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Kiron Cheerla Architecture crowns home in India with lantern-like roof

May 22, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Indian studio Kiron Cheerla Architecture has completed Pott House, a home in Hyderabad topped by a lantern-like roof that draws light and natural ventilation into its interiors. Pott House occupies half of a garden plot characterised by loose black cotton soil, leading Kiron Cheerla Architecture to design a lightweight gridded structure with pile foundations. It

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Peter Morris designs Clerkenwell Design Week pavilion from pink imitation stone

May 22, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architect Peter Morris has unveiled The Possible Impossible Pavilion, which is made of multiple connected arches and constructed from a polystyrene-based imitation stone, at Clerkenwell Design Week. The pink pavilion, located outside the St James Church in Clerkenwell, is a smaller model of Morris’s upcoming project The Cloud House, which is being constructed in Gospel

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P+E House / Voilá!

May 22, 2024 Clara Ott 0

Escaping from the residential constructions that surround it, the idea of ​​housing arises from the rural landscape near the neighborhood. It is inspired by the farms that dot the landscape on the borders between the city and the countryside, where simple buildings of an industrial or agricultural nature appear.

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“Heatherwick naysayers are missing the point” says commenter

May 22, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing the news that Thomas Heatherwick’s Humanise campaign is developing a master’s degree at Loughborough University. The degree aims to challenge conventional architecture education and to foster a generation of architects who will “inspire joyful architecture”, in line with the goals of the movement. “A potentially noble, mostly

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Three designs addressing housing shortages revealed as Davidson Prize finalists

May 22, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

This year’s Davidson Prize shortlist includes three conceptual projects that propose adapting existing buildings with sustainable materials to tackle climate change and housing shortage. The annual prize, which explores the concept of home, was launched in 2021 in memory of architectural visualiser Alan Davidson. Entrants this year were asked to respond to the theme Rethinking Home

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Alarquitectos lines Lisbon apartment with colour-blocked walls and pine wood

May 22, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Portuguese studio Alarquitectos has used walls of pink and blue to brighten São Sebastião 123, an apartment converted from a 20th-century office in Lisbon. Tasked with revitalising the old workspace’s dark and poorly ventilated interiors, Alarquitectos opened it up by removing the existing partitions and adding a courtyard. Along with an existing outdoor space that has

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