of natural lighting and ventilation, given the proximity of neighboring buildings. To tackle this challenge, the solution adopted was the integration of “cobogós” in the facade, providing privacy and personality while allowing the entry of light and ventilation into the balcony area of the bedrooms that face the front of the lot. These elements, besides functionality, conferred a unique aesthetic aspect to the architecture of the house.

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Crematorium PAX / queeste

April 22, 2024 Paula Pintos 0

The client has been considering building a crematorium for nearly sixty years. Due to its Catholic identity, cremation has not been self-evident for a long time. The new building needs to match the style of the existing reception buildings from 1922 but also stand out and be distinguishable. Situated in a confined space, the crematorium demands a complete program that with a dignified, considerate and humane appearance.

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OFIS Arhitekti clads geometric home in Slovenia with red-brick tiles

April 22, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti has completed Frame House, a family home in Ljubljana clad in red-brick tiles that play on the area’s pitched-roof buildings. Frame House is located in the city’s suburbs and designed by OFIS Arhitekti with a footprint of 200 square metres so as not to intrude on the site’s large rear garden.

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