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Warraweena House / Pitch Architecture + Design

April 22, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

Built in 1893 by a local Limeburner, Pitch aimed to breathe new life into this beachside Victorian while still respecting its historical value. The resulting design kept the classic façade, but added a contemporary rear extension with soaring floor to ceiling windows and glass doors.

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Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera premiere film exploring the visual landscape of Covid-19

April 22, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

Our VDF collaboration with The World Around concludes with the premiere of a new film by Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera, which charts the global impact of coronavirus on spaces across a wide range of different scales. Called The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19, the 13-minute film explores the coronavirus pandemic through a montage of images

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Reading a Bridge / Cheng Tsung FENG

April 22, 2020 罗靖琳 - Jinglin Luo 0

Taiwanese artist Cheng Tsung FENG always focuses on traditional handcrafted culture. For the large-scale installation art for Eslite Bookstore 30th Anniversary, his subject is “Chinese Stitched Binding”, which is a kind of book binding method with a long history.

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Sassen Residence / SALT Architects

April 22, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

Nestled in a valley next to the Disa River, this virgin plot of land is surrounded by various peaks of Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town, South Africa. The larger area is known as Hout Bay, with the Afrikaans word “hout” meaning wood, referencing the large number of Yellow Wood trees the original Dutch Settlers found in the area when first arriving in the Cape. The area has mostly kept its rural character throughout the development of the greater Cape Town area with some of the larger plots exceeding a hectare in size.

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Cameron Sinclair and Facebook’s Margaret Stewart feature in the third instalment of The World Around symposium

April 22, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0

Architect Cameron Sinclair and vegan fashion designer Mats Rombaut are joined by Facebook’s director of product design Margaret Stewart in the third part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. The World Around’s Earth Day 2020 symposium, which we are broadcasting today as part of Virtual Design Festival, features talks, presentations,

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How to Keep Your Home Project on Track (18 photos)

April 22, 2020 Becky Harris 0

As we shelter at home, many remodeling projects have been temporarily put on hold. But whether your project is still in the planning stages or is further along, there are things you can do now to keep it moving. Design and remodeling pros are open for…

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“It’s hard to yearn for a return to a pre-pandemic normal” says Design Earth

April 22, 2020 Benedict Hobson 0
Design Earth interview by Carson Chan

El Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn of collaborative architecture practice Design Earth discuss how to engage with the climate emergency in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in this interview with architecture writer Carson Chan, which forms part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. The World Around’s Earth

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