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Whether “teaspoons or a national bank”, Arne Jacobsen designed things down to the last detail

October 16, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

We continue our series on mid-century modernism with a profile on Danish architect Arne Jacobson, whose ethos of total design saw him craft buildings down to the smallest details. Jacobsen once stated how “the act of creation is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank,” and his broad output

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Rørbæk og Møller Arkitekter clads Danish university extension in gold-toned metal

October 14, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Copenhagen studio Rørbæk og Møller Arkitekter has extended Skylab at the Danish Technological University with a cluster of gold blocks arranged around a skylit workshop. Located on the university’s Linburg campus, the centre provides an additional 3,000 square metres for Skylab – a research and innovation hub for woodwork, metalwork, 3D printing and robotics. Taking

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Wutopia Lab wraps Chinese arts centre in translucent mesh

October 12, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Translucent mesh informed by mosquito nets wraps the forms of Flickering Peak, an arts centre in Hainan, China, by architecture studio Wutopia Lab. Located in an area known as Coffee Village in Wanning, the project involved completing a multipurpose arts centre that had been partially constructed, with its basement and structural frame already in place.

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Blank walls control light and views at House in Kyobate by FujiwaraMuro Architects

October 11, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Slim openings and silver wallpaper bounce light around the interiors of this minimalist home in Japan, which local studio FujiwaraMuro Architects designed “to block noise and visibility from the outside”. Named House in Kyobate after the suburb near Osaka in which it is located, the family dwelling sits on a corner site bordered by roads.

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Bio-Architecture Formosana organises Taiwanese housing around urban farm

October 11, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Taiwanese studio Bio-Architecture Formosana followed the principles of a circular economy when designing the Taisugar Circular Village, a housing complex in Tainan, Taiwan. The Taisugar Circular Village (TCV) provides 351 rental homes surrounding an urban farm, eco-pond and waste management area, allowing all of its residents’ basic needs to be provided on-site. According to Bio-Architecture

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VATRAA uses reclaimed bricks for London house extension

October 10, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio VATRAA has added an extension to a house in north London that features a “brutalist cat flap” and is built with the bricks of the structure it replaced. Located in Stoke Newington, the project was designed for a family of four who wanted to replace their existing dark, cramped extension with a dining

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Neri&Hu captures “spirit of traditional alleyways” at Shanghai arts centre

October 9, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Rows of arches and barrel vaults reference Shanghai’s historic alleyways at New Bund Performing Arts Centre, completed by local architecture studio Neri&Hu. Located in the Qiantan International Business Zone, also called New Bund, the 17,580-square-metre complex contains a 2,500-seat grand theatre and multipurpose black box, alongside a bar, restaurant and lounges. Aiming to better link

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Hugh Strange Architects draws on farm architecture for Cornish courtyard home

October 8, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Traditional farmsteads of England’s West Country informed the rough render exterior and barn-like timber ceilings of this house in Cornwall by London studio Hugh Strange Architects. Aptly named Farmworker’s House, it is designed by Hugh Strange Architects for a farm manager in a wooded corner of a large field opposite a livestock shed. It has

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The organic designs of Eero Saarinen went “beyond the measly ABC” of modernism

October 8, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

We continue our series on mid-century modern design with a profile of Eero Saarinen, the Finnish-American architect and industrial designer whose creations were adopted as the optimistic symbols of a new post-war age. “We have chairs with four legs, with three and even with two, but no one has made one with just one leg,

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AART cloaks Cold War museum in Denmark with black metal

October 6, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Black-metal panels and shutters bring an “aura of mystique” to the Cold War Museum Regan Vest in Denmark, designed by architecture studio AART. The museum is located on the site of Regan Vest, a hidden Cold War-era bunker that was secretly built 60 metres below northern Jutland’s Rold Forest. In the event of nuclear war,

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