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Escape Vehicle #9: ICE / Studio Morison

January 3, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

In recent years, artists Heather and Ivan Morison, of Studio Morison, have become familiar with architectural constructions that play with ideas of escape, shelter, and refuge. For Into Nature, they have built a special sculptural pavilion, Escape Vehicle #9, within the landscape of Holtingerveld, Netherlands, that can be stayed in overnight. Escape Vehicle #9 comes from a future in which the bigger elemental forces of the planet have reasserted themselves, leaving mankind a refugee from nature, having to tread quickly and lightly on the land they occupy.

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UAE Architects Design Shipping Container Housing for Cairo

January 3, 2019 Eric Baldwin 0

UAE based architects Mouaz Abouzaid, Bassel Omara and Ahmed Hammad have designed a shipping container housing project for Cairo, Egypt. Dubbed ‘Sheltainer’, the project aims to address a need for low-income, student and refugee housing. The design focuses on Egyptian life around a single house unit with all the necessary needs for a small family. Sheltainer aims to offer a flexible solution with new open spaces, activities and homes.

Foster + Partners reveals Shenzhen skyscraper for China Merchants Bank

January 3, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
China Merchants Bank skyscraper by Foster + Partners in Shenzhen

British architecture studio Foster + Partners is designing a 350-metre-tall skyscraper in Shenzhen as the headquarters for the China Merchants Bank. The tower in Shenzhen, which will be the first building in the city’s new Super Headquarters District, will house the Chinese bank’s 13,000 employees. Foster + Partners envisions a tower with structural cores on the east and west sides, meaning

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