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Summer's here in Antarctica — let's build!

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Work at the Rothera site has brought together expertise from BAM, Ramboll , Sweco , GA Barnies, Turner and Townsend, and Hugh Broughton Architects.

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In Pursuit of Health: How Medical Concerns Shaped Modernist Architecture

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More than sites of treatment, sanatoriums embodied contemporary medical theories in built form. Architecture adapted accordingly, producing buildings with expansive terraces, large windows, and streamlined interiors designed to optimize ventilation and maximize natural light. Read more

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Quentin Desfarges punctuates Norwegian woodland cabin with large circular windows

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Porthole-style windows puncture the gable ends of this timber mountain cabin in Norway , which has been designed by local architect Quentin Desfarges. Called Timber Nest, the home is located near the southern town of Rdberg, where it occupies a sloping, forested site overlooking the mountains of the Hardangervidda National Park.

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Luxury hotel set to be built on Nakagin Capsule Tower site

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The site of the metabolist Nakagin Capsule Tower , which was disassembled in Tokyo 's Ginza district in 2022, is set to be taken over by a luxury hotel led by hospitality brand Accor. Accor has revealed it will open the Pullman Tokyo Ginza hotel on the site of the iconic Japanese housing block in late 2027.

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Studio Gang designs nonprofit women's leadership resort in Wisconsin

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Image courtesy Studio Gang Inside, gently curved spaces punctuated by large windows and skylights allow the design mimic to a phenomenon known as 'crown shyness' as a paean to the 8.6-acre acre site’s tree canopy that informs much of the concept.

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Studio Gang completes mass-timber academic building in Paris

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Sited on an ongoing development adjacent to a housing block by Parc Architectes , the John W Boyer Center was designed as a "vertical campus" to expand the University of Chicago's research capabilities into Europe. "Its Its multilevel atrium provides all the spaces with light and offers visual connections across programs," she continued. "We

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Ryue Nishizawa's Moriyama House was the most significant building of 2005

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Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series, we take a look at the most significant building of 2005, Moriyama House in Japan by architect Ryue Nishizawa. Though describing the project as a house, or even a building, feels like a disservice to its design. This was no normal house.

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