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Between Arches, Architecture of Connection: An Alternative View of Barcelona

December 31, 2021 Elías Barczuk Pasamán 0

The gaze is a tool that the architect uses constantly but does not fully value. It is an instrument that, in addition to allowing us to know and recognize our reality and the phenomena that arise from it, can work as a method of analysis. “Entrearcos (Between-arches): architecture of connection” is a research project developed by the architect Daniela Silva Landeros that studies, in the specific case of the Ciutat Vella neighbourhood of the city of Barcelona, the issue of arches in our cities. And Silva Landeros does so from alternative points of view that call into question the way we are used to looking.

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Shenzhen Maozhou River Left Bank Science and Technology Park / TJAD Original Design Studio

December 31, 2021 Xiaohang Hou 0

Maozhou River is the largest waterbody system in Shenzhen, flowing through Baoan and Guangming districts. Along the waterway are mostly industrial areas, among which Guangming district is most well-known for being a novel town for hi-tech industries. The Left Bank Science and Technology Park is situated at the Guangming Section of Maozhou River, making it one of the most important public nodes along the 12.8km spanning Maozhou River Greenlane Project. The site is perpendicularly divided by two urban highways. The triangular plot is scattered with temporary storage warehouse. Together with the hardened ground surface, the presence of water is almost unperceivable from the site. What should have been a great waterfront has become a void separating the city and the water.

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SND Chongqing WFC / Various Associates

December 30, 2021 Collin Chen 0

Various Associates designed another new concept store for the pioneering multi-brand fashion supplier SND. As a promoter of new shopping concept, SND takes an independent road off the beaten track, rather than going with the flow. Its brick-and-mortar stores bring avant-garde design that is not defined by common standards, showcase clothes in an artistic manner, and inject fresh vitality into the retail sector.

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Bamboo Tower / UnSangDong Architects

December 30, 2021 Hana Abdel 0

The Bambu Tower, which is the headquarters of GL associates begins with a concept that combines ‘Space, Designer, Desired’, a space desired by designers’, within the small site between the other buildings that are compactly arranged in the middle of Samseong-dong, Gangnam-gu, the most urban place in Seoul.

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Neil Logan revamps a 1970s stone-clad dwelling in the Hamptons

December 30, 2021 Jenna McKnight 0
Heller Lane by Neil Lorgan Architect

New York studio Neil Logan Architect has added glazing and completely renovated the interior of a beach house on Long Island originally designed by architect Norman Jaffe. The project, called Heller Lane, is located on a coastal site in East Hampton. Designed by Manhattan-based Neil Logan Architect, the project involved an interior revamp of a

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Rossana Hu named chair of the department of architecture at Tongji University

December 30, 2021 Christina Yao 0
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Rossana Hu of ​​Neri&Hu has been appointed chair of the department of architecture at Tongji University in Shanghai, becoming the first woman to hold the position. The architect and founding partner of design studio Neri&Hu was appointed to the position at Tongi University’s College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) on 21 December. “I am

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