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Praksis Arkitekter Designs New VELUX Innovation Building

May 27, 2021 Eric Baldwin 0

Praksis Arkitekter has won the competition to transform an old timber warehouse for VELUX Group in Østbirk, Denmark. As the company’s largest production site, it will be transformed into a best-in-class innovation center. The existing wooden building was originally inaugurated in 1995 as a warehouse. The new rebuilt building will house most of the product development that VELUX Group is doing, which today is spread across the country and abroad.

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Foster + Partners turns former 16th-century convent into Apple Store

May 27, 2021 James Parkes 0
The Apple Store has marble interiors

Fosters + Partners has restored and converted the Palazzo Marignoli in Rome into an Apple Store, uncovering historic features and opening up a central courtyard. Apple Via del Corso is located near the Piazza Colonna in the centre of Rome, occupying the historic Palazzo Marignoli. The Apple Via del Corso building dates back to the

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House Huy / MADE architects

May 27, 2021 Andreas Luco 0

An existing terraced house in the middle of Antwerp, without elements of historic value but with perfect orientation, was replaced by MADE architects with a cost-and energy-efficient, robust and sustainable new house, built to last. Challenge ahead was to create a spacious and light environment, where transparency and interaction between inner and outer spaces occur.

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Jaime Lerner, Influential Brazilian Urbanist Passes Away At 83

May 27, 2021 Equipe ArchDaily Brasil 0

The prominent Brazilian urbanist Jaime Lerner has passed away this Thursday, May 27, at the age of 83. Trained as an architect, Lerner was chosen by the American magazine Planetizen as the second most influential urban planner of all time, only behind Jane Jacobs. In addition to his career linked to architecture and urban planning, Lerner was three times mayor of Curitiba and twice governor of Paraná (1995-1998 and 1999-2002). Lerner graduated in Architecture in 1964 from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) and worked at the Curitiba Institute for Research and Urbanism (Ippuc) since its creation in 1965.