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Vo Trong Nghia Architects builds bamboo dome over lakeside restaurant

December 20, 2020 India Block 0
Vedana Restaurant by Vo Trong Nghia Architects

Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has created a 16-metre-high bamboo dome for Vedana Restaurant, which is built over an artificial lake facing the mountains in Ninh Binh Province. Vedana Restaurant is the centrepiece of the Vedana Resort – a holiday complex nestled in Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam’s largest nature reserve. At 18 metres

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Outdoor bathing and a jungle yoga platform feature in Villa Pelícanos by Main Office

December 19, 2020 India Block 0
Villa Pelícanos by Main Office

Architecture studio Main Office has renovated a 1980s seaside holiday village with traditional thatch roofs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Sayulita, Mexico. Called Villa Pelícanos, the 20-guest holiday complex sits on a sloping site where the tropical forest meets the Mexican west coast and has access to a private beach. Main Office, a practice based

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Aldana Sanchez Architects builds house topped by internet cafe in rural Mexico

December 18, 2020 India Block 0
Hñähñu Multimedia Center by Aldana Sanchez Architects

Hñähñu Multimedia Center by Aldana Sanchez Architects is a house in Mexico’s Mezquital Valley that has a top-floor community internet cafe. The home and community centre is located in the Ex Hacienda Ocotzá neighbourhood of a settlement called Julian Villagran. The nearest city, Ixmiquilpan, is 11 miles away. Catalonian-style brick arches with glazed ends create

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Dezeen’s top 10 architecture trends of 2020

December 18, 2020 India Block 0

Continuing our review of 2020, here are 10 of the most interesting architecture trends, from escapist cabins to Thomas Heatherwick’s green thumb and, of course, architects’ responses to the coronavirus pandemic. Prefabricated cabins Factory-made homes are a hot topic in discussions of addressing global housing shortages, but 2020 was the year that architects explored their

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The Smile by BIG in New York has a chequerboard facade and rooftop pool

December 16, 2020 India Block 0

The Smile by architecture firm BIG is a mixed-use development in New York’s Harlem neighbourhood with a stainless-steel facade designed to recall the “textured surface of the moon”. Named for its curved frontage, The Smile at East 126th Street contains a nursing school at ground level and 223 residential apartments above. A chequerboard facade alternates

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AIA bans design of execution facilities and solitary confinement spaces

December 15, 2020 India Block 0
AIA bans design of execution facilities and solitary confinement spaces

The American Institute of Architects has banned members from designing spaces for the US justice system used for execution, torture or confinement of imprisoned people, as part of a commitment to “dismantle racial injustice”. The new code of ethics forbids AIA members from designing any places for torture or execution. The ban also includes spaces

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Majamaja is an off-grid seaside cabin near Helsinki

December 15, 2020 India Block 0
Majamaja off-grid cabin by Pekka Littow

Architect Pekka Littow has used Finnish spruce and birch plywood for off-grid holiday home Majamaja, which is perched on a rocky outcrop by the sea just outside of Helsinki. Majamaja will eventually be a cluster of five cabins, one of which has already been completed, and a sauna that will be available for eco-friendly overnight stays.

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Majamaja is an off-grid seaside cabin near Helsinki

December 15, 2020 India Block 0
Majamaja off-grid cabin by Pekka Littow

Architect Pekka Littow has used Finnish spruce and birch plywood for off-grid holiday home Majamaja, which is perched on a rocky outcrop by the sea just outside of Helsinki. Majamaja will eventually be a cluster of five cabins, one of which has already been completed, and a sauna that will be available for eco-friendly overnight stays.

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David Adjaye, Forensic Architecture and Daniel Libeskind donate works to support black women in architecture school

December 14, 2020 India Block 0
ARCH auction for black women in architecture school

David Adjaye’s gold sketch of multifaith complex The Abrahamic Family House and Mark Foster Gage’s satirical plan for a Trump presidential library are among works for sale in an auction fundraising to support black women in architecture school. Organised by architectural initiative ARCH, the auction launches today and will run for one week to raise

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AOE covers exhibition centre in China with white perforated metal

December 6, 2020 India Block 0
Shuifa Geographic Information Industrial Park Exhibition Center by AOE in China

Chinese architecture studio AOE has wrapped a conference centre near Jinan, China, in a layer of perforated metal screens. The Shuifa Geographic Information Industrial Park Exhibition Center sits 12 miles outside of the city of Jinan in east China. An inner wall of glass is screened by slanting walls of translucent mesh, which appear solid from

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