Month: December 2019

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Reliance Controls “dissolved traditional boundaries” says Norman Foster

December 13, 2019 Siufan Adey 0
Reliance Controls by Team 4

British architect Norman Foster reflects on his first high-tech building and how it shaped offices to come in this exclusive Dezeen video interview. Named after the electronics manufacturer that commissioned the building, Reliance Controls was an industrial facility located in Swindon in south west England. Completed in 1967, the building was the last project designed by Team

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Corner House / 31/44 Architects

December 13, 2019 Paula Pintos 0

Sited prominently on a former garden plot at the junction of two Victorian streets, Corner House is a contemporary interpretation of a typical Victorian suburban townhouse. Built of a grey London stock brick with concrete lintels, it draws on the familiar and established decorative motifs of the Victorian terrace, simplifying these into a sparer minimalist aesthetic.

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Brdr Krüger’s first showroom features soft colours and rococo references

December 13, 2019 Amy Frearson 0
Brdr Kruger showroom in Copenhagen by Bunn Studio

Danish furniture brand Brdr Krüger has opened its first standalone showroom in Copenhagen, with an interior by Bunn Studio that references the history of both the company and the location. This is the first time in Brdr Krüger’s 133-year history that it is showing its entire furniture range outside of its workshop in Værløse. The

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Assessing Resiliency and Risk: We Can’t Save It All

December 13, 2019 Signe Nielsen 0

Conversations around resiliency today seem to imply that planners and designers might be capable of—might even be expected to—save every building and public space at risk. The sad truth is, however, that we cannot, and perhaps we should not. Climate change and its attendant sea level rise will radically redraw urban edges, forcing us to make difficult decisions. Even if we had the vast sums of money required to protect the precarious status quo, that might not be enough to stave off the inevitable.

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Qasr Al Hosn: Al Musallah Prayer Hall / CEBRA

December 13, 2019 Paula Pintos 0

A historical setting. In the centre of the modern metropolis Abu Dhabi lies the city’s oldest and most important building, the Qasr Al Hosn Fort. This important culture-historical gem was originally built in the 18th century to protect Abu Dhabi’s only freshwater well and later served as a royal residence and government building. Before the urbanization of Abu Dhabi island, the fort was the first thing travellers would see arriving at the coast from the desert – a landmark rising from the sands as a magnificent sculpture, literally constituting the birthplace of the city of Abu Dhabi.

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B:Hive Offices / BVN + Jasmax

December 13, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

The B:Hive concept has been conceived by Smales Farm as the first step in the transformation of a twentieth-century office park to a twenty-first-century engaged urban hub; and as such, this is a new model of office building – it is actually the antithesis of “office building” in that its’ genesis is to be a “place” for flexible, collaborative and community-engaged work attracting start-ups, small companies, and individuals. There are currently 100 individual companies in B:Hive.

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wolfgang tschapeller redesigns cornell university’s mui ho fine arts library

December 13, 2019 macnadusa 0

following an 18-month renovation of the historic rand hall at cornell university in ithaca, new york, the ‘mui ho fine arts library’ opened in august 2019. the redesigned space was designed by architect wolfgang tschapeller, whose goal for the project was ‘a 21st-century interpretation of the grand reading rooms associated with great research collections’. the […]

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