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Colourful Modern Home Design Gives Each Room Individuality

December 10, 2019 HD Staff 0

Sparing yet powerful colour injections give each room of this home its own special character and individual identity, designed and visualised by Cartelle Design. The 110 square metre property, located in Ivanovo, Russia, is filled with a delicious array of painted feature walls, bright modern art and eye-catching accent furniture. Deep royal blue and spice […]

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Studio Rick Joy designs concrete apartment complex in Mexico City’s Polanco neighbourhood

December 10, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Long windows are embedded into the board-marked concrete walls of this residential building in Mexico City’s upscale Polanco area, designed by American architecture firm Studio Rick Joy. The Tuscon firm designed the five-storey structure, also called Polanco, in collaboration with local studio FRB Arquitectos Asociados. Made from reinforced cast-in-place concrete, it comprises a pair of

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Photocatalytic Cave / Amezcua

December 10, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

The Photocatalytic Cave is located 12 meters below a house in the upper part of a hill, to the west of Mexico City, an area where it’s common to find caves created decades ago, to extract sand as a building material. To make use of this natural hollow, the project was carried out by designing and working together with the client, his suppliers and construction team, highlighting Amezcua’s design, to achieve a space like no other. Besides its recreational use, this site also intends to promote and generate lifestyle experiences for the real estate clientele of MM.

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Building Boom: Qatar’s Monumental New Architecture

December 10, 2019 Eric Baldwin 0

Qatar has been radically reshaped by growth and development. The sovereign state transformed since the second half of the twentieth century after the discovery of the Dukhan oil field in 1940. Capitalizing on over 70 years of economic development, Qatar now has the highest per capita income in the world. Reflecting the country’s wealth, its modern architectural projects are being built at a monumental scale.

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The Willis Faber & Dumas building is a revolutionary high-tech office

December 10, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Willis Faber & Dumas building by Foster Associates – Norman Foster and Micheal Hopkins

We continue or high-tech architecture series by looking at Foster Associates’ Willis Faber & Dumas building, a revolutionary office block in Ipswich, which was completed in 1975. Built as the headquarters of insurance company Willis Faber & Dumas, the three-storey block occupies its entire site and is wrapped in a glass curtain wall that reflects the

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Dezeen’s top 10 conceptual architecture projects of 2019

December 10, 2019 Semi Han 0
House Inside a Rock by Amey Kandalgaokar

This year designers created a huge variety of conceptual architecture from a straw bale school to a bamboo colony on Mars. Semi Han continues our review of 2019 with 10 of the most intriguing concepts. East 34th Street, New York, USA, by MAD Architects Chinese studio MAD Architects envisioned a 232-metre tall skyscraper to sit next to the

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