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Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira Architects place concrete art pavilion atop hill in South Korea

July 1, 2021 James Parkes 0

the building has a concrete construction

Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira Architects have built a monolithic concrete art pavilion that will be used to display sculptures by Siza in an art park in South Korea. The pavilion was informed by another Siza building, a gallery that was designed to display two Pablo Piccasso pieces, Guernica and Pregnant Woman, for the 1992

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Uncommon Found physically showcases 19 designers found on Instagram

June 28, 2021 James Parkes 0

The Radford Gallery’s debut exhibition brings together a series of work on fringes of design, art and craft that the curator found on Instagram. Titled Uncommon Found, the exhibition physically showcases work by contemporary makers, artists and designers who usually display their work on Instagram. “The key part of this exhibition for me had always been

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Ten L-shaped kitchens with extensive countertop space

June 26, 2021 James Parkes 0

L-shaped kitchen beneath a rounded ceiling

The latest lookbook in our series exploring kitchen layouts highlights 10 examples from Dezeen’s archive that have two connected countertops that form an L-shaped layout. L-shaped kitchens are organised in the shape of the letter L usually with a long row of cabinetry adjoined to a slightly smaller projecting section. However, in some instances, the countertops can be

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Foster + Partners tops PGA Tour HQ with “generous overhanging roof”

June 24, 2021 James Parkes 0

The PGA Tour headquarters is surrounded by a lake

British studio Foster + Partners has completed an office building for the PGA Tour in Florida, which has been topped with an oversized roof. The headquarters for the PGA Tour was built near natural wetlands alongside the Ponte Vedra Sawgrass golf course, which hosts The Players Championship annually. The 187,000 square-foot (17,373 square metres) building for PGA Tour,

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FOG Architecture creates “modern cave” for ToSummer’s Beijing store

June 23, 2021 James Parkes 0

Chinese studio FOG Architecture has added curved walls, mirrored surfaces and faux stone to the interiors of aromatherapy brand ToSummer’s flagship store in Beijing. Located in Beijing’s Taikoo Li Sanlitun shopping village, FOG Architecture designed the 170-square-metre ToSummer store to recall the atmosphere of a cave. “The brand’s concrete requirement for this space design was a modern

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Limdim House Studio calms Vietnam apartment with curved walls and arched niches

June 16, 2021 James Parkes 0

Architecture firm Limdim House Studio has renovated the Brown Box apartment in Vietnam adding curving walls, tiered cornices and terrazzo surfaces that aim to create a “calm” and “gentle” space. Limdim House Studio reorganised the previously “commercial” two-bedroom apartment by removing walls to convert it into a spacious one-bedroom home named Brown Box. “The idea comes

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Ten one-wall kitchens designed by architects that free up floorspace

June 12, 2021 James Parkes 0

The kitchen is lined against a rendered wall

Continuing our series of kitchen lookbooks, we’ve selected ten projects from Dezeen’s archive with kitchens organised along a single wall. One-wall kitchens feature a simple, linear layout that takes up less floorspace than other configurations while creating a less cluttered layout. They are popular in small interiors as well as in larger, open-plan spaces as

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Unemori Architects creates “earthquake-proof” community centre in Fukushima

June 10, 2021 James Parkes 0

The interior of the floor plate was left exposed

Architecture studio Unemori Architects has built the Sukagawa Community Center in Fukushima as part of the wider rejuvenation of the city after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. Created in collaboration with Ishimoto Architectural & Engineering Firm, the community centre was designed to be a space that demonstrates the revitalisation of the city. “It was important to us

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Adam Richards Architects tops floating Cheese Barge with patinated copper roof

June 10, 2021 James Parkes 0

London architecture studio Adam Richards Architects has designed a boat informed by architect James Stirling’s Venice bookshop for a floating cheese-focused restaurant in London. Permanently moored in Paddington, the barge was commissioned by British Land as the home for The Cheese Bar restaurant. The Cheese Barge was built by Adam Richards Architects after a competition was held by the developer.

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Zaha Hadid Architects set to design Italian Hyperloop system

June 9, 2021 James Parkes 0

London studio Zaha Hadid Architects has signed an agreement to develop a Hyperloop high-speed transport system across Italy. The studio announced that it will be collaborating with Hyperloop Italia to design the “next phase of works” for a planned near-supersonic network in the country. “We are looking forward to collaborating with Hyperloop Italia; marrying transformative architecture, engineering

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