Latest and Breaking Architecture News and Top Stories - July 3
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Architizer has a look at the varying architectural make-up of Shake Shack's 56 worldwide locations. Once a lowly hotdog cart, the insanely trendy restaurants now boast "roadside-inspired" design that "clearly shows Shack's ethos, while a...
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Architects: Estudio Carme Pinos Location: Calle José Anselmo Clave, Zaragoza, Spain Year: 2014 Photographs: Ricardo Santonja, Estudio Carme Pinós From the architect.… We start the project by posing two challenges: The first: to des...
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Design: Blouin Tardif Architecture Environnement Tucked away in the heart of Plateau Mont-Royal, on the private lot of a former commercial building, are these Siamese residences. Each co-property occupies half of the lot; their entrances...
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Proving, once again, the marketing power of name dropping this country's long-dead first president, Airbnb offers a farmstead with a familiar bombast: "George Washington slept here." The 1760 Virginia farmhouse also boasts...
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Although last month's total employment number is above average for the past three months, the construction industry experienced a second month of stunted growth.
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Competition organizers Archpolis have announced an international shortlist of ten practices that will go on to compete for the chance to redesign Moscow’s Sokolniki Park. The park, which at 515 Hectares is the largest park in Mosco...
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We've featured many a tiny house on Inhabitat, but did you know that one trailblazing lady was the inspiration behind many of those miniature homes? Meet Dee Williams: an early pioneer and sustainability advocate of the tiny house moveme...
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Four Seasons vocalist, keyboard player, and songwriter Bob Gaudio and his wife Judy Parker, who together wrote "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)", have put their two-bedroom apartment in NYC's San Remo building on the market for $5.95M....
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Photo via Houzz Imagine for a moment the utter strangeness fellow sailors must feel when floating past this bark-covered, porthole-punctured houseboat docked in Seattle. Between its boxy shape and truly bizarre siding, the place looks li...
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Veggies, fruits, sweets, main courses – all of these dishes have been rendered in super-small and super-delicious detail by a U.S.-based artist named Kim. No matter how tasty and realistic they look, however, they are all made of clay. K...
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Architects: Neri & Hu Design and Research Office Location: Huangpu, Shanghai, China Architect In Charge: Lyndon Neri, Rossana Hu Associate In Charge: Nellie Yang Desing Team: Begoña Sebastian, Anqing Zhu, Kelvin Huang, Brian Lo, Zhao...
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Dana Shaked Interior Design Studio has fully modernised this Coffee Express Shop in Tel-aviv which they generously shared with us. For more images and architects description continue after the jump: (...)Read the rest of Coffee Express S...
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We all know how important it is for kids to get outside and exercise their bodies. Most parents also realize that it is just as important for kids to exercise their minds and grow through creative play. The playgrounds designed by newly-...
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Design: C.F. Møller Architects The new Herningsholm Vocational School asserts itself as an independent building in an existing campus cluster of educational buildings. The school is designed inside-out - with a focus on the creation of o...
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Director David Lynch is fond of saying that "Twin Peaks is still there," referring to the eerie, unforgettable Washington town that was the fictional setting of his criminally cancelled early-'90s supernatural detective drama of the same...
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Dealing with the events that changed a nation, Rwanda’s Kigali Genocide Memorial, master planned by John McAslan + Partners, combines iconic forms with sensitive space-making
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In Curbed Chicago's estimation, this circa-2008 Glenview home is what you get when you combine "modernism, postmodernism and contemporary schools of architecture together." Honestly, it's hard to tell what's going on here....
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ArchDaily is in need of a select group of awesome, architecture-obsessed Interns to join our team for Fall 2014 (August- December)! If you want to spend your days researching/writing about the best architecture around the globe – and fin...
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In an interview, starchitect Bjarke Ingels talks about his plans for NYC, including "the Big U," an eight-mile barrier to protect Manhattan from storms. "Once you get though all the bureaucracy, politics, liabilities and technical issues...
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An exhibition by MIT’s Senseable City Lab at this year's International Architectural Biennale showcases sensor technology that aims to reduce a building's energy load with localized heating and cooling.
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Located in an existing campus cluster of educational buildings, the approximately 50,000 square foot Herningsholm Vocational School is designed as a standalone structure that brings together three building volumes beneath a sloping green...
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The following list of the ten tallest buildings ever demolished, by Michael Aynsley, was originally published on BuzzBuzzHome.… Before we get to the countdown, a caveat: this list only considers buildings that were demolished on pu...
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Design: Tectoniques Architectes Block 32 occupies a strategic position in the vast programme to renovate the Duchère neighbourhood, in Lyon. The OPAC du Rhône housing association has produced a building which incorporates 33 social renta...
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Architects: Ricardo Bak Gordon Location: Amora, Portugal Architect In Charge: Ricardo Bak Gordon Year: 2010 Photographs: FG+SG- Fernando Guerra Collaborators: Luís Pedro Pinto, Nuno Velhinho, Pedro Serrazina, Sónia Silva, Vera Higino Co...
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United Riga Architects' have designed a proposal for the Latvian Pavilion EXPO 2015 to be held in Milan. The pavilion offers an open space towards the world where, like apiary ecosystem, people have an opportunity for effective ...
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Given that the NCTU Unicode is based in Taiwan, a country notorious for its muggy and oppressive tropical summers, it's little surprise that the team honed in on their country's unsustainable and ubiquitous air conditioning practices. Th...
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Photo via Design Boom · O4W home Is A Repurposed Extravaganza. · New viaduct will have climbable 60-foot arches. · Plug-in cottage by MacGabhann Architects. · Jerusalem's new house of cards. · The 9 best quotes s...
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Design: Arkitema The settlement “Sort Sol” takes its scenic, unique surroundings as its starting point. In order to protect the area against surges the settlement is built on pills. That way, the landscape drifts undisturbed beneath the ...
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condenasttraveler : The domes of Süleymaniye Mosque. Istanbul, Turkey. Photographed #Istanbul #turkey #takemethere #suleymaniye (at Süleymaniye Mosque)
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Children attending this nursery in Spain by Pamplona studio Taller Básico de Arquitectura enter through an angular concrete corridor carved out of the building's faceted shell (+ slideshow). The building's location on a steeply sloping s...
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Frank Gehry and Developer David Mirvish have revealed the latest design iteration in their embattled plan to build a set of mixed-use skyscrapers in Toronto. The new design reduces the number of towers, from three to two, however the rem...
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Grow Marketing is a new interior work of the Josef M Design architects, located in the city of San Francisco. Style of a new offices is an industrial style with a touch of Victorian character. Take a look in the project ... Read Mor...
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Design: Keppie Designed by Keppie and built by Morrison Construction as part of Orkney’s £58million Schools Investment Programme, Kirkwall Grammar can accommodate 900 secondary school pupils and provides teaching and learning spaces in s...
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Design: Hawkins\Brown Hawkins\Brown has just won planning permission to develop 103 homes on the site of the former Fisher FC ground on Salter Road, in Rotherhithe. Hawkins\Brown’s Salter Road scheme for Fairview New Homes comprises two ...
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News: Frank Gehry has unveiled yet another reworked design for the proposed skyscraper complex in his home city of Toronto, reducing the number of towers from three to two. Gehry, 84, came under fire from planning authorities last year a...
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The Gallipoli Peninsula, at the Western end of Turkey, holds a particular significance for the country as the site of a major World War One battle in which the declining Ottoman Empire repelled an attempted invasion by British forces. To...
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The oldest specialised paediatric hospital in the world opens a brand new extension dedicated to the research and treatment of genetic diseases.
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Qwerkytoys decided to combine the vintage typewriter with a modern keyboard with a splendid hybrid called Qwerkywriter. This fun and stylish invention has 84 chrome accented round keycaps, an integrated stand for a tablet (up to 10”) and...
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Casa 7×37 is a private residence remodeled by CR2 Arquitetura. It is located in São Paulo, Brazil, and was completed in 2013. Casa 7×37 by CR2 Arquitetura: “Spending hours in the car for a weekend out of São Paulo was not part of t...
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Architects: Esculpir el Aire Location: Alicante, Spain Architect In Charge: José Ángel Ruiz Cáceres Collaborators: Azucena Maestre Mones arquitecto, Gloria Soler Ródenas arquitecto, Mónica Costa López, Ramiro López Pérez, Ricardo Perdomo...
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Part of an increasing trend of apps which allow precision scale drawing, Arrette Scale… seeks to provide designers with a simple, familiar drawing environment usable by anyone comfortable with traditional drawing tools. Allowing u...
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Casa dos Terraços was created by Studio Arte architecture & design in 2013. It is located in Carvoeiro, Portugal, with crisp white walls that create a stunning contrast with the intense blue sky. Casa dos Terraços by Studio Arte arch...
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Swedish architecture firm Wingårdhs has completed a university auditorium in a Stockholm suburb with a patterned glass facade that twists and leans over the adjacent street (+ slideshow). The building was designed by Wingårdhs to provide...
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Architects: Frade Arquitectos Location: Calle Fuencarral, Madrid, Spain Area: 6,282 sqm Year: 2010 Photographs: Manuel Pérez Cazorla Construction Company: Ortiz Construcciones Y Proyectos From the architect.… The Real Hospicio del ...
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Wirra Willa Pavilion is a private residence located in Somersby, Australia. It was designed by Matthew Woodward Architecture, and has lovely views over the surrounding landscape. Wirra Willa Pavilion by Matthew Woodward Architecture: ...
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Architects: MacGabhann Architects Location: Co. Donegal, Ireland Design Team: Antoin MacGabhann, Tarla MacGabhann, Lauren Swinney, Patrick McGinley Area: 87 sqm Photographs: Ros Kavanagh From the architect.… In the Irish domestic c...
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The City of Toronto, IIDEX Canada, and ideacious.com have teamed up to bring you IIDEX Woodshop: 15 Innovative Wood Prototypes that utilize Toronto’s untapped ash wood resource.
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Four decades after his death, New Yorkers are flocking to Louis Kahn's Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt island. Was it all inspired by a masonic symbol on the back of a dollar bill? When the American architect Louis Kahn collapsed from a ...
