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Moreau Kusunoki and Frida Escobedo set to renovate Centre Pompidou renovation

June 21, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

French studio Moreau Kusunoki Architectes and Mexican practice Frida Escobedo Studio have revealed their plans for a major overhaul of the high-tech Centre Pompidou in Paris. According to the studios, the renovation aims to improve movement and accessibility around the museum, which was designed by British architect Richard Rogers and Italian architect Renzo Piano and opened

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Ye strips Tadao Ando beach house in Malibu back to its structure

June 19, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Musician Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has removed the windows and gutted the interior of a concrete home in Malibu, California, designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Images of the home’s bare structure have been widely shared following a New Yorker article where contractor Tony Saxon detailed how the house was gutted at the

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“Hideous” redevelopment in Liverpool wins Carbuncle Cup 2024 for UK’s worst building

June 19, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

The redevelopment of Lime Street in Liverpool by British studio Broadway Malyan has been named the country’s worst new building in this year’s Carbuncle Cup. Organised by UK magazine The Fence, judges chose the Lime Street redevelopment as the “very worst new building in Britain”, since the competition was last run in 2018. “From the

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MAD tops “clover-like” conference centre in Beijing with undulating green roof

June 14, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Global architecture studio MAD has unveiled ZGC International Innovation Center in Beijing, which features a curving green roof with rippled overhangs. Located in the Haidian district, the 65,000-square-metre conference centre has an organic shape with rounded, petal-like corners that extend from the building envelope to shade outdoor public spaces. “The centre’s biomorphic, clover-like form features

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MAD tops “clover-like” conference centre in Beijing with undulating green roof

June 14, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Global architecture studio MAD has unveiled ZGC International Innovation Center in Beijing, which features a curving green roof with rippled overhangs. Located in the Haidian district, the 65,000-square-metre conference centre has an organic shape with rounded, petal-like corners that extend from the building envelope to shade outdoor public spaces. “The centre’s biomorphic, clover-like form features

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Fala Atelier adds geometric “metal masks” to exterior of Porto apartment

June 13, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Graphic metal facades and curving glass-block walls characterise this apartment in Porto, which was converted from a ground-floor shop by local architecture studio Fala Atelier. Located in a 1970s housing block, the narrow commercial space has been transformed into a light-filled home named 097 Waves of Glass and Clouds of Metal. “Our project tried to blur

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Ten Serpentine Pavilion designs from the last decade

June 12, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Following the opening of this year’s Serpentine Pavilion designed by architect Minsuk Cho, we take a look back at the past 10 editions of the annual architecture commission in London. Each year, the Serpentine Gallery commissions a leading architect to design a temporary pavilion in Kensington Gardens. The first Serpentine Pavilion was a triangular marquee structure

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Foster + Partners and NEON create colourful pavilions from “everyday” building materials

June 11, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

British studios Foster + Partners and NEON have created pavilions made from building materials, including ducting and recycled scaffolding, for this year’s London Festival of Architecture. Located on plazas outside office buildings developed by Brookfield Properties, the two pavilions were designed as colourful gathering spaces that aim to encourage discussions around recycling. “Designed as landmarks,

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Research reveals carbon cost of Israel-Gaza war

June 10, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Researchers have estimated that rebuilding the damage caused in the first four months of the Israel-Gaza war will generate up to 60 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent. A paper titled A Multitemporal Snapshot of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Israel-Gaza Conflict was created by researchers at Lancaster University, Queen Mary University of London, University of Energy

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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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