Latest and Breaking Architecture News and Top Stories - July 4
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Candelaria Chapel sits atop a black clay hill special to villagers, where each year they visit on pilgrimage to honor Candelaria’s Virgin. Previously, the hill only held a concrete altar, but as the village grew, a larger chapel was need...
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The World Architecture Festival has announced the shortlist for its 2014 awards, with almost 300 projects competing in the world’s largest architectural awards program. The shortlist includes the likes of Zaha Hadid Architects, OMA...
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Read in-depth studies of the inspiring projects that were the winners of this year’s AR House Awards
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Architects: Miguel Montor Location: Zaragoza 61, Colonia la Capilla, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico Area: 1,700 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Moritz Bernoully, Onnis Luque Structural Design: Juan José Larios Constructor: Juvencio Álvarez La...
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Manhattan is packed full of world-class restaurants, a vast array of shops, a beautiful nature preserve and virtually everything else required to satisfy the ...
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Erected for property developer Folkhem, the Strandparken tower shelters 31 apartments among its 8 floors. It was designed to explore the potential of multi-occupancy housing while offering inhabitants a reasonably priced, yet pleasant, s...
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We're celebrating America's Independence Day today with a roundup of Dezeen's favourite US projects from this year, including a floating skate ramp, a house designed to look like a shadow in the desert and a residence blasted out of the ...
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Perched on top of a hill overlooking a technological university in Turkey's capital city of Ankara, this unmistakable home stands as a landmark residence set apart by vibrant colors and modern architecture. A project by Yazgan Design Arc...
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Iain Jackson looks back at the AR’s 1953 coverage of Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew’s projects in West Africa - its first appearance as a coherent body of work
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The 2014 AZ Awards Winners Top players of the international architectural and design community, from as far as Brazil and Japan, gathered at the Evergreen Brick Works Friday night as AZURE revealed the winners of its fourth annual AZ Awa...
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Built-in additions that subdivide a tiny room, taking advantage of every square inch, can make all the difference in comfort and a feeling of spaciousness. A 269-square-foot apartment would normally seem far too small for a family of thr...
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The 60-foot maze opens today at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
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The protoype was constructed with wooden materials and was built for maximum flexibility. The building is designed to produce a positive amount of energy that could be used to share energy as part of a smart grid in its Lucerne neighborh...
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Architects: 1:1 arquitetura:design Location: Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil Design Team: Eduardo Sáinz Márquez, Lilian Glayna Year: 2014 Photographs: Cesar Edgard From the architect.… We needed to create a new reference for an ...
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Seattle-based photographer Andrew Waits introduces a different kind of look into the main attribute of many celebration – fireworks. In his photo series called “Boom City” he shows the actual contents hiding inside a group of the most po...
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Another of the Institutes’ bionic research pavilions, the structure investigates the structural performance of protective shells of beetles. These have proven to be a suitable role model for highly efficient construction based on the on ...
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World Architecture Festival Awards 2014 shortlist announced A Buddhist temple in Singapore, an invisible eco-tourism resort in Turkey, a maritime museum in Copenhagen and the new masterplan for Gatwick Airport are among the projects that...
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Design: Rubin & Rotman Architects The Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute has the mission of transmitting the traditional Cree culture it draws upon to future generations. The building’s concept turns to the classic architectur...
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Happy 4th of July! To celebrate the USA’s Independence Day, our editors have selected their favorite projects located in the USA, from architecture classics to extraordinary newcomers. Enjoy them all, after the break! Selected by D...
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Alessandro Zambelli will be presenting Woodspot - the new table lamp he has conceived for Mantua-based furnisher Seletti – at the next edition of Maison et Objet, scheduled for 5 to 9 September 2014. The designer’s new work i...
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Design: U-R-A | United Riga Architects New Apartment building in UNESCO World heritage site in Riga Building concept: The proposal combines maximum space and neighborhood scale, 7 floors and a good insolation, eaves level of 12.1 me...
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Following the cyclical nature of the client's daily routine, the interior spaces of House O are laid out in the order of his day-to-day activities. The south-facing master bedroom occupies the highest point in the house with a view out t...
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Architects: Architecture Patrick Mauger Location: 1 Rue Charles Roy, Nevers, France Area: 8,850 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Didier Boy de la Tour Structure: Khephren Fluids: Cap Ingelec Electricity: CPS Economist: DAL Budget: 10,900,000 ...
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A fluted fibreglass wall surrounds this temporary Maggie's Centre in Merseyside, England, designed by London studio Carmody Groarke to offer support to those affected by cancer. Located in the countryside of the Wirral, Maggie's Merseysi...
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C.F. Møller Architects have won in an invited competition to design a new building for the Herningsholm Vocational School in Herning, Denmark. The new building consists of three angular building volumes, brought together under a single s...
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Installing a green roof on your home or business is not a matter that can typically be resolved by consulting the Yellow Pages. Companies that specialize in this subject are few and far between, but if you live in the metro Boston...
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News: the shortlist for this year's World Architecture Festival awards has been announced, including a cyclone-proof house, an Australian plant archive, an underground maritime museum by BIG and OMA's colossal De Rotterdam skyscraper (+ ...
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Studio YAMO Design designed the interior solution for the Kale Café in Hangzhou, China. For more images continue after the jump: (...)Read the rest of Kale Café by YAMO Design Studio © admin for Archiscene - Your Daily Architecture ...
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Design: Provencher_Roy “The project involved a major contemporary updating of a heritage building,” noted Claude Provencher, senior partner in Provencher_Roy. “It was quite a challenge to provide the hundred-year-old hotel with a new fac...
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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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Design: Philippe Barriere Collective (PB+Co) Initiated by the foundation Symboles, the project is situated at the intersection of two main axes in central Tunis. The project includes the redesign of the Square of 14 Janvier and its surro...
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This stylish apartment was created as a model space by GAO Archiects. It is located in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Model Apartment by GAO Architects: “Gao Architects designed the interior of the flat, based upon a story. Based upon a way ...
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A trio of German art students came up with a brilliant idea how to make art out of something already existing in our environment but not doing any aesthetical good. One thing led to another and a dull-looking electrical tower became an e...
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Architects: studio505 Location: Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China Year: 2013 Photographs: John Gollings Constructor: Shanghai Construction Group Interior Contractor: Gold Mantis Cost: AUD $70million From the architect.… Phoenix Vall...
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Design: Greg Wolfson Interiors I started with a very distressed property. The owner had bought it well below market as it was so ugly. Iron bars covered the windows, heavy drapes covered all the windows inside. The post Cocktails at 8 &#...
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Built four decades after Louis Kahn's death, New York City's Four Freedoms Park - the architect's posthumous memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt and his policies - is becoming one of the architect's mos...
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Casa CP 78 is a private residence designed by Taller Estilo Arquitectura. It is located in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico and was completed in 2012. Photos by: Alberto Cáceres More...
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The age-defining rings of a tree stump provided the starting point for this small round house planned by design collective Penda for a wood-carving artist in Beijing (+ slideshow). Named House O, in reference to its circular shape, the h...
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Architects: BURO II & ARCHI+I Location: Blankenberge, Belgium Design Team: Claude Labeeuw, Michel Van der Beken, Arch. Wim Depuydt, Dennis Delvael, Bart Decloedt Area: 1785.0 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: Klaas Verdru… From the a...
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The Library House is a vibrant home located in Bangalore, India. It was designed by Khosla Associates, with a warm interior and the use of bold pieces of art and other decorative pieces to add character. The Library House by Khosla Assoc...
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Architects: Project Meganom Location: Romashkovskiy park, Russia Architects In Charge: Yury Grigoryan, Pavel Ivanchikov, Alexandra Pavlova Area: 550.0 sqm Year: 2004 Photographs: Yury Palmin Project Team: E. Khrekona, S. Sidorenko, S. By...
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When the client's first brought Uhlik Architekti to the centre of their forested land between central and south Bohemia near Prague, Czech Republic, they where amazed first at the isolated location and second at the beauty of the surroun...
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Architects: Philip M Dingemanse Location: Launceston TAS, Australia Area: 3,491 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Jonathan Wherrett Structural Consultant: GHD Builder: Philip M Dingemanse, EF & CA Dingemanse From the architect. Award Jury ...
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Getting around the city in a wheelchair can be challenging, but a British company called Allgood Trio has devised an interesting way to help wheelchair users ...
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Architects: Ellivo Architects Location: Paddington QLD 4064, Australia Architect In Charge: Salvador Farrajota Interior Designer: Tanya Zealey Lead Architect/Designer: Mason Cowle Year: 2014 Photographs: Scott Burrows Builder: JBS Builde...
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Herreros Arquitectos just sent us their recent project for a mixed-use building in Casablanca, Morocco. Resulting from a series of urban, spatial, formal and sustainable variables, the project–which includes housing, commercial and...
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Curitiba’s green initiatives originated in the 1960s with its mayor, Jaime Lerner, who famously said, “This city is not for cars,” well before smart growth principles were adopted in the more affluent countries of North America and Europ...
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Students from the Technical University of Denmark designed the home for two by combining passive and active technological solutions. The building’s thermal envelope shelters only the necessary area and leaves as much space as possible fo...
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BioCasa_82 is one of the few private residences in the world to have privately conducted carbon footprint analysis with great results. Built for Diadora CEO, Enrico Moretti Polegato and his wife Claudia, the house reaches levels of susta...
