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Pivoting Arched Windows Are A Unique Feature On This Row Of Townhouses In London

March 22, 2023 Erin 0

Photography by Matthew White and Izzy Scott of AVR London Architecture firm DHaus has designed a collection of 6 new terraced townhouses in North-West London, that replaced a gas station. The six new townhouses include a strong mixture of rectangles and arches, set within a brick canvas that is common within the Dartmouth Park Conservation […]

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Metro de Madrid’s Integral Transportation Center / Nexo Arquitectura + Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos + Andrés Perea

March 22, 2023 Andreas Luco 0

METRO DE MADRID HEADQUARTERS & TRANSPORT COMPLEX: OPENING AN OLD INDUSTRIAL SITE TO THE CITY THROUGH AN INSTITUTIONAL CAMPUS. Metro de Madrid Transport Complex (CIT): an institutional campus. The CIT is an initiative by Metro de Madrid to build a Transport Campus on the site of Plaza Castilla (Avenida de Asturias) where the former depots of Line 1 were located. The project has a double objective, on one side the urban regeneration through an existing plot, containing an obsolete Metro facility, and on the other hand the centralization of office spaces and services related to the transport in the Community of Madrid and to the already centennial Metro de Madrid. The new headquarters of Metro de Madrid company are completed (in 2022) as the first component of the Campus (Phase 01). The CCOR (New Technological and Operational Center), a building for the Regional Transport Consortium and the Museum of Transport will be included in a second phase. All the buildings are framed within the sustainability criteria and the almost zero consumption building standards nZEB.

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Metro de Madrid’s Integral Transportation Center / Nexo Arquitectura + Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos + Andrés Perea

March 22, 2023 Andreas Luco 0

METRO DE MADRID HEADQUARTERS & TRANSPORT COMPLEX: OPENING AN OLD INDUSTRIAL SITE TO THE CITY THROUGH AN INSTITUTIONAL CAMPUS. Metro de Madrid Transport Complex (CIT): an institutional campus. The CIT is an initiative by Metro de Madrid to build a Transport Campus on the site of Plaza Castilla (Avenida de Asturias) where the former depots of Line 1 were located. The project has a double objective, on one side the urban regeneration through an existing plot, containing an obsolete Metro facility, and on the other hand the centralization of office spaces and services related to the transport in the Community of Madrid and to the already centennial Metro de Madrid. The new headquarters of Metro de Madrid company are completed (in 2022) as the first component of the Campus (Phase 01). The CCOR (New Technological and Operational Center), a building for the Regional Transport Consortium and the Museum of Transport will be included in a second phase. All the buildings are framed within the sustainability criteria and the almost zero consumption building standards nZEB.

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Atelier Gratia designs angular concrete courtyard house in Taiwan

March 22, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

An angular wall of exposed concrete informed by origami wraps this courtyard home in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, designed by local studio Atelier Gratia to be a “sanctuary” from the surrounding city. Called Star House after the street on which it sits in a dense urban area, the four-storey home has been turned inwards, with a series

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Fire safety expert “extremely concerned” about mass-timber buildings

March 22, 2023 Nat Barker 0

World-leading fire safety expert José Torero has told Dezeen he is “extremely concerned” about mass-timber buildings being constructed around the world. As part of a feature on fire safety, Torero claimed that a lack of consistency in the competency of people designing and constructing mass-timber buildings runs the risk of a “catastrophic” fire event. “My concern

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“To be both bland and overly grandiose seems difficult” says commenter

March 22, 2023 Rupert Bickersteth 0

In this week’s comments update, readers discussed an opinion piece arguing against awarding the Pritzker Architecture Prize to David Chipperfield and continued debating 15-minute cities, following an interview with its creator. Chipperfield’s work is “on the whole bland, unimaginative and overly grandiose” wrote architecture critic Aaron Betsky in an opinion piece for Dezeen, following his Pritzker Architecture Prize

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