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BIG creates subterranean museum by carving channels into dune by Nazi bunker

July 14, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Danish firm BIG has built an “invisible museum” in Blåvand, Denmark, by cutting linear passageways out of the sand dune beside a bunker built by German forces during the second world war. BIG’s design creates new exhibition spaces for the Tirpitz Bunker, which already housed a small museum. The four slender slices channel through the dune beside the bunker,

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BIG creates subterranean museum by carving channels into dune by Nazi bunker

July 14, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Danish firm BIG has built an “invisible museum” in Blåvand, Denmark, by cutting linear passageways out of the sand dune beside a bunker built by German forces during the second world war. BIG’s design creates new exhibition spaces for the Tirpitz Bunker, which already housed a small museum. The four slender slices channel through the dune beside the bunker,

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Unwanted tower-block cladding could be used to build migrant housing

July 14, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Cladding panels removed from high-rise buildings are repurposed to build temporary homes for Romanian migrant workers in this proposal by architecture studio Reed Watts, which has just been named winner of a charity-organised design competition. Called The Flat Pack, the design envisions the Trespa cladding panels that currently cover a pair of tower blocks in the London borough

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Unwanted tower-block cladding could be used to build migrant housing

July 14, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Cladding panels removed from high-rise buildings are repurposed to build temporary homes for Romanian migrant workers in this proposal by architecture studio Reed Watts, which has just been named winner of a charity-organised design competition. Called The Flat Pack, the design envisions the Trespa cladding panels that currently cover a pair of tower blocks in the London borough

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American women in architecture weigh in on “female architect” debate

July 13, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

Danish architect Dorte Mandrup’s takedown of the term “female architect” has sparked a strong reaction from American women in the profession on both sides of the argument. Mandrup’s Opinion piece for Dezeen earlier this year, and ongoing discussions about women’s prominence in the industry, prompted the architects – and one engineer – to respond with

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MVRDV designs new Rotterdam skyscraper featuring pixellated walls

July 13, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Rotterdam studio MVRDV has unveiled plans to build a new skyscraper in its home city, featuring a pixellated facade made up of hundreds of bay windows. Rising to a height of around 150 metres, The Sax will consist of two towers, bridged halfway up by a large horizontal volume with a public plaza on its roof. It

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World Interior of the Year 2017 shortlist announced

July 13, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

There are 78 projects contending for this year’s World Interior of the Year, including a mathematics gallery designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and the office Neri&Hu created inside an old missile factory. Projects by Eric Parry Architects, Universal Design Studio, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and Heneghan Peng Architects also made it onto the shortlist for the award, which is part of the programme for Inside World Festival

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100,000 forbidden books used to construct Parthenon replica on Nazi book-burning site

July 12, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Argentinian artist Marta Minujín has used thousands of prohibited books to construct a replica of the Parthenon in Athens on a Nazi book-burning site in Kassel, Germany. Taking a stance against censorship, Minujín designed the Parthenon of Books to echo the classical Greek temple, which remains a major icon of the democratic Athenian polis. Metal scaffolding mimics the form of the

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India’s young architects must be taught to appreciate their design heritage, says Balkrishna Doshi

July 12, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

India is at risk of losing its architectural identity, because the country’s design schools aren’t teaching students to respect local heritage and traditions, according to architect Balkrishna Doshi. The Indian architect, who turns 90 this year, said that many of the country’s architects are too concerned with mimicking the aesthetics and practices of other countries, rather than learning from the

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