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Salvaged wood wraps Surf House in Santa Cruz by Feldman Architecture

American firm Feldman Architecture has created a cypress-clad, beachfront dwelling that is meant to balance “high design and a casual Californian aesthetic”. Perched on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Surf House is located in the central California city of Santa Cruz. The 417-square-metre dwelling serves as a weekend getaway for a San Francisco Bay […]

admin · 8/28/2021

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Chart Art Fair installs five "social architecture" pavilions in Copenhagen

This Dezeen video showcases the five architecture pavilions at this year’s Chart art fair in Copenhagen, including a restaurant covered with microgreens and a structure made out of inflatable bags. Each of the pavilions, which are installed in the courtyards of Charlottenborg in the centre of Copenhagen, are intended to be examples of “social architecture” and […]

admin · 8/27/2021

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Episode Eleven: Gavin Tonnet of utecture on city-changing urban renewal projects and transformational virtual pre-construction technology. Pete The Builder talks about The Tool Revolution

Henry McDonald interviews Gavin Tonnet of utecture about city-changing urban renewal projects and transformational virtual pre-construction technology. Who is Gavin Tonnet? Gavin is a recognised expert and leader in the property space having created and led businesses for Mirvac, Leighton, Stockland and Japanese giant, Sekisui House. He was responsible for many significant city-changing urban renewal […]

Gavin Tonnet · 8/25/2021

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Chilean school by Sebastián Irarrázaval takes cues from a walled citadel

Clusters of buildings enclosed by a tall, white wall form an educational campus for children with disabilities that was designed by Chilean studio Sebastián Irarrázaval Arquitectos. The Juan Luis Undurraga Integral Stimulation Center is located in Talagante, a town on the outskirts of Santiago. The school was designed for the care and education of children […]

admin · 8/21/2021

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Garrison Architects completes modernist Catskills retreat with 24 elevated cabins

Prefabricated wooden cabins perched on stilts surround a central lodge at this 50-acre resort in the Catskill Mountains designed by Brooklyn firm Garrison Architects. Called Piaule, the boutique hotel and spa is the brainchild of Nolan McHugh and Trevor Briggs, the NYC-based creatives behind the homeware brand of the same name. Located between the Upstate […]

admin · 8/20/2021

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Los Angeles ranch house becomes Zen Den by Working Holiday Studio

The owners of design firm Working Holiday Studio have renovated their own mid-century residence by opening up the kitchen, adding skylights and filling the interior with contemporary decor. The house, called Zen Den, is located in Woodland Hills, a suburban community in Los Angeles that lies about 20 minutes by car from the beach. Carlos […]

admin · 8/19/2021

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Worrell Yeung updates 1970s Hamptons house designed by Charles Gwathmey

A cedar-clad dwelling on Long Island that was originally designed by famed US architect Charles Gwathmey has received a sensitive refresh by New York studio Worrell Yeung. The House in the Dunes is located in the Hamptons beach town of Amagansett. Formerly called the Haupt Residence, the dwelling was designed in the 1970s by Charles […]

admin · 8/17/2021

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Espacio 18's La Casa del Sapo opens out onto a beach in Mexico

Mexican practice Espacio 18 Arquitectura has designed a concrete seafront home on Zapotengo beach in Oaxaca, with two wings oriented to follow the rising and setting of the sun. Called La Casa del Sapo, or Toad’s House, the “timeless” minimalist design was created as a reflection on life’s necessities. The local practice was inspired by […]

admin · 8/16/2021

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Episode Ten: How do Europe and America compare when it comes to Green Building - interview with Daniel Jaconetti. Pete discusses workers and material issues

Henry McDonald talks to sustainable architect, Daniel Jaconetti about his work and how Europe compares to the USA when it comes to green building. Daniel’s passion lies in biomimetic concepts and how technologies inspired by nature can create responsive environmental that coexist with their ecologies. His chat with Henry is a real eye-opener packed with […]

Jackie De Burca · 8/15/2021

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Ace Hotel Brooklyn showcases the borough's artistic talent

The Ace Hotel‘s newest outpost in Downtown Brooklyn by interior designers Roman and Williams features art in every room, and a public gallery in its lobby with rotating exhibitions. Located between the neighbourhoods of Fort Greene, Boerum Hill and Downtown Brooklyn, New York City’s second Ace Hotel is now open to the public. It is […]

admin · 8/15/2021

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Reddymade and Ai Weiwei add hexagonal extension to Salt Point home

Architecture studio Reddymade has collaborated with Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei to design a corrugated metal extension with hexagonal ends for a weekend home in Salt Point, New York. The local studio drew on the hexagonal plan of the original 1980s home to create the minimal, linear form of Salt Point Residence, with 185 […]

admin · 8/11/2021

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Interview with Daniel Jaconetti, National Sustainable Design Leader at HED

Associate | Architecture | National Sustainable Design Leader at HED Ahead of Daniel’s interview with Henry McDonald which will be broadcast on Episode 10 on 17th August, I caught up for a quick chat with Daniel Jaconetti. What led you, Daniel Jaconetti, into sustainable architecture? Growing up in the wooded Hudson Valley of New York […]

Jackie De Burca · 7/26/2021

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"Great design isn't enough. We need homes that will get us to net-zero"

By Geraldine de Boisse To reduce carbon emissions, architects and designers need to change the way they design homes, writes Geraldine de Boisse, vice president of innovation at renewable-energy supplier Bulb. “Great design isn’t enough. We need homes that will get us to net-zero.” The way we live and work has changed. While we might […]

admin · 7/23/2021

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Long-awaited 3D-printed stainless steel bridge opens in Amsterdam

By James Parkes A 12-metre-long 3D-printed pedestrian bridge built by Dutch robotics company MX3D has opened in Amsterdam six years after the project was launched. The bridge, which was 3D-printed from stainless steel, spans across the Oudezijds Achterburgwal in Amsterdam’s Red Light District. Named MX3D Bridge, it was designed by Joris Laarman Lab in collaboration with MX3D […]

admin · 7/19/2021

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Nettleton Tribe designs Brisbane build-to-rent tower

A 30-storey build-to-rent tower would be built atop a prominent ridgeline in Brisbane’s Bowen Hills, under a development application lodged with planning authorities. Designed by Nettleton Tribe for the Queensland CFMEU, acting as a developer, the tower would be bound by Campbell, Hazelmount and Edgar streets. Nettleton Tribe notes in its design statement that the […]

admin · 7/19/2021

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University of Central Lancashire highlights ten student architecture projects

A glassmaking studio that also works as a community centre and a creative hub that produces ceramic lamps are featured in Deezen’s latest school show by students at the University of Central Lancashire. The projects, which are all located in Blackpool and explore themes of inequality, sustainability and tourism, also include exhibition spaces and a model-boat […]

admin · 7/18/2021

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NOLA children's asylum revived as Hotel Saint Vincent by Lambert McGuire Design

Moody grey rooms add to the spooky ambience of this hotel in New Orleans that occupies a 19th-century infant asylum renovated by Lambert McGuire Design. Hotel Saint Vincent is housed within a red-brick building that was founded in 1861 as The Saint Vincent’s Infant Asylum. Set among the Greek Revival and Italianate mansions of the […]

admin · 7/17/2021