ARCHITECTURE TUESDAY IN-DEPTH: Top 50 Breaking News & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share | 7/22
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Self-confessed Legomaniac, Finn Williams argues the proliferation of custom pieces inhibits the creative potential of Lego’s classic bricks
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Powerful lamps, dynamic decorative luminaires, and new integrated technology round out these product picks from the annual trade show.
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Named the most innovative product of the year at the 2014 Lightfair Innovation Awards, this fixture offers continuous, seam-free linear illumination.
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A new Pew Research study looks at household composition, specifically at the eye-popping increase over the past 34 years in households that host multi-generational family members.
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Each of the twin triangular houses has its own courtyard, which are complemented with a shared communal space. The geometry of the development is based on a pinwheel arrangement that can also be read in their interior organization. Surro...
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A timelapse of the new WMATA Silver Line, renderings of Detroit's Red Wings arena, and more news stories for Tuesday.
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Purdue University researchers have developed a technique to produce sensory and stretchable "soft machines" for use in consumer electronics and robotics.
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Architects: Tetrarc Architects Location: Nantes, France Area: 6,520 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: Stéphane Chalmeau Project Manager: Alain Boëffard Project Director: Patrick Moreuil Study Architects: Patrick Moreuil, Marc-Antoine Bouyer, ...
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Bear Table is the coffee table which comes from drawing board of the talented designer Daniel Lewis Garcia. (...)Read the rest of Bear Table by Daniel Lewis Garcia © admin for Archiscene - Your Daily Architecture & Design Update, 201...
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In many countries around the world, decorating the entrance to one’s home is thought to bring luck, happiness and wealth. This list of the most beautiful doors and entrances from many corners of the world will make you look at this funda...
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Nestled along a leafy lane on the outskirts of Winchester sits The Runners House. Once a tired building with a confusing layout, the house now boasts a contemporary update that[...] The post The Runners House by AR Design Studio appeared...
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Powerful lamps, dynamic decorative luminaires, and new integrated technology round out the Architectural Lighting editorial team’s product picks from the annual trade show.
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Bamboo, one of the most sustainable building materials in the world, can grow up to four feet in a single day and combines strength and flexibility. It is affordable and abundant and, in the case of equatorial states, can be locally sour...
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OMA has unveiled its latest design project to blend the worlds of fashion and architecture: the refurbishment of a late 19th century industrial building for French high-end retail group Galeries Lafayette’s Fondation d’Entreprise, in Par...
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Shanghai studio Neri&Hu has completed its largest project to date – a total exterior and interior overhaul of a hotel in Zhengzhou, China, featuring a new facade resembling a pile of glass boxes and an entrance surrounded by a forest...
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“Elements of Architecture,” the Rem Koolhaas-curated exhibition at the 2014 Venice Biennale, delved into several remarkable structural as well as technical components of architecture, including floors, walls, doors, stairs and toilets. B...
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Yay, in the fresh issue of IN MAGAZYN (07/08.2014), digital magazine available for ipads and tablets, I am mentioned among the most interesting Polish interior design blogs :-)
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Architects: Atelier208 Location: Lésigny, France Design And Building Team: Chloé & Meyer Oiknine, Thibault Guillaneau, Diego Ibad, N. Maslier Area: 350 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: A. Leclercq From the architect.… A balanced in...
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Homepolish practice designed the interior solution for the TripleLift Offices created for a splendid location in New York City. For more images continue after the jump: (...)Read the rest of TripleLift Offices by Homepolish © admin for A...
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Architect: John Brownrigg A large ladder of canal locks proposed to join the James Street Basin of the Grand Canal with the River Liffey. At the Liffey end, small harbours would have been constructed. The canal was extended past the Jame...
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Today marks the opening of a new 760-metre-long bridge leading out from the coastline of northern France to the historic Mont-Saint-Michel island commune (+ slideshow). Austrian-born architect Dietmar Feichtinger designed the Passerelle ...
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The Morpholio Project… has just announced the winners of the Pinup 2014 competition. Drawing from an impressive shortlist of finalists, the Jury – which included participants from Fast Company, Metropolis Magazine, Columbia...
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Design: ThomsonAdsett The building form has been derived through analysis of the available site geometries. Opportunities to complement University Drive, pedestrian pathways, the hinterland and major health developments are maximised. Th...
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Wood Wharf project gets green light in financial hub's first major expansion since 2008 financial crisis More than 3,000 homes are to be built at the eastern edge of Canary Wharf after Tower Hamlets council gave the green light for the p...
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The ongoing regeneration of Muirhouse, Edinburgh, is continuing apace with the submission of plans for a £12m health centre by the North West Edinburgh partnership Centre. Incorporating a GP surgery, dentist and child health servic...
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Design: Álvaro Siza Vieira The Boa Nova Tea House was designed following a competition held in 1956 by the city council and won by Portuguese architect Fernando Tavora. After choosing a site on the cliffs of the Matosinhos seashore, Tavo...
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A significant development at Canary Wharf has been approved by planners in London. The scheme, dubbed ‘Wood Wharf’ and consisting of 30 new buildings, was masterplanned by Allies and Morrison and includes a cylindrical reside...
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The new blood centre in a southern Polish town uses a vivid colour to communicate its function.
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An award winning final year architecture students master plan for Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, at Robert Gordon University is to be exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries Exhibition 2015, Edinburgh, the annual em...
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Architects: Pablo Gallego Picard Location: 36750 Goián, Pontevedra, Spain Area: 7610.0 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Courtesy of Pablo Gallego Picard Collaborators: Rafael Docampo Mouriño, Carmen Fabregat Nodar, Antonio Reboreda Martínez S...
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This magical-looking vine, which rains down pink and purple blooms, is called the wisteria (also spelled wistaria and wysteria), and this specimen is the largest of its kind in Japan. Related posts: Amazing Light Tunnel Made of Millions ...
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Following the recent announcement of Aedas’ demerger into two separate companies - one retaining the Aedas name and the other now known as AHR - we spoke to Keith Griffiths, Chairman of Aedas’ global board and a practicing ar...
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Architects: 5+1AA Location: Milan, Italy Architect In Charge: Alfonso Femia, Gianluca Peluffo, Alessandro Schiesaro High Supervision: Cesare Stevan, Angelo Bugatti Desing Team: Gabriele Pulselli, Raffaella F. Pirrello, Daniele Marchetti,...
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A courtyard garden divides the two sides of this concrete house in Vienna, which has been squeezed onto a plot just five metres wide by local architecture studio Caramel (+ slideshow). Located on the outskirts of the Austrian capital, CJ...
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Vancouver-based architect D’Arcy Jones is the 2014 winner of the Canada Council’s Ronald J. Thom Award for Early Design Achievement. This annual award is given to an architect in the early stages of a career with outstanding...
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From the publisher. July issue of a+u… is focused on retreats, in particular the places where people spend their free time. Retreats, where functional necessities are not the priority, portray the essential lifestyle that the re...
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Architects: HUB Location: Gentbrugge, Ghent, Belgium Design Team: Grontmij Area: 4,915 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Ilse Liekens From the architect.… The ‘Den Draad’ project consists of two new residential buildings on a brownfield ...
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The architects at TYIN Tegnestue have built a geometrically top-heavy extension for a family home in Trondheim, Norway that maximizes interior space on the exisiting plot. With arcing walls, the resident family gets the most out of the a...
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The project of the Elisabeth and Helmut Uhl foundation has been realized thanks to a restricted international architectural competition held in 2009, which saw the participation of fifteen architectural teams[...] The post Elisabeth and ...
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Umbrellium is a team of architects, designers, commercial experts, producers and creative technologists that create and commercialise participatory products and services that empower people to transform their cities. This video is about ...
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Architects: gmp architekten Location: Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil Architect In Charge: Volkwin Marg and Hubert Nienhoff with Knut Göppert Project Manager: Martin Glass Project Manager Brazil: Robert Hormes Director Of Gmp Do Braz...
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Architects: Caramel Architekten Location: Vienna, Austria Year: 2014 Photographs: Hertha Hurnaus, Courtesy of Caramel Architekten From the architect.… In its design for the housing project CJ5, Caramel tackles the question of susta...
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Just how livable can a 135-square-foot micro-house really be? That’s what an interdisciplinary group of students, faculty and alumni at Savannah College ...
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Architects: VDV ARQ Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Architect In Charge: Victor Della Vecchia, Ariel Ascione Area: 320.0 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Curro Palacios Taberner Collaborators: arq. Maximiliano Mazzitelli, arq. Ma Eugenia Ga...
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Architects: Atelier Zo Location: Mino, Gifu Prefecture, Japan Area: 473.0 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Courtesy of Kosei Kumoyama, Keiko Hirota, Sawazaki Kensetsu, Atelier ZO Collaborators: Gifu Academy of Forest Science and Culture, Furu...
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Sport Centre Jules Ladoumègue reimagined by Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
