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Terracotta-tiled extensions by Emil Eve Architects named London’s best home improvement project

May 14, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A family house “joyfully transformed” with terracotta-coloured extensions has been named London’s best home improvement project by Don’t Move, Improve! 2024. The house renovation by local studio Emil Eve Architects, named Aden Grove, has been selected as the overall winner of the annual award from a shortlist of 16 projects. It was praised by this year’s

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Six industrial silos repurposed as unusual homes and public spaces

May 14, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Following the opening of the Kunstsilo art gallery in Norway last week, we spotlight six examples of industrial silos that have been adaptively reused around the world. Used for the storage of materials such as grain or coal, silo structures are typically built with robust tower-like forms made from concrete or metal. However, these utilitarian

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Kunstsilo gallery opens within “basilica-like” grain silo in Norway

May 9, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

The Kunstsilo art gallery has opened within the shell of a 1930s grain silo in the south of Norway, converted by Barcelona studios Mestres Wåge Arquitectes, BAX and Mendoza Partida. Located on the Odderœya peninsula in Kristiansand, Kunstsilo is home to the world’s largest private collection of modern art from the Nordic region, with more

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Work begins on timber daycare centre by Kéré Architecture in Munich

April 26, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A wooden structure will be left exposed throughout this children’s daycare centre at the Technical University of Munich, on which Berlin-based studio Kéré Architecture has started construction in Germany. Named Ingeborg Pohl Kinderoase an der TUM, the centre will sit beside the university’s cafeteria and be open to children with parents or carers who work

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Nine home interiors brightened with colourful window frames

April 21, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Shades of green, red and yellow run throughout this lookbook, which collects nine home interiors enlivened by colourful window frames. Whether painted wood, plastic or metal, opting for colourful window frames is an easy way to brighten a residential interior. The examples in this lookbook demonstrate how they can be used to create a focal

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Don’t Move, Improve! unveils London’s best house renovations of 2024

April 19, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A dwelling with a “tin hat” by Nimtim Architects and a colourful extension by Charles Holland are among the 16 London homes named on the shortlist for this year’s Don’t Move, Improve! competition. A triangular house in a former garage by studio Brown Urbanism is also on the shortlist, alongside an extension by Cairn that

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Fire engulfs Copenhagen’s old stock exchange causing spire to collapse

April 16, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A fire has broken out at the 17th-century Børsen building in Copenhagen, Denmark, causing its iconic dragon tail-shaped spire to collapse. The fire at the building, which was once the city’s stock exchange, began early this morning with the 56-metre-tall spire collapsing around 8:30am local time. Built in 1615, the Renaissance-style building is one of

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Fire engulfs Copenhagen’s old stock exchange causing spire to collapse

April 16, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A fire has broken out at the 17th-century Børsen building in Copenhagen, Denmark, causing its iconic dragon tail-shaped spire to collapse. The fire at the building, which was once the city’s stock exchange, began early this morning with the 56-metre-tall spire collapsing around 8:30am local time. Built in 1615, the Renaissance-style building is one of

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Heatherwick’s Vessel set to reopen with “floor-to-ceiling steel mesh”

April 15, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

The Vessel viewpoint by Thomas Heatherwick is expected to reopen in New York this year, shrouded by steel netting to prevent people from jumping from its platforms. It follows the closure of the structure in Hudson Yards in August 2021, after a 14-year-old boy became the fourth person to die there by suicide. Related Companies,

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Chatillon Architectes releases first photos of Grand Palais restoration in Paris

April 15, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

French studio Chatillon Architectes has unveiled its progress on the Grand Palais renovation in Paris, which is set to host fencing and taekwondo events at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Located on the Champs-Élysées, the landmark glass and steel structure is being revamped to improve public access after becoming “a monument that was often only

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