Month: June 2021

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Kéré Architecture uses local clay to construct Burkina Institute of Technology

June 29, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0
A university in Burkina Faso lined with eucalyptus wood

Burkinabe architect Diébédo Francis Kéré’s studio has built a university in Burkina Faso, western Africa, which has walls made with locally sourced clay and screens of eucalyptus wood. The facility, named the Burkina Institute of Technology, forms part of Lycée Schorge Secondary School campus in Koudougou that was also designed by Kéré Architecture. It was

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“Counterspace was born out of a desire to create a different canon” says Sumayya Vally

June 29, 2021 Francesca Tesler 0

In the first of a series of exclusive video interviews with Sumayya Vally, the Serpentine Pavillion 2021 architect says her studio Counterspace was founded out of a desire to create the kind of architecture she felt was missing from her formal education. Vally, who at 30 was the youngest architect to receive the annual Serpentine

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Foster + Partners proposes winery in Kent with curved green roof

June 29, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0
A visual of a vineyard

A green roof that extends up from the landscape will disguise The Kentish Wine Vault, which Foster + Partners has designed for the village of Cuxton in northwest Kent, England. According to the client, Vineyard Farms, the winery is designed by Foster + Partners to put Kent “at the heart of the English wine industry”.

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Alpini Square / Studio Capitanio Architetti + OSA architettura e paesaggio

June 29, 2021 Andreas Luco 0

The redevelopment of Piazza degli Alpini was carried out by Studio Capitanio Architetti and Osa Architettura e Paesaggio on behalf of Bergamo Municipality between 2018 and 2020. It is at the centre of the redevelopment of public spaces, which defines the city in a period of urban regeneration. This limited budget project recovered the collective dimension of the largest open space in the city mitigating the long-standing social issues that affected this central area, which was frequented by individuals at the margin of society and indifferent passers-by hurrying along. The square is barycentric between the 1900s central system by Piacentini and the wide expansion of Porta Sud.

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“I respond to every fucking detail of the time we’re in” says Frank Gehry

June 29, 2021 Marcus Fairs 0
Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry’s new tower in Arles fits with both the ancient Roman city and today’s environmental agenda, the architect claimed in an exclusive interview with Dezeen. Speaking to Dezeen in Arles last week the Pritzker Prize-winner said The Tower, which has a steel-and-concrete frame and a glazed drum at its base, responds to current concerns

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