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Italian architects convert Ettore Sottsass sketch into pavilion for French architecture festival

January 18, 2018 India Block 0

Italian architecture office 2A+P/A has bought an Ettore Sottsass painting to life to create a black barrel-roofed pavilion for an architecture festival in Orléans, France. The Rome-based architects took the axonometric watercolour painting of an arched building with irregular windows made by Sottsass and used it as a basis for their structure. Sottsass, the renowned Italian

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Micro apartments in concrete pipes designed to ease Hong Kong’s housing crisis

January 16, 2018 India Block 0

Hong Kong studio James Law Cybertecture has developed a prototype for low-cost, stackable micro homes in concrete pipes, which could slot into gaps between city buildings. Called OPod Tube Housing, the project sees 2.5-metre-wide concrete water pipes transformed into 9.29-square-metre homes, with doors that can be unlocked using smartphones. Studio founder James Law envisions these tubular structures being

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Stefano Boeri designs first tree-covered social-housing project

January 16, 2018 India Block 0

Italian architect Stefano Boeri is bringing his vertical forest model to a social-housing project in Eindhoven, to show how green homes can be provided at affordable rents. Trudo Vertical Forest is a proposal for a 19-storey building boasting the same tree-covered balconies as the celebrated Bosco Verticale towers in Milan, completed by Stefano Boeri Architetti back in 2014, and

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Australian architect Cameron Lyon passes away

January 15, 2018 India Block 0

Cameron Lyon, a director of influential Australian firm Lyons and a pioneer of “people-friendly courthouses”, has died. Lyon passed away on 13 January 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. He leaves behind a legacy of projects that include the Perth County Court, the Parramatta Trial Court in Sydney and the Broadmeadows Children’s Court. The dean and staff of the University of Melbourne

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Wooden staircase twists through centre of concrete and brick house in Mexico City

January 14, 2018 India Block 0

An ash staircase lined with a bookcase twists around an atrium in this family home in Mexico City by Tapia McMahon, which has been made from concrete and reclaimed brick. Called Cuernavaca House, the project was recently longlisted for the 2018 RIBA International Prize, which recognises new buildings around the world that exemplify the “meaningful impact” of good

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Architectural Association redundancies go ahead despite high-profile protests

January 12, 2018 India Block 0

Redundancies in the Architectural Association’s publications and exhibitions departments have gone ahead, despite protests from luminaries such as David Adjaye and Richard Rogers. Ten of the sixteen staff members whose roles had been up for redundancy have left the architecture school, as reported in the Architects’ Journal. Dezeen understands that Tom Weaver resigned from his post as editor

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Architectural Association redundancies go ahead despite high-profile protests

January 12, 2018 India Block 0

Redundancies in the Architectural Association’s publications and exhibitions departments have gone ahead, despite protests from luminaries such as David Adjaye and Richard Rogers. Ten of the sixteen staff members whose roles had been up for redundancy have left the architecture school, as reported in the Architects’ Journal. Dezeen understands that Tom Weaver resigned from his post as editor

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Architectural Association redundancies go ahead despite high-profile protests

January 12, 2018 India Block 0

Redundancies in the Architectural Association’s publications and exhibitions departments have gone ahead, despite protests from luminaries such as David Adjaye and Richard Rogers. Ten of the sixteen staff members whose roles had been up for redundancy have left the architecture school, as reported in the Architects’ Journal. Dezeen understands that Tom Weaver resigned from his post as editor

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CF Møller’s hybrid flood defences will create new nature park in Denmark

January 12, 2018 India Block 0

A flood defence system devised by CF Møller in central Denmark will combine urban planning, climate change adaption and nature conservation. Described by the Scandinavian architecture firm as an “architectural multi-tool”, the Storkeengen is designed to protect the nearby town of Randers from floods and transform the nearby fields into a wetland nature park. A raised boardwalk

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CF Møller’s hybrid flood defences will create new nature park in Denmark

January 12, 2018 India Block 0

A flood defence system devised by CF Møller in central Denmark will combine urban planning, climate change adaption and nature conservation. Described by the Scandinavian architecture firm as an “architectural multi-tool”, the Storkeengen is designed to protect the nearby town of Randers from floods and transform the nearby fields into a wetland nature park. A raised boardwalk

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