Articles by Jessica Mairs

Best architecture of 2017 revealed at day one of World Architecture Festival

November 15, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

A huge smile-shaped structure in London and a study centre in the Philippines are among today’s category winners at the World Architecture Festival 2017 awards. Now in its tenth edition, the World Architecture Festival (WAF) showcases the best architecture built around the world in the last year. Further category winners will be revealed tomorrow, with the

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Top interiors of the year revealed at day one of Inside festival 2017

November 15, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Airbnb’s Dublin headquarters in a former warehouse and a high-rise hospital in Montreal are among the first category winners from this year’s Inside festival awards. Aiming to showcase the world’s best interior design, the Inside awards also recognised a contemporary butchers shop in Taipei. Further category winners will be revealed tomorrow. Each category winner will be

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Top interiors of the year revealed at day one of Inside festival 2017

November 15, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Airbnb’s Dublin headquarters in a former warehouse and a high-rise hospital in Montreal are among the first category winners from this year’s Inside festival awards. Aiming to showcase the world’s best interior design, the Inside awards also recognised a contemporary butchers shop in Taipei. Further category winners will be revealed tomorrow. Each category winner will be

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MAD’s Huangshan Mountain Village mimics the topography of a rocky Chinese landscape

November 14, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

MAD has built a cluster of housing towers in China’s Anhui province, which take their forms from smooth shores of Taiping Lake and the granite peaks of the Huangshan mountain range. Ten housing blocks make up MAD’s Huangshan Mountain Village. The floorplates of each one decrease in scale towards the summit, tapering to create a peak-like formation along the

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Winning design revealed for new library at London’s brutalist Thamesmead estate

November 13, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Architecture studio Bisset Adams has won a competition to design a lakeside library and community centre in southeast London, as part of a major overhaul of the brutalist Thamesmead estate. Bisset Adams will build the Southmere Village Library to the south bank of Southmere Lake, right beside the the sprawling concrete housing estate that was made infamous by the film adaptation

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Carmody Groarke unveils plans for art centre at Sheffield’s Park Hill estate

November 10, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Park Hill estate is to receive a new Carmody Groarke-designed art gallery and suite of studios, as part of the redevelopment of the brutalist housing scheme built in 1961. Carmody Groarke’s plans for the Park Hill Art Space will see the conversion of a 7,200-square-metre block at the Grade II*-listed Park Hill estate into live/work artists’

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Carmody Groarke unveils plans for art centre at Sheffield’s Park Hill estate

November 10, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Park Hill estate is to receive a new Carmody Groarke-designed art gallery and suite of studios, as part of the redevelopment of the brutalist housing scheme built in 1961. Carmody Groarke’s plans for the Park Hill Art Space will see the conversion of a 7,200-square-metre block at the Grade II*-listed Park Hill estate into live/work artists’

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Six ideas to transform Britain’s decommissioned gasholders make shortlist in RIBA competition

November 9, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

A crematorium, a sports field and a multi-storey charging station for driverless cars are among six shortlisted proposals to repurpose decommissioned gasholder sites across the UK. Housing and a battery storage space were also put forward as uses for the circular wells, which are left behind when a gasholder and its latticed steel frame have been

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Snøhetta channels Oscar Niemeyer for “futuristic” Aesop store in London’s Chelsea

November 9, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Twelve rose-tinged clay arches fan out over a huge stainless-steel sink in this Snøhetta-designed Aesop store in west London, designed in tribute to Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer. Tucked behind a parade of shops on the King’s Road, in Chelsea, Aesop Duke of York Square is part of a luxury shopping area beside the Saatchi Gallery. A large column set in

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Snøhetta channels Oscar Niemeyer for “futuristic” Aesop store in London’s Chelsea

November 9, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Twelve rose-tinged clay arches fan out over a huge stainless-steel sink in this Snøhetta-designed Aesop store in west London, designed in tribute to Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer. Tucked behind a parade of shops on the King’s Road, in Chelsea, Aesop Duke of York Square is part of a luxury shopping area beside the Saatchi Gallery. A large column set in

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