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Photos reveal Tadao Ando’s completed He Art Museum in China

November 9, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
The central courtyard of Tadao Ando's cylindrical He Art Museum in China

New photos have been released of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando’s cylindrical He Art Museum, which has reached completion in Guangdong, China. The He Art Museum, otherwise known as HEM, is made from a stack of staggered, concrete disks that wrap around a pair of sweeping helical staircases at its centre. It was designed by

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Ten home kitchens that use colour to make a statement

November 7, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Duck-egg blue kitchen with pink terrazzo breakfast bar

We’ve rounded up 10 residential kitchens by designers who have experimented with bright tiles and coloured cabinets to challenge the ongoing trend of all-white cooking spaces. Plaster Fun House, Australia, by Sans-Arc Studio A pink-terrazzo breakfast bar is complemented by duck-egg blue cabinetry, spherical pendant lights and abundant brass detailing in this kitchen by Sans-Arc

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Chinese ruins transformed into museum by Shenzhen Horizontal Design

November 6, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
The contemporary gallery of Zhang Yan Cultural Museum by Shenzhen Horizontal Design

A white-concrete gallery that slots into the ruins of a brick house is among the three exhibition spaces that make up the Zhang Yan Cultural Museum in China. The museum was designed by Shenzhen Horizontal Design to help revive the village of Zhang Yan in Shanghai’s suburbs and demonstrate how old, rural architecture in China

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Weathering steel highlights thresholds within King Edward Residence in Canada

November 3, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Staircase inside King Edward Residence by Atelier Schwimmer in Montreal, Canada

Weathering steel encloses the entrance area and open-tread staircase inside the split-level King Edward Residence that Atelier Schwimmer has built in Montreal, Canada. Located in the town of Côte Saint-Luc, the 260-square-metre dwelling is a replacement of a young couple’s existing 1950s house that was destroyed by a fire. Montreal studio Atelier Schwimmer’s design was

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Snøhetta designs carbon-negative Powerhouse Telemark office in Norway

November 2, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Exterior of Powerhouse Telemark by Snøhetta in Porsgrunn, Norway

Snøhetta has completed the carbon-negative Powerhouse Telemark office in the city of Porsgrunn, Norway, which was designed to produce more energy than it will consume over its lifespan. The angular building is highly insulated and has a large photovoltaic canopy covering its roof and south-facing facade that will generate 256,000 kilowatts of energy each year.

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Concrete colonnade links educational facilities at Boys and Girls Club in Mexico

November 1, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Boys and Girls Club in Mexico by Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica (CCA)

A sweeping colonnade and stepped plazas animate the concrete Boys and Girls Club that Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica has built for children living in south-central Mexico. The 3,400-square-metre complex is an after-school club for young people between the ages of six and 18 years who are living in unsafe or low-income neighbourhoods in Tecámac and

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Floating Genesis church crowned by luminous pop-up roof

October 30, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Exterior of the floating Genesis church by Denizen Works in east London

Denizen Works has built a church on a canal boat in east London, which has a pop-up roof that functions like a church organ’s bellows. Currently moored near Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the floating chapel named Genesis is a mobile assembly space that functions as both a church and community hub. Genesis was developed by Denizen

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History of slavery is “a horrific wound that has just been ignored” says David Adjaye

October 30, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
David Adjaye portrait

The lack of memorials and monuments dedicated to the victims of slavery is leading to ignorance and memory loss, says RIBA Gold Medal-winning architect David Adjaye. Speaking in a live talk streamed on Dezeen, Adjaye said that “wherever slavery has happened, it has to be dealt with” if society is to move forward. “[Slavery] is

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Old gymnasium transformed into lofty apartment in Amsterdam

October 27, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Inside The Gymnasium apartment by Robbert De Goede

Wooden detailing and black-painted steel fill the lofty interiors of The Gymnasium apartment that Robbert De Goede has built within an old sports hall in the Netherlands. Located near the centre of Amsterdam, the adaptive reuse project was developed by local studio Robbert De Goede as an unconventional yet homely dwelling for a family of

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Kris Provoost captures “immense density” of Hong Kong’s housing

October 25, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Eden of the Orient photography by Kris Provoost

Belgian photographer Kris Provoost explores the striking juxtaposition of Hong Kong’s “hyper-dense” housing and natural landscapes in his latest photography series, Eden of the Orient. Eden of the Orient gives an insight into Hong Kong’s unique built environment, which is enveloped by greenery but recognised as one of the densest places to live on Earth.

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