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Yong Ju Lee and Atelier KJ Create Design for Korean Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai

December 6, 2018 Eric Baldwin 0

Yong Ju Lee Architecture and Atelier KJ have created “Elusive Boundary” for the Korean Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai. The project is designed as a place for radical encounters of different fields. The main theme of Korean Pavilion, Mobility, is defined as a new space of possibility created by movement between territories and escape/expansion to new territories. The movement defined by new mobility is not linear, but a simultaneous event between territories.

MVRDV’s “mountainous” Future Towers provides low-cost accommodation in India

December 6, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Dutch firm MVRDV has completed an enormous apartment building in the Indian city of Pune, featuring a series of connected blocks with sloping roofs, which branch out to enclose multipurpose courtyards. The firm led by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries designed the Future Towers development for a site in the Amanora Park

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Zaha Hadid Architects and A-Lab to design stations on Oslo’s new metro line

December 6, 2018 India Block 0

Two stations inspired by glacial landscapes are being designed by architecture studios Zaha Hadid Architects and A-Lab for a new metro line in the Norwegian capital. The Fornebubanen metro line will be a five-mile sub-surface route connecting a new neighbourhood on Oslo’s Fornebu peninsula with the city centre. London-based Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and Oslo-based A-Lab have won a

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Zicatela / Taller de Arquitectura X / Alberto Kalach

December 6, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

Casa Zicatela by Alberto Kalach is a project that is developed as a base of a series of concrete slabs that are connected by a side ladder that supports the columns that extend to the bottom of a pool. Surrounded by a landscape design, this house located on the coast of Oaxaca, embraces the space, mimicking it with its context and stands silently.

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Le Splendid / BAL

December 6, 2018 Pilar Caballero 0

Closed since 2012, this four-star hotel, an emblematic monument of Dax (Landes, France), embarks on a new life, more open towards the city and its population. The landscaping was created in association with EXIT and makes a tremendous contribution, orienting the building towards Dax, fluidifying its approaches and capitalising on L’Adour and Thiers Square. The entranceways of the various entities of the project were simplified in order to accentuate this new programmatic view.

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Le Splendid / BAL

December 6, 2018 Pilar Caballero 0

Closed since 2012, this four-star hotel, an emblematic monument of Dax (Landes, France), embarks on a new life, more open towards the city and its population. The landscaping was created in association with EXIT and makes a tremendous contribution, orienting the building towards Dax, fluidifying its approaches and capitalising on L’Adour and Thiers Square. The entranceways of the various entities of the project were simplified in order to accentuate this new programmatic view.