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Jean Nouvel completes “earth-work” library at University of Cyprus

May 28, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Stelios Ioannou Learning Resource Centre at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia by Atelier Jean Nouvel

Atelier Jean Nouvel’s recently completed Stelios Ioannou Learning Resource Center, at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, has been revealed in photographs by Yiorgis Yerolymbos. Named after Cypriot industrialist Stelios Ioannou, the library in the capital of Cyprus has been designed to look like an artificial hill. “It has been considered as an ‘earth-work’, a gentle echo

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10 offices with floor plans divided in interesting ways

May 25, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architects and designers have come up with inventive ways create privacy in open-plan offices. From plants to tunnels, here are the floor plans of 10 workplaces that are divided in unusual ways. The green room Dutch studio Space Encounters used low walls topped with tropical plants to partition the 14th floor of a recently completed

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Neri&Hu completes Aranya Art Center in Qinhuangdao

May 23, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Neri&Hu reveals Aranya Art Center in Qinhuangdao

These exclusive photographs show Neri&Hu’s Aranya Art Center, which opens today in Qinhuangdao on the Gold Coast in China. The art gallery in the Gold Coast seaside resort makes extensive use of concrete, inside and out, with the Chinese design studio likening its appearance to “a solid rock sitting firmly in the shifting environment”. The facades of the

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Invisible Studio and students build Urban Room pavilion as event space and outdoor classroom

May 23, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Urban Room pavilion by Invisible Studio and students at the University of Reading

University of Reading students have built a pavilion designed by Invisible Studio, which will be used by artists to showcase their work. The timber pavilion will host the architecture school’s end-of-year show and a series of two-day artist residencies, before being relocated to a primary school to be used as an outdoor classroom. Named Urban

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French Open tennis stadium by Marc Mimram has greenhouses built into all its stands

May 22, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Court Simonne Mathieu at Roland Garos, the home of the French Open, by Marc Mimram Architecture & Associés

Marc Mimram Architecture & Associés has incorporated greenhouses into all four of the stands of the Court Simonne Mathieu at Roland Garros, home of the French Open. Named after former French tennis player Simonne Mathieu, the 5,000-seat stadium officially opened this week for the start of the French Open. It is now the third show

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Herzog & de Meuron’s Tour Triangle set to be built in Paris after passing final legal hurdle

May 22, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Herzog & de Meuron's Tour Triangle skyscraper

The Tour Triangle, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is poised to become the first skyscraper built in central Paris since 1973, after winning a lengthy court battle. Paris’s administrative court has upheld a building permit that was issued in April 2015, rejecting two appeals that had been filled against the building. The court found that the building

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Ingenhoven Architects is wrapping five miles of hedges around an office in Düsseldorf

May 21, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Kö-Bogen II office block in Düsseldorf by Ingenhoven Architects

Ingenhoven Architects is building the Kö-Bogen II office block in Düsseldorf, which will have facades covered with five miles-worth of hornbeam hedges. Located on the Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz, alongside the heritage-listed Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus theatre, the five-storey office block topped out earlier this month. When it is completed next year, the two main facades of the trapeze-shaped building

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Zaha Hadid’s air-conditioned Al Wakrah Stadium in Qatar hosts its first match

May 20, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Al Wakrah Stadium for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar by Zaha Hadid Architects

The Al Wakrah Stadium, designed by Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar, has an openable roof and a seating-bowl cooling system to allow football to be played all-year round. One of eight venues that will host games during the FIFA World Cup 2022, the 40,000-seat stadium was designed by Hadid before

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Watch a fly-through animation showing Notre-Dame rebuilt with a replica spire and a glass roof

May 16, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Miysis Studio has created an animation showing its vision of a rebuilt Notre-Dame that combines a reconstruction of Viollet-le-Duc’s spire with a modern glass roof. The Belgium visualisation studio created the movie to show how the cathedral, which was devastated by fire last month, could be rebuilt using modern and traditional materials. “We also wanted to mix traditional wood

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Al Wakrah Stadium built by Zaha Hadid Architects for World Cup in Qatar

May 16, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Zaha Hadid Architects' Al Wakrah stadium for the Qatar World Cup 2022 opens

Zaha Hadid Architects has completed the Al Wakrah Stadium, a venue for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, and it hosts its inaugural match today. Located in the city of Al Wakrah, around 10 miles south of Doha, the 40,000-seat stadium opens with the Amir Cup final between Al Sadd and Al Duhail tonight.

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