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Trending Now: The Top 10 New Kitchens (10 photos)

October 3, 2024 Suzanne Ennis 0

This Trending Now story features the most-saved kitchen photos uploaded to Houzz between June 15 and September 15, 2024.Wood cabinets, warm neutral colors and islands designed for entertaining are features popular in kitchens right now. You’ll find in…

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The Top 10 New Kitchens (10 photos)

October 3, 2024 Suzanne Ennis 0

This Trending Now story features the most-saved kitchen photos uploaded to Houzz between June 15 and September 15, 2024.Wood cabinets, warm neutral colors and islands designed for entertaining are features popular in kitchens right now. You’ll find in…

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Park Hill Phase 2 “contains the history and stories of the people of Sheffield”

October 3, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This video spotlights Phase 2 of the Park Hill estate regeneration in Sheffield by Mikhail Riches, which is one of six projects shortlisted for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize. Park Hill is one of two housing schemes on this year’s shortlist, which is the focus of this short-film series being published by Dezeen in collaboration with

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Álvaro Siza steps orange-hued concrete home into sloped site in Barcelona

October 3, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has completed Colien House, a three-storey concrete home embedded into a hill that overlooks a beach in Barcelona. Made from orange-tinted exposed concrete, Siza designed each floor in the house with an outdoor terrace to extend the internal spaces and provide a connection with the surrounding sloped terrain and nearby sea. “The

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Twentieth Century Society calls for preservation of “just one set of cooling towers”

October 3, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

As the UK closes its last coal-fired power station, conservation group Twentieth Century Society is running a campaign to preserve a set of cooling towers. Hyperboloid thermal towers, more commonly known as cooling towers, were once a common site across the UK, but after largely becoming obsolete they are rapidly being demolished. With the UK’s

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Decommissioned cooling towers turned into theme parks, music venues and extreme sports centres

October 3, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

After the UK’s last coal power station closed last week, the Twentieth Century Society has selected seven projects that demonstrate how the under-threat cooling towers at these “cathedrals of industry” could be reused. Cooling towers were once a major feature of the UK’s energy infrastructure. But from a peak of 240 only 45 remain, and

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