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BIG designs battery-metals plant, ships and underwater robots for The Metals Company

May 14, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Rare earth metals processing plant designed by BIG for The Metals Company

BIG has designed a factory and a number of waterborne vehicles for The Metals Company, which aims to reduce the environmental impact of battery production by extracting metals from the seafloor. The proposed designs will facilitate an alternative to the mining of rare earth minerals. These minerals are essential for batteries such as those used

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Chybik + Kristof brings light and life into brutalist Zvonařka Bus Terminal

May 13, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Exterior of Zvonarka bus terminal by Chybik + Kristof

Czech studio Chybik + Kristof has completed its redesign of Brno’s Zvonařka Bus Terminal, a brutalist building that the architects fought to preserve in a self-initiated project. Chybik + Kristof first reached out to the site’s owners ten years ago with a proposal to restore and redesign the 1988 building by architect Radúz Russ in

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Helsinki calls for proposals to transform Makasiiniranta port into cultural precinct

May 12, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

The Helsinki port will be turned into a cultural hub

The city of Helsinki has launched a competition to create a new waterfront cultural and leisure district on the South Harbour, which will include a design and architecture museum complex. The Makasiiniranta area is the last remaining section of old harbour cut off from public use and is currently home to terminals and parking. The

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Alexander Owen Architecture adds bold colour and curves to London home

May 2, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

London studio Alexander Owen Architecture drew on its clients’ love of modernism and pop art to create a colourful kitchen and terrace at Amott Road in East Dulwich. Geometric shapes, timber curves and bold pigments characterise the project, which also involved adding a modest side extension to the end-of-terrace property in southeast London. Owners Simon

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Architect-led charity run HD5K returns with virtual 2021 event

April 19, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

The UK architecture industry’s charity run HD5K is going virtual in 2021, calling on people to run or walk five kilometres in their neighbourhoods and raise money to fight motor neurone disease. HD5K is organised by architectural visualisation studio Hayes Davidson in honour of its founder Alan Davidson, who died of motor neurone disease (MND)

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Dark roof brings loftiness to small Kyoto terrace house

April 10, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Japanese-Australian architecture studio Atelier Luke has renovated an old Kyoto row house, giving the narrow home a black-stained timber ceiling to create “a spacious void of shadows”. Named Terrace House near Demachiyanagi, the home has a historic facade that Atelier Luke restored while bringing contemporary Japanese and Australian design sensibilities into the interior. The studio started

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Hassell renovates historic Wharf building on Sydney Harbour for the Sydney Theatre Company

March 10, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Wharf building for the Sydney Theatre Company by Hassell

Australian architecture studio Hassell has renovated a theatre in a former wool warehouse on Sydney Harbour to modernise its facilities while emphasising the 100-year-old building’s history. Expanded performance spaces, a new back-of-house corridor and improved accessibility are among Hassell’s additions to the Sydney Theatre Company’s Wharf building, which is part of a complex of timber

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Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator launches to tackle industry emissions

February 21, 2020 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Companies from across the architecture, engineering and construction industries have collaborated to create a free digital embodied carbon calculator that they hope will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) allows architects, engineers and policy makers to easily compare potential building materials and choose the more sustainable option. The project was

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Generate to build carbon-neutral CLT apartment block in Boston

February 14, 2020 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Model-C carbon-neutral apartment block in Boston by Generate

Architecture studio Generate has unveiled plans to build a carbon-neutral apartment block, named Model-C, in Boston using a cross-laminated timber “kit of parts”. The proposed five-storey block will use Generate’s Model-C prototype “kit of parts” system, which is a type of modular prefabrication that allows for disassembly and reuse. It is intended to achieve the Passivhaus standard for

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Sidewalk Labs tests possibilities for timber construction with 35-storey “Proto-Model”

February 13, 2020 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Sidewalk Labs, the architecture and urbanism arm of Google parent company Alphabet, has unveiled a digital model for what would be the world’s tallest mass-timber building, reaching 35 storeys. Sidewalk Labs plans to build mass-timber high-rises as part of its redevelopment of the Toronto waterfront, but the current tallest buildings of this type are 18

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