WeWork is continuing its expansion beyond coworking with a kindergarten called WeGrow, which will be designed by Danish architecture firm BIG in New York City. Announced this week, WeGrow will be a public elementary school for children ages three to nine. The news follows the opening of WeWork’s first gym in Downtown Manhattan earlier this
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WeWork is continuing its expansion beyond coworking with a kindergarten called WeGrow, which will be designed by Danish architecture firm BIG in New York City. Announced this week, WeGrow will be a public elementary school for children ages three to nine. The news follows the opening of WeWork’s first gym in Downtown Manhattan earlier this
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A crematorium, a sports field and a multi-storey charging station for driverless cars are among six shortlisted proposals to repurpose decommissioned gasholder sites across the UK. Housing and a battery storage space were also put forward as uses for the circular wells, which are left behind when a gasholder and its latticed steel frame have been
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Filmmaker Nathan Eddy has released a movie showcasing architect Helmut Jahn’s James R Thompson Center in Chicago, in a bid to protect the postmodern government building from demolition. Available to watch online this week, the Starship Chicago film was made to help save the building that German-born, Chicago-based architect Jahn completed in 1984. The building is
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The V&A museum has salvaged a three-storey section of Robin Hood Gardens, the much-debated brutalist social housing estate by Alison and Peter Smithson that is currently being demolished in east London. The V&A has acquired two sections of the estate’s garden- and street-facing facades, including one of its elevated walkways that were central to the “streets in the sky” concept
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed visuals for a 56-storey skyscraper in the City of London, featuring a slanting glass facade that resembles the Rogers Stirk Harbour-designed Cheesegrater next door. Images produced for property investors London and Oriental show the tapered glass tower occupying a hexagonal footprint. Positioned at 100 Leadenhall Street, the new tower will be neighbours with the Leadenhall Building,
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed visuals for a 56-storey skyscraper in the City of London, featuring a slanting glass facade that resembles the Rogers Stirk Harbour-designed Cheesegrater next door. Images produced for property investors London and Oriental show the tapered glass tower occupying a hexagonal footprint. Positioned at 100 Leadenhall Street, the new tower will be neighbours with the Leadenhall Building,
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The western section of London’s main shopping street is to be transformed into a pedestrian zone filled with public art, it was announced today. London mayor Sadiq Kahn has revealed plans to start imposing traffic restrictions along Oxford Street by the end of 2018, allowing the congested street to become a pedestrian-priority area. Visualisations show the pedestrianised
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US architecture firm wHY has developed a proposal for oscillating bicycle and pedestrian pathways along the Manhattan side of the East River. wHY’s landscape and urban design arm Grounds developed the scheme in response to a request for proposal from non-profit organisation New York City Economic Development Corporation, as part of a wider mission to
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Architects and preservationists including Robert AM Stern were among those protesting Snøhetta’s plans for Philip Johnson’s postmodern AT&T Building in New York today. A small crowd attended a planned protest at the base of the Midtown Manhattan skyscraper this afternoon, carrying signs that read “Hands off my Johnson”, “Granite is great” and “Save AT&T”. Reporters
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