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Savage + Dodd aimed to “set the preconditions for change” with South Africa housing project

April 3, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

A shopping centre outside Johannesburg was converted into 50 low-cost homes on a tight budget in our next Social Housing Revival project case study. Located in the mining city of Boksburg, Slava Village uses a series of incisions and infills to revive the 1980s complex with modular residential units. It was completed in 2023 by

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Ten brutalist Welsh buildings with “sculptural qualities”

April 3, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

A crematorium clad in ribbed concrete and a geometric university bell tower feature in this roundup of 10 brutalist buildings photographed by Simon Phipps for his Brutal Wales book. Phipps’ visual exploration of modernism in Wales follows six other publications by the London-based artist capturing post-war architecture in Britain, including Brutal North and Brutal London.

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Dezeen’s top five houses of March 2024

April 1, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Dezeen’s top five houses of the month for March include a timber and concrete residence that is “designed to be overlooked” and a copper-clad home in Colorado that creates “semi-reflections” of the landscape. Also on the list is a converted pig shed, a low-lying white-and-black home informed by mid-century modernism and a dark-stained cedar dwelling that

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Sanjay Puri Architects unveils spiral-shaped Nokha Village Community Centre informed by sand dunes

March 29, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Mumbai-based architecture studio Sanjay Puri Architects has designed a swirling community centre with a sloping green roof in Rajasthan, India. Conceived as a memorial to the clients’ father, the curvilinear complex was designed to serve the surrounding Nokha district villages and integrates a courtyard, amphitheatre, library and museum behind an undulating sandstone facade. “The Nokha

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Sam Crawford Architects creates red-roofed community pavilion in Sydney

March 23, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

An angular roof wrapped in translucent red-mesh panels crowns this Y-shaped pavilion in Sydney, designed by local studio Sam Crawford Architects. Located on the disused lawn of a bowls club in Hurlstone Memorial Reserve, the timber-clad structure is designed as a flexible community centre with uninterrupted connections to the surrounding park. The pavilion hosts a multipurpose

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Lahznimmo Architects aims for “beautiful utility” with museum storage in Sydney

March 22, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Australian studio Lahznimmo Architects has completed Powerhouse Castle Hill in northwest Sydney, a shed-like storage facility wrapped in corrugated aluminium and concrete. Owned by the Powerhouse Museum group, the 9000-square-metre facility is intended as a public-facing storehouse containing a mix of storage, exhibition and conservation facilities, alongside spaces for research and community engagement. Its design

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Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke design modular study pavilion for German university

March 14, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Berlin-based architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke have created a modular and demountable steel-framed pavilion for the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany. Located centrally within the campus at a junction of existing pathways, the 1,000-square-metre gridded structure was designed to create flexible and non-hierarchical spaces for students to learn, study and socialise in a

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V&A’s Tropical Modernism exhibition explores “the politics behind the concrete”

March 14, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has launched its Tropical Modernism exhibition, which highlights the architectural movement’s evolution from colonial import to a “tool of nation building”. According to the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), the exhibition aims to examine the complex context, power dynamics and post-colonial legacy of tropical modernism – an architectural style that

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Objektor reveals monolithic concrete cemetery outside of Prague

March 10, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Czech architecture studio Objektor has created a cemetery outside of Prague defined by a grid of low-rise concrete extrusions and a monolithic utility building. Located in a forest clearing next to an existing 18th-century chapel, the Hřbitov Suchdol Cemetery was conceived as a network of burial spaces that can be extended over time, while remaining

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Foster + Partners unveils curving office building at Battersea Power Station

February 28, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Architecture studio Foster + Partners has revealed 50 Electric Boulevard, an 18,580-square-metre workplace within London’s Battersea Power Station development. Located along Battersea Power Station’s pedestrianised high street, Foster + Partners designed the building and its interiors to function as flexible and adaptbale office space. “50 Electric Boulevard’s soft undulating form creates a varying floorplate, which

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