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Powerhouse Company reveals floating off-grid office in Rotterdam

February 4, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Floating Office Rotterdam by Powerhouse Company

Dutch architects Powerhouse Company has designed a floating office in Rotterdam for the Global Center on Adaptation that will be carbon neutral and function off-grid. The Floating Office Rotterdam (FOR) is set to be moored at the Rijnhaven port on the Maas River, as an example of wha Powerhouse Company called “climate-resilient office design”. If

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Zaha Hadid Architects releases visuals of amorphous OPPO Shenzhen headquarters

January 31, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

OPPO Headquarters by Zaha Hadid Architects

Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed its proposal for four interconnected towers in Shenzhen, China, which will contain the open-plan headquarters for OPPO. Set to break ground later this year, the amorphous OPPO headquarters is designed by Zaha Hadid Architects to accommodate the continual growth of the company dubbed as China’s leading smartphone manufacturer. The headquarters

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Photos reveal Shigeru Ban’s Tainan Art Museum building in Taiwan

January 30, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Tainan Art Museum by Shigeru Ban in Tainan, Taiwan

An overhanging canopy shades the cascading exhibition spaces and outdoor terraces that make up Shigeru Ban’s gallery at the Tainan Art Museum. Revealed in new photos by Paulo dos Sousa, the recently completed museum in Taiwan is designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Ban’s studio with Shi Zhao Yon to evoke a Royal Poinciana – the official

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Grafton Architects completes colonnaded Town House at Kingston University

January 29, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Town House by Grafton Architects for Kingston University, UK

Stone colonnades frame the open-plan interiors of Town House, the mixed-use teaching building by Grafton Architects for Kingston University in London. RIBA Gold Medal-winning studio Grafton Architects designed the six-storey Town House to act as “the university’s front door and a gateway to Kingston upon Thames” – the town in which it is located. It

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Kengo Kuma completes first building in Australia

January 28, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Ribbons of wood wrap around The Exchange by Kengo Kuma, which has opened in Darling Square, Sydney, Australia. The photos captured by Martin Mischkulnig reveal the spiralling form of the six-storey civic centre, which is Japanese architect Kuma’s first building in Australia. Now open to the public, the building is wrapped in 20,000 metres of light-coloured

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IKEA reveals plans for car-free store wrapped in greenery

January 23, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

IKEA Vienna Westbahnhof by Querkraft Architekten for IKEA

More than 100 trees will adorn the gridded facade of IKEA’s city-centre Vienna Westbahnhof store, which will have no space for car parking. Currently under construction in the Austrian capital, the car-free IKEA store is designed by local studio Querkraft Architekten to address “radically changed customer and mobility behaviours”. IKEA Vienna Westbahnhof, which will have a

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First building on Zaha Hadid Architects’ Unicorn Island nears completion

January 21, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Unicorn Island masterplan by Zaha Hadid Architects

Zaha Hadid Architects has released a video revealing a sinuous white exhibition centre that it is close to completing on Unicorn Island in Chengdu, China. Start-Up exhibition and conference centre will be the first building to reach completion in the Unicorn Island masterplan, which Zaha Hadid Architects is developing for the Chengdu government on the eastern

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Chris Precht and Arthur Mamou-Mani use sand to 3D print pavilion in Saudi Arabia

January 20, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Sandwaves by Arthur Mamou-Mani and Christ Precht

Precht and Mamou-Mani Architects have completed a sustainable sand-printed installation called Sandwaves in Diryah, Saudi Arabia. The ribbon-like structure is 3D printed from sand and furan resin for use as street furniture at Diryah Season – a sports and entertainment event in the Al-Turaif District. Precht and Mamou-Mani Architects chose to build Sandwaves using sand as

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Loyn & Co reveals proposal for carbon neutral neighbourhood in Wales

January 17, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Parc Hadau by Loyn & Co and Farrer Huxley for Sero Homes

Loyn & Co has unveiled its design for Parc Hadau, a net-zero-carbon housing scheme in Wales that will be built from cross-laminated timber and powered by renewable energy. Developed by Loyn & Co and landscape architects Farrer Huxley for Sero Homes, the Parc Hadau neighbourhood will comprise 35 eco-friendly dwellings on a scrubland site in Pontardawe.

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Muji launches prefabricated home to encourage indoor-outdoor living

January 16, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Muji has launched a single-storey prefabricated home called Yō no Ie that has a large outdoor deck to encourage indoor-outdoor living. Yō no Ie, or Plain House, is intended for use in rural settings and is the first stair-free dwelling in Muji’s line of prefabricated timber homes that launched in 2004. The 74-square-metre structure responds

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