Month: August 2019

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Think tank to research terraforming Earth founded by Moscow’s Strelka Institute

August 30, 2019 India Block 0
The Terraforming think-tank by the Strelka Institute

The Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow has launched a postgraduate course to research how the Earth could be terraformed to reverse the impacts of climate change. Called The Terraforming, the interdisciplinary think tank will research ways in which the Earth could be dramatically transformed in the future to return it to

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3 Beautifully Vibrant Kitchens (5 photos)

August 30, 2019 Mitchell Parker 0

Designers have many tools at their disposal to make a kitchen look good. They frequently play with various materials, patterns and colors to take a kitchen design in one direction or another. To create something visually appealing, they often increase…

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Hackney Backhouse / Guttfield Architecture

August 30, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

Hackney Backhouse is a brave, imaginative and contemporary back-garden house that volunteers itself to the street through louvered screens of weathering steel, affording fleeting glimpses into the house to passers-by. The two-story, three-bedroom family home is neatly tucked onto an 11m by 8m site in a Hackney Conservation Area, formerly occupied by a run-down garage and workshop. Keen to avoid divorcing the house from its context and its neighborhood, Guttfield Architecture designed a house with a direct visual relationship with the street – the house is part of the street and the street part of the house. A screen of vertical corten louvers between the house and the street is intended as a simple device to moderate this two-way relationship, firstly by actively engaging the street and secondly, by bringing the street into the house, all while retaining privacy where needed.

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WGNB designs all-black flagship store for fashion brand Juun.J

August 30, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Juun.J flagship store in Seoul

Korean practice WGNB has designed the flagship shop for fashion brand Juun.J in Seoul as a cluster of black geometric forms. Working with the motifs of circles, triangles and squares, the store occupies a black-rendered building that abuts a cafe with a steep triangular roof sweeping down to cover a glazed circular courtyard. WGNB drew on

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Designers Imagine Bamboo Colony on Mars

August 30, 2019 Christele Harrouk 0

Designers Warith Zaki and Amir Amzar have imagined a project that seeks to find alternatives to traditional construction material in order to build the first settlements on Mars. In fact, they opted for a natural earthy element that competes with wood, brick and concrete, and drafted a project that uses bamboo.