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Tree Island House / Carter Williamson Architects

May 24, 2023 Hana Abdel 0

Tree Island is a family home that rises above its constraints, turning its limitations into its most striking features. Just four and a half meters wide internally, it maximizes space by reaching up high against the neighboring warehouse conversion to the south. A substantial void at the center of the home connects the living, dining, and kitchen spaces, its long, north-facing skylight illuminating every element of the family life cradled gently within.

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Hangzhou Asian Games Baseball and Softball Sports Cultural Center / UAD

May 24, 2023 Collin Chen 0

The intrinsic nature of sports architecture prompts us to rethink how to organize its intrinsic relationship with the city. We wanted to build a sports community driven by the stadium, which fully considers the multiple possibilities in the urban context and integrates them into urban life with a forward-looking perspective. At the same time, the concept of sharing and opening runs through the whole life cycle of the building, making it a link between culture and life, giving sports buildings unique public service value.– Qian Xidong

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Atelier Guy uses mass-timber structure for Canadian wood company facility

May 23, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Atelier Guy Architects has completed an all-timber office and factory for engineering firm SmartMill in Lévis, Quebec. Completed in January 2022, the airy, 2,000-square metre (21,500-square foot) facility reflects the products and services of the client, Quebec wood products manufacturer SmartMill, and has a structure made with glued-laminated (glulam) timber columns and floor

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Dezeen Agenda features BIG’s masterplan for octagonal port city Oxagon

May 23, 2023 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features BIG being named as the masterplanner of the floating city of Oxagon, which is part of Saudi Arabia’s Neom development. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Danish architecture studio BIG has been announced as the masterplanner of the port city of Oxagon at the Zero Gravity

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KOYO BASE Dining Café and Shop / Atelier Write

May 23, 2023 Pilar Caballero 0

KOYO BASE, operated by tableware manufacturer Koyo Toki, is an experienced facility to produce ceramic in Toki City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The project is to convert the former warehouse building into a dining cafe, shop, and other facilities. Toki City is one of the leading ceramic production areas in Japan, developed by its high-quality clay, and accounts for the majority of ceramic production in Japan.

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Ringo Studio positions sex toys in athletic-themed room at Contact Sports

May 23, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

Brooklyn-based Ringo Studio has reimagined the experience of shopping for sex toys, creating a store in New York modelled on a collegiate locker room. The Contact Sports shop on Mercer Street in Soho is designed to feel very different to the typical spaces in which products for sex are purchased. “In a survey conducted before

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Unique House / blaq arquitectos

May 23, 2023 Andreas Luco 0

The project is a complete renovation of a unit in the popular housing complex plan developed in the 1970s in the Colon Oriente sector of Santiago. This plan aimed to integrate and address the housing deficit and reduce segregation due to the explosive demographic growth of that time. This urbanization consists of approximately 200 identical basic construction of 60 square meters of rectangular-shaped houses with gable roofs, built with reinforced masonry and wooden roofs, with poor lighting and a height of only 208 cm.