Month: October 2022

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Saudi Arabia set to host Asian Winter Games at Neom “in the heart of the desert”

October 5, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Saudi Arabia has announced that it has won the right to host the 2029 Asian Winter Games at its Trojena resort, which is being designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, UNStudio, Aedas, LAVA and Bureau Proberts as part of the Neom development. The 2029 Asian Winter Games will be hosted at a 60-square-kilometre skiing and outdoor activity resort

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The Top 10 Home Bars of Summer 2022 (10 photos)

October 5, 2022 Bryan Anthony 0

This Trending Now story features the most-saved home bar photos uploaded to Houzz between June 15 and September 15, 2022.A dedicated home bar makes entertaining more stylish, functional and special. Whether you’ve got cocktails or mocktails in mind, y…

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Hopkins Architects adapts deep-plan office in London to suit “modern 24/7 lifestyle”

October 5, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

Hopkins Architects has reused elements of a 1980s office block to create the commercial 100 Liverpool Street building in London, which is shortlisted for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize. Commissioned by British Land, the project was developed by Hopkins Architects in collaboration with local firm Universal Design Studio, with the aim of creating a contemporary

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Casa EA! / Sebastian Arquitectos

October 5, 2022 Pilar Caballero 0

Located on the outskirts of the town, the house extends on a longitudinal plot between terraces, watching over the views of the old Cayo to the west, the impressive mountain that defines the personality of the beautiful landscape of this area and its natural park.

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“Fantastic! And I love the feet” says commenter

October 5, 2022 Rupert Bickersteth 0

In this week’s comments update, readers have had strong reactions to Studio Job’s surreal stained glass screen for a Dutch art institute, in the Netherlands. The local practice has completed a bronze-and-glass sculpture named The Embrace, which stands in front of KunstKerk in Dordrecht. It was described by the studio as a “surrealist take on

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Visitor centre at UK’s largest sawmill designed to be “interesting but not too interesting”

October 5, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

This video by Stephenson& captures the pared-back visitor centre that architecture studio Konishi Gaffney designed for Lockerbie Sawmill, which is in the running for this year’s RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award. It is one in a series by production studio Stephenson& that Dezeen is publishing with the Royal Incorporation of Architects in

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San Marino Declaration for Sustainable and Inclusive Architecture Receives Signatures of Norman Foster and Stefano Boeri

October 5, 2022 Christele Harrouk 0

While the United Nations has been continuously urging architects, engineers, and city shapers to put the 2030 agenda and the SDGs into action, and the IPCC report revealed intensifying climate change, sparking widespread discussion over insufficient action, the 83rd ongoing session of The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe – UNECE Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management taking place in San Marino, has just issued a special declaration on “how to build better, safer, more inclusive, and resilient” cities, ahead of COP27. This set of “Principles for Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Design and Architecture”, or the San Marino declaration has gathered the signatures of Norman Foster and Stefano Boeri.

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Marc Goodwin Captures the Facades of Studios in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, and Munich

October 5, 2022 Christele Harrouk 0

After having explored the spaces of architectural offices in the cities of Frankfurt, Stuttgart, and Munich, Germany, Marc Goodwin documents the facades of the same studios. Looking at what makes them similar and what makes them unique, the series of images showcases 25 buildings of German firms such as Schneider+Schumacher, Blocher Partners, Asp Architekten, Behnisch Architekten, Laboratory for Visionary Architecture, Henn, Auer Weber Assoziierte, FRANKEN Generalplaner, apd architektur+ingenieurbüro, Steimle Architekten and Max Dudler.

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Sneglehusene Housing / BIG

October 5, 2022 Paula Pintos 0

The ‘Sneglehusene’ is BIG’s contribution to the ambitious master plan of Nye, a neighborhood developed north of Denmark’s second-largest city, Aarhus. Conceived as a porous wall, a total of six buildings gently curve around a pond and a green boardwalk at the heart of the development.