Category: Architecture
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House on the Cove blends with coastal Washington setting
[ad_1] This residence in the Pacific Northwest by US firm Stephenson Design Collective features exterior walls clad in weathering steel and black-stained cedar, along with large windows that offer sweeping views of the mountains and sea. The House on the Cove is located in the coastal town of Bellingham in northern Washington. The residence consists…
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Casa em Silves
https://uncrate.com/p/2019/05/casa-em-silves-2.jpg [ad_1] Situated in the hills of southern Portugal, the Casa em Silves sits like a modern monument amongst the rural landscape. Its sharp angles and matte-white facade give the exterior a… Visit Uncrate for the full post. [ad_2] Source link
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Zaha Hadid Architects’ Changsha Meixihu International Culture and Art Centre nears completion
[ad_1] New photos reveal the Zaha Hadid Architects-designed Changsha Meixihu International Culture and Art Centre nearing completion in China. Due for completion this year, the 115,000-square-metre cultural complex is located beside Meixi Lake in Changsha, the capital of the Hunan province. It contains a theatre, contemporary art museum and a smaller multi-purpose venue, which Zaha Hadid Architects has placed…
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Miysis Studio envisions Notre-Dame with a rebuilt spire and glass roof
[ad_1] Miysis Studio has proposed combining a reconstruction of Notre-Dame‘s spire with a modern glazed roof to “find the right balance between history and future” for the cathedral. The visualisation studio created the images as an idea of how the cathedral, which was devastated by fire last month, could be rebuilt using both traditional and modern…
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Con Form Architects completes London house extension Repoussoir
[ad_1] Steel beams crisscross through the centre of Repoussoir, a house extension that Con Form Architects has completed in London. The London studio was tasked with bringing more light into the Victorian family house. To do this, the architects renovated and extended the ground floor, creating a large open-plan space opening out to the garden. The project sees…
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Trump Comb-over watch goes into production following April Fools prank
[ad_1] Swedish company TRIWA is selling a limited-edition watch that features the hair of US president Donald Trump as hands, after the success of an April Fools-day prank. TRIWA received hundreds of requests to produce the watch after publishing it as a joke on 1 April. In response, the brand made the product available for pre-order…
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Ibiza Campo Loft | Uncrate
https://uncrate.com/p/2019/05/ibiza-campo-loft-1.jpg [ad_1] After being abandoned for decades, the Ibiza Campo Loft has been resurrected as a dreamy guest house. The 100-year-old structure is sited on a rural hillside on the Italian island. Formerly a workshop and warehouse, traditional details like chalk and mud plastered stone walls, concrete floors, and a Sabina beam roof made from…
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Aldo Bakker exhibits urushi lacquer furniture in New York
[ad_1] Dutch artist Aldo Bakker used a 12,000-year-old Japanese technique to create a series of sculptural, lacquered furniture currently on show at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York City. The works are among 10 pieces, including seats and tables, featured in Bakker’s Slow Motion exhibition at the Manhattan gallery. Bakker used a range of materials to create…
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NAB Studio proposes turning Notre-Dame roof into public greenhouse
[ad_1] Paris-based Studio NAB thinks a giant greenhouse could be built on top of Notre-Dame Cathedral to replace the roof lost in last month’s devastating fire. The covered garden would stretch the length of the Paris cathedral and along both arms of its crossing, while the building’s spire would be rebuilt as a multi-storey platform filled with…
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Morris + Company encase Wildernesse House restaurant with aluminium
[ad_1] Morris + Company has wrapped a metal arcade around a vaulted timber restaurant pavilion at Wildernesse House, a retirement living scheme in Kent. Raised on a heavy masonry base to deal with its sloping site, the restaurant’s contemporary facade takes visual cues from the arched windows of the adjacent Grade II-listed main house. The pavilion sits…
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Four Leaves House | Uncrate
https://uncrate.com/p/2019/04/four-leaves-house-1.jpg [ad_1] Located in the Karuizawa forest, just outside of Tokyo, the Four Leaves House serves as a weekend retreat from the city. The villa is comprised of three interlocking volumes. Topped with sweeping rooflines, the silhouette resembles a pile of leaves that have fallen from the branches of the surrounding trees. Its organic form…
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Ralf Pasel and students create boarding house for Bolivian school
[ad_1] Red bricks and corrugated metal form this dormitory at a school in an Andean village, which was designed and built by Berlin architecture students and German architect Ralf Pasel. The Bella Vista Boarding School is located in a village near the town of Cochabamba, which sits in a valley ringed by the Andes Mountains.…
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“Viollet-le-Duc would build a new roof and spire for Notre-Dame”
[ad_1] Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s Notre-Dame spire was much loved, but it was a fake. A modern replacement could become just as revered, says Tom Ravenscroft. Notre-Dame Cathedral will be rebuilt. French president Emmanuel Macron has promised as much and the unprecedented donations, which stand at around €850 million, means that the will and the funds are…
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20 projects shortlisted for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2019
[ad_1] A wooden water tower, a nature reserve, and a microlibrary made from recycled ice cream tubs are some of the projects on the shortlist for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2019. Twenty projects from 16 different countries have been shortlisted for the award, established in 1977 by the Aga Khan Foundation to “encourage building…
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Studio Gang’s spiralling Mira tower tops out in San Francisco
[ad_1] These new photographs capture the twisted and fragmented exterior of US firm Studio Gang’s 40-storey Mira tower, as it takes shape in San Francisco. Photos released by Mira developer Tishman Speyer capture the 400-foot-high (122-metre-high) tower, which is formed from a series of vertical twisting columns. Studio Gang’s Mira Tower has topped out in San…