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Peter Veenstra to build dome of plants at Design Indaba venue in Cape Town

March 5, 2018 India Block 0

Dutch landscape architect Peter Veenstra has revealed plans to build a plant-covered bamboo sphere in Cape Town’s Luthuli Plaza, providing an extra venue for next year’s Design Indaba conference. Veenstra, co-founder of Rotterdam-based LOLA Landscape Architects, was invited by Design Indaba founder Ravi Naidoo to develop a proposal to transform the elevated plaza, which connects the Artscape Theatre Centre – where

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Sou Fujimoto unveils designs for Swiss university centre made of stacked cubes

March 5, 2018 India Block 0

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has designed a learning centre for the University of St Gallen in Switzerland, which will comprise a stack of glass cubes held within white frames. The Tokyo and Paris-based studio led by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto won a contest to design the HSG Learning Center at the University of St Gallen with its proposal called Open Grid

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Sou Fujimoto unveils designs for Swiss university centre made of stacked cubes

March 5, 2018 India Block 0

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has designed a learning centre for the University of St Gallen in Switzerland, which will comprise a stack of glass cubes held within white frames. The Tokyo and Paris-based studio led by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto won a contest to design the HSG Learning Center at the University of St Gallen with its proposal called Open Grid

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Marc Goodwin photographs 14 architecture studios in Barcelona

March 2, 2018 India Block 0

Photographer Marc Goodwin visited Barcelona for the the next instalment of his series on architects’ offices around the world, shooting among others the workspace created inside a former cement factory by Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill. Goodwin, who heads up architectural photography studio Archmospheres, shot 14 workspaces around the city, including the offices of Ricardo Bofill, Office of Architecture

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Fern tree grows through the roof of bright white “contemporary tropical” house on Java island

March 2, 2018 India Block 0

The trunk of a Brazilian firetree pierces the white zinc-coated roof of this house by Aaksen Responsible Aarchitecture in Bandung, Indonesia. Set at the end of a narrow alleyway in a densely built urban area, the local architecture studio built the compact two-storey residence for a Muslim family of four on the western part of the

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Fern tree grows through the roof of bright white “contemporary tropical” house on Java island

March 2, 2018 India Block 0

The trunk of a Brazilian firetree pierces the white zinc-coated roof of this house by Aaksen Responsible Aarchitecture in Bandung, Indonesia. Set at the end of a narrow alleyway in a densely built urban area, the local architecture studio built the compact two-storey residence for a Muslim family of four on the western part of the

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Pink furry walls and vibrant yellow surfaces brighten Russian clothing store

March 1, 2018 India Block 0

Pink furry changing rooms and bright yellow walls feature in Eduard Eremchuk’s design for a concept shop in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, which references the work of artist James Turrell and fashion designer Alexander McQueen. The Russian architect specified yellow paint for the entryway of the Like Shop’s showroom, which sells “colourful and crazy clothes, mostly for young

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Pink furry walls and vibrant yellow surfaces brighten Russian clothing store

March 1, 2018 India Block 0

Pink furry changing rooms and bright yellow walls feature in Eduard Eremchuk’s design for a concept shop in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, which references the work of artist James Turrell and fashion designer Alexander McQueen. The Russian architect specified yellow paint for the entryway of the Like Shop’s showroom, which sells “colourful and crazy clothes, mostly for young

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Collapse of Artifice and Black Dog Publishing “a terrible blow to architectural culture”

February 28, 2018 India Block 0

Independent London architecture publisher Artifice and sister company Black Dog Publishing have become insolvent, leaving architects scrambling to rescue copies of their books and retrieve digital files. Studios affected include Design Engine, Morris Adjmi, and Lynch Architects – whose founder told Dezeen that a thousand copies of their book were lost “in a shed somewhere”.

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Sliding doors and built-in furniture save space inside skinny house by Ana Rocha Architecture

February 27, 2018 India Block 0

At just four metres wide Ana Rocha Architecture’s wooden skinny house in Almere Poort, the Netherlands, has a frame that took only two days to build and occupies less space than a double parking slot. With a footprint of 16 square metres the micro home designed by Dutch architect Ana Rocha and her studio offers 50 square metres

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