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Concrete machinery depot by Deamicisarchitetti is submerged in a hillside at La Raia estate

November 22, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This shed for storing heavy machinery at an estate in Italy’s Piedmont region is cut into a hillside and sheltered beneath a concrete overhang that swoops upwards to follow the site’s topography. The machinery depot designed by Milanese architecture studio Deamicisarchitetti is located on the estate of La Raia – a biodynamic farm and winery

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Copenhagen arena by 3XN has an undulating wooden facade that rises up above entrances

November 21, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Danish firm 3XN has completed a large sporting and cultural arena in Copenhagen, featuring a glazed curtain wall wrapped in timber fins arranged to allow partial views of the interior. The 35,000-square-metre Royal Arena is situated in the Danish capital’s residential Ørestad Syd area and was designed by 3XN together with global architecture firm HKS

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Copenhagen arena by 3XN has an undulating wooden facade that rises up above entrances

November 21, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Danish firm 3XN has completed a large sporting and cultural arena in Copenhagen, featuring a glazed curtain wall wrapped in timber fins arranged to allow partial views of the interior. The 35,000-square-metre Royal Arena is situated in the Danish capital’s residential Ørestad Syd area and was designed by 3XN together with global architecture firm HKS

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Benthem Crouwel adds stripy tower surrounded by a moat to Amsterdam data centre

November 21, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Brightly coloured circulation spaces contrast with the slick metal exterior of this data centre in Amsterdam, which Benthem Crouwel Architects designed as a more attractive take on high-security infrastructural architecture. The new AM4 tower was developed by local studio Benthem Crouwel Architects to slot in alongside the smaller AM3 data centre, which it completed in 2012 for

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Benthem Crouwel adds stripy tower surrounded by a moat to Amsterdam data centre

November 21, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Brightly coloured circulation spaces contrast with the slick metal exterior of this data centre in Amsterdam, which Benthem Crouwel Architects designed as a more attractive take on high-security infrastructural architecture. The new AM4 tower was developed by local studio Benthem Crouwel Architects to slot in alongside the smaller AM3 data centre, which it completed in 2012 for

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Combas uses natural stone to build “warm and robust” juvenile detention facility in Marseilles

November 20, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This detention centre for minors in Marseilles offers an alternative to oppressive prison architecture through its muted material palette of natural stone and board-marked concrete. Nice-based architecture office Combas was responsible for designing the facility in the Chutes Lavie neighbourhood of Marseille’s 13th arrondissement. The studio was selected for the project following a competition organised

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Black-stained barn built by Macdonald Wright Architects at Caring Wood country house

November 19, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Macdonald Wright Architects has added a barn clad in black-stained boards to Caring Wood – a Kent country villa that is vying to be named the UK’s House of the Year. Corvid Barn was erected close to Caring Wood house, which the London-based firm worked on with Niall Maxwell of Welsh studio Rural Office for Architecture.

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Feilden Clegg Bradley helps Bryan Adams create artist ateliers in refurbished Berlin factory

November 17, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

British firm Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has worked with musician Bryan Adams to transform a disused factory in southeast Berlin into a mixed-use complex containing a cluster of creative studios. The Spreehalle building is located in Berlin’s Treptow-Kopernick district on the banks of the river Spree. It was originally constructed in 1910 and is part of

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Soil-based render creates pink walls for houses built by Taller Hector Barroso in a Mexican forest

November 16, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

To help this cluster of houses blend into their setting in a Mexican forest, architecture studio Taller Hector Barroso chose to cover the walls in a render made using local soil. The Entre Pinos development comprises a row of five weekend houses,, designed by Mexico City-based Taller Hector Barroso for a site in the vast forest surrounding the

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Scottish architects call for reform of “increasingly secretive and autocratic” RIAS

November 15, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

More than 150 architects are calling for an independent review into the governance of Scottish architecture’s professional body, the RIAS, which is being accused of covering up details of its internal finances. The architects have signed an open letter sent to the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) by a group calling itself A New Chapter.

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