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Archipelago House by Norm Architects is a minimal family getaway in Sweden

November 4, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Living room inside Archipelago House by Norm Architects

Norm Architects has completed Archipelago House, a pine-clad holiday home on the coast of Sweden that’s designed to embody both Scandinavian and Japanese aesthetics. Copenhagen-based practice Norm Architects created Archipelago House, which is located just north of Gothenburg, for a couple and their four children. It’s a stone’s throw away from a holiday home that

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City Council Education Service / HUB

November 4, 2020 Andreas Luco 0

Thanks to its central position on the Leien – the inner ring road – the building for the headquarters of the city council’s education service is located beside one of Antwerp’s core structural urban design elements and traffic arteries. The design, which comprises the complete reconversion of an existing 1970s office block, seeks to connect – despite the anomalous morphology of the existing structure – with the historic buildings along the Leien.

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Bamboo Hostels China / Studio Anna Heringer

November 4, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

Within three years (2011-2014) China consumed more cement than the USA during the last century. Most of those people living now in concrete housing blocks were living in houses made of natural materials. This trend happens all over the world. Alternatives are needed to reduce CO2 emissions.

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Henning Larsen Designs New Masterplan for Wolfsburg, Germany, Home City of Volkswagen

November 4, 2020 Christele Harrouk 0

Creating new standards for a more connected and livable city, Henning Larsen has designed a New Masterplan for Wolfsburg, Germany. The new prototype for urbanism across the European continent diffuses new energy in the city center. Selected to design the project in a competition in 2019 that included competitors UNStudio and Bjarke Ingels Group, Henning Larsen’s proposal for phase 1 is expected to reach completion by 2023.