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AL_A reveals plans for world’s first magnetised fusion power plant

October 22, 2020 India Block 0
AL_A and General Fusion will create the world's first magnetised fusion power plant

Amanda Levete’s firm AL_A is partnering with Canadian energy company General Fusion to design a pioneering power plant that will use nuclear fusion. The prototype plant will act as a demonstration facility for the technology, which uses hydrogen as fuel, with onsite facilities for experts and the general public to visit. “General Fusion wants to

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BIG’s Amager Bakke power station photographed by Hufton + Crow

October 21, 2020 India Block 0
Hufton + Crow photographs of Amager Bakke, the power station and ski slope designed by BIG in Copenhagen

Architecture photography studio Hufton + Crow has captured the chimney of Amager Bakke, a power station covered by a ski slope designed by BIG, rising from the mist. The Danish architecture firm completed the pioneering waste-to-energy power plant for Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2019. Designed in collaboration with SLA Architects, the energy station is topped by

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Spiral staircase twists through Zellige apartment complex by Tectône and Tact Architectes

October 20, 2020 India Block 0
Brick facade of Zellige in Nantes

Zellige is a social housing complex in Nantes, France, designed in a collaboration between French architecture studios Tectône and Tact Architectes. The 100-home housing project has been shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2020 and won the public vote in its category. Tectône and Tact Architectes arranged the apartment complex as three interlocking volumes clad in pale

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Lina Ghotmeh’s Stone Garden apartment block survives Beirut explosion

October 18, 2020 India Block 0
Stone Garden by Lina Ghotmeh in Beirut

Stone Garden is a new apartment block designed by Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh that was completed shortly before much of Beirut was devastated by a huge explosion this summer. Ghotmeh set out to create a building that could symbolise the resilience and long history of the Lebanese capital for her first architecture project in her

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Architecture Brio raises artist’s cabin on stilts in India

October 17, 2020 India Block 0
Exterior of Mumbai Artist Retreat by Architecture Brio in Alibag, India

Mumbai Artist Retreat is a steel and bamboo cabin built by Indian studio Architecture Brio in the coastal town of Alibag that’s raised on stilts to withstand rising sea levels. Built next to the sea in Mumbai Bay, the project is an attempt by Architecture Brio to reconcile the attraction of living by the sea

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Gare Maritime in Brussels turned into a timber shopping centre

October 15, 2020 India Block 0

Neutelings Riedijk Architects has converted a railway station in Brussels into a mixed-use development, which is the largest cross-laminated timber project in Europe. Within the former 20th-century railway shed the architecture studio has created 12 pavilions from 10,000 cubic metres of timber making it Europe’s largest cross-laminated timber (CLT) project according to developer Extensa. The goods railway sheds near Brussels’

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Sim-Plex Design Studio creates a four-bedroom smart home in Hong Kong

October 14, 2020 India Block 0
Smart Zendo by Sim-Plex Design Studio

Voice-activated technology and space-saving furniture helped Sim-Plex Design Studio turn a two-bedroom home in Hong Kong into Smart Zendo, a four-bedroom apartment with hidden storage. Smart Zendo is in Hong Kong’s Coastal Skyline neighbourhood. The project has been shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2020 in the small interior of the year category. Sim-Plex Design Studio converted

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Raulino Silva Arquitecto designs a hotel for cats and dogs in Portugal

October 11, 2020 India Block 0

Canine and Feline Hotel is accommodation for animals in Parada, Portugal, built on an old vineyard by local studio Raulino Silva Arquitecto. Three light white-grey blocks, connected by external corridors, form the dog and cat hotel complex, which has been shortlisted for hospitality building of the year at Dezeen Awards 2020. Pets whose owners are

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Giorgi Khmaladze Architects encloses Tbilisi coffee factory in folded concrete

October 10, 2020 India Block 0
Coffee Production Plant by Giorgi Khmaladze Architects

A coffee factory and offices in Tbilisi, Georgia, has been built in a geometric concrete shell topped by a green roof by local studio Giorgi Khmaladze Architects. Called Coffee Production Plant, the project is located on a strip of land close to the Georgian capital’s airport. The building has been shortlisted for business building of

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Bølgen Bath and Leisure Centre by White Arkitekter perches above a fjord

October 9, 2020 India Block 0
Pool of Bølgen Bath and Leisure Centre by White Arkitekter

Swedish architecture studio White Arkitekter has refurbished a gym and built a new swimming pool building for Bølgen Bath and Leisure Centre in Drøbak, Norway. Bølgen Bath and Leisure Centre now has its own lap pool, diving pool, children’s pool, water slide, therapy pool and baths, as well as a sauna and spa. The name Bølgen

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