Archinect

MAY 26, 2022

BIG has been selected as winners of an international invited competition for the design of a new food tech hub in San Sebastian, Spain. The scheme was selected over four other entries from OMA , Snøhetta , 3XN , and Toyo Ito & Associates. Officially named the Basque Culinary Center, the new 9,000-square-meter (97,000-square-foot) hub will bring start-ups, researchers, and chefs under one roof with the goal of advancing food sciences.

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designboom

MAY 30, 2022

a cluster of six residential towers will suggest a lush, naturally carved 'valley.'. The post ecuador’s six towers ‘the hills’ will be MVRDV’s first project in south america appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

MAY 30, 2022

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has opened Rotterdam Rooftop Walk, a temporary bright orange rooftop installation in Rotterdam that crosses the rooflines of two adjacent buildings. Rotterdam Rooftop Walk is a temporary walkable installation that extends up the side of Rotterdam's World Trade Centre and creates a bridge across to the city's Bijenkorf department store.

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Architonic

MAY 11, 2022

The main objective for the development of this home for its 4 members was to find the continuous relationship of the spaces with the exterior, making the forest surrounding the project the main player and attraction. Therefore, there are overtures in the volumes accompanied by floor to ceiling stained glass windows, allowing the connection and mimic with nature.

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MAY 15, 2022

After years left in disrepair, the brutalist Pirelli Building in New Haven, Connecticut, has been converted into a 165-room getaway that claims it will be the country’s first net-zero hotel. It’s no wonder that architect and developer Bruce Redman Becker is a fan of Marcel Breuer: Becker grew up with a furniture designer mother and an industrial designer father in New Canaan, Connecticut, which holds a trove of postwar homes designed by the likes of Breuer, Philip Johnson, and Eliot Noyes.

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Archinect

MAY 25, 2022

The Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects ( AIA|LA ) has announced this year’s winners of the annual Architectural Photography Awards. Fifteen individual artists and photographers working locally and around the world were recognized across three separate categories of Best Image, Rendering, and Instagram feed. Individual winners like the UK’s Marcus Peel were commended for their “interplay of the monochromatic colors and the shadows that almost sets this a

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designboom

MAY 31, 2022

the final structure uses semicircular arches and different textures that flow within the interior, creating a feeling of seamless cohesion between the spaces. The post a series of concrete and brick arches sculpts residence in india appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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MAY 28, 2022

As the start of summer in the northern hemisphere promises warmer days and longer evenings, our latest lookbook features 10 garden studios that provide extra space for work or relaxation. For homes with large gardens, a small studio can be a practical way to create a separate hideaway for working from home – which has become commonplace in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic – or simply to retreat to for privacy.

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Architonic

MAY 9, 2022

A couple passionate about gastronomy and great lovers of Charlevoix dreamed of designing a contemporary residence in this exceptional natural setting, both to enjoy a pied-à-Terre in this region, but also to create a high-end tourist home where families, friends, or colleagues could gather. Inspired by the breathtaking view of the river and the picturesque rural setting, and guided by the firm Architecture49 through all stages of design and construction, the owners succeeded in creating a home w

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MAY 24, 2022

Architect Sigurd Larsen teams up with Raus to build an off-grid escape near Berlin. Founded in 2021 by schoolmates Christopher Eilers, Johann Ahlers, and Julian Trautwein, Raus seeks to entice city dwellers to venture into nature by offering stays at secluded cabins—but there’s a twist. Each escape is located one to two hours away from a city center, and its location is only revealed after a stay is booked.

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The Spaces

MAY 26, 2022

Alfred Hitchcock fans will recognise the town of Bodega, California as the real-life setting of his cult film, The Birds. Now, the property next door to its iconic schoolhouse has gone on sale for $1.1m via Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty. The Victorian building echoes the Italianate style of the nearby schoolhouse, known as Potter School House.

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Archinect

MAY 24, 2022

New York-based architecture and design firm ODA-Architecture has released renderings of its Ombelle project, a pair of mixed-use towers in Ft. Lauderdale , Florida. Developer Dependable Equities tapped ODA to design the architecture, interiors, and landscape for the 1.5-million-square-foot structure. Image courtesy ODA The development, which comprises two mirrored 43-story towers, will offer 1,100 rental units, 11,217 square feet of retail space, and 27,837 square feet of indoor amenities.

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designboom

MAY 31, 2022

this week the first capsules have been unplugged for the first and last time, some to be sent to museums yet to be announced. The post capsules of nakagin tower fly for first time in 50 years, headed to museums across world appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

MAY 27, 2022

From an artist's cabin perched above a tidal salt marsh to an entire elevated apartment block in Italy, here is a roundup of 10 homes on stilts from the Dezeen archives. Hoisting buildings up on pillars allows them to occupy otherwise uninhabitable sites such as lakes, steep slopes and craggy coastal outcrops, bringing inhabitants closer to nature while treading lightly on the surrounding environment.

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The Architect's Newsletter

MAY 12, 2022

When the Skytrail monorail system debuted in September 1979 just a little over a year after the larger opening of the Minnesota Zoo (née the Minnesota Zoological Garden), it was [.]. Read More. The post The Minnesota Zoo kicks off transformation of defunct monorail track into elevated pedestrian loop appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Architizer

MAY 21, 2022

Project Status: Built. Year: 2021. Size: 25,000 sqft – 100,000 sqft. Budget: 10M – 50M. CASAMIRADOR SAVASSI is a residential building, with 38 one and two-stories residential lofts in 9 floors. With merely 12.70 meters width, the biggest challenge was designing on such a narrow lot, in compliance with the city’s building design code, and yet committed to a vision of a visceral, intense, living statement of architectural possibilities.

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The Spaces

MAY 30, 2022

Lombardy’s Lake Como has picturesque, mountain-backed shores dotted with lavish villas, quaint villages, history and nature. The upscale Italian lake is a favourite haunt of celebrities such as George Clooney, who bought his mansion back in 2002, and it co-starred alongside Lady Gaga in the 2021 film House of Gucci. But it has long been a popular holiday destination, with its cool alpine air drawing visitors since the Roman era.

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Archinect

MAY 18, 2022

David Chipperfield Architects is celebrating the recent completion of their Morland Mixité Capitale project in Paris following six years of construction on a ‘Reinventing Paris’ scheme first announced by developer Emerige in 2016. The firm’s Berlin office, in collaboration with CALQ, had been hard at work restoring and expanding the former Préfecture de Paris building into a new public attraction near Canal Saint-Martin.

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designboom

MAY 30, 2022

biophilic architecture office in Sidoarjo, Indonesia Architecture studio andyrahman has designed a new biophilic workspace in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia. The concept aims to provide people with a healthier and happier place to work in, minimizing stress levels and thus reigniting the employee’s love for everyday life. More importantly, the new studio is formed […].

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Deezen

MAY 24, 2022

A Heatherwick Studio -designed sculpture containing 350 trees, which is being erected to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee, is nearing completion outside Buckingham Palace in London. Shaped like a giant tree, the 21-metre-high sculpture was designed by the Thomas Heatherwick-led studio to draw attention to a tree-planting campaign to mark 70 years of the Queen's reign.

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The Architect's Newsletter

MAY 31, 2022

Below is the first of three articles written as part of the New Voices in Architectural Journalism fellowship, a mentorship-based program developed by The Architect’s Newspaper and the Pratt Institute [.]. Read More. The post Urban planner Justin Garrett Moore thinks cities need a Department of Care appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Architizer

MAY 24, 2022

The A+Product Awards is open for entries, with a Main Entry Deadline of June 24th. Get started on your submission today! . Deconstructivism is one of the most divisive architectural styles. The style and the corresponding movement emerged in the 1970s and became known in the 1980s with projects around the world by Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi etc.

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The Spaces

MAY 24, 2022

Dungeness’s unique, eclectic and extreme landscape has drawn artists and architects to it in recent years, intrigued by the dichotomy of nature rubbing shoulders with nuclear power along its shingled shoreline. While open and exposed to the elements, it’s also withdrawn and private – a hamlet that’s home to little more than a hundred homes, though filled with a broad mix of people.

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Archinect

MAY 23, 2022

Austria-based architecture office querkraft has completed an IKEA furniture store in the country’s capital Vienna , whose exterior was inspired by bookcases. Designed as a car-free venue, the scheme was developed with the vision of being a “good neighbor” for the surrounding community through a blend of public spaces and an active streetfront.

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designboom

MAY 30, 2022

more than four decades after its debut, DeLorean motor company has partially unveiled the alpha5, an electric new iteration of the vehicle. The post take a first look at the all-new DeLorean alpha5 EV appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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