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Richard Rogers: high-tech’s inside out architect

November 6, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
High-tech architecture: Richard Rogers

We continue our high-tech architecture series with a profile of Richard Rogers, the architect of two of the movement’s best-known inside out buildings, Centre Pompidou and the Lloyd’s building. Inside-out is one of the most common ways of defining the buildings of Rogers – or to use a term coined by Archigram founder Michael Webb, “Bowellism”. This

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Snøhetta designs Arctic seed vault visitor centre on Svalbard

November 6, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
The Arc Visitor Center for Arctic Preservation Storage in Svalbard by Snøhetta

Snøhetta has designed a visitor centre for two archives, which will be built within the Arctic Circle on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago. Named The Arc, the building will be a place for people to digitally view items from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which is the world’s largest, secure seed-storage,

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Biobasecamp pavilion aims to demonstrate the potential of timber in architecture

November 6, 2019 Augusta Pownall 0
Biobasecamp Marco Vermeulen Dutch Design Week

A timber pavilion called Biobasecamp at Dutch Design Week brought together projects that demonstrate the potential of the “concrete of the future” to fight against climate change. Studio Marco Vermeulen built the wooden pavilion as a covered exhibition-space for a series of displays highlighting how timber can be used in bio-based architecture projects. Called Biobasecamp, the

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Fresh and Green House Extension / Sanya Polescuk Architects

November 6, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

‘It’s all about the brick’ is how SPA future-proofed a garden apartment in a large Italianate semi-detached villa in North London. The clients wanted an enduring space to suit their growing family as their home forever. The answer was two-pronged: to remodel and retrofit the original and to expand into the mature garden, adding a true indoor-outdoor living. Central to remodeling was providing a flexible space for extended family visits and creating generous amounts of dedicated storage. Although the living space still occupies the same square meterage, resourceful design put away any potential clutter and all building services.

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11 Rules to Follow When Creating Vibrant Public Spaces

November 6, 2019 Christele Harrouk 0

The 3rd International Placemaking Week, presented by Project for Public Spaces (PPS) took place on October 1-4, 2019 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The inspiring and engaging week designed after the previous editions in Amsterdam in 2017 and Vancouver in 2016, is a global gathering of placemakers from different sectors to discuss thoughts and share strategies in order to push forward the concept of placemaking in the host city and on an international level.