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Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ No 33 Park Row nears completion in New York

January 12, 2021 India Block 0
No 33 Park Row by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in New York

No 33 Park Row, the first residential project in New York from British architecture firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, is nearing completion in Downtown Manhattan. Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Rogers and his co-founder Graham Stirk worked on the high-rise building, which will be clad in distinctive copper fins. The 23-storey building will contain 30

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New York announces High Line extension to connect to Penn Station

January 11, 2021 India Block 0
High Line extension plans, photo from original completion in 2014

New York’s government has revealed plans for a 366-metre-long elevated walkway that will connect the High Line in Manhattan’s to the recently extended Penn Station. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Sunday 10 January that he plans to build an extension to the High Line – a disused railway track that was turned into

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Ortraum Architects builds cosy woodland cabin from cross-laminated timber

January 3, 2021 India Block 0
Kynttilä by Ortraum Architects

Kynttilä by Ortraum Architects is a wooden cabin set on Lake Saimaa in Finland, with a glazed, gabled end that has views of the water. Helsinki-based Ortraum Architects built Kynttilä, which translates to “candle”, close to the Russian border near Savonlinna. Kynttilä is made of cross-laminated timber (CLT) and is clad with larch boards on

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Mesura uses local earthenware tiles for Catalan house and swimming pool

January 2, 2021 India Block 0
Casa Ter by Mesura

Tiled steps lead down from the terrace to the pool of Casa Ter, a concrete and stone house designed by architecture studio Mesura in Baix Empordà, Spain. The L-shaped residence is bisected by an outdoor terrace that runs along one side and through the end, creating a covered indoor-outdoor living space. Earth-toned steps lead down

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Matías Zegers Arquitectos builds stone courtyard house in Chilean wine country

December 27, 2020 India Block 0
Casa Tapihue by Matías Zegers Arquitectos

Casa Tapihue by Matías Zegers Arquitectos is a house in a vineyard built from white stone around a courtyard with a firepit in Casablanca, Chile. The residence is named for the valley of Tapihue between two mountains in Chile’s wine-growing region. Matias Zegers Arquitectos designed the family home to give the resident plentiful ways of enjoying

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Jupe travel pods are space-themed shelters for off-grid living

December 26, 2020 India Block 0
Jupe prefabricated camping shelter

American prefabricated shelter company Jupe has launched its travel pod, a flat-pack temporary cabin with birch wood floors and a metal frame that lights up at night. The geometric Jupe pods, named after the planet Jupiter, are intended as a futuristic alternative to traditional glamping tents and yurts. Jupe’s design team, whose credentials include working

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Carbon net-zero design for Delhi Noida International Airport revealed

December 23, 2020 India Block 0
Delhi Noida International Airport

Architecture firms Nordic Office of Architecture, Grimshaw, Haptic and consultants STUP have won the competition to design a carbon-neutral terminal for Delhi Noida International Airport in India. Delhi Noida International Airport will be built in Jewar, 25 miles south of Delhi, by developer Zurich Airport International. The winners, who promised to design “India’s greenest airport”,

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AIA pledges to undo Trump’s “beautiful” architecture order after he leaves

December 22, 2020 India Block 0
The Capitol in Washington DC is an example of neoclassical architecture

The American Institute of Architects says it “unequivocally opposes” new architecture rules signed by outgoing US president Donald Trump and vows to undo them as soon as his successor takes office. Trump signed an executive order yesterday insisting all new federal government buildings must be considered “beautiful” and ideally be designed in the classical or

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Climate change ban on Grimshaw’s Heathrow airport expansion reversed

December 22, 2020 India Block 0
Grimshaw Heathrow

A new runway for London’s Heathrow airport designed by architecture firm Grimshaw could go ahead after a ruling against it was overturned by the UK’s top court. The third runway at Heathrow was blocked in a landmark case earlier this year, when the court of appeal agreed that expanding the airport would jeopardise the country’s

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Trump orders new government buildings must be “beautiful”

December 21, 2020 India Block 0
The White House

President Donald Trump has passed an executive order stating new US government buildings must be “beautiful” just one month before Joe Biden takes office. The order, titled Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture, was passed on Monday 21 December 2020. President-elect Biden will be sworn in on 21 January 2021. Classical architecture to

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