Deezen

MAY 16, 2023

French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh has created a brick workshop in Louviers, France , for luxury brand Hermès that is the first industrial building to achieve France's highest environmental labelling. These were designed to preserve biodiversity and have a system for recovering rainwater and diverting it back into the water table.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Visitors to the Replay event at the Design Museum during London Design Festival were able to participate in a game designed to make use of waste materials gathered from the city's workshops. Replay's simple rules invite participants to take turns placing a block of salvaged material within the sculpture.

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Deezen

AUGUST 28, 2023

Gardeners House is a blue-stained timber and terracotta-brick structure in a park in Geneva , designed by architecture studio Cabinet to provide workshops for gardeners and leisure space for locals. A central hall connects the workshops and public spaces, as well as an office and changing rooms.

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Architizer

JULY 9, 2024

Design Workshop , this year’s Jury selection for Best Landscape Design Firm in Architizer’s A+Awards , is internationally renowned for its dedication to creating projects that benefit clients, society and the well-being of our planet. Stay up to date by subscribing to our A+Awards Newsletter. With eight studios across the U.S.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Spanish architect Juan Gurrea Rumeu used a palette of warm, textural materials and carefully positioned voids to create atmospheric living spaces inside this house he designed for himself and his wife in Barcelona. The post Tactile materials "accentuate the value of shadows" in Bolívar House appeared first on Dezeen.

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The Spaces

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Spanning three sites and 16 artists, the 2024 edition of Desert X AlUla sees artists ‘attuning to the forces, rhythms and processes’ of the ancient oasis city. Desert X AlUla is part of the wider AlUla Arts Festival, which is on until 2 March 2024 and includes several contemporary art showcases as well as tours and craft workshops.

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Deezen

AUGUST 21, 2022

Australian studio CplusC Architectural Workshop has elevated a house on posts above a sloping site in Palm Beach, Sydney, to create the feeling of being in a treehouse. As there was no stable subsoil on the site, concrete piers were drilled into the ground to create minimal foundations for the single-storey home.

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Architizer

JANUARY 31, 2023

Architecture is defined by materials. One of the most significant designers in contemporary architecture, Kengo Kuma ’s work builds upon a legacy of Japanese craftsmanship while rethinking how we use materials. The site was formerly a tea field that formed a hillside. Subscribe to our newsletter for updates.

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BD+C

MARCH 14, 2023

Meet Spot: A robot that’s being tested to keep construction sites clean 0 qpurcell Tue, 03/14/2023 - 07:57 AEC Tech What if we could increase consistency and efficiency with housekeeping by automating this process with a robot? Introducing: Spot. Currently, there’s a lack of consistency in how we manage and track housekeeping on jobsites.

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Architizer

JUNE 19, 2023

That is, moving away from the more human elements involved in their manufacture resulted in products that were standardized and more universally available, rendering their former manufacturing sites obsolete. The glory days of the factory date back to the early 20th century, when it was erected as a massive brick production site.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Like the 19th-century factory and warehouse buildings that formerly occupied the site and the trade schools from which LCF originated, the building is characterised by the lofty, well-lit and adaptable workshop spaces it contains," he continued.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The 25,400-square-metre site in the historic water town of Wuzhen was originally developed in the 1950s as an extensive factory campus containing production facilities, offices and staff dormitories, before falling into disuse in the 1980s.

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Deezen

APRIL 24, 2024

Georgia -based design collective Garbage Kids has exhibited a "long-lasting" collection of wooden furniture and ornaments made solely from recycled materials at Milan design week. The collective is a long-term partner of Dropcity, and will continue to operate and host workshops at the Milan site for the foreseeable future.

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Deezen

MARCH 23, 2023

The design collective will transform the Barbican's Curve gallery, building a wave-like installation on site using materials that have been recycled and foraged from cultural institutions and exhibitions across London and the south coast of England.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The Wraxall Yard complex, which also features a community space and a workshop, is part of a wider project by the owners of the site to provide universal access to the landscape and enhance the area's biodiversity. There is also a workshop and a community space. Structural engineer: Structure Workshop.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Nearly all furnishings in the hotel were crafted from eucalyptus wood Nearly every element of the hotel interior was custom-designed and crafted on-site at Policronica 's workshop in Lisbon using locally sourced eucalyptus wood. Everything is made from eucalyptus wood, an invasive wood that we are requalifying," the studio said. "We

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It has a deliberately simple design, intended to echo the form of an old 20-square-metre tool shed that previously occupied the site. On one side is a "cosy sleeping area" and on the other is a carpentry workshop. We wanted this approach of simplicity to be reflected as well in the very materiality, not just the spaces itself.

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Dwell

AUGUST 1, 2024

Workshop Architecture rarely builds single-family houses, but they made an exception to try out Passive House-standard wall and roof panels. Single-family homes are not typically on the docket for Workshop Architecture. This house is custom designed for its site. Do you know a prefab brand that should be on our radar?

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Designed for the Greenwich Enterprise Board and backed by the Greater London Authority , the building is intended as a model for high-density, affordable industrial space on compact sites, which challenges traditional "ugly, cold metal sheds", dRMM said. This top-heavy design also provides cover for a central loading bay.

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Deezen

JUNE 27, 2024

Estúdio Campana has created an eco park in Brazil "We said 'we have held talks and workshops held workshops everywhere, in schools abroad, so why not in our hometown'," Humberto Campana told Dezeen of the studio's reasoning. A pavilion with a concrete canopy and legs covered in piassava straw was also installed on the site.

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Deezen

APRIL 20, 2024

Named Bury Gate Farm, the five-bedroom house replaces a 1950s bungalow on a sloped site on the outskirts of Pulborough, which overlooks fields and woodland. The materials aim to complement local architecture Bury Gate Farm has a stepped plan, with living spaces positioned to the south and organised linearly along the colonnade.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Sitting atop four wood and steel supports resting on sandstone beds, it has a modular wooden structure crafted from Okoume marine plywood in Llabb's own carpentry workshop. Read: Find Sanctuary to launch California glamping site geared toward remote work. The Hermitage overlooks Trebbia valley. A desk lines one side.

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Deezen

JUNE 26, 2024

Featuring reclaimed materials , charred-timber facades and pared-back interiors, this list of garden spaces includes a converted workshop completed by designer Paul Westwood in the UK and a studio centred by a tree-shaped concrete structure in Belgium. The studio's facade is finished with stacked slate tiles bordered by concrete slabs.

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Deezen

APRIL 22, 2023

Named Casa Dosmurs, the home is designed to blend in with its site in the residential area of Alella in Catalonia, Spain, with its flat roof the only part visible from the adjacent street. Working with a structural system made in the workshop was for three reasons," explained Mesura.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2023

Architecture studios Carmody Groarke and TRANS Architectuur Stedenbouw have collaborated with material researchers to develop a brick made from local construction waste, which will be used to build the new wing of the Design Museum Gent. The photography by Cinzia Romanin and Thomas Noceto unless stated.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Mexican architects ODAmx and Rubén Valdez have designed a restaurant with an ash-coloured interior inside a former mechanic's workshop in Guadalajara. Now located in the Mexican city's Santa Tere neighbourhood, Xokol began in 2017 within a small space that housed just four tables and room for 16 diners. The photography is by Rafael Palacios.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Its constrained site, which measures just six metres in width and 15 metres in depth, is opened up by a series of courtyards that help maximise access to natural light, ventilation and greenery. "The The courtyards not only infuse the interior with natural light but also facilitate cross-ventilation and spaces for interaction."

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Bustler

APRIL 4, 2024

Responding to the theme of ‘Rethinking Home — Adapt and Reuse,’ entrants were asked to create new homes using recycled materials and/or retrofitting existing structures. The 2024 longlist for the £25,000 (USD $31,600) Davidson Prize has been announced for its third edition.

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Deezen

APRIL 19, 2023

The exhibition titled Ecocentrico forms part of the Alcova design fair and includes multimedia installations and workshops, which address the topics of urban regeneration and memory. One of the seven workshops taking place is Fluid Shapes by Mauro del Santo, which uses soap bubbles to explore ideas around complexity and harmony.

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Dwell

MAY 28, 2024

The materials were defined by site study. In the workshop, a system was composed, made up of metal profiles, which was transferred in sequence to the site for assembly. In the workshop, a system was composed, made up of metal profiles, which was transferred in sequence to the site for assembly.

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Deezen

AUGUST 1, 2022

Its distinctive hyperbolic-paraboloid shape evolved through a series of workshops where models made from cardboard, cable ties and timber strips were developed. The joints were made from recycled aluminum signage from across the site. The structure's form was developed with local community groups. "We

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Deezen

JUNE 13, 2023

"The small windows, large canopy overhang, wide door on the front facade, and use of industrial materials all sing from the same song sheet." "The As you get closer you will see the sharp edges and geometries that come from a digital fabrication workshop rather than a traditional construction site."

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The newly created bedrooms are organised around a small patio that looks towards the back of the site, framing views of an existing drystone wall. It creates a softened atmosphere, even if the materiality is the same," he concluded.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The 22nd edition of the festival will include a wide-ranging programme, from workshops, talks and tours to open studios and product launches. Participants including Natural Material Studio and Giles Miller will showcase works examining materiality, craftsmanship and AI.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Built following the restoration of the owner's main house in a hillside settlement in the Cairngorms National Park, the completion of the trio of buildings marks the end of a decade-long undertaking by the studio to reoccupy the site. Durability, in all senses, was important," said Addy. "We

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The couple has transformed the site into a housing community to achieve their goal of working "in an isolated rural location surrounded by a mix of families", said David Kohn Architects. Cowshed is complete with a large sheltered terrace to the entrance, with an outdoor workshop and studio to one side.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Black brick and lye-washed wood are among the materials used to build a family home in a coastal Washington forest for a founding partner at architectural studio GO'C. The project, called The Rambler, is tucked into a wooded site on the Kitsap Peninsula, which lies northwest of Seattle.

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