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Rodolphe Parente respectfully rethinks a classic Haussmannian apartment in Paris

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French interior designer Rodolphe Parente has completed a contemporary overhaul of a 19th-century Parisian apartment , reflecting both the building's heritage and the "radical" art collection of its owner. The kitchen is a deconstructed block sitting in the Haussmanian environment," Parente said. "It

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Ten architecture projects by students at Carleton University

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Dirt: Making with Contaminated Lands by Ju Huang "My thesis explores dirt in the contemporary world and its place in architecture through a series of ceramic-making exercises. My sense of touch helps me explore clay, tackling the critical problem of discarded waste sites called brownfields in Canada.

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Wexner Center for the Arts is "a building that is waiting to be a building"

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As we continue our deconstructivist series , we look at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio by architect and theorist Peter Eisenman , which he claims "has nothing to do with deconstruction or deconstructivism.". I never had heard the term deconstruction when I did the Wexner centre," Eisenman told Dezeen. "I It's just not.

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85 Gracechurch Street by Woods Bagot

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The garden leads visitors to an external elevated Heritage Walkway around the perimeter of the site, which offers a unique vantage point over the roofs of Leadenhall Market with its ornate octagon, lantern, and iron finials, and to the modern city beyond. Source and images Courtesy of Woods Bagot.

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Jianli Art Center by GOA

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Regarding the site, the design starts by answering the question of how to place a new cultural tourism construction within the local context of a small-volume historical building to carry on Zhang Jian’s spirit of “eradicating the old and fostering the new” while arousing a sense of cultural belonging. Photo © Here Architectural Photography.

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Banyan Tree Nanjing Garden Expo by CCD

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It has become imperative to beautify and restore the site to enable the symbiosis of human and nature. Break through the “cocoon” for rebirth, rebuild a mysterious wonderland in the quarry valley With a long-abandoned quarry as the hotel’s site, the first priority of the project was ecological restoration.

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The Arbor House, Aberdeen, Scotland

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Designed for a mature couple relocating from a rural village into suburban Aberdeen, The Arbor House is a contemporary, cantilevered home organised over two floors with slim Larch batten cladding punctuated by expansive glazing. The Arbor House replaces a dilapidated stone steading that extended the length of the tree-lined plot.

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