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Dům Ve Svahu / Masparti Martinka Spusta Architekti

October 2, 2018 Pilar Caballero 0

The site is located on a hill below the forest, almost at the end of the street. Building activity in this neighbourhood began in the inter-war period, when large villas of several floors were built. In the course of the following years the place became more dense as the original gardens were divided into smaller lots, where newer houses of smaller–scale started to appear.

new video documents dafne schippers bicycle bridge by NEXT architects

October 2, 2018 macnadusa 0

this new video documents a bridge in the netherlands that opened to the public last year. designed by NEXT architects, the structure combines a cycle and pedestrian crossing with a school and a public garden, forming a cohesive and integrated scheme. named after dutch athlete dafne schippers, the bridge was commissioned by the city of […]

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Microapartments am Georgengarten / ACMS Architekten

October 2, 2018 Rayen Sagredo 0

The new buildings were funded by the Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Equality for Lower Saxony to facilitate the provision of affordable homes in conurbations for low-income households and improve the quality of the rented housing stock. The student apartments on Lodyweg can also be offered, depending on need, to other demographic groups such as the elderly, single people of any age or apartment-sharing groups. Changing the room structure, for example by combining several spatial units together, can be done without any problems thanks to the lightweight construction of all the party walls.

Stone exoskeleton of Amin Taha’s 15 Clerkenwell Close pays tribute to an 11th-century abbey

October 2, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Here’s a detailed look at 15 Clerkenwell Close, the housing block built by Amin Taha + Groupwork with a rugged structure of raw quarried limestone, which is currently under threat of demolition. The London housing block contains eight apartments, including the home of architect Amin Taha and the studio of his architecture practice Amin Taha + Groupwork. The

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Kazuyo Sejima: “The Building is About the Size, But Also About the Details”

October 2, 2018 Nicolás Valencia 0

Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder of the architecture firm SANAA, shared details of their upcoming project the New National Gallery – Ludwig Museum in Budapest at the Hay Festival Segovia in Spain. The 2010 Pritzker Prize winner linked the underlying premise of this project to three iconic museums: the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa (2004), the New Art Museum in New York (2007), and the Louvre Lens in France (2012).

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Selgascano + FRPO to Design Inflatable Canopy for Spain’s EXPO 2020 National Pavilion

October 2, 2018 Eric Baldwin 0

Architecture firms Selgascano and FRPO have been selected to design Spain‘s National Pavilion for EXPO 2020 in Dubai. The winning proposal includes an inflatable canopy of nine yellow ETFE cylinders set within a steel framework. Reinterpreting the Spanish plaza, the design creates a new take on the public square. The pavilion was made to be ultralight as a more sustainable structure that could be easily removed and transported. Formed as a ‘breathing pavilion’, the design allows two inflatables to move up and down to respond to views, light and breeze.

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Ants House / Studio MIOLK

October 2, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

Ants House is a one-family home in Iasi, Romania, which proposes experimenting with a new way of living together. In a rigid and relatively small volume, the house shows the spatial richness that results from careful work with space.