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APRIL 12, 2024

The Barbican has debuted a new large-scale public art installation from Ghanaian-born artist Ibrahim Mahama. His site-specific piece Purple Hibiscus, named in reference to the 2003 novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is installed on the facade of the Barbican’s central Lakeside Terrace. It uses approximately 21,500 square feet of fuschia-hued cloth that contrasts dramatically with the rough concrete exterior and overcast London sky.

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APRIL 12, 2024

© Adrià Goula architects: Coll-Leclerc Arquitectos architects: MIAS Architects Location: Carrer d'Ulldecona, 58, Sants-Montjuïc, 08038 Barcelona, Spain Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Adrià Goula Photographs: Photographs: Stupendastic Area: 7670.

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APRIL 12, 2024

Frank Gehry has provided some interesting comments to the LA Times to coincide with last week’s groundbreaking of the new Colburn Center in downtown Los Angeles , a vital lynchpin for the city’s post-COVID economic rebound. Speaking on the record for an article to the paper’s business section, the 95-year-old Walt Disney Concert Hall designer told reporters about his still-expanding vision for the Grand Avenue corridor and beyond.

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APRIL 12, 2024

© Archive Miguel Marcelino (photo by Lourenço T. Abreu) Many ancient Egyptian, Greek and Islamic religious buildings share a common feature known as hypostyle. Defined as rows of columns that support a roof, this solution has developed in different cultures in different periods of time, which can explain the variety of materials, shapes, sizes and distances between the columns that can be found around the world.

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APRIL 12, 2024

Kanye 'Ye' West has reportedly reduced the price of his previously listed Tadao Ando -designed home in Malibu, California, to $39 million, according to Realtor.com. The new price is substantially lower than both the original $53 million listing and the $75 million price tag it carried in 2020 before he paid $57.3 million to purchase the home in September of 2021.

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APRIL 12, 2024

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Álvaro Siza has completed an extension to the Monastery of Leca do Bailo outside Porto , Portugal. The recently renovated monastery will now serve as the headquarters for the Livraria Lello Foundation, offering a space for “exhibitions that will champion literacy and critical thinking.” Image credit: Duccio Malagamba Image credit: Duccio Malagamba Located near Siza’s hometown of Matosinhos, the scheme draws on the architect’s early

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APRIL 12, 2024

© Åke E:son Lindman architects: APPELL arkitektkontor Location: Norrviken, Sollentuna, Sweden Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Åke E:son Lindman Area: 620.

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APRIL 12, 2024

Cobe is joining fellow Danish architecture firms Dorte Mandrup , Tegnestuen Vandkunsten , and JAJA , alongside Sweco engineers, to deliver a new mixed-use residential district in Copenhagen’s South Harbor. The one-million-square-foot design is set to include 1,000 new units of housing (25% of which are considered affordable) designed to help key the Danish building sector's vital green transition.

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APRIL 12, 2024

© Roland Halbe architects: Taillandier Architectes Associés Location: 25598 Bagergue, Lérida, Spain Project Year: 2024 Photographs: Roland Halbe Area: 232.

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APRIL 12, 2024

This edition of Bustler's curated picks of noteworthy architecture and design competitions features four calls seeking temporary public art installations in Philadelphia's Maja Park, exciting architectural drawings and renderings, proposals for transportation infrastructure improvements in Mieres, Spain, and ideas for how single-family townhouses can serve as a prototype to establish affordable housing in Long Beach, California.

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APRIL 12, 2024

The project was carried out on a former convent in the 18th century where only the church remained; the conventual cloister had disappeared. The post David Closes designs new entrance façade of the Baroque Museum of Catalonia appeared first on Åvontuura.

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APRIL 12, 2024

A new analysis of the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index data from the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) has shown an increase in the cost of construction input prices of 0.4% for March. In the month, nonresidential construction input prices increased by 0.4%. Both overall and nonresidential construction input prices are 1.7% higher than they were a year ago.

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APRIL 12, 2024

Creative agency Uncommon Creative Studio has made "boring" versions of UK landmarks including Buckingham Palace and Edinburgh Castle for Thomas Heatherwick 's Humanise campaign. Created to demonstrate how UK landmarks would look if designed in modernist styles, the agency used artificial intelligence to reimagine the landmarks. Along with Buckingham Palace and Edinburgh Castle, Uncommon Creative Studio created alternative versions of the Tower of London, Royal Liver Building, Palace of Westminst

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APRIL 12, 2024

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APRIL 12, 2024

The Global Centre for Clean Air Research has published research that found botanical gardens are one of the best ways to cool cities and mitigate the effects of heatwaves. In its study , the Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) at the University of Surrey analysed how different examples of blue infrastructure (water areas and features) and green infrastructure (planted elements) can mitigate urban heating.

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APRIL 12, 2024

jiri krejcirik revives the legendary chair 14, celebrating ton design's bending craftsmanship. The post ultramarine wooden circles revise ton’s iconic chair 14 displayed at milan design week 2024 appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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APRIL 12, 2024

This week on Dezeen , we reported on the news that Saudi Arabia is scaling back the expected population it hopes The Line mega city will reach by 2030. News agency Bloomberg reported that officials expect The Line, which is the flagship development for Saudi Arabia's Neom project, to house fewer than 300,000 people by 2030 compared to an original goal of 1.5 million.

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APRIL 12, 2024

'common thread' is a 3D knitted textile passage that winds its way through the secluded 19th-century courtyard for bruges triennial. The post SO – IL weaves 3D knitted textile installation ‘common thread’ at bruges triennial appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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APRIL 12, 2024

A skyscraper designed by New York studio SHoP Architects at Detroit' s Hudson's Detroit development has topped out, making it the second tallest building in the city. Named the Tower, the 681-foot-high (207 metre) skyscraper forms part of a larger development in Downtown Detroit called Hudson's Detroit. It reached its full height this week. When complete it will have a form of thin, flat volumes pushed together that step up in height pyramidally as it rises on the front, with a unified facade of

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APRIL 12, 2024

A retiree transformed her suburban residence by adding a surprisingly airy brutalist extension at the front. There’s a secret hiding behind this Brisbane, Australia, home’s sharp, brutalist façade: its original brick bungalow form is largely intact. Carmen bought the three-bed house 16 years ago with her husband, Carl, to eventually retire there. At the time, they were living in a heritage home on a large block in the same leafy suburb of Brisbane.

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APRIL 12, 2024

French fashion house Saint Laurent will unveil the Villa Planchart Segnaposto collection of 12 porcelain plates designed by Italian architect Gio Ponti in 1957 at Milan design week. The tableware collection will be showcased in an exhibition called Gio Ponti – Villa Planchart at the Chiostri Di San Simpliciano cloister in Milan during the city's upcoming design week.

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The Architect's Newsletter

APRIL 12, 2024

Universal Hall, a monumental 1965 cultural venue designed by Vladimir Jaroslav, Ljubomir Stankov, and K. Stankova-Mutafova, caught fire in Skopje, North Macedonia, on April 9. Repairs were happening on the The post Universal Hall, an iconic 1965 building in Skopje, North Macedonia, partially destroyed by fire appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Deezen

APRIL 12, 2024

This Dezeen video shows the restoration progress of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris , including its reconstructed spire that is crowned by a golden rooster. In the video, viewers can see the 96-metre-tall spire without its scaffolding, with a design replicating the 1859 version designed by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dezeen (@dezeen) The Dezeen video reveals the reconstructed spire at Notre-Dame The reconstructed spire is topped with a recreation o

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The Architect's Newsletter

APRIL 12, 2024

The untimely death of New York City’s beloved Flaco the owl has prompted renewed calls to make New York safer for birds, and rightfully so. As an architect, I’ve seen the The post New York’s FLACO Act is a start, but bird safety legislation could go further appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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APRIL 12, 2024

Dezeen Showroom: Italian furniture company UniFor has released a sideboard as part of its Andromeda collection, which will be launched during Milan design week. The credenza shares the wider collection's streamlined yet monolithic appearance, and has both hinged doors and open shelving to provide a variety of storage and display solutions. The credenza can be customised by specifying various combinations of materials and colourways It comes in two sizes.

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