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Zaha Hadid Architects begins construction on Ukranian metro stations

February 3, 2022 James Parkes 0
Render of the metal canopy metro station

British firm Zaha Hadid Architects has begun construction on three new stations for the Dnipro Metro in Ukraine as part of a four-kilometre line extension. The trio of Zaha Hadid Architects-designed stations — Teatralna, Tsentalna and Muzeina – form part of the metro line extension in the city of Dnipro that first broke ground in

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Stacked steel tubes form Waterline Monument by Gijs Van Vaerenbergh

January 24, 2022 Jon Astbury 0
Waterline Monument tapers at its highest point

Hundreds of stacked, weathered steel tubes form this arched monument in Laagraven Park, Utrecht, designed by architecture and art studio Gijs Van Vaerenbergh. The Waterline Monument was created to celebrate the New Dutch Waterline being awarded UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2021. Operational from 1815 to 1940, the New Dutch Waterline was a defensive system

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Yatofu uses “honest” materials to revamp Teemaa teahouse in Helsinki

January 13, 2022 Natasha Levy 0
Tea tasting room with red brick wall and paper lantern above weathered wooden table in Teemaa teahouse in Helsinki, designed by Yatofu

Design studio Yatofu has refined the interiors of a teahouse in downtown Helsinki with elements of brick, oak and oxidised steel. The Teemaa cafe, which serves traditional Chinese and Japanese teas without artificial additives, was renovated to reflect both the craft of the brewing process as well as the raw tactile quality of the tea

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KS Arquitetos completes stilted Mirador House overlooking Brazil’s Lake Guaíba

December 23, 2021 James Brillon 0
Casa Mirador

Brazilian studio KS Arquitetos has designed a home in Porto Alegre that is elevated on stilts so that it peers over the treetops and out onto Lake Guaíba. Mirador House was built on a steep slope overlooking Lake Guaíba, a waterway in southern Brazil. To accommodate this terrain, KS Arquitetos built the house on steel

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Set Ideas extends Fluid House in Argentina using glass and steel

December 22, 2021 James Brillon 0
Fluid House by Set Ideas

Argentinian office Set Ideas has added a glass-and-steel extension to a house in the mountains of Córdoba, using a modular structure to enlarge the resident’s living spaces. Completed earlier in 2021, the project is dubbed Fluid House, and entailed a thorough remodel of an existing home in the central province of Argentina. Set Ideas, an

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TEAM designs Northwood ADU for a Michigan home’s backyard

December 16, 2021 Jenna McKnight 0
Northwood ADU in Ann Arbor

Fibre cement panels and stainless steel are among the low-maintenance materials used by architectural practice TEAM to create an accessory dwelling unit in Michigan. The project, called Northwood ADU, is located in Ann Arbor and is one of the first accessory dwelling units (ADUs) to be built under new zoning regulations in the city. The two-storey

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Virkkunen & Co designs sculptural substation and pylons in Finland

October 18, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Finnish practice Virkkunen & Co has completed a sculptural series of electricity infrastructure in Imatra, Finland, which has been shortlisted in the business building category of Dezeen Awards 2021. Comprising five pylons in white steel and a perforated brick substation, the collection of structures is dotted across a protected national landscape close to a historical hydropower

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Ruukki Construction calls for graduates and students to design fictional “snow museum”

October 1, 2021 Dezeen staff 0
A visualisation of a potential design for The Museum of Snow

Dezeen promotion: Finnish steel-based manufacturer Ruukki Construction has launched an architectural competition to design The Museum of Snow, a fictional museum in Finland. Named The Unbelievable Challenge 2021, this third edition of the competition organised by Ruukki Construction calls for recently graduated architects to put their best ideas forward for the conceptual museum that would

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Steel house by Bauen was assembled in seven days on remote mountain site in Paraguay

September 27, 2021 James Brillon 0
Cloud House by Bauen

Paraguayan architecture office Bauen has completed a house in the forests of Guaira, which cantilevers off three concrete walls to project over the site’s steep and lush landscape. Casa Himmel, or Cloud House, was designed for a Paraguayan couple to settle down in for their retirement. After identifying a steep and isolated site in the

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