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Residential Building in Rua Francisco Metrass / Falcão de Campos

February 1, 2023 Susanna Moreira 0

The building is located on the northern part of Rua Francisco Metrass, a street from the 19th-century neighborhood of Campo de Ourique in the northwestern part of Lisbon. This neighborhood is composed of an urban rectangular grid, separated by ample avenues, and although it was planned for an emergent bourgeoisie, it maintains its unity as its life remains.

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Juri Troy Architects uses timber and straw for holiday cabin in Austrian village

February 1, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Austrian studio Juri Troy Architects has completed Straw Flea House, an angular cabin in the historic village of Murstetten built using locally-sourced timber and straw. Designed as a single-bedroom weekend home, the dwelling sits alongside a historic barn on a wooded site outside the village’s centre, and is oriented to frame landmarks such as the

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Tate Modern loses privacy feud with Neo Bankside residents over viewing platform

February 1, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

Residents of the luxury Neo Bankside flats live as though they are “on display in a zoo” because of the Tate Modern’s Herzog & de Meuron-designed extension, the supreme court has ruled. A majority judgment by the supreme court has determined that the viewing gallery at the Tate’s Switch House building invades the privacy of residents

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“An architect who only designs buildings is like a doctor who only prescribes paracetamol” says ProxyAddress founder

February 1, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Architects have a duty to use their skills to help solve societal problems even if it means thinking beyond designing buildings, ProxyAddress founder Chris Hildrey tells Dezeen in this interview. British architect Hildrey founded ProxyAddress, a social enterprise that gives people experiencing homelessness a fixed address, in 2018. “It’s about removing potential obstacles” The system

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“An awfully idyllic response to climate change” says commenter

February 1, 2023 Rupert Bickersteth 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing MVRDV’s envisioning for Vancouver’s waterfront in the year 2100 and the “world’s most aggressive SUV”. Dutch architecture studio MVRDV released a study that aims to offer possible solutions to urban planning in the face of rising sea levels by reimagining the Vancouver waterfront. The Sea Level Rise Catalogue looks at methods

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