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Suzhou Public Culture Visitor Center / Tsing-Tien Making

November 1, 2024 Valeria Silva 0

Renmin Road is one of the important streets in Gusu District, Suzhou, featuring multiple public cultural venues along its route, including the Suzhou Public Cultural Centre. The Suzhou Public Cultural Centre (hereinafter referred to as the Cultural Centre) is a comprehensive cultural facility, comprising institutions such as Suzhou Art Museum; Suzhou Cultural Centre; Suzhou Celebrity Museum; Suzhou Woodcut Printing Academy; Suzhou Seal Cutting Art Academy; Suzhou Oil Painting Academy; and Suzhou Powder Painting Art Academy. 

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Weaving centre that “gives formal expression to local crafts” wins Mies Crown Hall Prize

November 1, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

The Community Production Center Las Tejedoras in Ecuador, designed by architects José Fernando Gómez and Juan Carlos Bamba for a collective of women weavers, has won the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. Located near the developing town of Guayaquil, the project was designed by Gómez of Natura Futura and Bamba to provide a space for

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San Mateo County Navigation Center / The Office of Charles F. Bloszies

November 1, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

The San Mateo County Navigation Center represents the first built instance of the Office of Charles F. Bloszies’s “Step(1)” interim supportive housing system, derived from the modular concept developed for the award-winning Mountain View Homekey facility. This project does not consist of “tiny homes” – the clients’ sleeping units are private quarters within the larger complex with shared amenities, services, and exterior spaces that comprise a supportive community.

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Survey reveals average salaries at UK architecture studios

November 1, 2024 Nat Barker 0

London studio Hopkins Architects has topped a leaderboard of the average salaries at UK architecture firms conducted by anonymous group The Pay 100. Architects or architectural designers with less than five years’ experience at the studio, founded by high-tech pioneers Patty and Michael Hopkins, are paid around £54,500 a year on average, according to the

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Lechuza House / ARKITITO Arquitetura

November 1, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

In order to be closer to their granddaughters, the conception for this house in São Paulo’s capital arises from the couple’s decision to change their address, having previously resided in the countryside of the state. The wife, a landscape architect, and the husband, an engineer with ties to Mexico, where he spent part of his childhood, aimed to recreate the serenity of their old home, incorporating elements of traditional Mexican architecture into the new residence as a way to evoke nostalgic memories. The realization of this project entrusted to the ARKITITO team.

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Pleated facade fronts Parisian housing by Kengo Kuma & Associates

November 1, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma & Associates has completed Yama-Tani, a wooden residential building in Paris with a sculptural facade designed to “liven up the street”. Yama-Tani, which means Mountain Valley in Japanese, features pleats of chestnut wood cascading down its street-facing facade at jaunty angles to make patterns of light and shadow. “Playing with its

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Open-air museum by Koop Architects “preserves the memory” of 17th century Turkish fortress

November 1, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Turkish studio KOOP Architects has revitalised the 17th-century Ottoman Seddülbahir Fortress on the Gallipoli peninsula, creating an outline in timber that suggests how its stone ruins would have previously looked. Located in the village of Sedd el Bahr at the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula, the Seddülbahir Fortress was originally constructed in 1656 and suffered

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