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FEBRUARY 26, 2024
© Space Storyteller architects: Spacemen Studio Location: Gtower, Kuala Lumpur, 50450 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Project Year: 2024 Photographs: Space Storyteller Area: 410.
Archinect
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Snøhetta has shared new photos of its completed Beijing City Library design in the Chinese capital. What is billed by the team to be the "world's largest climatized reading space" is composed of a glass curtain wall fronted by a forest of sculptural columns resembling ginko trees in a design that harkens the natural landscape to affect an "emotional connection" between people, books, and the environment.
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ArchDaily
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Courtesy of Locus For decades, our society and the development of our built environment have been strongly associated with intensive extractive processes. While these methods were fundamental to the growth of urban areas, they also laid the groundwork for significant challenges that contemporary generations face today. Nowadays, construction debris accumulates on the peripheries of our cities, and plastic waste floats in the oceans.
Archinect
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, has shared new renderings and construction photos to go along with the announcement of the impending completion of a two-year, $100 million expansion project designed by Snøhetta and Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture. The design establishes the new Rhonda & Howard Hawks Pavilion on campus while adding another 40% worth of gallery spaces to house the museum’s fast-growing collection.
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ArchDaily
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Courtesy of SOM This month, Skidmore, Owings, and Merril's (SOM) $550 million William H. Gray III 30 th Street Station broke ground in Philidelphia. Initially proposed in 2016, the scheme involves a new mixed-use urban district with an emphasis on transit for the 30 th Street Station Precinct. Boasting a vibrant public realm, the initial phase of the plan focuses extensively on renovating the historic station.
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ArchDaily
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
© Gustav Willeit architects: Peter Pichler Architecture Location: 40012 Calderara di Reno, Metropolitan City of Bologna, Italy Project Year: 2024 Photographs: Gustav Willeit Area: 6200.
Archinect
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
A quartet of new landscape projects have been selected as the winners for the 25th International Garden Festival , which takes place in Grand-Métis, Quebec, from June 22nd until October 6th this year. For the special anniversary, designers responded to the theme ‘ Ecology of Possibility ’ put forth by Artistic Director Ève De Garie-Lamanque in order to stimulate a re-imagining of the future garden design.
ArchDaily
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
© Eduardo Macarios architects: PRISCILLA MULLER, Studio Arquitetura e Design architects: Solo Arquitetos Location: Fernando de Noronha, PE, 53990-000, Brazil Project Year: 2021 Photographs: Eduardo Macarios Area: 1400.
Archinect
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The next chapter in New York’s Hudson Yards has been revealed, with developers filing a bid for a potential mixed-use casino complex. Related Companies and Wynn Resorts submitted plans as part of an environmental impact process last week with the New York City Department of City Planning, which includes two scenarios for the plot directly west of The Vessel.
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ArchDaily
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
© YuChen Chao Photography architects: Very Studio︱Che Wang Architects Location: Taichung, North District, Taichung City, Taiwan Project Year: 2021 Photographs: YuChen Chao Photography Area: 425.
Avontuura
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Beijing City Library Architect: SnøhettaLocation: Beijing, ChinaType: LibraryYear: 2024Photographs: Yumeng Zhu Snøhetta unveils the world’s largest climatized reading space with their new Beijing City Library Snøhetta’s Beijing City Library has opened doors for visitors as the world’s largest climatized reading space. It is the firm’s latest innovation in the library typology, thirty-five years after they began work on Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt.… The post Snøhetta unve
ArchDaily
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Courtesy of KIRYU ATELIER + T Architects Co. architects: KIRYU ATELIER architects: T Architects Co. Location: Toyota, Aichi, Japan Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Courtesy of KIRYU ATELIER + T Architects Co. Area: 435.
Archinect
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Situated in Fengxi New City, Shanxi Province, China, the Mu Feng Yue Hot Spring Hotel emerges as a serene retreat, nestled in the natural wilderness yet mere moments from the urban bustle. This hotel represents a seamless fusion of city life and nature, providing guests with a peaceful and refined sanctuary. The architectural approach adopted here emphasizes harmony with nature and thoughtful adaptation to the surroundings, resulting in a design that boasts a rustic façade paired with a r
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FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi. Image Courtesy of DesignPhiladelphia New York-based architecture office WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism has been named the 37 th recipient of the Louis I. Kahn Award , offered by DesignPhiladelphia. The firm, founded by Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, is recognized for its wide range of projects, from cultural institutions to urban landscapes, all demonstrating and responding to contextual conditions, sustainability standards, and centered aro
Deezen
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
International studio Snøhetta has completed Beijing City Library in China , a glass-lined building filled with towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills. Located in Beijing's Tongzhou district, the library was designed by Snøhetta to "reinstate the library's relevance in the 21st century" and aims to offer a "new vision" for the typology.
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FEBRUARY 26, 2024
© Yao Li architects: Architectural Design and Research Institution of SCUT Location: Changsha, Hunan, China Project Year: 2020 Photographs: Yao Li Area: 169464.
Architizer
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
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FEBRUARY 26, 2024
© Ivar Kvaal architects: Atelier Oslo Location: Skåtøy, Kragerø Municipality, Norway Project Year: 2018 Photographs: Ivar Kvaal Photographs: Nils Vik/D2 Photographs: Charlotte Thiis-Evensen Area: 70.
designboom
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
the studio designs a sweeping, nearly 16-meter-tall welcoming forum off of which rise stepped terraces along smooth, rhythmic curve The post beijing city library by snøhetta opens to the public, revealing sculpted ‘hills’ and ‘valleys’ appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
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FEBRUARY 26, 2024
© Juan Rodriguez architects: Díaz y Díaz Arquitectos Location: Santiago de Compostela, Province of La Coruña, Spain Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Juan Rodriguez Read more »
Deezen
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
American artist James Turrell has created an illuminated skylight and seating chamber at a New York City private school, which allows viewers to have "a unique and personal experience of the sky". The Leading Skyspace , located at Friends Seminary school, consists of a small room lined with wooden seating where viewers look out through a ceiling aperture surrounded by colour-changing LED lights.
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FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Lani Villa. Image © Andres García Lachner architects: Studio Saxe Location: Guanacaste Province, Nosara, Costa Rica Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Andres García Lachner Area: 1400.
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FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Developer HUB and investor Bridges Fund Management have revealed plans to convert a 1950s office building in London into Cornerstone, a co-living residential scheme designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. Located on the edge of the Barbican estate, the Cornerstone project will draw from the iconic Barbican architecture to transform 45 Beech Street into 174 co-living residences along with street-level commercial spaces and amenities.
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FEBRUARY 26, 2024
© Walter Gustavo Salcedo architects: Adolfo Schlieper Arquitectos Location: Roldan, Santa Fe, Argentina Project Year: 2021 Photographw: Walter Gustavo Salcedo Area: 311.
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FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has expanded the Serralves Museum in Porto , which he completed in 1999, with an angular extension housing some of his archival works. Named the Álvaro Siza Wing , the three-storey extension has a geometric shape that branches out from the existing museum and slots in between the trees in Serralves Park. The geometric wing branches off the existing museum The Álvaro Siza Wing is the latest collaboration between the 90-year-old architect and the Serralves Foundat
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