February 2020 - Page 109 of 118

Yanqing Grape Expo / Archea Associati

February 3, 2020 Cristian Aguilar 0

Officially opening on July 25, the international wine exhibition is part of a broader program of initiatives sponsored by the Chinese government for the 11th International Conference on Grapevine Breeding and Genetics, scheduled to take place in China for the first time from July 28 to August 2. The conference is an international event with a worldwide scope covering issues related to agriculture and grapevine cultivation, in particular, taken as a key to developing contemporary wine culture. The exhibition garden covers almost 200 hectares designed and built for the occasion with artificial lakes, greenhouses, museums, gardens, a visitor center, landscape towers and bridges that enhance the visibility and use of this garden near the Great Wall.

Villa 174 / Cedrus Studio

February 3, 2020 Hana Abdel 0

“Villa 174” is located in Khezershahr north of Iran with a mild climate. Khezershahr town is in the coastal city of Babolsar and spreads across the north to the south side of the city belt. The “Villa 174” is on the south side. Constructed on a grid base with specific regulations applied to it. The layout of each building block is determined by the town’s construction codes e.g. the maximum height of each villa is 9 meters. The external material is to be cement render or timber and fences should not be masonry.

The Lift Treetop Boutique Hotel Recently Opened In Indonesia

February 3, 2020 Erin 0

Designed by Alexis Dornier, the Lift Treetop Boutique Hotel located in Penestanan, Indonesia, started out as a testing ground for ideas on how to lift structures off the ground, to have a less invasive footprint and impact, and be more cost-effective and faster to build. Alexis mentions, “Many developments here on this island use high […]

130 william, the david adjaye-designed skyscraper, nears completion in new york

February 3, 2020 philip stevens I designboom 0

the building’s current state has been documented in new images taken by photographer paul clemence.
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A’ Design Awards & Competition – Call for Entries

February 3, 2020 Erin 0

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The Church on Tidal Flats / CWXD

February 3, 2020 Collin Chen 0

“No, not any more. Every beautiful memory that worth cherish is no longer exist. I asked myself, why should I look for it if I know it is gone? This is the contradiction, the contradiction of the love of my hometown from deep down in my heart. What happen in the past is in the past, and what is left is a new sorrow? Nostalgia is an echo that cannot be kept, and also a beauty that cannot be captured.”
——Liang Heng

AART to exhibit 1960s-era nuclear bunker with danish cold war museum

February 3, 2020 macnadusa 0

denmark-based firm AART architects wins the prestigious competition to design the new danish cold war museum in rold skov in northern jutland. designed together with SLA, niras and thøgersen & stouby as sub-advisors, the museum has been envisioned to unfold the story of one of denmark’s best kept secrets — the cold war bunker REGAN […]

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Javett Art Centre / Mathews + Associates Architects

February 3, 2020 Hana Abdel 0

South Africa’s crown jewels have found a permanent home: the collection of gold artifacts from the Mapungubwe civilization dating from the 11^th-12th century is now on permanent display in an architectural concrete mountain mimicking the landscape in which these jewels rested for centuries prior to their discovery.

wHY Architecture reveals design for opera house in Russia

February 3, 2020 India Block 0

Tchaikovsky Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre by wHY Architecture will be built on the bank of the Kama River in Perm, Russia, near the Ural mountains. Perm is one of Russia’s famous ballet centres, after Moscow and St Petersburg. American studio wHY Architecture has designed a theatre with wrap-around glazing that will give views over

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Metro at Western Housing / the architects collective

February 3, 2020 Daniel Tapia 0

Located in close proximity to the MTA Exposition Line Expo / Western station, the project is situated along a bustling commercial corridor of neighborhood-serving mom-and-pop shops on Western Blvd. The project illustrates a diagrammatic approach to design, starting with the essential building blocks of the program, which are then shaped by the external constraints that act upon it. The project provides 16 two- and three-bedroom units for families and 16 one-bedroom units for homeless veterans.