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United Place Botanic Gardens / Carr

October 22, 2018 Pilar Caballero 0

Architecture: United Places boutique hotel demonstrates an architectural response of intense refinement and precision having created 3 levels of hotel accommodation and two floors of restaurant working to a set of rigorous site constraints.

World’s first 3D-printed steel bridge unveiled at Dutch Design Week

October 22, 2018 Gunseli Yalcinkaya 0

Dutch robotics company MX3D has completed the 3D printing of a steel bridge, which will be installed across a canal in Amsterdam next year. Designer Joris Laarman worked with the robotic manufacturing technology start-up to build the 12-metre-long pedestrian bridge, which is being previewed at Dutch Design Week between 20 and 28 October. First proposed in 2015, the structure has been

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Villa Akoya / Studio Saxe

October 22, 2018 Martita Vial 0

Large terraces capture the wind and waves on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Set amongst idyllic white sand beaches and coconut groves, this low-key beach home was conceived to give its inhabitants not only a visual but also a literal connection to the sand and water where it belongs.

Amin Taha explains thinking behind controversial 15 Clerkenwell Close in new movie

October 22, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architect Amin Taha explains his aim to capture the “inane beauty” of natural stone with his 15 Clerkenwell Close housing project, in this movie produced by his studio. The stone-framed London building contains eight apartments, including Taha’s own home, and the office for his studio Amin Taha + Groupwork. But the building, which is shortlisted for a Dezeen Award,

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Madliena House / 3DM Architecture

October 22, 2018 Pilar Caballero 0

Madliena House, placed on a site of nine hundred square meters in Madliena, Malta, is home to a lively young couple and two children. The concept from the very initial stages revolved around purity and boldness in design. The form of the building is essentially a reaction to the site on which it is situated, whereas the interiors were the tool used to bridge the gap between the aesthetic and function of the different spaces within the building.

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“Just because a building looks ugly, it doesn’t make it a bad building”

October 22, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Buildings like Amin Taha’s 15 Clerkenwell Close may not be to everyone’s taste, but they deserve to be judged on more than just aesthetics, says deputy editor Tom Ravenscroft. Two buildings in London have been branded ugly. The first is Amin Taha’s 15 Clerkenwell Close, a five-storey residential building with a rugged stone exoskeleton. The second is Chris Moore’s

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MO Museum of Modern Art / Studio Libeskind

October 22, 2018 Fernanda Castro 0

Designed by Studio Libeskind in collaboration with Do architects (Vilnius) and Baltic Engineers (Vilnius), the MO Modern Art Museum opened to the public on October 18 with a four-day celebration including a public talk by Daniel Libeskind in the Museum’s auditorium and the inaugural exhibition, All Art Is About Us. 

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Mid Century Modern Style Home In Silicon Valley

October 22, 2018 HD Staff 0

Brimming with Californian mid century modern design, including wood wall paneling, floor-to-ceiling glazing and a gabled ceiling, this place is reminiscent of an Eichler home. Created by Klopf Architecture, with landscape design by Outer Space Landscape Architects, this is a custom build that uses materials and technologies that are commonplace today to translate the mid […]

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angelo renna proposes artificial mountain that absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere

October 22, 2018 macnadusa 0

preoccupied with the issue of air pollution, amsterdam-based designer angelo renna proposes to build an artificial mountain to make the environment cleaner. made of soil excavated from the construction site of the railway tunnel connecting turin to lyon, the 90-meters-high ‘sponge mountain’ will be able to absorb the CO2 from the atmosphere. at the top, a […]

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