Month: October 2018

10 architects imagine the Chinese home of the future for China House Vision exhibition

October 2, 2018 Katie de Klee 0

MAD, Penda and Open Architecture are among 10 Asian studios that have built futuristic concept homes in Beijing, including a living garden, a nomadic Martian pod and a modular home inspired by Beijing’s hutongs. China House Vision, which opened last week to coincide with Beijing Design Week, is an exhibition exploring how maximum quality of life can be achieved in

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Mud-spraying drones build prototype for emergency homes

October 2, 2018 India Block 0

Stephanie Chaltiel used drones to coat a shelter in clay, demonstrating a fast construction method that could be used in refugee camps and disaster zones. As part of the 2018 London Design Festival the French architect and her team constructed Mud Shell, a sturdy domed shelter from bags of hay attached to a wooden lattice

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Gym Plouha / Studio 02

October 2, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

The project of building a sports facility in the municipality of Plouha posed the following challenge: how to install this multifunctional complex in the site’s unique topography, all the while maintaining its connection to the existing gym, its accessibility, and its public convenience?

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“I Want to Build Lighter”: Francisco Gonzalez Pulido of FGP Atelier

October 2, 2018 Vladimir Belogolovsky 0

After graduating from Tecnológico de Monterrey, a leading technical school in Mexico, Francisco Gonzalez Pulido worked on design-build projects for six years before leaving for the US where he earned his Master’s degree from Harvard’s GSD in 1999. The same year the architect started working with Helmut Jahn in Chicago where he stayed for 18 years – from intern to becoming the president of the company in 2012, at which point he renamed the firm into Jahn. By then he developed his own body of work there. Last year Gonzalez Pulido started FGP Atelier in his adopted home city.

TDO designs offices for The Modern House inside 20th-century church hall

October 2, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Architecture studio TDO has transformed a disused church hall in London into versatile offices for estate agents The Modern House, which feature lofty ceilings and modular furniture. The office is located in the borough of Southwark, set within a former church hall that dates back to 1931. Measuring at 231 square metres, the new open-plan workspace

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Renzo Piano’s studio designs “imaginary island” containing 102 of the architect’s projects

October 2, 2018 Amy Frearson 0

The Royal Academy of Arts in London is exhibiting a design for a city island, populated entirely with buildings designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. As the centrepiece of Renzo Piano: The Art of Making Buildings, a retrospective currently on show at the RA, the “imaginary island” brings together 102 of Piano’s projects from the past 50 years.

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