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Shreesh Design Studio builds Indian preschool “as colourful as the minds of its users”

March 17, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Separate brightly coloured classroom buildings make up this preschool in Gujarat state, India, which was designed by local practice Shreesh Design Studio. The bold and contrasting steel structures were arranged in a circle around a central amphitheatre, which creates “a whimsical feeling” and provides “a space as colourful as the minds of its users,” according

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Seven Parisian brutalist buildings that illustrate the movement’s “level of experimentation”

March 15, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Barlett School of Architecture professor Robin Wilson has shared with Dezeen a selection of eclectic brutalist buildings in Paris that are featured in his latest book, Brutalist Paris. Published by Blue Crow Media, the Brutalist Paris book is made up of seven essays detailing over 150 buildings completed in the 1950s through to the 1980s.

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Emily Sandstrom builds Sydney home extension from recycled materials

March 3, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Australian architect Emily Sandstrom has transformed a run-down 1930s bungalow in Sydney by adding an extension that was partly built from demolition materials. Sandstrom aimed to restore the home, which had been left untouched for decades, and celebrate its original features including picture rails and ceiling mouldings. The architect demolished a small rear kitchen, outhouse

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Fabric creates timber and polycarbonate shed to double as light sculpture

February 25, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Timber slats that mimic the surrounding treeline wrap around a shed in Akaroa, New Zealand, which was designed by architecture studio Fabric to transform into a light sculpture at night. Named Nightlight, the 10-square-metre shed is located in a clearing among kānuka trees and is part of a plan to transform the site into a

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Three connected cabins form multi-generational home in Vermont mountains

February 24, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Montreal architecture studio Nós has completed a multi-generational home in Vermont’s Green Mountains named Three Summits, which is made up of three pitched-roof structures connected by one-storey walkways. Nós designed the home to provide communal spaces that frame views of the surrounding mountain range and bring together three generations of family members. “By the repetition

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MVRDV tops Tainan food market with “rolling hills”

February 21, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has unveiled the Tainan Xinhua Fruit and Vegetable Market in Taiwan with an undulating green roof that is accessed by a series of planted terraces. Located in the foothills of east Tainan, the market for Tainan City Government Agriculture Bureau was designed by MVRDV as a food supply hub as well as a

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PPAA submerges bedrooms of Mexican house into stony terrain

February 14, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Local architecture studio PPAA has completed the Echegaray house in the State of Mexico, which features bedrooms looking out to the rocky excavated ground and a communal living space on the top floor with panoramic views. PPAA created the Mexican house to appear like a black stone rising from the rocky terrain. Topped with a

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Atelier l’Abri creates A-frame micro-cabins in Quebec forest

February 10, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Canadian architecture studio Atelier l’Abri has built a series of A-Frame buildings for the Farouche Tremblant agrotourism site in Québec’s Mon-Tremblant National Park, which were designed to “recede in the landscape”. Intending to celebrate and showcase the surrounding untamed woodlands, Atelier l’Abri created a cafe, farm and four rental micro-cabins that act as a basecamp for

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Ten buildings that became embroiled in legal battles

February 10, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Following the news that Tate Modern has lost its lengthy court battle against Neo Bankside residents over privacy, we look back on other buildings that became the subject of legal disputes. Legal showdowns and court cases over accessibility, injuries, building damage, planning and project management feature in this roundup – from the shocking to the

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Vipp transforms 13th-century Italian palazzo into pop-up “liveable installation”

February 6, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Interior designer Julie Cloos Mølsgaard has created a pop-up hotel filled with Italian frescos and modern Scandinavian furniture for Danish homeware brand Vipp within Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy. The collaboration with Vipp saw the Palazzo Monti, which is an artist residency foundation hosted in a 13th-century palace, transformed into a hotel for guests to stay overnight. The

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