Month: January 2020

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Final Call to Enter LafargeHolcim Awards with Prizes Totaling $2 Million USD

January 13, 2020 Rene Submissions 0

Entries in the 6th International LafargeHolcim Awards for sustainable construction will close on February 25, 2020. The competition seeks projects by professionals as well as bold ideas from the Next Generation that combine sustainable construction solutions with architectural excellence. The Awards accept projects and concepts from architecture, engineering, urban planning, materials science, construction technology, and other related fields.

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Taking Black And White Decor From Basic To Bold

January 13, 2020 HD Staff 0

Neutral decor doesn’t have to be basic, in fact, simple black and white decor can be brilliantly bold if balanced right. These three examples of modern home interiors follow a monochrome palette in three entirely different ways. In home number one we explore a predominantly pale design with well spaced punctuations of black. Home two […]

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Itacorubi House / Mari Girardi Arquitetos Associados

January 13, 2020 Andreas Luco 0

The clients requested a house that could satisfy the requirements of a family with small children, besides a good living area that could be opened to the greatest thing the land provides: the view. These needs also had to fit within the budget that the couple has set out to spend. 

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ACME reinterprets the traditional Kentish oast house as a modern family home

January 13, 2020 Amy Frearson 0
Bumpers Oast house by ACME exterior

Five tile-clad towers make up this house in southeast England, designed by ACME as a modern interpretation of a hop-drying kiln. Oast houses can be found all over the Kent countryside and today many of them are converted into homes. They would be built with pointed towers, so that hops harvested from the surrounding fields could be

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Municipal Raul Seixas Park Refurbishment / Secretaria do Verde e Meio Ambiente – Divisão de Implantação, projetos e obras

January 13, 2020 Daniel Tapia 0

The scope of the readjustment project considered a valuable historic load accumulated since early times of Itaquera’s region, in order to adapt the public space to our time’s new needs attending the future. The formulation of the preliminary architecture study proposal attempt to subtle intervention solutions that respect and articulate the elements of the past with new proposed needs, such as floors, stairs, ramps and other adaptations that were designed to maintain pre-existing interventions, valuing the historical heritage of this area, thus revealing the old and including the new.

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Adam Nathaniel Furman brightens up London maternity centre with “flowerburst” mosaic

January 13, 2020 Alyn Griffiths 0
Adam Nathaniel Furman Chelsea & Westminster hospital

London designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has applied his signature colourful aesthetic to a tiled entrance and reception area for the maternity centre at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. The London hospital received a donation from the Reuben Foundation to create an artwork for its new maternity centre and approached Furman to enhance its reception and

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Principal Tower / Foster + Partners

January 13, 2020 Paula Pintos 0

The completion of Principal Tower is the final piece of the Principal Place masterplan, a comprehensively planned mixed-use scheme on the border of Shoreditch and the City of London that creates a thriving new neighbourhood, drawing on the rich industrial heritage of the area. It comprises a 15-storey office building that hosts the London headquarters for Amazon, alongside one of London’s tallest residential buildings, the 50-storey Principal Tower, with six eateries that wrap around the building at street level and a light bar, creating a 360-degree active frontage that extends the vibrancy of the City towards the north.