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JANUARY 24, 2022

Lloyd's of London (SOLYD.UL) is considering whether to remain in its flagship City of London headquarters and may make a decision this year, the commercial insurance market said on Tuesday. The news comes just over a month after the death of its Pritzker-winning architect in London at the age of 88. A Lloyd’s spokesperson pointed to the shifts in workplace culture brought on by the Coronavirus as significant factors behind the potential change.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

The House will provide a unique artistic experience combining landscape, architecture and exhibition to offer visitors new perspectives. The post Sou Fujimoto Architects set to open new cultural landmark in Budapest appeared first on Åvontuura.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies / Mario Cucinella Architects. Image Cortesia de Mario Cucinella Architects. Unlike the air, the temperature in the subsoil varies very little during the year or according to geographical position. A few meters below the surface, the ground temperature is between about 10 to 21°C (50 to 70°F) depending on the region.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Stacked volumes and space-saving floor plans feature in this roundup of 10 tiny houses around the world, from an Australian mobile cabin on wheels to a micro home in Tokyo with a pair of funnelled roofs. Top: photo is by Studio Edwards. Above: photo is by Kai Nakamura. House Tokyo, Japan, by Unemori Architects. Japanese studio Unemori Architects built this corrugated steel-clad house comprising several stacked boxes on a 26-square-metre plot of land in densely populated Tokyo.

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Archinect

JANUARY 24, 2022

A new landmark on the European cultural scene is now on view in Hungary. Sou Fujimoto ’s House of Music has now officially opened in the country’s capital city after almost six years of construction. The 97,000-square-foot performance venue is the centerpiece of the Liget Budapest Project , a €1 billion ($1.13 billion) development billed to be one of the biggest in recent European history that includes the music hall, new national art gallery , cultural building, and landscaped

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JANUARY 28, 2022

the bridge incorporates a pavilion that takes shape as a complex, undulating continuous surface with illusionistic perforations. The post BAU sculpts this pedestrian bridge as a ‘floating garden’ over shanghai’s yuandang lake appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Modernist architect Marcel Breuer 's Geller I house in Long Island, which was one of his first homes in the US, has been "demolished in the dead of night" to make way for a tennis court. The home in the village of Lawrence, Long Island, which was one of Hungarian-American architect Breuer's first buildings in the USA, was demolished on 25 January. "Marcel Breuer's first binuclear house, Geller I in Lawrence, New York has been demolished in the dead of night," revealed non-profit preservation soc

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Archinect

JANUARY 24, 2022

An initiative in Brighton aimed at helping protect the bee population could do more harm than good, scientists have warned. The council in Brighton has passed a planning condition that means any new building more than five metres high will have to include swift boxes and special bricks with holes known as bee bricks. They will provide nesting and hibernating space for solitary bees.

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Avontuura

JANUARY 27, 2022

The volumes that compose the teaching and administration building touch one another lightly, allowing for a flow of students and professors. The post SANAA design new urban campus for the Bocconi University in Milan appeared first on Åvontuura.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JANUARY 26, 2022

Docomomo US has shared the news that Geller House I, a widely celebrated and vastly influential early residential project of Marcel Breuer in Lawrence, New York, is gone. It was [.]. Read More. The post Marcel Breuer’s Geller House I demolished on Long Island without warning appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

The first tenants have moved into Italian architect Stefano Boeri 's Easyhome Huanggang Vertical Forest City Complex, the first of his vertical forest towers to open in China. People began moving into the residential part of the development, which covers 4.54 hectares and is composed of five towers in total, a few weeks ago. The complex's two residential towers are 80 metres high and covered in more than 400 trees, as well as other plants and greenery.

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Archinect

JANUARY 24, 2022

Continuing with Archinect's Get Lectured Spring '22 edition , we share the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning 's upcoming lectures, events, and exhibitions programming via Zoom and in-person. Kicking off SARUP's lecture series is " Now What?! Advocacy, Activism & Alliances in American Architecture since 1968 " on February 25.

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Avontuura

JANUARY 25, 2022

The design is an interpretation of the style characteristics of the historical heritage, with a modern, contemporary twist. The post NEXT architects complete 8 footbridges over Netherlands estate appeared first on Åvontuura.

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The Spaces

JANUARY 26, 2022

Nature is the greatest architect, and its influence is felt keenly in contemporary design. Sometimes, organic silhouettes and biophilic ideas are translated directly from nature to the built world by architects, while others take ‘looser’ inspiration when crafting their designs. As children, we turn trees into clubhouses and play imaginary games beneath their branches; we climb them, build from them and fashion them into new structures.

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Deezen

JANUARY 27, 2022

An early 20th-century mansion in the centre of Querétaro, Mexico , has been turned into a boutique hotel by architecture studios Anonimous and JAHS. The Tá Hotel de Diseño , or Tá Design Hotel, encompasses 11 rooms within a neocolonial villa that formerly belonged to Doña Carmen Septien de Soto – a local philanthropist and creative figure. The Tá Hotel de Diseño is located beside the Jardín Guerrero UNESCO heritage site.

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Archinect

JANUARY 27, 2022

Heatherwick Studio has unveiled their proposal for a public waterfront development in Seoul , South Korea. The proposal forms part of a wider sports and cultural district close to the site of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. Named The Leaf , the Heatherwick scheme consists of a multi-level pier sitting on the Han River. The pier features a walkable roofscape with undulating surfaces, consisting of winding trails, water gardens, play areas, observation points, and an event/auditorium space.

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Avontuura

JANUARY 24, 2022

The children’s centre houses three primary schools, a daycare centre, an after-school care centre and a medical nursery. The post De Zwarte Hond breaks new ground with innovative children’s centre in Hellevoetsluis appeared first on Åvontuura.

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designboom

JANUARY 25, 2022

the bricks can efficiently help save solitary bees, whose population is declining due to disease, habitat loss, and climate change. The post multi-purpose bricks with tiny holes provide shelter for solitary bees appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

JANUARY 25, 2022

Greek studio KRAK Architects has conceptualised an angular underground house on the south coast of Crete with semi-open living spaces and an infinity pool that looks out to the Libyan sea. Described by KRAK Architects as a "unique leisure residence", the conceptual house named Casa Katana was designed to form part of the coastal setting on the Greek island.

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Archinect

JANUARY 24, 2022

The fight for affordable housing in New York City has come to one of Lower Manhattan’s most important developments in recent memory. An online petition organized by the New York Review of Architecture and Citygroup has been circulating that appears to call for a 75% increase in the number of affordable units in the 900-foot 5 World Trade Center.

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Dwell

JANUARY 23, 2022

Atzur Arquitectura kept the 1930s flat’s original details, like barrel-vaulted ceilings and a mix of patterned floor tiles, but rearranged the interiors to maximize light. Once Catalonia’s industrial center, El Poblenou in Barcelona has more recently been reinvigorated by a burgeoning creative class. Positioned between bustling downtown and the beach, the area’s historic factories and warehouses are now showrooms, galleries, studios, and start-up offices.

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designboom

JANUARY 25, 2022

the new 9,000 sqm museum features a huge undulating roof with 100 crater-like perforations to accommodate surrounding trees. The post sou fujimoto tops ‘house of music’ in budapest with perforated roof canopy appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

JANUARY 24, 2022

A planning law introduced in the city of Brighton and Hove, England, calls for new buildings to include special bricks that provide nests for solitary bees. Brighton & Hove Council's policy stipulates that all new buildings above five metres should include bee bricks, as well as bird nesting boxes suitable for swifts. These bee bricks are the same size as regular bricks, but integrate a series of narrow openings like those where solitary bees are known to nest.

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Archinect

JANUARY 28, 2022

Ten people were injured Friday morning when a bridge that carries Forbes Avenue over Frick Park in Pittsburgh collapsed, officials said, with six vehicles including a Port Authority bus left stranded in the twisted mess of a bridge that had been listed in poor condition for the past decade. President Biden is visiting the city today in a pre-planned visit to Carnegie Mellon University ’s Mill 19 research hub, where, ironically, he is expected to deliver a speech on the dire need for infras

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JANUARY 23, 2022

January 2022 - Easyhome Huanggang Vertical Forest City Complex, located in the city of Huanggang in Hubei province, is the very first Chinese Vertical Forest designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti China, fully completed and already home to the first tenants since a few weeks ago. It’s a new type of Vertical Forest combining open and closed balconies that interrupt the regularity of the building and create a continuous ever-changing movement, accentuated by the presence of trees and shrubs which th

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