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Sabine Marcelis creates furniture and lighting from same materials as Barcelona Pavilion

January 9, 2020 Alyn Griffiths 0
Sabine Marcelis creates installation from Barcelona Pavilion materials

Designer Sabine Marcelis has used glass, travertine and polished metal to create a collection of sculptural interventions that respond to the materiality of Mies van Der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion. No Fear of Glass is the latest in a series of temporary installations staged at the pavilion, which is a recreation of the structure built by

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Black pavilion filled with glass yams examines colonisation in Australia

January 4, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
NGV Pavilion by Edition Office and Yhonne Scarce

Hundreds of black glass yams line the interior of this cylindrical pavilion in Victoria, Australia, designed by architecture studio Edition Office – Dezeen’s Emerging architect of the year – and artist Yhonnie Scarce. Titled In Absence, the pavilion explores the physical legacy of Aboriginal people’s dispossession as a result of colonial land theft in the

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Frank Gehry crowns Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul with glass sails

November 25, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul by Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry has perched a stack of sweeping glass sails atop a cube of white stone for Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul, with interiors by architect Peter Marino. The roof is a reference to the curved roofs found in traditional Korean architecture, and a nod to the billowing forms of Gehry’s Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

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Kooo Architects inserts glass walls into frame of concrete hotel

September 25, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Hotel Far & Near Nanhao St by Kooo Architects

Kooo Architects has converted a seven-storey building in the centre of Guangzhou, China into a guesthouse with lantern-like frosted glass walls. Hotel Far & Near Nanhao St sits in a dense residential area of the city. “Due to the high density of buildings and their close distance between each other, one can see the clothes drying

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Kaan Architecten designs stacked glass Eurartisanat headquarters in Lille

September 13, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Eurartisanat Chambre de Métiers et de l'Artisanat des Hauts-de-Franc by kaan Atchitecten

A stack of low, glazed forms house the Eurartisanat Chambre de Métiers et de l’Artisanat des Hauts-de-Franc in Lille, France, designed by Dutch architecture firm Kaan Architecten. Called the CMA for short, the building is the new headquarters for the French Chamber of Trades and Craftsmanship. Located in the Euralille business district, the CMA building provides

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Revery Architecture designs snaking glass campus on Hong Kong hillside

July 6, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
University of Chicago campus by Revery Architecture

University of Chicago Centre Hong Kong by Revery Architecture is a glazed curvilinear building perched on slim concrete stilts on a steep, wooded hillside. Standing above Mount Davis and facing dramatic views out to the sea, the campus has been conceived of as a “treehouse of knowledge” by Revery Architecture – formerly Bing Thom Architects. University of

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Urban Denver building by Tres Birds houses a Japanese restaurant and aeroponic greenhouse

July 4, 2019 Jenna McKnight 0
Uchi restaurant and greenhouse in Denver, Colorado by Tres Birds Workshop

US firm Tres Birds Workshop has topped a Japanese restaurant in Denver, Colorado with a greenhouse featuring soil-free growing towers. The building is located within a block-long, mixed-use development called S*Park, short for Sustainability Park. Local studio Tres Birds Workshop designed the entire development – which encompasses housing, commercial space and urban farming – near

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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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