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Cedar ING Offices / Benthem Crouwel Architects + HofmanDujardin

January 8, 2020 Paula Pintos 0

A new type of office. Cedar consists of two five storey volumes connected by a glass footbridge that ensures a fast link between all levels. The building, the interior and the surrounding park are designed as an integral, welcoming whole, establishing a new typology for financial institutions: instead of emphasizing security and power, the architecture focuses on transparency, connectivity and collaboration. The highly sustainable, human centric design is a notable example of ING’s purpose to empower people in a building that opens itself up to society. The design received the sustainability label BREEAM-NL Outstanding.

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Villa RA features huge openings that frame views of the Italian coast

January 8, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Villa RA by MORQ

Expansive openings punctuate the earth-toned facade of this home designed by architecture practice MORQ, which is on a hillside in southern Italy. Designed by MORQ to be a house that “looks”, Villa RA has a series of rectangular apertures that peer out over Calabria – a region of southern Italy distinguished by its sun-baked beaches,

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“What I Really Like Is Speed”: In conversation with Odile Decq

January 8, 2020 Vladimir Belogolovsky 0

Odile Decq was born in 1955 in Laval, France and studied at École Régionale d’Architecture in Rennes, Brittany. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure D’architecture in Paris-La Villette in 1978 and received her diploma from the Paris Institute of Political Studies in 1979. Decq set up her practice in Paris the same year and soon met Benoît Cornette who was studying medicine at the time but switched to architecture. By 1985 he received his architecture degree and the couple renamed their firm into ODBC. In 1996, ODBC won the Golden Lion in Venice for their drawings, selected out of a pool of invited emerging voices that included Zaha Hadid, Enric Miralles, and Liz Diller and Ric Scofidio. That was the beginning of the computer drawings, expressing movement, ambiguities, layering, and overall new dynamics that characterize Decq’s liberated forms and spaces.

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With.It Home / BodinChapa Architects

January 8, 2020 Hana Abdel 0

The owners ‘desire is to renovate their old house to respond to the usability and to create an inspiration both for their living and working. As a designer and the owner of a clothing brand working in fashion , it was important to make their lifestyle jolly and modern. The designer then takes the various assets to apply in the design and create an interior inside the house to meet the various needs.

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FADD studio designs the ash abode in india with block green walls

January 8, 2020 macnadusa 0

characterized by simplicity, clean lines, and sumptuous blocks of color, FADD studio has realized the ‘ash abode’ in bengaluru, india. the design of the new duplex residence takes inspiration from the japanese art of ukiyo-e, which roughly translates to ‘living in the moment’, to create a home that embodies ideas of minimalism and ‘zen’ sensibilities. […]

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