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NBBJ models Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center stadium on lotus flowers

March 5, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center by NBBJ in China

Petal-like cladding wraps around this 80,000-seat stadium, which forms the centrepiece of NBBJ’s riverside Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center in China. The 400,000-square-metre stadium is designed to evoke the lotus flowers found in the West Lake, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Hangzhou that is celebrated for its gardens and temples. It is teamed with series

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Beautified China book celebrates the country’s “architectural revolution”

March 4, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Beautified China book by Kris Provoost for Lannoo

Detailed photos of 80 Chinese buildings feature in Kris Provoost’s book Beautified China, which spotlights the country’s current architectural boom. The book is an expansion of the Beautified China photography series that Provoost revealed in 2017, in which “iconic architecture” by the likes of Zaha Hadid, MAD and Foster + Partners is depicted as abstract

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Beautified China book celebrates the country’s “architectural revolution”

March 4, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Detailed photos of 80 Chinese buildings feature in Kris Provoost’s book Beautified China, which spotlights the country’s current architectural boom. The book is an expansion of the Beautified China photography series that Provoost revealed in 2017, in which “iconic architecture” by the likes of Zaha Hadid, MAD and Foster + Partners is depicted as abstract

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Pretty Plastic shingles made from recycled PVC windows and gutters are “first 100 per cent recycled cladding material”

March 3, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Overtreders W and Bureau SLA Music Pavilion at Sint-Oelbert Gymnasium with Pretty Plastic cladding by Overtreders W and Bureau SLA

A new range of facade cladding tiles made of recycled PVC construction waste, designed by Dutch studios Overtreders W and Bureau SLA, has been used on a permanent building for the first time. Called Pretty Plastic, the designers claim the product is the “first 100 per cent recycled cladding material” in the world. The first permanent

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Space Popular’s Brick Vault House slots into slender green grid

March 1, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Brick Vault House by Space Popular in Spain

A green steel frame and shallow arched ceilings form the structure of Space Popular’s geometric Brick Vault House in Valencia, Spain. Projecting out from a sloped site in the suburb of New Santa Barbara, the four-bed dwelling is the first completed building by the multidisciplinary studio Space Popular. Brick Vault House was built in collaboration

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BIG releases visuals of Newcastle office with “serpentine silhouette”

February 26, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Visual of No 1 Quayside by BIG in Newcastle, UK

BIG has unveiled visuals for No 1 Quayside, an office in Newcastle, UK, which will have a snaking form to echo the curving bridges that span the River Tyne. Set to be built on a prominent spot in East Quayside near the waterway, the 12-storey building has been designed by BIG in collaboration with local

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OMA unveils “cliff-like” headquarters for SNCB in Brussels

February 25, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

OMA has revealed its plans to renovate and extend three vacant railway buildings in Brussels to create an office for Belgium train operator SNCB. The proposal will create workspaces for 4,000 employees of SNCB, otherwise known as the National Railway Company of Belgium, beside the Brussels-South train station. Designed by OMA with Jaspers-Eyers to contrast with the

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Neri&Hu surrounds Junshan Cultural Center with angled aluminium louvres

February 25, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Angled aluminium louvres cover the reclaimed brick walls of the Junshan Cultural Center near Beijing, China, designed by Neri&Hu. Nestled amongst the mountains around Miyun Resevoir, the Junshan Cultural Center transforms an existing two-storey sales building that previously only contained conventional office spaces. The overhaul was commissioned by a Chinese developer to improve the facilities

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Herzog & de Meuron designs motorway chapel in Switzerland

February 21, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

515 Autobahnkirche by Herzog & de Meuron

Angled white walls will mark the entrance to underground contemplation spaces at Herzog & de Meuron’s roadside Autobahnkirche chapel in Switzerland. Set to be developed on the outskirts of Andeer beside the A13 highway, Autobahnkirche will become the country’s “first motorway chapel” once complete. Herzog & de Meuron’s proposal seeks to challenge traditional places of worship,

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Grimshaw releases visuals of Eden Project Foyle with thatched centrepiece

February 19, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Eden Project Foyle by Grimshaw for Northern Ireland

Grimshaw, the studio behind the Eden Project in Cornwall, has designed an ecological resort in Northern Ireland that will feature a thatched play area and treetop walkways. Commissioned by environmental charity Eden Project International, the Eden Project Foyle will be built on a 100-hectare site on the bank of the River Foyle in Derry that

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