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Shigeru Ban’s timber-skeleton Tamedia building left engineers “incredulous”

March 17, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Continuing our Timber Revolution series, we look at the Tamedia Office Building by Shigeru Ban – Switzerland’s first seven-storey mass-timber structure that was barely legal at the time of its completion in 2013. Designed as an extension to the neighbouring headquarters of Swiss publishing group Tamedia, the office takes over a prominent site on the banks

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Glenn Howells Architects to turn Typhoo tea factory into BBC Birmingham HQ

March 17, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

British studio Glenn Howells Architects has unveiled its design for the BBC headquarters in Birmingham, which will be located in the historic Typhoo Factory in the Digbeth area. The shell of the nearly-century-old building will be retained, with Glenn Howells Architects adapting its interior to create a purpose-built workplace. The studio aims to preserve as

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Dom Nad Dúbravkou House / gmb.

March 17, 2023 Elisabeth Kostina 0

The house is situated in the outskirts of Dúbravka in Bratislava, on the border with a forest. By placing it in the central part of the plot, it is directly connected to the entrance from the public road, The placement of the house in the descending terrain opens it directly to the views of the ridge of Little Carpathians and Dubravka below.

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Energy-saving 10K House in Barcelona is a “labyrinth that multiplies perspectives”

March 17, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Spanish studio Takk took cues from snugly stacked Russian dolls for the interior renovation of this Barcelona apartment, which features rooms nestled inside each other to maximise insulation. Called 10K House, the 50-square-metre apartment was renovated by Takk using a material budget of only 10,000 euros with the aim of updating the home to be

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Utilitarian Creativity: Reinventing and Reading the Silo

March 17, 2023 Matthew Maganga 0

Hulking, imposing, and utilitarian, silos are an enduring urban feature, structures typically used for the storage of materials in bulk. They are important physical elements of the agricultural industry, storing grain, fermented feed, and other foodstuffs. These tall, typically cylindrical forms remain the subject of architectural fascination — from being symbols of technological progress for Modernist architectural figures of the early 20th century, to in contemporary times, instigating inventive approaches to adaptive reuse.

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Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts Extension / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

March 17, 2023 Collin Chen 0

The Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts is located at the beginning section of Xi’an’s Datang Everbright City, south of the famed Giant Wild Goose Pagoda. The client asked for a new architectural icon at the East Entry of the museum. In response to the brief, Neri&Hu’s proposal takes the idea of a monolithic urban monument as the guiding concept to not only satisfy the museum’s newly expanded cultural and commercial functions but to also serve as an anchor and a durable symbol of social history for the surrounding urban fabric. Since the vicinity of the site is occupied by existing galleries, the design intervention minimizes the impact of the new building through careful consideration of the architectural massing and detailing.