the new colosseum floor will include the trapdoors and hidden lifts that had once allowed caged animals to leap out and attack gladiators.
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Plans to demolish part of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad by architect Louis Kahn have been withdrawn following an international outcry. The management school’s board of governors yesterday announced it had abandoned plans to demolish a cluster of brick dormitories that forms part of the monumental campus. In a letter announcing the decision, the
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The first time we visited the site, the spiritual retreat house of a religious community emerged from it. We climbed onto the roof of a four-story building with no protection other than a four-inch overhang on the perimeter and we were struck by the sight. From that eerie elevated, unprotected position, we seemed to dominate the entire valley. Sierra Nevada, the Alhambra, the Cartuja, the red roofs of the building that dotted the urban area, the extensive plain…
Architect Michael Howells began this Portland, Oregon, project three stories up from the backyard. When he first met his clients, a writer and a filmmaker who are parents of two children, he transformed their unfinished attic into a writing studio. Ne…
For this 800m² apartment located in São Paulo, we brought our experience in residential projects to a pre-defined space. We wanted to bring the same atmosphere found in houses to the apartment: large, but cozy; comfortable and family-oriented.
Architect Carl Turner has teamed up with creative agency Accept & Proceed to transform a Dutch-style barn in the English countryside into a holiday home with a difference. DUT18 is a seven-bedroom retreat in the Cotswolds that facilitates wellness retreats and creative workshops, as well as family stays. Turner’s studio, which recently rebranded as Turner Works,
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Situated on a corner lot adjacent to Los Angeles’ Silver Lake Reservoir and Meadow, with views of the water, the surrounding hills, and the Griffith Park Observatory, the design balances the privacy of the family with their desire to fully integrate nature within the life of their home.
From a coastal library by MAD to an adaptive reuse project by Tadao Ando, we’ve rounded up 12 of the most interesting architecture projects that are slated for completion in 2021. Wormhole Library, China, by MAD Next year will see the opening of the coastal Wormhole Library that MAD is constructing on the Chinese island
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An old warehouse in Porto which was vacant for 44 years, with an anonymous ground floor underneath a residential multi-storey building, in a neighbourhood slowly abandoned by commerce and businesses in the last decades.
Every December talking heads (or screens) trumpet “Everything Has Changed”. But this year it is true. Immanent inoculations may bring back human contact, but the Coronavirus Year has changed us.
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