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Work starts on Schmidt Hammer Lassen-designed innovation centre adapted to Shanghai’s extreme weather

September 20, 2017 India Block 0

Architecture firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen has designed a business incubator for Shanghai, featuring sheltered terraces that allow for year-round outdoor use. Construction began on 18 September on the new CaoHeJing Guigu Creative Headquarters in Shanghai’s technology hub. The project is the third collaboration between Schmidt Hammer Lassen and the government-backed CaoHeJing Hi-Tech Park. CaoHeJing Hi-Tech Park

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Work starts on Schmidt Hammer Lassen-designed innovation centre adapted to Shanghai’s extreme weather

September 20, 2017 India Block 0

Architecture firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen has designed a business incubator for Shanghai, featuring sheltered terraces that allow for year-round outdoor use. Construction began on 18 September on the new CaoHeJing Guigu Creative Headquarters in Shanghai’s technology hub. The project is the third collaboration between Schmidt Hammer Lassen and the government-backed CaoHeJing Hi-Tech Park. CaoHeJing Hi-Tech Park

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Anish Kapoor’s neighbours “shafted” by approval of studio extension

September 19, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Anish Kapoor has been accused of being “mean-spirited” by pushing ahead with plans for a light-blocking roof extension to his south London studio, by the leader of a campaign against the development. The group of residents petitioned to reduce the scale of of the extension to the artist’s workspace on Farmers Road in Camberwell, which they

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Anish Kapoor’s neighbours “shafted” by approval of studio extension

September 19, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Anish Kapoor has been accused of being “mean-spirited” by pushing ahead with plans for a light-blocking roof extension to his south London studio, by the leader of a campaign against the development. The group of residents petitioned to reduce the scale of of the extension to the artist’s workspace on Farmers Road in Camberwell, which they

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UNStudio completes enormous Raffles City Hangzhou complex featuring twisted glass towers

September 14, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Dutch firm UNStudio has completed a mixed-use development in the Chinese city of Hangzhou that accommodates a hotel, offices, apartments and shops, within a pair of sinuous towers connected by a podium and landscaped plaza. Raffles City Hangzhou was designed by UNStudio for real estate company CapitaLand. Described by the studio as “a sustainable urban

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Archimania transforms part of historic Memphis warehouse into teacher training centre

September 13, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Tennessee studio Archimania paired modern wooden elements with “gritty concrete and textured brick” at this higher-education facility, which is housed within a former industrial building that sat abandoned for years. The Memphis Teacher Residency is located within a massive, 10-storey warehouse in Memphis, Tennessee, which was recently converted into a mixed-use development called Crosstown Concourse.

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Archimania transforms part of historic Memphis warehouse into teacher training centre

September 13, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Tennessee studio Archimania paired modern wooden elements with “gritty concrete and textured brick” at this higher-education facility, which is housed within a former industrial building that sat abandoned for years. The Memphis Teacher Residency is located within a massive, 10-storey warehouse in Memphis, Tennessee, which was recently converted into a mixed-use development called Crosstown Concourse.

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New images capture MAD’s rock-shaped Chaoyang Park Plaza

September 8, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

This new set of images by photographer Khoo Guo Jie captures the mountain-inspired details of Chinese firm MAD’s Chaoyang Park Plaza as it nears completion in Beijing. Khoo Guo Jie’s photographs document the skyscrapers, office blocks and public space that make up the 120,000-square-metre complex built on the southern edge of Chaoyang Park – one of the city’s largest parklands.

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Bands of glass wrap FBI technology building in West Virginia by SOM

September 6, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has created a biometric technology facility for the US Federal Bureau of Investigation that features open, light-filled workspaces and views of the hilly terrain. The FBI Biometric Technology Center was constructed within an existing FBI campus in Clarksburg, West Virginia, that houses the division of Criminal Justice Information Services

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Bands of glass wrap FBI technology building in West Virginia by SOM

September 6, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has created a biometric technology facility for the US Federal Bureau of Investigation that features open, light-filled workspaces and views of the hilly terrain. The FBI Biometric Technology Center was constructed within an existing FBI campus in Clarksburg, West Virginia, that houses the division of Criminal Justice Information Services

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