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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Since Notre-Dame Cathedral was devastated by fire last month, design proposals for rebuilding the roof and spire have got more and more ridiculous. Here are seven of the most far-fetched, including a car park, a swimming pool and a McDonald’s. The Pool by Ulf Mejergren Architects Rather than topping Notre-Dame with a park, as several designers have
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Scandinavian firm Henning Larsen is collaborating with four Chinese studios to design a two-square-mile business district for Shenzhen. Henning Larsen won a competition in collaboration with Chinese consortiums Shenzhen Cube Architecture and Swooding Architects, plus the Urban Planning & Design Institute of Shenzhen and Why Art Projects SL. Named Shenzhen Bay Headquarters City, the masterplan aims
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A skyscraper that processes waste, an ice dam, an urban nature reserve and a border-wall building are among the conceptual projects recognised in this year’s eVolo Skyscraper Competition. This year’s edition of the annual skyscraper design contest named three winners and 27 honourable mentions, with Serbian architecture student Marko Dragicevic’s design for Methanescraper in Belgrade named the overall winner.
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Carmody Groarke has refurbished the British Film Institute’s home on the South Bank in London, with an illuminated new entrance canopy and revamped interior. The new riverfront entrance is designed to draw greater attention to the BFI Southbank’s restaurant, bar and cinemas under Waterloo Bridge. Carmody Groarke added a large entrance canopy to the building, which stretches the
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Paris-based architect Vincent Callebaut wants to give Notre-Dame Cathedral a new roof that generates energy and contains an aquaponic farm. The proposal by Vincent Callebaut Architectures sees the historic cathedral transformed into an eco-friendly building, generating more energy than it consumes, while producing 21 tons of fruits and vegetables a year. It would also give the gothic structure a “new face” for
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Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has designed a temporary replacement for the House of Commons, to be used by UK Parliament while the Palace of Westminster is restored. AHMM has planned the temporary structure for within the Grade II-listed Richmond House in London’s Whitehall. The images were revealed as part of a consultation on the plans for the relocation. The “substantially redeveloped”
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Miysis Studio has proposed combining a reconstruction of Notre-Dame’s spire with a modern glazed roof to “find the right balance between history and future” for the cathedral. The visualisation studio created the images as an idea of how the cathedral, which was devastated by fire last month, could be rebuilt using both traditional and modern elements.
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New Chinese Architecture is a new book spotlighting the country’s emerging architectural talents, all of whom happen to be women. Author Austin Williams talks Dezeen through five of the most exciting architects and their projects. According to Williams, the new generation of architects in China is producing architecture that is “good, intelligent, challenging, adventurous and diverse”. “In
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Paris-based Studio NAB thinks a giant greenhouse could be built on top of Notre-Dame Cathedral to replace the roof lost in last month’s devastating fire. The covered garden would stretch the length of the Paris cathedral and along both arms of its crossing, while the building’s spire would be rebuilt as a multi-storey platform filled with beehives.
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