COBE’s extension to Danish Red Cross headquarters has “urban living room” on its roof

December 14, 2018 Lizzie Crook 0

A giant staircase tops the new Red Cross Volunteer House in Copenhagen, designed by architecture studio COBE to double as a public meeting place. The triangular building is an extension to the Danish Red Cross headquarters. Its tiered roof branches out from the second floor of the old building and steps all the way down to street

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Foster + Partners use trees as partitions inside Thailand’s first Apple store

December 13, 2018 Lizzie Crook 0

Indigenous trees and wooden workbenches line the inside of Apple Iconsiam in Bangkok, the first Apple Store to open in Thailand, designed by Foster + Partners. The store forms part of the new Iconsiam shopping complex that opened in November. Fronted by two expansive glass facades, it is designed as an extension of the plant-filled plaza it

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Foster + Partners use trees as partitions inside Thailand’s first Apple store

December 13, 2018 Lizzie Crook 0

Indigenous trees and wooden workbenches line the inside of Apple Iconsiam in Bangkok, the first Apple Store to open in Thailand, designed by Foster + Partners. The store forms part of the new Iconsiam shopping complex that opened in November. Fronted by two expansive glass facades, it is designed as an extension of the plant-filled plaza it

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Mecanoo builds glass house partly submerged in a lake in the English countryside

December 12, 2018 Lizzie Crook 0

Window walls surround all sides of Glass Villa in the Lake, a three-storey house built by Dutch studio Mecanoo in the Cotswolds. Mecanoo designed the house to be as transparent as possible to maximise views of its scenic setting, over a lake near the town of Lechlade. The idea was to create the feeling of “living outside on

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White Arkiteker designs water tower with wave shape for Sweden

December 11, 2018 Lizzie Crook 0

Undulating concrete panels will form the facade of VÅGA, a large water tower planned for a hilltop in Varberg, Sweden, to create the impression of a wave rolling across the landscape. White Arkiteker seeks to challenge the idea that water towers must be vertical and circular with the design. The Scandinavian firm instead proposes a horizontal structure, which it

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