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Amos and Amos takes cues from Scandinavian design for AKQA’s new Gothenburg studio

October 16, 2017 India Block 0

London practice Amos and Amos has created a collaborative workspace in a former Gothenburg shipbuilding warehouse for the digital agency AKQA that references traditional Swedish architecture. The vertical wooden planks were inspired by the traditional cladding on Gothenburg’s buildings, while the blackened wood was inspired by the cabins that stud Sweden’s archipelagos. “We wanted to have something that

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Snøhetta makes every interior surface a canvas in new £100-million arts school in Bergen

October 13, 2017 India Block 0

Students at this new Snøhetta-designed Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design in Bergen are invited to use the inner walls as a canvas for their work. The Norwegian architecture firm won a competition to design the faculty in 2005 and completed it earlier this year. The students have just moved in to their new space in

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Pinecone-shaped treehouse in the Dolomites allows visitors to sleep under the stars

October 10, 2017 India Block 0

A circular skylight in the tip of this pinecone-shaped treehouse by architect Claudio Beltrame in the Italian Alps allows the occupant to gaze up into the starry sky at night. The structure located in the town of Ugovizza in the Dolomites is available as a holiday let. Italian architect Claudio Beltrame created the treehouse in the shape of a

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Pinecone-shaped treehouse in the Dolomites allows visitors to sleep under the stars

October 10, 2017 India Block 0

A circular skylight in the tip of this pinecone-shaped treehouse by architect Claudio Beltrame in the Italian Alps allows the occupant to gaze up into the starry sky at night. The structure located in the town of Ugovizza in the Dolomites is available as a holiday let. Italian architect Claudio Beltrame created the treehouse in the shape of a

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Alvar Aalto library renovation wins Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2017

October 9, 2017 India Block 0

Interior architecture practice JKMM has won Finland’s most important architecture prize for its renovation of the Aalto University campus library in Otaniemi. JKMM wins the Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2017 for its overhaul of the Harald Herlin Learning Centre, which was originally designed by the Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto, along with several other buildings on the campus, and

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Slatted shades keep house by the Sea of Galilee cool during hot summer days

October 8, 2017 India Block 0

Perched on the edge of a village by the Sea of Galilee in Israel, this house by Golany Architects features numerous balconies that can be shaded by rolling wooden screens. Set on the slopes of the Jordan Rift Valley, Golany Architects wanted to make the most of the potential views out over the Sea of Galilee

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David Chipperfield to restore historic palace on Venice’s Piazza San Marco

October 6, 2017 India Block 0

British architect David Chipperfield is to carry out major restoration works on the Procuratie Vecchie on Venice’s Piazza San Marco, which will see the palace opened to the public for the first time in 500 years. Due to be completed in 2020, the project will be a multi-million pound undertaking for its owners, the Italian insurance company the

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David Chipperfield to restore historic palace on Venice’s Piazza San Marco

October 6, 2017 India Block 0

British architect David Chipperfield is to carry out major restoration works on the Procuratie Vecchie on Venice’s Piazza San Marco, which will see the palace opened to the public for the first time in 500 years. Due to be completed in 2020, the project will be a multi-million pound undertaking for its owners, the Italian insurance company the

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Foster + Partner’s Bloomberg headquarters is the “world’s most sustainable office”

October 4, 2017 India Block 0

The first photos have been released of Norman Forster’s newly completed European headquarters for Bloomberg in London, which claims to be the world’s most sustainable office building. British firm Foster + Partners designed the building for the New York-based FinTech and data company to score highly against the BREEAM environmental assessment method. The building, which features a facade covered

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Winning design chosen for Norwegian government headquarters following 2011 terrorist attack

October 3, 2017 India Block 0

Haptic and Nordic Office of Architecture have won the competition to redesign the Norwegian government headquarters after it was damaged during a fatal terrorist attack six years ago. The winning proposal called Adapt was developed by Nordic Office of Architecture and Haptic under the same Team Urbis. The architects are working with engineering firm Ramboll, landscape studios SLA and Bjørbekk & Lindheim, and consultants Asplan Viak, COWI, Aas-Jacobsen, Per Rasmussen,

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