Month: April 2019

Buero Wagner uses charred timber to clad lake house extension in Germany

April 1, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Black House by Buero Wagner

The Black House by German architect studio Buero Wagner is a stack of differently sized rooms clad in blackened wood extending a house close to Lake Ammersee in Munich. The lake house extension comprises a bedroom, kitchen and living space that was designed as a repost to the typical architecture found in rural Germany. “Rural areas in Germany are often

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Germina Foundation / b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

April 1, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

Germina Foundation is an organization that works with children and young people at risk of social exclusion, caring for them, monitoring and reinforcing their education, and providing educational support for their training and future entry into the labor market. This monitoring process, which aims to build a bond by engaging participants through complementary programs from the moment they arrive as young children up until their entry into the workforce, needed to have a space where it could accommodate its three key age groups in three areas that could be either connected or independent. The program for the building also had to house the organization’s administrative staff. Improving the neighborhood’s social fabric, community action, and collaboration with local organizations through workshops, courses, and other social activities are also among the foundation’s aims. 

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Norman Foster unveils plans for The Unicorn tower to rival The Tulip

April 1, 2019 India Block 0
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The soon-to-be-approved Tulip may be superseded as the tallest building in the City of London before it’s even built now that Norman Foster has revealed plans for a supertall co-working and living space suspended above Bloomberg HQ. Called The Unicorn, the 307-metre tower will be shaped like the horn of a mythical creature and rise from

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SEArch+ and Apis Cor Win Latest NASA Competition for 3D Printed Habitats on Mars

April 1, 2019 Niall Patrick Walsh 0

SEArch+ and Apis Cor have won first place in the Virtual Construction level of NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Centennial Challenge, seeking to create sustainable shelters suitable for the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Using resources available on-site in these locations, the female-led, New York-based space research and design practice proposed the MARS X HOUSE, offering a robust, durable 3D-printed habitat using autonomous robotics.

Nicole Moyo’s waste-to-energy system will “mobilise communities in informal settlements”

April 1, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Ukubutha waste-to-energy infrastructure concept by Nicole Moyo

Nicole Moyo’s sustainable waste-to-energy infrastructure Ukubutha can be constructed by slum communities to enable them to live self-sufficiently. Presented at this year’s Design Indaba, Ukubutha is a concept system of dome-shaped huts that collect biogas from human waste to turn into energy, and fertiliser for community gardens. South African urban designer Moyo developed the system to empower

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To-Dos: Your April Home Checklist (10 photos)

April 1, 2019 Laura Gaskill 0

With lengthening days and milder temperatures in many parts of the country, April is a wonderful time to freshen up the home inside and out. To get sparkling windows, a clutter-free garage and more, here are 16 tasks to make the most of the first full…

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Architectural (Dis)Order / Corpo Atelier

April 1, 2019 Rayen Sagredo 0

Inside a white box, three differently configured yellow objects are individually placed. As an immediate consequence, one ́s physical experience of the previously empty space has been dramatically altered. The perception of one ́s movement, of the box ́s limits and of the position of the yellow objects is now inevitably intertwined. Their significance, however, remains unclear.