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Project Ö Cabin / Bond Creative Agency

November 1, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

Newly-completed summer cabin project in the Finnish Archipelago, called Project Ö, where “Ö” means ‘an island’ in Swedish. We purchased the 5-acre island, on the edge of the Archipelago National Park, two years ago and have since built the main cabin with a sauna and the workshop.

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Concrete spiral staircase disrupts linear interiors of House in Ashiya

November 1, 2019 Semi Han 0
House in Ashiya by Kazunori Fujimoto Architects & Associates

A spiral staircase breaks the linear geometry in a Japanese house designed by Kazunori Fujimoto Architects & Associates, which is made nearly entirely of concrete. The house is built for a couple and their four children and sits at the base of Mount Rokko, a popular tourist destination, in the Hyōgo prefecture. The studio designed

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Snøhetta Designs Arctic Visitor Center for Svalbard’s Global Seed Vault

November 1, 2019 Eric Baldwin 0

Snøhetta has designed a new a visitor center for Arctic preservation storage called The Arc in Svalbard off the coast of Norway. At 78° north of the Earth’s equator, the project referencing its location in the Arctic and its function as an archive for world memory. Commissioned by Arctic Memory AS, the visitor center will showcase content from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault – the world’s largest secure seed storage.

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frank gehry + peter marino open louis vuitton maison seoul

November 1, 2019 macnadusa 0

on the site of a previously existing louis vuitton store in seoul, frank gehry has designed a new ‘maison’ for the fashion house that celebrates its strong relationship with korean culture. located in the city’s gangnam district, the building is the architect’s first creation in south korea and shares many similarities with the fondation louis […]

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Minimum Security Prison of Nanterre / LAN Architecture

November 1, 2019 Paula Pintos 0

The Nanterre site is located in a very diverse urban area, surrounded by single-family homes, the large majority from the 60s, and certain industrial buildings. The project aims to reconstruct a form of urbanity and to relate the architecture to the city through several forms: a facade instead of a wall, a more fluid transition between the interior and exterior, distribution of volume that links the various scales.

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Loft Duvernay / BOOM TOWN

November 1, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

Atelier BOOM-TOWN took advantage of the redevelopment of this loft located in an industrial building near the Atwater Market in Montreal, Quebec, to make a second transformation of this former factory, converted into a dwelling project in the 1980s. The new development decompartmentalizes the space to better appreciate the original volume with its two large masonry walls, steel structure and high ceilings.

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Shanghai Corduroy Factory Renovation / FTA Group GmbH

November 1, 2019 舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang 0

Shanghai Corduroy Factory is located at No. 2440 Pingliang Road in the Yangpu District of Shanghai. It was built and put in use back in the 1980s. With the change of industry structure, the factory stopped operating and it was waiting for a reborn. To revitalize the urban old factories, and turn them into a humane, influential and cohesive innovative community, FTA was commissioned to be the integrated designer for the urban renewal of the Corduroy Factory.