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Sweeping staircase forms centrepiece of engineering office by Studio Ben Allen

April 25, 2018 India Block 0

Studio Ben Allen has inserted a spiralling plywood staircase in the centre of an office in Birmingham, England, which is designed to get workers moving. The London architecture studio was commissioned to expand the offices of global engineering firm Cundall in a way that would improve the health and wellbeing of its workers. A skeletal timber staircase

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Foster + Partners completes BBC headquarters in Cardiff

April 24, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

Foster + Partners has completed a new headquarters for BBC Cymru Wales in Cardiff, which features a broad metal canopy supported on slender columns. The building designed for the Welsh division of the broadcaster has now been handed over for internal fit out by Overbury and Sheppard Robson in time to welcome 1,200 staff in 2019.

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Tom Dixon unveils new King’s Cross studio and showroom in former coal yard

April 17, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

British designer Tom Dixon has opened a new flagship store, showroom and offices inside a Victorian coal yard in London’s King’s Cross. The brand has relocated its entire operation from Ladbroke Grove in west London to a group of Victorian buildings in King’s Cross. The transformation of the building forms part of the redevelopment of the area around

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NBBJ completes “vertical campus” for Tencent’s headquarters in Shenzhen

April 12, 2018 India Block 0

At the Shenzhen headquarters of Chinese tech giant Tencent, twin skyscrapers are connected by sky bridges designed to help employees meet. Architect NBBJ designed Tencent’s Global Headquarters specifically to prevent the 10,000 workers of the technology firm from getting siloed in their different departments. Two glass and aluminium towers rise to 50 and 39 stories respectively and are

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17 Dubai architecture studios photographed by Marc Goodwin

April 11, 2018 India Block 0

For the next in his studio photography series, Marc Goodwin visited the Dubai offices of 17 architecture practices, including Grimshaw and Gensler.  Unlike the cities Goodwin has previously visited for his series, such as Shanghai, London and Barcelona, there were few instances of architecture offices adapting historic buildings in Dubai. The recent building boom in the United Arab Emirates

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Prefabricated cabin can be transported to remote locations by lorry

April 10, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

This £39,000 prefabricated cabin by artist Bobby Niven and architect Iain MacLeod is designed to be easily transported on the back of a lorry. School friends Niven and MacLeod designed the small hut, known as the Artist Bothy after the Scottish name for a shelter, for artists wanting to set up studio in isolated locations.  The compact

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Reform hacks IKEA cabinets to create gold-hued kitchen for Danish fashion brand

April 10, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Danish brand Reform has updated standard IKEA cabinetry with brass doors to create this golden-toned kitchen at the headquarters of Copenhagen-based fashion designer Stine Goya. The kitchen was installed following Stine Goya’s move to a new office and showroom space, which is set within a listed property near Copenhagen’s royal palace. Throughout the building’s renovation the designer

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Fiedler Marciano creates artist studios in a forest clearing in Connecticut

April 9, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

American studio Fiedler Marciano Architecture took cues from vernacular architecture in New England while designing a pair of small, sculptural buildings for an artists’ nature retreat. The studio buildings are located on the campus of the I-Park Foundation, an organisation that offers a renowned artist-in-residence programme. The campus covers 450 bucolic acres (182 hectares) just

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Overlapping discs contain offices for Israeli underwear manufacturer

April 8, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

This headquarters for a textile manufacturer in Caesarea, Israel, comprises a group of stacked discs, which are staggered to create balconies overlooking the surrounding landscape. Local studio Auerbach Halevy Architects designed the offices and manufacturing facility for Delta Galil, an Israeli textile company founded in 1975 that is now a global leader in the design

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HKS revives historic buildings for urban healthcare campus in Ohio

April 4, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

Architecture firm HKS has overhauled a 120-year-old steam plant and a brutalist office building, creating a headquarters for a medical company and aiming to revive an ageing downtown district in the American Rust Belt. The ProMedica Headquarters is located in the heart of downtown Toledo, a city in northwest Ohio. The project involved the adaptive

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