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Gentle House / Monotello

October 30, 2018 Rayen Sagredo 0

Gentle House is a renovating project for a family of four locating among other relative houses. Because of a limited land size, the architect firstly proposed to torn down the whole building and enlarge the whole new structure. However, the owner rejected the proposal with just only one reason that he would like to keep it as the most memorable place. This had urged the architects to re-analyze the whole project and build accordingly to balancing both the remaining and the extending functions thoroughly.

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Hepburn Spring Pods / CBG Architects

October 30, 2018 Rayen Sagredo 0

Designed to captivate guests upon arrival, this project involved the creation of an array of linear pods for short-term accommodation in Hepburn Springs. Perched high on stilts on top of the hill, careful consideration has been taken to ensure minimal impact to the ground, leading to minimal excavation, disruption and foot print, with sustainability and uniqueness a key consideration throughout the whole design.

Park House envisions converting multi-storey car parks into apartment blocks

October 30, 2018 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Our latest MINI Living video features a conceptual housing project, with houses made from shipping containers placed within repurposed multi-storey parking garages. Park House is a proposal by American firm KTGY Architecture + Planning to transform unused parking garages into the framework for housing units that would be built from industrial shipping containers. Each unit would combine three shipping

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80Hz / Thomas Wing-Evans

October 30, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

British designer and architect Thomas Wing-Evans has created an interactive sound pavilion in collaboration with the DX Lab for the State Library of New South Wales in Australia, which takes paintings from the library’s collection and turns them into music. Located outside the Mitchell Reading Room in Sydney’s CBD, Wing-Evans’ pavilion features a curving black timber frame clad in matt anodized aluminum shingles. Working with studio Sonar Sound, a computer program was developed to translate visual data into sound. Images were analyzed for visual data such as complexity, color, tone and face detection, and metadata like date, location, and subject.

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Foster’s $13 billion Mexico City airport nixed after public vote

October 30, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Foster + Partners’ new airport for Mexico City has been cancelled mid-way through construction, following a public referendum that resulted in a majority vote against the project. Mexico’s president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that he will respect the outcome of the referendum, which saw 70 per cent of participants vote in favour of scrapping

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Wulf Architekten brightens German disease research centre with Velux skylights

October 30, 2018 Dezeen staff 0

Dezeen promotion: Wulf Architekten has used Velux’s modular skylights at a research centre in western Germany, to flood its entrance and oval-shaped laboratory building with natural light. The German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases – abbreviated to DZNE – is situated in the city of Bonn. It is one of ten centres spread across Germany, where scientists

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