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OMA combines sports and science at Brighton College

January 10, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Brighton College School of Science and Sports by OMA

Dutch architecture studio OMA has unveiled the School of Science and Sports at a historic college in Brighton, which merges academic and athletic facilities in one building. The linear block, which is located alongside Brighton College’s main playing field, is OMA’s first sports building and its first major project at a secondary school. “Its always

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BIG and Toyota reveal city of the future at base of Mount Fuji in Japan

January 7, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
BIG and Toyota reveal plans for city of the future under Mount Fuji in Japan

Danish architecture studio BIG is designing a “prototype city of the future” with wooden buildings and autonomous vehicles for Japanese car company Toyota near Mount Fuji in Japan. Named Woven City, the first phase of development on the site of a former car-factory will be home to 2,000 people who will test the vehicles, robotics and smart

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Cyberhouse designed for Cybertruck-driving apocalypse survivors

January 7, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Cyberhouse designed by Modern House Architecture & Design for Cybertruck-driving apocalypse survivors

Russian studio Modern House Architecture & Design has taken inspiration from Tesla’s Cybertruck to create the Cyberhouse for a group of apocalypse survivors. The architectural concept was created by Modern House Architecture & Design as a house that would be an appropriate dwelling for a Cybertruck owner. Alex Wizhevsky, chief architect at Modern House Architecture

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The biggest architecture and design stories of 2019

December 31, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Notre-Dame Cathedral alternative spires

To complete our review of 2019, editor Tom Ravenscroft takes a look back at the most-read stories for every month this year, including alternative designs for Notre-Dame and an interview with Tatiana Bilbao. January – Drone footage reveals hundreds of abandoned Turkish chateaux A drone video revealing a development of hundreds of abandoned chateaux in Turkey

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Christmas cards by architects and designers for 2019

December 24, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Our pick of the best Christmas cards we’ve received from architects, designers and brands this year includes Chris Precht’s treehouse and a festive Notre-Dame Cathedral. Chris Precht SOM Ulf Mejergren Architects MAD White Arkitekter Simon Kennedy Spark Architects Feix & Merlin Alma-nac Woods Bagot Child Graddon Lewis Coffey Architects Grid Architects  Marcel Wanders YCL Emrys Estudio

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Billund carpark covered with roads from Lego play sets

December 23, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Lego car park in Billund by CEBRA 

Danish architecture studio CEBRA has designed the facades of a car park for Lego in Billund, Denmark, which features a road layout based on the toy company’s City road plates. The facades, created by CEBRA, cover a five-storey car park designed by architecture studio Ravn Arkitektur, which will be used by people working in the Lego offices and visiting the

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Steven Chilton Architects completes “bamboo forest” theatre in Wuxi

December 21, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Wuxi Taihu Show Theatre by Steven Chilton Architects in Wuxi, China

The Wuxi Taihu Show Theatre, which is wrapped in a steel structure designed to look like a bamboo forest, has opened in China. The theatre in Wuxi, a city near Shanghai in eastern China, was designed by Steven Chilton Architects as the permanent home for a water show designed by Belgian theatre director Franco Dragone. The round theatre

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Wamhouse Studio turns corporate logos into houses

December 20, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Logo houses by Karina Wiciak of Wamhouse Studio

Polish designer Wamhouse Studio has visualised four houses based on the shapes of corporate logos. The series of four houses are based on the shape of the logos of some of the world’s largest companies – sports brand Adidas along with car companies Chevrolet, Renault and Mitsubishi. Karina Wiciak, founder of Wamhouse Studio started by designing

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Wamhouse Studio turns corporate logos into houses

December 20, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Logo houses by Karina Wiciak of Wamhouse Studio

Polish designer Wamhouse Studio has visualised four houses based on the shapes of corporate logos. The series of four houses are based on the shape of the logos of some of the world’s largest companies – sports brand Adidas along with car companies Chevrolet, Renault and Mitsubishi. Karina Wiciak, founder of Wamhouse Studio started by designing

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