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OODA designs kinked Tirana skyscrapers to evoke “the grace of ballet”

July 17, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio OODA has unveiled its design for two connected skyscrapers, named Bond Tower, that bend away and towards each other in Tirana, Albania. The towers will contain residential, commercial, office and hotel space and its kinked shape was informed by the silhouette of a ballet dancer’s bent knees when performing the plié position. “Characterised

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This week RIBA announced the best buildings in the UK

July 13, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

This week on Dezeen, the Royal Institute of British Architects revealed the 26 winners of its 2024 National Awards, which celebrate the UK’s best new buildings. This year’s winning projects included the redevelopment of Sheffield’s Park Hill Estate by Mikhail Riches, WilkinsonEyre’s restoration of Battersea Power Station in London and a glued-laminated temple complex in Hampshire. The

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RSHP to transform world’s largest cluster of Victorian gas holders into housing

July 11, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

British studio RSHP has received planning consent to build cylindrical housing blocks within Victorian gas holders at the Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks in London. RSHP’s plans to redevelop the gasworks will include refurbishing the Grade II-listed gas holder frames, which date back to the 1870s, and building residential buildings within and around them. The redevelopment, which was approved by

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RIBA names UK’s best buildings of 2024

July 10, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Sheffield’s Park Hill Estate, London’s Battersea Power Station and a timber-framed dining hall at the University of Cambridge have been named among the winners of the Royal Institute of British Architects’ National Awards for 2024. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced 26 winners this year, including projects designed by Níall McLaughlin Architects, Waugh Thistleton Architects

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Cement-based rammed earth “not much better than concrete”

July 10, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Rammed earth is often celebrated as a low-carbon method of constructing buildings, but some experts are beginning to cast doubt on its sustainability credentials. Amy Peacock reports. “People are using rammed earth to sell something that is essentially concrete,” said Rowland Keable, CEO of the charity Earth Building UK and Ireland and founder of Rammed

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Corstorphine & Wright carves scoop into office facade to celebrate neighbouring church

July 3, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Corstorphine & Wright has completed The Scoop, an office extension in London named after the gouge in its white-brick facade. The four-storey office building has been extended sideways and upwards and wrapped in glazed bricks, arranged to draw attention to the circular window of the neighbouring Grade II-listed church. “The church’s circular window

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Webb Yates creates structural stone frame for Royal Academy summer exhibition

June 28, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

A post-tensioned stone frame by engineering firm Webb Yates is among the exhibits in the architecture rooms of this year’s Royal Academy of Arts summer exhibition, curated by London studio Assemble. Webb Yates worked with The Stonemasonry Company to create a frame made from cored cylinders of waste limestone joined together with tensioned steel rods, aiming

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Architecture is “stressful, painful and terrifying” say Grafton Architects founders

June 27, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Grafton Architects is one of the world’s most decorated architecture studios. In this interview, founders Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara explain how they stay motivated after 46 years in practice. Among the Irish studio’s long list of prestigious accolades are the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, the Stirling Prize and the Pritzker Architecture Prize. But the

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Eight dining rooms dominated by dark-wood furniture

June 23, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Our latest lookbook rounds up eight elegant dining rooms where dark-wood furniture, including tables, chairs and shelving, takes centre stage. The dining room furniture pieces featured in this lookbook make an impact with their dark tones, which are often evocative of vintage interiors. Whether made from teak, walnut or rosewood, the rich colours and grains of

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Eight dining rooms dominated by dark-wood furniture

June 23, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Our latest lookbook rounds up eight elegant dining rooms where dark-wood furniture, including tables, chairs and shelving, takes centre stage. The dining room furniture pieces featured in this lookbook make an impact with their dark tones, which are often evocative of vintage interiors. Whether made from teak, walnut or rosewood, the rich colours and grains of

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