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Herzog & de Meuron to Design New Brooks Museum of Art

May 30, 2019 Eric Baldwin 0

The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art has selected Herzog & de Meuron as design consultant for its new $105 million facility overlooking the Mississippi River in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. As the oldest and largest art museum in Tennessee, the Brooks is a cultural anchor for the tri-state area. Memphis-based archimania will serve as architect of record. The new Brooks aims to become the crowning jewel of the larger Memphis riverfront redevelopment project.

Blankpage Architects designs concrete church in Lebanon to complement 18th-century chapel

May 30, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Saint-Charbel Church in Zakrit, Lebanon by Blankpage Architects

Blankpage Architects has built a church with a rooftop amphitheatre in Lebanon, being careful not to overshadow the historic chapel next door. The concrete Saint-Charbel Church is located in Zakrit, a small town over looking the Mediterranean Sea. The church sits alongside a small limestone-vaulted chapel, which was built in the 18th-century. Lebanese studio Blankpage

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Columns / EBBA ARCHITECTS

May 30, 2019 Daniel Sánchez 0

The project starts with the act of placing a column in a space to help rationalise and give a new order to the square, as a way of acknowledging the qualities while trying to transform the use of the public realm. This project is a continuation of EBBA’s fascination in the ideas and use of rudimentary architectural elements and their interest in creating simple yet elegant interventions that explore proportion, form and construction techniques. Their practice focuses on the making of buildings, places and objects that are socially and materially driven, with completed projects in the arts, fashion, gallery exhibition, public realm, residential and educational sectors. 

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Namu House / [i]da arquitectos

May 30, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

The place, a few meters from the Obidos Lagoon, is characterized by pine trees and dense vegetation of the Natural Ecological Reserve park to the South, creating a strong feeling of natural closure. The project seeks to emphasize this natural specificity of the location, orienting the main spaces of the house to the south, in order to create a strong relationship with the landscape whilst taking advantage of the best sunlight. The most private spaces of the house are located on the opposite side. This configuration defines two distinct areas, daytime, and night-time.

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The Winners of the 2019 ArchDaily Refurbishment in Architecture Awards

May 30, 2019 Diego Hernández 0

The polls are closed and the votes are in! With nearly 30,000 votes cast over the last three weeks, we are ready to unveil the winners of ArchDaily’s Refurbishment in Architecture Awards. This crowdsourced architecture award, developed in partnership with MINI Clubman, showcases the best refurbishment projects published on ArchDaily throughout 2018, with our readers filtering a 700 shortlist down to 16 finalists, and ultimately, three winners.