Month: July 2020

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Harvard GSD Students and Alumni Launch Design Yard Sale for Racial Justice

July 2, 2020 Eric Baldwin 0

Students and alumni from the Harvard Graduate School of Design are launching an online Design Yard Sale to raise funds in support of the movement against systemic anti-Black racism. The team will sell and auction creative works donated by the design community, and all net proceeds will go towards the Bail Project and Colloqate Design. Among Design Yard Sale’s offerings will be works donated by renowned designers, artists, and scholars such as Toshiko Mori, Oana Stanescu, Rachel Israela, Jeanne Gang, Billie Tsien, Snarkitecture, Jerome Byron and VERV LONDON.

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Casa Torre in Madrid / González Vives Arquitectura

July 2, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

The construction of this house occupies a land near the Manzanares river basin. This small building is inserted into the landscape corridor that runs through the metropolitan area from the Madrid highlands, close to the great mass of vegetation of Ciudad Universitaria and the intersection with the first city beltway M30, which occupies the historic riverbed La Veguilla.

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Open Architecture unveils Pingshan Performing Arts Center

July 2, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Pingshan Performing Arts Center by Open Architecture

Beijing studio Open Architecture has created the Pingshan Performing Arts Center near Shenzhen as a “counter-statement” to other more extravagant theatres that have recently been built in China. The architecture studio designed the performing arts centre in the Pingshan district of Shenzhen with a simple form to demonstrate an alternative to the landmark structures that

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Glassbook House / Sibling Architecture

July 2, 2020 Paula Pintos 0

What does it mean to be at home? The home, for the client of the Glassbook House, is a place to retreat from the outside world. This hideaway, to the rear of a Federation-style house in Tempe, Sydney, explores the home as a sanctuary that revolves around a serious collection of books.

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Chengde Museum / Zhoukai, HHDesign

July 2, 2020 Collin Chen 0

Chengde is most famous for “The Mountain Resort” as the Royal Palace of Qing Dynasty and “The Eight Outlying Temples” forming the temple complex, which has been listed as World Cultural Heritage. They give the city a special and grand historical scene. In designing the City Museum under such a circumstance, our first clear direction is to respect history and nature and to integrate architecture into the environment with a humble attitude.

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PoPoShang, YunShangJin Village Hotel / Beiwei 30 Architectural Design

July 1, 2020 罗靖琳 - Jinglin Luo 0

PoPoShang Organic farm is an hour’s drive from downtown Chengdu. The farm is located in a hilly area rarely seen in the Chengdu plain. When on sunny days, you can see the rolling sea of oilseed rape flowers on the surrounding farm and you can enjoy the view that Lin Pan local-style dwelling houses in the Chengdu plain are hidden in twos and threes among the bamboo forests and you can smoke from kitchen chimneys in the distance.