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Architecture and design highlights from Glastonbury 2019

July 4, 2019 Calum Lindsay 0
Glastonbury 2019 architecture and design highlights

This captioned movie explores some of the best installations at this year’s Glastonbury music festival, including temporary structures by design studio Block9 and artist Joe Rush. Among the stages and installations built for the five-day event were a full-size recreation of a British seaside pier by Rush, a vast moving crane equipped with a DJ

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mount fuji architects studio’s residence emerges from a peninsula in japan

July 4, 2019 macnadusa 0

mount fuji architects studio has built the peninsula house, a three-story concrete residence sitting on a seaside site that faces the ocean to the east in kanto, japan. the monolithic block is designed as if cut out from the rocky mass of the peninsula it’s located on, and characterized by a long blind wall on its […]

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Grimshaw transforming Herman Miller Factory into Bath Spa University

July 4, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Locksbrook Campus by Grimshaw

Grimshaw is transforming its adaptable 1970s Herman Miller factory, designed by its founder Nicholas Grimshaw, into the Locksbrook Campus for Bath Spa University. The heritage listed building on the River Avon in Bath, is being adapted and extended to contain a mix of teaching facilities and social spaces. Due for completion in September, Grimshaw is aiming to

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Moses Bridge / RO&AD Architecten

July 4, 2019 Megan Jett 0

The West Brabant Water Line is a defense-line consisting of a series of fortresses and cities with inundation areas in the south-west of the Netherlands. It dates from the 17th century but fell into disrepair in the 19th century. When the water line was finally restored, an access bridge across the the moat of one of the fortresses, Fort de Roovere, was needed. This fort now has a new, recreational function and lies on several routes for cycling and hiking.

Boris Johnson wanted to decorate “boring” London Bridge Station with gargoyles

July 4, 2019 India Block 0
A bored Boris Johnson demanded that Grimshaw Architects jazz up their London Bridge Station re-design when he was Mayor of London, suggesting they should decorate it with gargoyles

Boris Johnson asked Grimshaw to jazz up its re-design of London Bridge Station when he was mayor of London, suggesting the studio add “gargoyles along the front”. The UK prime ministerial hopeful met partners at Grimshaw several times during the process of re-designing RIBA award-winning London Bridge Station, a major infrastructure project in central London completed last year.

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Stanton Williams Inserts “Jewel Box” Library into Historic French Hospital

July 4, 2019 Niall Patrick Walsh 0

Stanton Williams has been appointed to design the Clermont-Ferrand Metropolitan Area Library in France, seeing off competition from OMA, Snohetta, Wilmotte & Associes, and Christian de Portzamparc. Designed in collaboration with local practice Marcillon Thuillier Architectes, the new library will act as a social and creative hub in the heart of Clermont-Ferrand, with its 11,500 square meter area making it the largest in central France.

Terry Farrell puts his “exuberantly colourful” flat on the market

July 4, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Terry Farrell flat for sale in Old Aeroworks factory, Marylebone, London

Postmodern architect Terry Farrell is selling the flat he designed for himself in a former Spitfire factory in Marylebone, London, after living in it for more than 20 years. Farrell designed the apartment in the Old Aeroworks in 1998. The architect converted the space – which was previously the office for his architecture studio – into

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