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Productora and Esrawe Studio outfit Mexico hotel with planes of green tile

October 1, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local architecture studios Productora and Esrawe Studio have outfitted a Mexico hotel with planes of green tile suspended from the lobby ceiling. Located on a hilly site in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, the Albor Hotel is part of Hilton’s Tapestry Collection. Completed in 2022, the 6,038 square metre project contains a lobby, restaurant, bar,

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KOKO Architecture + Design creates interactive children’s space for the Met

September 29, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local studio KOKO Architecture + Design has created a permanent interactive children’s play space at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Located in the museum’s 81st Street Studio, which was formally a library, the space contains a variety of multi-sensory analogue and digital play stations for children aged three to 11 in order

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SOM creates spiral of algae bricks for Chicago Architecture Biennial installation

September 27, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

In collaboration with Colorado-based Prometheus Materials, architecture studio SOM has created a spiral installation made of bio-bricks for the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial. The installation was made using the Bio-Block building material developed by Colorado-based material company Prometheus Materials, a masonry block created from micro-algae and aggregate that offers an alternative to standard concrete. “Extending

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New York City incentivises mass-timber construction with assistance program

September 26, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Nonprofit New York City Economic Development Corporation has launched New York City Mass Timber Studio, an assistance program for the development of mass-timber construction within New York City. The program aims to raise awareness of the benefits of mass-timber construction, connect building industry professionals interested in the technique and identify development opportunities throughout the city.

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KPMB tops horticultural centre with roof informed by Fibonacci spirals

September 21, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

A spiralling cable-net roof modelled in the image of a Fibonacci sequence tops a new public greenhouse designed by Canadian studio KPMB Architects in Winnipeg. Located in Assiniboine Park just outside downtown Winnipeg, the Leaf is a 35-acre (14-hectare) complex that includes a central greenhouse building and 30 acres (12-hectares) of public gardens and greenspace.

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PAU to expand IM Pei’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with monumental wedge

September 13, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

New York-based studio Practice for Architecture and Urbanism has released designs for a wedge-shaped expansion of IM Pei’s Rock and Rock Hall of Fame museum in Cleveland. The 50,000-square-foot (4,645-square-metre) extension will be integrated directly into the museum’s original glass pyramid and will contain a new entry lobby, exhibition spaces, offices, an education centre and

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Nelson Byrd Woltz covers six-lane highway with land bridge in Houston

September 12, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

US studio Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects has covered a six-lane highway with a sprawling land bridge and park in Houston that symbolises “the triumph of green over grey”. Called the Land Bridge and Prairie, the project is part of a ten-year master plan launched in 2015 by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects to overhaul

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Ludwig Godefroy prioritises garden for “timeless” family home in Mexico

September 11, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Mexico-based architect Ludwig Godefroy has completed the renovation of a”simple” house and studio in Mexico for himself and his family that is integrated with an adjacent garden. Godefroy and his partner renovated a former residence, focusing on the home’s orientation towards the site’s pre-existing greenspace. “Casa SanJe is a very simple project,” said Godefroy. “The

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Renzo Piano to design cultural centre for South Florida

September 6, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Italian architect Renzo Piano has been selected to design an expansive arts and culture centre for Boca Raton, Florida. To be located in downtown Boca Raton, The Center for Arts and Innovation (The Center) will serve as a community space and welcome centre and contain performance and event spaces, an innovation incubator lab for “entrepreneurial

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Chicago exhibition by Norman Kelley includes Frank Lloyd Wright building fragments

September 5, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Fragments of buildings by American architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan have been displayed at a new exhibition in Chicago by US design studio Norman Kelley A variety of fragments from iconic buildings are on display at the Art Institute of Chicago as part of a permanent exhibition called Architectural Fragments from Chicago.

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