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5468796 Architecture adds "floating" office floor within preserved pumphouse

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Local studio 5468796 Architecture has renovated an early 20th-century utilities building in Winnipeg , Canada, showcasing the industrial equipment while updating the structure for contemporary usage. 5468796 Architecture has added residential buildings to the site The station closed in 1986 and was slated for demolition.

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They Restored an Abandoned Church and Turned It Into a 30-Unit Apartment Building

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Originally constructed at the corner of Church Street and Oak Avenue in 1910 for a largely Swedish immigrant community, the existing building on the site was used by the Soujorner Covenant Church for over a hundred years. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Project Mingde uses "cascading" roofs on Chinese nursery to recycle rainfall

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Curling around a central courtyard, a staggered trio of redbrick buildings house a new nursery, teaching dormitories and a collection of indoor and open-air community spaces for the village's 3,000 residents to gather in. The solution was three buildings of varying heights with roofs that channel rainfall into a lotus pond.

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Dig Studio and Lake Flato revamp Scottsdale Civic Plaza for "increasingly warming world"

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American firms Dig Studio and Lake Flato have restored and expanded Scottsdale Civic Plaza in Arizona , adding a series of pavilions and responding directly to existing buildings flanking the outdoor space. Summer temperatures in Scottsdale have an average high of 107 degrees Fahrenheit (41 Celsius). The photography is by Alan Karchmer.

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Maldron Hotel Shoreditch, London building

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The new 157 key, 10 storey hotel regenerates a site that had been vacant for over half a century. The hotel design slots into the established, organic urban rhythm of Paul Street, where buildings ‘step down’ in height from north to south from the area’s newly-established, pedestrianised epicentre at Leonard Circus.

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Gort Scott reconnects University of Oxford college with riverfront site

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London studio Gort Scott has redeveloped St Hilda's College at the University of Oxford in England , adding two buildings that unite the campus with lush gardens and river views. The project reconnects the college to its riverside site. The Anniversary Building is one of two new structures. Photo is by Jim Stephenson.

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Snøhetta unveils chamfered skyscraper on site of former Hong Kong airport

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The project is formed of five interconnected glazed buildings in a stepped arrangement, with the lowest volumes located next to the Kai Tak river. It also features landscaped spaces Inside, the lower buildings house 60,000 square metres of retail space, while the tower holds 100,000 square metres of office space.

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