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Dyson family to make art collection public in home gallery by Chris Wilkinson

August 19, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

James Dyson and his wife Deirdre are to open their private art collection to the public in a gallery that WilkinsonEyre’s founder, Chris Wilkinson, has designed for their UK home. Named the Dodington Art Gallery, Wilkinson’s design will be built among trees in the listed walled garden at the Dyson’s secluded Dodington Park estate in

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MVRDV to convert disused Shenzhen factory into creative office space

August 19, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has announced its plans to renovate a deteriorating concrete building in Shenzhen, China, to create the If Factory offices and a maze-like roof garden. Located in the historic district of Nantou, the 11,000-square-metre disused factory will be transformed into rentable workspaces for creative companies and a home for the Urban Research Institute

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Concrete Tokyo toilet by Wonderwall references primitive Japanese huts

August 19, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Modern Kawaya Tokyo Toilet by Wonderwall in Shibuya, Japan

A maze of board-marked concrete walls encloses this public toilet in Tokyo, which interior design studio Wonderwall created for the Tokyo Toilet project and modelled on prehistoric Japanese architecture. Located in Ebisu Park in the capital’s Shibuya district, the toilet block is intended to resemble “primitive and simple” object in the park, rather than standing

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Ten self-designed homes that reflect the unique styles of their owners

August 15, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Following the popularity of a riverside house that an architect and designer built for themselves in Australia, we’ve rounded up 10 other original self-designed homes by architects and designers from around the world. Home Farm, UK, by John Pawson Home Farm is the clutter-free second home of John Pawson, the British designer best known for his

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ESALA presents 10 student architecture and landscape projects

August 14, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Re-Dressing an Illuminated Spectacle by Eireann Iannetta-Mackay

This VDF school show by Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture features 10 student projects, including a hub for upcycling low-value materials and a proposal that reimagines the purpose of Times Square. The projects were all completed by students enrolled on one of the four architecture- and landscape architecture-focused courses at the Scottish school,

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Annabelle Tugby Architects transforms old workshop into its own rustic studio

August 14, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Annabelle Tugby Architects self-designed studio

Annabelle Tugby Architects has created its own design studio by renovating and extending a semi-derelict joinery workshop in a cow field in Cheshire, UK. Located in the village of Styal, the self-designed studio was built as Annabelle Tugby Architects outgrew its previous office and required a larger space into which it could expand. Rather than

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Tree-like column is centrepiece of Apple Central World by Foster + Partners

August 13, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

A timber-clad column and overhanging roof that resembles a tree canopy characterise Foster + Partners’ latest Apple Store, which it has completed in Bangkok, Thailand. Named Apple Central World, the store is designed by Foster + Partners with “a quiet sculptural presence” to juxtapose with the lively plaza of Central World – the capital city’s

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Technion students imagine architecture as “an agent of social, cultural and physical change”

August 12, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

A proposal that visualises Tel Aviv as a city adapted to climate change is among the architecture-focused student projects in this VDF school show by Israeli university Technion. Curated by the university’s Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, the 10 featured projects are the thesis projects of the school’s final year architecture students. According to

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Simon Allford elected president of the RIBA

August 11, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Simon Allford elected next president of the RIBA

Architect and co-founder of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Simon Allford, has been elected to become the next president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Allford, who won 58 per cent of the vote, will serve as RIBA president from 1 September 2021 and hold the position for two years – replacing current president Alan

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Rural community oven transformed into Portuguese holiday home

August 11, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Rural House in Portugal by HBG Architects

HBG Architects has converted an old granite community oven in east Portugal into a small holiday home, featuring a staircase with steps that double as a table, bench and fireplace. The small building, now named Rural House in Portugal, is located in the village of Aldeia de João Pires and has been owned by the

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