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House BRIO / STAM architecten

May 25, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

House BRIO is situated on the edge of an industrial site, where the clients run their business. The unconventional environment allows this low-energy home to be developed on the site in a private but visible way. All functions, such as the carport and garden shed were fully integrated into the architectural volume. Despite the visibly linked volumes, we created unity and tranquility with a fully clad wood facade.

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Sky Yards Hotel by Domain Architects has deep balconies that frame mountain views

May 25, 2021 Jon Astbury 0
Pitched roof create a playful design

The balconies of Sky Yards Hotel in Xiuwu County, China, are designed to focus views upwards, framing the sky and mountains instead of the construction sites below. Located in an industrial area in Henan Province, the 48-room hotel was designed by Shanghai-based practice Domain Architects and includesa restaurant, banquet hall and swimming pools. The building sits

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Watch our live talk with Amos Rex about the role of art museums in cities

May 25, 2021 Siufan Adey 0

Dezeen has teamed up with Amos Rex and JKMM Architects on a live talk to mark the launch of a new book about the Helsinki museum. Watch here from 5:00pm London time. Titled Amos Rex Art Museum – JKMM Architects, the publication explores the design of the museum’s building, a 1930s structure refurbished by Finnish

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Heatherwick Studio’s Little Island Creates an Artificial Landscape above the Hudson River

May 25, 2021 Andreea Cutieru 0

Designed by Heatherwick Studio, together with landscape architecture firm MNLA, the long-awaited Little Island project is New York’s newest major public space, showcasing a richly-planted piece of topography above the Hudson River. The design featuring a public park and performance venues reinvents the pier typology into an undulating artificial landscape. After surpassing many hurdles, the eight years in the making project is now open to the public, and the bold design is set to become an icon in New York.

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Visitors share their impressions of “interesting and courageous” Venice Architecture Biennale

May 25, 2021 Marcus Fairs 0
Venice Architecture Biennale 2021

With the Venice Architecture Biennale now open to the public, attendees have given their verdict on the first major cultural event to take place since the pandemic began. “It was interesting and very courageous,” architect Stefano Boeri told Dezeen. “And how important it is for Venice to say that the biennale is still alive. It

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Aabenraa City Centre / Topotek 1

May 25, 2021 Andreas Luco 0

Competing usage patterns had resulted in a counterintuitive spatial structure in the Danish small town of Aabenraa. In the course of the comprehensive redesign, Topotek 1 together with ADEPT developed a vibrant new topology in which the diverse dimensions of contemporary urban life can interact in a dynamic way, respecting the heterogeneous character of public space and activity.