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APRIL 20, 2025

Within Beyond Studio drew on the site's close relationship to the sky and the sea to inform the blue finishes and wave-like shapes of the skatepark, which also provides access to the mall below. The post Clouds and waves inform rooftop skatepark in China by Within Beyond Studio appeared first on Dezeen.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed designs for the Centre of Mediterranean Culture, which is currently under construction on its coastal site in Reggio Calabria, Italy. Additionally, the building's reflective exterior clad with anodised aluminium panels is intended to reduce both the heat gain and cooling demand.

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JANUARY 9, 2025

UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects and local studio Bureau Cube Partners are set to transform a paper mill in Belgrade , Serbia, into a museum with an elliptical roof informed by the scientific work of Nikola Tesla. The museum's design draws on Tesla's research into magnetic fields and wireless energy transfer," said Zaha Hadid Architects.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen has completed a multi-functional art centre in Beijing , referencing the shape of a granary that once occupied the site. Now we want to create a 'cultural granary' that carries local and global culture, creating an important hub for promoting art and culture in Beijing."

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Danish studio BIG has designed a curving folded roof informed by traditional Kosovan skirts for the Opera and Ballet Theatre of Kosovo in Pristina. BIG designed the building to reflect Kosovo 's cultural heritage while also being a contemporary venue that celebrates the country's performing arts.

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DECEMBER 31, 2024

San Francisco studio Ryan Leidner Architecture has based the design of a wood-and-stucco desert house and art studio in southern California on mid-century Eichler homes and southwestern art. Located in the High Desert region near Joshua Tree National Park , the house was designed for painter Heather Day and her partner Chase McBride.

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JANUARY 21, 2025

From the smell of freshly ground beans to the slow pour of black coffee and the amazing latte art found in every cup, coffee shops have become a new place of gathering. From a design perspective, one could say that the past decade was all about the bars with the rise of the speakeasy came a heightened interest in bar interiors.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Architecture studios Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Perkins&Will have completed a multi-functional art centre in Beijing , referencing the shape of a granary that once occupied the site. Now we want to create a 'cultural granary' that carries local and global culture, creating an important hub for promoting art and culture in Beijing."

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Its design is informed by mountains and valleys Inserted on a small street named Passage Crimée, the five-storey structure aims to provide housing with a "village-like" feel that is in keeping with the surrounding low-rise buildings. "Each section of wood receives the sun following its course," the studio continued.

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Deezen

JANUARY 7, 2025

The facade of the complex draws inspiration from Miami's grand hospitality structures Sharing a similar climate as Miami, the Dominican Republic facility was "inspired by the lines of the art deco movement in some of the oldest neighborhoods of Miami," the team said.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Among the studio's key projects are the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, which is composed of a low-lying circular structure wrapped with glass, and the stepped Sydney Modern gallery in Australia. Alongside its central art galleries, it hosts public spaces including a library, lecture hall and children's workshop.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The Ascentage Pharmaceutical Headquarters is spread across seven distinct buildings with facades informed by benzene – a molecule composed of six carbon atoms in a ring. The post Benzene rings inform patterned facades of Ascentage Pharmaceutical Headquarters appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Shen Zhonghai.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2025

The USA pavilion is situated near the East Gate Entrance Plaza of the expo site in Osaka, Japan, which was master planned by Japanese studio Sou Fujimoto Architects. According to the studio, the form of this plaza was informed by "natural and urban canyons", while passageways underneath the cube were informed by Japanese torii gates.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Belgian architect Theo de Meyer and production firm Public Art Company have created installations at the Desert Air Music Festival in Palm Springs, California, that reference industrial forms and modernist architecture. The team only had a few days to inspect the site and build the installations.

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Deezen

MARCH 31, 2025

Promotion: as part of its Arts Month 2025 programming, local developer and property manager Swire Properties is supporting several installations throughout Hong Kong in collaboration with Art Basel Hong Kon g. The installation is part of Art Basel Hong Kong's Encounters project and is the only off-site project as part of the fair.

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Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2025

Studio Dig and Lake Flato have redesigned Scottsdale Civic Plaza Partly sitting on an overpass that allows pedestrians to bypass a busy street, the plaza provides public space for multiple public and arts institutions, including a public library and the Scottsdale Civic Center both designed by renowned Arizona architect Bennie Gonzales.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The Sydney Fish Market is topped with the largest timber roof in the southern hemisphere According to 3XN and BVN, the building was informed by traditional market typologies with open-air market stalls under a canopy. Copenhagen studio 3XN was established by Kim Herforth Nielsen, Lars Frank Nielsen and Hans Peter Svendler Nielsen in 1986.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

The "ethereal beauty" of classical Japanese Noh theatre informed Kengo Kuma and Associates ' design for the Banyan Tree hotel in Kyoto , with a dedicated stage hidden in its stepped gardens. Banyan Tree Higashiyama Kyoto is set on a sloped site with a height difference of 12 metres between its lowest and highest point.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Developed by local real estate company Related Ross , the office building sits directly behind the historic beaux-arts First Church of Christ, Scientist church and a small adjoining park SOM updated as part of the project. The building contains office spaces throughout the towers, ground-level retail and restaurants in the parking podium.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

The design, inspired by the natural and cultural history of the site, evokes a deep connection to the surrounding landscape. The reimagined building features an information center, history room and art gallery shell while retaining its iconic single-skin construction.

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MARCH 21, 2023

Sited on a private coastal California hillside street lined with five tightly stacked homes, the 3000 square foot residence optimizes a compact footprint, resulting in an experience that maximizes outdoor living, without compromising the privacy of the family.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Its design, which was informed by the surrounding sand dunes, is made up of a series of straight stair sections that lead up to a lookout area at the top of the structure. To avoid creating a "rigid home", the studio added a sloping, cantilevered staircase that spans the home's four storeys and contrasts against its cubic facade.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Iranian-French architect India Mahdavi has put her characteristic maximalist spin on PoMo, a contemporary art museum in Trondheim , Norway, with a salmon-pink gift shop and a mandarin-hued staircase. The pair sought to balance the building's history with references to Trondheim's skyline and Norwegian folk art and craftsmanship.

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APRIL 14, 2025

Large-scale works by Paris design studio Uchronia and TSOA's dean Stephanie Lin feature among the installations created for the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California, USA. Every year, the festival works with arts programmer Public Art Company to select three designs that are developed nearby.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Named Dapi Mountain Restaurant, the building is designed to provide a better experience for visitors to the peak in the Dapishan Scenic Area, which is a World Geological Heritage Site. Ancient trees on the site have been preserved and integrated into the design. The photography is by Lv Xiaobin.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

Portland-based studio Hacker Architects has replaced an outdated lodge with a blackened wood -and-glass structure featuring elements informed by the volcanic landscape of Sisters, Oregon. Strangely, the interior didn't really create strong connections to the incredible views around the site," Hacker principal Corey Martin told Dezeen. "We

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Deezen

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Read: Line+ Studio floats doughnut-shaped weather balloon above rural Chinese landscape Budget constraints and limited site access informed IARA's use of prefabricated CLT for the bridge structure, which hugs the existing aqueduct with a series of pentagonal frames. The photography is by Huien Song.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Named Museum for Paper Art, the building is set to be topped with a folded roof that resembles a "single sheet of paper". Developed by BIG alongside psaligrapher Bit Vejle, the 2,300-square-metre museum proposal is designed to celebrate the history of paper art in Denmark.

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JUNE 13, 2023

London studio Boano Prišmontas has created a small private art gallery shaped like a barn in rural Hertfordshire, UK. Designed as a peaceful place to display art, the small gallery combines the traditional barn form with modern construction techniques.

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JUNE 10, 2024

Promotion: Armenian art platform Akneye has collaborated with non-fungible token platform ftNFT to launch an exhibition during the Venice Art Biennale where sculptures by 21 different artists are exhibited alongside their NFT equivalents. It embodies our mission to innovate within the art world while respecting traditional idioms."

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JANUARY 25, 2022

The fire that ripped through Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building in 2018 was so fierce and all-consuming that the cause can never be known conclusively, according to a long-awaited report.

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DECEMBER 23, 2024

Broad Leys, Lake Windermere, Cumbria: CFA Voysey Architect (photo credit: The Voysey Society) Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (18571941) was a visionary architect whose influence shaped English domestic architecture and the Arts and Crafts movement.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Read: KPMB completes pavilion for New Brunswick's public art collection The gardens at the Leaf, designed by HTFC Planning & Design, were planted in a single file line. Besides the Leaf, in recent years, a zoo on the same site underwent significant improvements. The photography is by Richard Seck.

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DECEMBER 25, 2024

The interior design draws inspiration from Arts and Crafts architecture "A lot of current confectionery brands are aimed at Gen Z big on colour, bling, shiny things," he added. "We The Covent Garden shop is Barnaby's first retail space, with further sites in London and Paris currently in development.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

A stepped facade and a level almost completely wrapped in glass feature in the design of an arts and technology centre in New Mexico by architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The Center for Collaborative Arts and Technology (CCAT) at the University of New Mexico will contain performance halls, labs, gallery space and classrooms.

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MARCH 22, 2025

Reflective surfaces, geometric shapes and animal prints nod to Beirut 's art deco heritage at this speakeasy , which local studio Carl Gerges Architects has designed as a haven for the city's residents. Guests enter along a corridor where green velvet curtains and mirrored ceilings create a sense of intrigue.

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JULY 29, 2024

An abandoned school building converted into art galleries and a furniture collection informed by a childhood baseball bat were among the objects and exhibitions on display during Upstate Art Weekend in the Hudson Valley. It's not a gallery week, it's not an art fair. Read on for our top picks from this year's art weekend.

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