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Winning design for Taiwan art museum features sloped green roofs

March 22, 2018 India Block 0

Joe Shih Architects and Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop have won the international competition to design an art museum in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Called “The Hill”, the winning design for the Taoyuan Museum of Art features a pair of buildings with inclined green roofs on either side of a raised railway. The back-to-back buildings form a “symbolical gate and hub”

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Herzog & de Meuron reveals plans for “horizontal skyscrapers” in Moscow

March 21, 2018 India Block 0

Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled plans for two apartments blocks built on stilts, as part of its redevelopment of an abandoned brewery on the banks of the Moscow River. The Swiss architects plans to restore the Badaevskiy Brewery in the centre of the Russian capital will include building two residential blocks raised 35 metres above the ground. Dubbed

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Eight buildings proposed for BIG’s EuropaCity development near Paris

March 21, 2018 India Block 0

Here’s a look at eight of the buildings that will make up the BIG-masterplanned EuropaCity district, set to be built on the outskirts of Paris. UNStudio, Atelier COS and Hérault Arnod Architectes are among the European firms that have been selected to design buildings for the sprawling new leisure district, which is planned for an 80-hectare site near Charles de

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Steven Holl to build French museum with fortress-inspired concrete towers

March 20, 2018 India Block 0

White concrete towers are reflected in a series of pools in Steven Holl’s competition winning design for the Le Musée des Collectionneurs in Angers, France. The New York-based architecture firm is designing the museum and a hotel in the centre of the town in western France for property developers Compagine de Phalsbourg. The museum is composed of imposing masses

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Rabih Geha Architects recreates shipping container aesthetic in Beirut nightclub

March 16, 2018 India Block 0

Rabih Geha Architects has used layers of perforated steel to divide up the interior of a nightclub on the waterfront of Beirut, Lebanon. The local architecture studio collaborated with Lebanese entertainment company Add-Mind Group to design  a bar and club in downtown Beirut named 2 WEEKS. Rabih Geha Architects  had only two months to turn the location,

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Rabih Geha Architects recreates shipping container aesthetic in Beirut nightclub

March 16, 2018 India Block 0

Rabih Geha Architects has used layers of perforated steel to divide up the interior of a nightclub on the waterfront of Beirut, Lebanon. The local architecture studio collaborated with Lebanese entertainment company Add-Mind Group to design  a bar and club in downtown Beirut named 2 WEEKS. Rabih Geha Architects  had only two months to turn the location,

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Rabih Geha Architects recreates shipping container aesthetic in Beirut nightclub

March 16, 2018 India Block 0

Rabih Geha Architects has used layers of perforated steel to divide up the interior of a nightclub on the waterfront of Beirut, Lebanon. The local architecture studio collaborated with Lebanese entertainment company Add-Mind Group to design  a bar and club in downtown Beirut named 2 WEEKS. Rabih Geha Architects  had only two months to turn the location,

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India’s Trump Towers feature best interiors Donald Trump Jr “has ever seen”

March 15, 2018 India Block 0

President Donald Trump’s son has praised the work of Matteo Nunziati, who used Italian marble to decorate the newly opened Trump Towers in Pune, India. The Milan-based interior designer decorated every room in the pair of 26-storey residential towers, using only furnishings from Italian brands. To mark the completion of the project, Donald Trump Jr attended the opening

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India’s Trump Towers feature best interiors Donald Trump Jr “has ever seen”

March 15, 2018 India Block 0

President Donald Trump’s son has praised the work of Matteo Nunziati, who used Italian marble to decorate the newly opened Trump Towers in Pune, India. The Milan-based interior designer decorated every room in the pair of 26-storey residential towers, using only furnishings from Italian brands. To mark the completion of the project, Donald Trump Jr attended the opening

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Weathering steel panels create rusty walls for family home in Oslo’s old town

March 15, 2018 India Block 0

Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects has used a palette of Corten steel, concrete and plywood to create this low-maintenance family home in Oslo, Norway. The local architecture firm designed Rust House for a plot in Oslo’s Gamlebyen area, the old town in the eastern part of the inner city that dates back to medieval times. After a period of decline in

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