Infrastructure

Architect denies plagiarising Kengo Kuma for Bangkok airport terminal design

August 31, 2018 India Block 0

Duangrit Bunnag has defended his competition-winning design for a new airport terminal in Bangkok, which detractors claim copies Kengo Kuma’s work. The Thai architect’s studio, DBALP, won the competition to design a new terminal for Suvarnabhumi airport, with plans for a canopy of stepped timber arches that some online commenters have likened to Kuma’s Yusuhara

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Renzo Piano volunteers to design “beautiful” new bridge for Genoa

August 29, 2018 India Block 0

Italian architect Renzo Piano has offered to design a structure to replace the collapsed Ponte Morandi bridge in his hometown of Genoa. Piano told the Observer magazine it was too early to talk about the particulars of the new design, but that the new bridge must stand as a both a memorial and an embodiment of a

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“New York’s new prisons will be more than just places of incarceration”

August 28, 2018 Aaron Betsky 0

New York’s plans for replacing Rikers Island jail will require input from design’s brightest minds if the buildings are to integrate with the neighbourhoods, and conditions for inmates and staff are to improve, says Aaron Betsky. It seems as if New York will actually do something smart about one of the biggest blots on its

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Sean Cassidy proposes first seed vault in Sub-Saharan Africa for site on Mount Kilimanjaro

August 26, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

A subterranean seed bank could be built into the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, says Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts graduate Sean Cassidy, to ensure food crops can be regrown after an apocalypse. Cassidy’s project, Productive Landscapes, proposes the construction of the first seed vault south of the equator, as part of a farming research institute set

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Fate of Foster’s Mexico City airport left to public vote

August 22, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Mexico’s next president has called a referendum so the public can decide whether to continue the construction of the capital’s major new airport, designed by Norman Foster and Fernando Romero. President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador will hold a public vote in October 2018 to determine the fate of the New Mexico City International Airport project,

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Ponte Morandi suspension bridge collapses in Genoa during storm

August 15, 2018 India Block 0

A motorway bridge built in the 1960s has collapsed during heavy rainfall in Genoa, Italy, killing at least 37 people. The concrete Ponte Morandi structure, designed by prolific Italian engineer Riccardo Morandi, disintegrated at 11.30am local time on 14 June 2018. Up to 35 vehicles plunged down a 45-metre drop into a flooded stream below, after a tower

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Ponte Morandi suspension bridge collapses in Genoa during storm

August 15, 2018 India Block 0

A motorway bridge built in the 1960s has collapsed during heavy rainfall in Genoa, Italy, killing at least 37 people. The concrete Ponte Morandi structure, designed by prolific Italian engineer Riccardo Morandi, disintegrated at 11.30am local time on 14 June 2018. Up to 35 vehicles plunged down a 45-metre drop into a flooded stream below, after a tower

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Natasha Marks envisions “canyon-like” neighbourhoods built under Seoul following reunification of Korea

August 10, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

Vast underground neighbourhoods are built to house an influx of migrants into Seoul, following the reunification of North and South Korea, in this conceptual proposal by Bartlett graduate Natasha Marks. The project, titled The United Peninsula, anticipates a population surge into the South Korean capital, following the removal of the border that has divided the Korean Peninsula

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Ribbon-like platform roofs stretch over Grimshaw’s redesigned London Bridge Station

August 9, 2018 India Block 0

Grimshaw has completed a £1 billion refurbishment of the 19th century London Bridge Station next to the Shard, covering its rearranged platforms with sinuous grey canopies. Together with engineering firms Arcadis and WS Engineering, global architecture practice Grimshaw delivered the station overhaul for Network Rail in stages, removing two platforms at a time. Modular design and

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