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Narbonne Arena / Marc Mimram

December 2, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

This new sports and cultural facility announces the entrance to the city from the East. To inscribe the geometry of the room, detached from the ground and thus signal the new equipment on a distant scale, we have created a base from which emerges the recognizable geometry of the theater. A vast inverted dome with vibrant and continuous materiality.

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Foster + Partners withdrawals from Architects Declare climate change group

December 2, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
ACAN calls on Foster + Partners to withdraw from Amaala airport project

Breaking news: UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has withdrawn form climate change action group Architects Declare, stating that aviation needs “sustainable infrastructure to fulfil its purpose”. The studio led by Norman Foster revealed the decision to leave the group, that it was one of the founding signaries of when it launched in 2019, in

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Europe’s Brutalist Churches and Chapels, by Stefano Perego

December 2, 2020 Belén Maiztegui 0

Rich in symbolism and tradition, religious architecture has always been marked by the grandiosity and extravagance of its interior spaces. For the architects and designers who created these spaces, everything from the scale, to the materials, to the lighting were tools to be used in optimizing their form and function and creating a place for users to connect with their faith.

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House in Higashi-Gotanda / CASE-REAL

December 2, 2020 Hana Abdel 0

This is a two floor wooden house in a quiet residential area in the city center. The client requested us to provide two parking spaces, to build the structure to the maximum, and to create a courtyard while ensuring security.

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Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo Design New Magazzino Museum Expansion

December 2, 2020 Eric Baldwin 0

The Magazzino Italian Art museum is expanding its campus in Cold Spring, NY with a new pavilion by Spanish architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo. Following the museum’s public opening in 2017, the new pavilion will be dedicated to special exhibitions and public and educational programs. The free-standing structure will feature flexible programming to enable the nonprofit museum to support its growing program and better serve its visitors.

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ArchDaily Selects the Best Young Practices of 2020

December 2, 2020 Nicolás Valencia 0

ArchDaily is proud to announce the 2020 Young Practices selection. This premier edition highlights emerging offices that are providing innovative approaches, proposals, and solutions to some of the main challenges Humankind is facing right now. From climate crisis to racial and gender issues. From technological disruption to social cohesion. These challenges are shaping the evolution of architecture, leading the discipline towards a new society and a new economy.

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Cracks Threaten Oscar Niemeyer’s National Library in Brasília

December 2, 2020 Equipe ArchDaily Brasil 0

The Leonel Brizola National Library, designed by Oscar Niemeyer —a building that integrates the Cultural Complex of the Republic, a cultural center located along the Eixo Monumental, in the city of Brasília, Brazil— is covered in cracks. The lack of preventive maintenance has caused several cracks throughout the building, according to an article published in the newspaper Metrópoles.