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John Outram’s Sphinx Hill house becomes youngest listed building in UK

June 26, 2024 Starr Charles 0

An Egyptian-style, postmodern home designed by British architecture studio John Outram Associates in Oxfordshire has been Grade II-listed. Completed by the studio in 1999, Sphinx Hill house has now become the UK’s youngest listed building and forms one of five of John Outram Associates’ (JOA) buildings that have been listed. The two-storey home was commissioned in

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London School of Architecture creates A-frame pavilion as a “platform for local outreach”

June 25, 2024 Starr Charles 0

The London School of Architecture has created the timber Dalston Pavilion in London as part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture. Located in a car park beside the university’s campus in Hackney, The Dalston Pavilion will operate as an outdoor exhibition space and classroom to host a month-long events programme aimed at local young

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London School of Architecture creates A-frame pavilion as a “platform for local outreach”

June 25, 2024 Starr Charles 0

The London School of Architecture has created the timber Dalston Pavilion in London as part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture. Located in a car park beside the university’s campus in Hackney, The Dalston Pavilion will operate as an outdoor exhibition space and classroom to host a month-long events programme aimed at local young

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Estudio Herreros designs floating sauna that offers “retreat and contemplation for all”

June 24, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studio Estudio Herreros has completed the Trosten floating sauna alongside the Munch museum in Oslo, Norway. Situated in the fjord next to the Munch museum, which was also designed by Estudio Herrero, the structure is the latest addition to a cluster of floating saunas commissioned by the Oslo Sauna Association in the hopes of

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David Kohn Architects unveils plans to redesign Ghent art museum

June 18, 2024 Starr Charles 0

London studio David Kohn Architects has won an international competition to redesign the SMAK museum in Ghent, Belgium, alongside noAarchitecten and Asli Çiçek. The redevelopment, which aims to redefine the museum’s relationship with the city, will see the reconfiguration and extension of a cluster of historic buildings to create 20,000 square metres of exhibition and public

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Eight notable projects by late architect Fumihiko Maki

June 14, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Following the news of Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki’s death at the age of 95, we have rounded up eight key projects designed by the Pritzker Prize and AIA Gold Medal-winning architect throughout his career. Maki, who was born in Tokyo in 1928, studied to become an architect at the University of Tokyo and Harvard University.

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Calq and Bond Society convert 1970s office into co-working and co-living space

June 12, 2024 Starr Charles 0

French architecture studios Calq and Bond Society have transformed a high-rise office building in Paris into the Pong co-working and co-living space. Originally designed by architect Marcel Roux in 1974, the building’s structure was largely retained with its distinctive, prefabricated concrete facade refurbished, in order to limit demolition “to what was strictly necessary”. “The decision to

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Jolie creates temporary restaurant with “aesthetic and sensory” materials in Frankfurt

June 6, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Interior design studio Jolie has completed The Nest restaurant with lime-wash walls and natural materials that is designed to be relocated in five years time. Set above an underground car park in Frankfurt, the restaurant was designed for future relocation using modular construction and lightweight materials to minimise its impact on the site as well as

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Minsuk Cho unveils star-shaped Serpentine Pavilion that “provides many choices”

June 5, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Architect Minsuk Cho has created a star-shaped shelter organised around a circular void, informed by courtyards of historic Korean houses, as the 2024 Serpentine Pavilion. Situated in central London’s Kensington Gardens, the pavilion named Archipelagic Void comprises five structures – or “islands” – each serving different functions. In contrast to pavilions from previous years, which

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Dream completes mass-timber office building for Olympic Village in Paris

June 3, 2024 Starr Charles 0

French architecture studio Dream has completed an office building in Paris, which is clad with terracotta tiles to “evoke the history” of the industrial site in the Saint-Ouen district. Situated within one of three Olympic villages, the mass-timber structure by Dream will be used as office space for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games team during

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