Month: July 2023

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Potocka Apartments / POLE Architekci

July 9, 2023 Hadir Al Koshta 0

The structure is situated on a relatively small rectangular building plot located on Potocka Street in Warsaw’s Żoliborz district. An important factor that impacted the building’s form was the existing surroundings. The plot contained two free-standing buildings designated for demolition due to their poor technical condition. Following a historical survey arranged with the relevant Conservation officer, the two existing apartment buildings were demolished. The block on which the parcel is located is a holdover from the old urban and geodesic layout on which the Marymont-Potok housing estate was built. Compared to the high-rise Communist-era housing estate buildings and the large Marymont sports and recreation complex across Potocka Street, the parcel appears rather small.

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Tree-like Columns Show The Craftsmanship Inside This Riverside Pavilion

July 9, 2023 Erin 0

Design practice firm JK-AR has shared photos of a riverside pavilion in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea, which they recently completed that aims to reinvent East Asian timber architecture. Before the city was urbanized, the riverside was surrounded by bamboo forests. Inspired by this lost scene and memory of the city, the design of the ‘The Pavilion […]

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Songyi Theater / Beijing Guanzhuan Landscape Planning and Design Institution

July 9, 2023 Andreas Luco 0

In the long river of literature and art, pine, as a common Chinese cultural image, frequently appears in poetry and painting works. Bai Juyi’s poem ” Pine in Court” does not write about pine trees in nature, but rather about ordinary pine trees in a courtyard. The planting method seems chaotic and “like wild things,” but in reality, there is a hidden poetic meaning in the chaos. A merely demolished pine forest. There is a hill in west Rizhao, my hometown. It was originally a barren mountain, but my friend Mr. Yan Zanning spent 20 years changing it to a tea garden and naming it “Cloud Passing Hill”. Mr. Yan invited me to do some new things for this garden. For the first time strolling in the garden, one suddenly enters a pine forest, where the pine trees are like those in Bai Juyi’s “Ting Song”, messy and lively. Although planted by humans, they look like wild animals.

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Atelier-r refreshes neo-gothic church with angular black extension

July 9, 2023 Katie Last 0

Czech studio Atelier-r has refreshed the Red Church in Olomouc, the Czech Republic, adding an angular matte-black extension and public spaces informed by neo-gothic design. The renovated church, along with the added black volume, holds an information centre and cafe as well as an events venue designed to host small concerts and exhibitions. Built in

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Eight interiors that strike a balance between rustic and contemporary

July 9, 2023 James Parkes 0

For our latest lookbook, Dezeen has selected eight examples of rustic yet contemporary interiors, including but not limited to an apartment in Sao Paulo and a Tuscan boutique hotel. Rustic interiors have a strong focus on natural and aged materials as well as traditional wooden or stone furnishings. These material choices are often used to

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Vrå Children and Culture Center / JAJA Architects

July 9, 2023 Andreas Luco 0

The Vrå Children and Culture Centre goes beyond a conventional school building. It is a place that challenges the boundaries between classroom academics, extracurricular activities, and community life. Evolving the isolated nature of many traditional schools, Vrå is just as much a community space for the entire town, as it is for the students. Architecturally, by blending the built environment with the surrounding landscape, the school challenges the relationship between constructed and natural.