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on may 17 2020, the jewish museum berlin will welcome ANOHA — a new children’s museum designed by seattle-based architecture practice olson kundig. designed explicitly for the museum’s youngest visitors, the design concept combines the story of noah from the torah, with interactive exhibits that teach children about caring for the environment and the importance […]

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five teams, including 6a architects, OFFICE kersten geers david van severen, carmody groarke, and heneghan peng architects, have been shortlisted as part of a competition to design a new central hall for the UK’s national railway museum. with a construction budget of £16.5 million, the building will transform the visitor arrival experience with a new […]

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founded in 1929, the ‘zhejiang museum of natural history’ is located in the chinese city of hangzhou and has a collection of over 200,000 specimens covering geology, ecology, and paleontology. in 2014, the shanghai office of david chipperfield’s architectural practice (DCAS) won a competition to design a second brand of the institution in anji — […]

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designed by iotti + pavarani architetti, tassoni + partners and lauro sacchetti associati, the rcf arena will be built on an airfield in reggio emilia, in the italian region of emilia romagna. due for completion in september 2020, the project will be the first in europe specifically designed for live open air musical events capable […]

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in madrid, spanish architect pía mendaro has designed a home/studio for her friend, artist clara cebrian. named ‘topo’s shed’, the space is a converted warehouse that measures 10 meters by 10 meters (33 x 33ft). ‘clara is an artist and does not like overly designed things,’ explains mendaro. ‘she wanted something ‘like ron weasley’s house’; […]

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located on a spacious plot and set in a rich mediterranean garden that overlooks the sea, the ‘wooden house’ by turato architects reveals its purity through the open spaces and raw materiality. as a vacation home in island krk, croatia, the project conveys a relaxing and leisurely atmosphere, with open areas that allow the breeze […]

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during last night’s 92nd academy awards ceremony, tom hanks announced that renzo piano’s academy museum for motion pictures in los angeles will open to the public on monday, december 14, 2020. billed as ‘the world’s premier film institution,’ detailed plans for the much-anticipated museum and theater complex were first unveiled in late 2017 after construction […]

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italian architect wafai envisions the speculative ‘scandinavian seashell house.’ the design of the project is driven by the desire for a small footprint with a simple expression that recalls the organic form of a shell found in nature. with his scandinavian seashell house proposal, the designer simultaneously seeks to promote an environmental and sustainable approach […]

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a new addition to his formal and investigatory body of work, antony gibbon generates ‘vessel,’ a towering architectural object in austere concrete. programmed as a research center, the speculative building is characterized by a pair of slender, bifurcated stone discs revealing a narrow channel of interstitial glazing.     mexico-based architectural designer antony gibbon situates […]

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architecture studio REM’A carves into the landscape outside guimarães, portugal with its latest residential project, casa A. the outskirts of the historic city which host the project are characterized both by densely built neighborhoods and a picturesque, rolling landscape. within this context, the design team at REM’A makes use of bold geometric cuts and volumes […]

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