Month: May 2024

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Almost Perfect Days: Hirayama and Moriyama, a Double Vision of Architecture

May 31, 2024 Luca Galofaro 0

As an architect I find it truly interesting to read cities and architecture through films, and this is why I went to see the latest film by one of my favourite directors Wim Wenders: Perfect Days. In Wenders’ cinema, his gaze over the city is always the protagonist. He possesses the remarkable ability to make the space of the photographic image the central focus of his filmmaking. It is not only the story that is important to him, but the time and space in which the story takes shape almost by chance.

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Aeschi School / Haller Gut Architects

May 31, 2024 Valeria Silva 0

Our task was to create additional classrooms and group rooms for the school complex as well as rooms for the municipal administration. The existing complex consisted of 4 detached buildings from different decades. The small new building closes the gap between the existing school building and the workyard with classrooms on the upper floor.

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White Is Good Shop in Weipo / designRESERVE

May 30, 2024 韩双羽 - HAN Shuangyu 0

The project site is located in the village of Weipo, a suburb of Luoyang, the ancient capital city of multiple dynasties in Chinese history. Surrounded by traditional courtyards and kiln houses preserved as housing museum, the area near old marketplace is expected to see revived community life, boosted by newly constructed boutique shops, cultural venues and recreational facilities.

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Dezeen Agenda features the restoration of Grand Palais in Paris

May 30, 2024 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the completion of the first phase the Grand Palais renovation. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. French studio Chatillon Architectes restored the Grand Palais, ahead of this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris. Fencing and taekwondo will be held in the newly renovated atrium, which features extensive glasswork and

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SO-IL completes perforated-metal facade of residential tower in Brooklyn

May 30, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local architecture studio SO-IL has completed the exteriors of a residential building in Brooklyn with a wavy, perforated metal facade. Located in Dumbo, Nine Chapel will host 27 one to four-bedroom apartments across its various volumes, which are stacked together and reach 14 storeys high at the tallest point. Developed by Tankhouse, the building consists

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Canadian court declares Krista Kim copyright owner of “first NFT digital house in the world”

May 30, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The Federal Court of Canada has declared that Krista Kim is the “sole author” of Mars House, after the artist became embroiled in a copyright dispute over the NFT-backed digital home. Kim sought a declaration of copyright ownership for Mars House in response to a dispute over the intellectual property of the digital home between

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Dragon-fly House / Barbara Berson + Horacio Sardin

May 30, 2024 Valeria Silva 0

The house designed and built on an island in the Paraná River delta is immersed in a forest of willows. Conceived as a dragonfly subtly perched on the land with stilts that, like delicate legs, elevate the house to protect it from the frequent rises in water levels. The house spreads its wings from glazed facades that project outward.