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architects H2L has completed the slit house on a triangular corner lot, located on a hilltop village nearby the city of guri, gyeonggi province, south korea. built for a couple involved in clothing design, as well as their two children, the concrete residence combines working and living spaces, with the basement and ground floor enclosing […]

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j.mayer h. has designed a freestanding structure that functions as a tram station, a bus stop, and a restaurant. located in freiburg, a city in the south-west corner of germany, the building also serves as an urban marker — signifying the entrance to the city center. ‘in re-planning this former traffic hub from the 1970s […]

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with a proposal that takes inspiration from the shape and craftsmanship of boats, WERK arkitekter and snøhetta has won a competition to design a new maritime center for the coastal town of esbjerg in denmark. the winning project – called lanternen – has been developed to provide a number of functions including water sports facilities […]

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enso ango, kyoto‘s first dispersed hotel, connects travelers with the city’s daily life and authentic culture through its five distinct properties, scattered in five different locations. with a name and core philosophy rooted in zen, the hotel has been spread across several sites in order to adapt to the existing cityscape and coexist harmoniously with […]

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wulf architekten has designed a perforated metal façade for the P22A parking garage of koelnmesse, cologne‘s trade fair center, which is located at the zoobrücke bridge, and offers 3,260 parking spaces on 5 levels. developed as a lightweight transparent shell, the uniformly-designed façade wraps around the S-shaped curved structure, resembling a big organic surface that […]

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‘leeza SOHO tower’, designed by zaha hadid architects (ZHA), has opened in china with the world’s tallest atrium. the project — previously featured on designboom here — anchors beijing’s new fengtai business district — a growing financial and transport hub between the city center and the recently opened international airport to the south. the new […]

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first unveiled in 2015, ‘1000 trees’ is a mixed-use development spanning 300,000 square metres on the outskirts of shanghai. designed by heatherwick studio, the project is located in a residential area 20 minutes from the city center, in close proximity to the M50 arts district and a public park. the development is split over two […]

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citylife, the mixed-use district currently under construction in milan, is set to welcome a major new building designed by bjarke ingels group (BIG). the ambitious development — already home to towers by zaha hadid, arata isozaki/andrea maffei, and daniel libeskind, broke ground in 2007 and is expected to complete in 2023. named ‘the portico’, BIG’s […]

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a collaborative undertaking by architecture firms DROO + NAME sees the restoration and extension of london’s historic bethnal green town hall into a luxury hotel. the 1910-built structure, victim to numerous modifications insensitive to its preservation, had gradually fallen to disuse and had been ultimately vacated and left to decay in 1993. once reprogrammed, the […]

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ODA introduces its newest completed project, tower 1 at 420 kent. while contemporary residential towers are typically characterized as rectangular extrusions, the new york-based firm introduces a multidimensional reinterpretation with the williamsburg project. ODA proposes and formalizes a tower where most dwelling units are a corner apartment in response to the traditional extruded typology which […]

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