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Heatherwick Studio designs Columbia public library as “new type of community centre”

March 31, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

UK architecture practice Heatherwick Studio has revealed the design for its first public library, a plant-covered building in Columbia, Maryland. Designed for Howard County Libraries, the plant-covered building would be located alongside Lake Kittamaqundi in the community of Columbia near Baltimore, which was developed in the 1960s. “Columbia has always been driven by a socially radical vision,” said

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Der Öschberghof Hotel / allmannwappner

March 31, 2023 Andreas Luco 0

Our design for the expansion of this five-star superior golf and spa resort is grounded in a profound awareness and appreciation of the traditional architecture of the region as well as sensitive treatment of existing structures. We remodeled the resort and optimized its logistics processes during normal hotel operations.

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Sara Kulturhus Centre “unleashed a world of previously unimagined design possibilities”

March 31, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

The penultimate case study in our Timber Revolution series is a 20-storey mass-timber building just below the Arctic Circle – the Sara Kulturhus Centre by Swedish studio White Arkitekter. Standing 72.8 metres tall in the Swedish city of Skellefteå, the landmark structure became one of the world’s tallest mass-timber buildings when it was completed in

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