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Bestseller Shanghai Office / Linehouse

July 7, 2021 Yu Xin Li 0

Linehouse has designed the Shanghai office for fashion retailer Bestseller. The office, developed together with Bestseller, is a futuristic fashion-forward expression of progressive and technologically driven ways of working. The site is an elongated linear space enveloped by full-height glazing on three sides conceived as a sequence of dynamic and collaborative spaces. The design seeks to balance industrial rigidness with subtlety and softness through a series of curved interventions.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro builds looping steel Park Union Bridge in Colorado

July 7, 2021 India Block 0

Architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has built the 250-foot-long Park Union Bridge in Colorado Springs that connects to the US Olympic and Paralympic Museum. The bridge connects the museum celebrating America’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes, also designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, to the America the Beautiful Park in Colorado. Park Union Bridge is

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the invisible mountain grapples with melting glaciers at venice architecture biennale

July 7, 2021 Giovanni Betti 0

the installation looks at the presena glacier in italy, which has been covered in 34 tonnes of plastic tarpaulin to save the snow from melting.
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Bondi Junction House / Alexander & Co.

July 7, 2021 Hana Abdel 0

Design Statement – The Bondi Junction House is an alteration and addition to an existing 1900’s Victorian semi detached terrace dwelling in the Eastern suburbs of Sydney. The four bedroom home has 3 bathrooms, powder room, lounge and living area and sunken dining room. The home is an exploration of ‘the unfinished’, and is the result of various alterations over time. As a scaffold for a growing family, its principle aims were to maximise spatial economies as a low cost build, whilst exploring material expressiveness and the role of architecture as a form of education. For the young children, the home was to explain how it was built; to show its structural rhythms, to demonstrate how materials could be added to one another and result in spaces which are honest and often surprising. Inspired by the works of Alvar Aalto and Louis Kahn, the home has a loosely modernist philosophy, whilst its exploration of locally available and low cost pine structure and Carrara stone gives it an almost Scandinavian sensibility.

WAFX 2021 Prize Winners Announced

July 7, 2021 Diego Hernández 0

Twelve big-picture architectural initiatives addressing some of the world’s most pressing challenges have won the first of this year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards. The 2021 WAFX Awards celebrate project proposals from across the world tackling today’s global issues, ranging from pandemic control and the climate emergency, to social equity, cultural identity, aging populations, and food supply.

SOM’s inflatable habitats could allow people to “thrive over the long term” on the Moon

July 7, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Architecture studio SOM and the European Space Agency have created more visuals for Moon Village, a concept for a settlement on the moon made up of inflatable modules. SOM presented a detailed scale model of Moon Village, which it first announced in 2019, as part of its exhibition Life Beyond Earth at this year’s Venice

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Birmingham City University spotlights 17 architecture and design projects

July 7, 2021 Dezeen staff 0

A self-organising shelter that adapts to environmental stimuli and ceramic tableware designed to stimulate the senses are included in Dezeen’s latest school show by students at Birmingham City University. Also included is a Russian recreational area designed as a multifunctional park to meet residents’ needs, and a chair that explores hair-based discrimination while celebrating black,

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guangzhou plans colossal quarantine facility with 5,000 isolated spaces as delta spreads

July 7, 2021 kat barandy I designboom 0

as the highly transmissible delta variant spreads, 80 to 90 percent of international travelers enter china through guangzhou.
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Health Innovation Hub / John McAslan + Partners

July 7, 2021 Andreas Luco 0

Lancaster University’s Health Innovation Campus is focused on improving preventative healthcare, a medical specialism that the COVID-19 pandemic has shown to be of utmost importance. In 2016, John McAslan + Partners was commissioned to design a master plan for an 11-hectare site for the Campus including its first phase, the Innovation Hub building. Designed to instill a sense of orderly calm conducive to both mental and physical wellbeing, the Innovation Hub will bring together academics linked to the University’s Faculty of Health and Medicine with local service providers including NHS tenants. This a large, five-storey building, yet its pavilion-like form disguises its scale and fits in unobtrusively with the surrounding topography.

Architect Alison Killing wins Pulitzer Prize for exposing alleged Chinese internment camps

July 7, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0

British architect Alison Killing has become the first of her profession to win a Pulitzer Prize for reportage with a series of articles revealing a network of Chinese prison camps allegedly built to incarcerate Muslims. Killing, who is an architect and geospatial analyst based in Rotterdam, is thought to be the first architect to win

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