Blue Bottle Coffee Kobe Café / Jo Nagasaka + Schemata Architects
Blue Bottle Coffee’s first cafe in Kobe is situated in the former foreign settlement.
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Raw, Unique and Local: What’s Trending in Nordic Design (17 photos)
Every September, Helsinki Design Week fills the Finnish capital with exhibitions, pop-up events, markets and debates on design, fashion and urban culture. It aims to create a conversation around the trends dominating the current Nordic design agenda a…
BIG’s pixelated complex of “peaks and valleys” for Toronto gains approval
Architecture firm BIG’s verdant mixed-use complex, reminiscent of Moshe Safdie’s experimental Habitat 67 housing in Montreal, has been approved for Toronto. The King West Street development, first revealed in 2016, has gained permission to begin construction in Canada’s largest city. Its design by Bjarke Ingels’ firm BIG comprises stacks of cubes, arranged in an undulated
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Lè Architecture / Aedas
Location and Context
Nangang is a fast-emerging district in southeastern Taipei, with major facilities such as Financial Park, Software Park, Exhibition Center etc. The project site is near Nanhu Bridge and Nangang Software Park Metro Station.
studio KO monograph takes readers on a captivating tour of the firm’s work to date
each project, from the north of france to the moroccan mountains, conveys an approach where a profound understanding of material, light, and space supersedes sleek finishes and glossy aesthetics.
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Broadmoor Residence / David Coleman Architecture
Our design explores the notion of merging building and landscape. The original house, designed in 1956 by a prominent Seattle architect, is located in the private enclave of Broadmoor. It was conceived as a meandering, one-story structure on a pastoral, ½ acre site. The original plan was rather ambiguous, gesturing toward the landscape but never fully embracing it. A 1970’s remodel further eroded the integrity of the plan, resulting in a muddled house with little coherent spatial integrity.
Climate Tile Designed to Catch and Redirect Excess Rainwater From Climate Change
The Climate Tile is a pilot project designed to catch and redirect 30% of the projected extra rainwater coming due to climate change. Created by THIRD NATURE with IBF and ACO Nordic, the project will be inaugurated on a 50m pavement stretch at Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The first sidewalk was created as an innovative climate project that utilizes the Climate Tile to create a beautiful and adaptable cityscape. Aimed at densely populated cities, the tile handles water through a technical system that treats water as a valuable resource.
interview: amanda levete on the role of history and modernity in making architecture
this weekend, chatsworth house will host art out loud – a festival of public talks about art, architecture, and design – where the architect will join an impressive lineup of speakers.
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“Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown were our architectural heroes”
Sean Griffiths pays tribute to postmodernism pioneer Robert Venturi, who died earlier this week, describing the huge influence he had on the way we view architecture and sharing personal stories about their meetings. “Call that a f**king compliment?” replied a revered architectural theorist when the dean of a prominent American school of architecture, rather over-generously,
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Casa Coroco 5 / Taller de Arquitectura Miguel Montor
After several years of being located in San Ángel, a neighborhood south of Mexico City, and after our first six years as an independent architecture firm, the opportunity to change our workshop’s location emerges. Our needs regarding space and location began to change: that which began as a nearly individual studio began to shift gradually towards a collective space, where a team of several architects take part in our daily tasks.