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BIG and NASA collaborate to design 3D-printed buildings for the moon

October 1, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Project Olympus by BIG, ICON and SEArch+

BIG and 3D-printed building company ICON have revealed they are working on Project Olympus, which aims to develop robotic construction for the moon. The architecture firm and SEArch+ (Space Exploration Architecture) were enlisted for the project by ICON after it received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) government contract boosted with funding from NASA. Called

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Outdoor dining on New York City streets becomes permanent

September 29, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Dine Out NYC in Chinatown by Rockwell Group

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has made the Open Restaurants Program, which allows restaurants in the city to extend seating onto streets, sidewalks and public spaces, permanent following the coronavirus pandemic. First temporarily initiated in June to allow restaurants to continue doing business while adhering to social distancing restrictions, the programme will now

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Outdoor dining on New York City streets becomes permanent

September 29, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Dine Out NYC in Chinatown by Rockwell Group

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has made the Open Restaurants Program, which allows restaurants in the city to extend seating onto streets, sidewalks and public spaces, permanent following the coronavirus pandemic. First temporarily initiated in June to allow restaurants to continue doing business while adhering to social distancing restrictions, the programme will now

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Heatherwick Studio designs flood-resilient park The Cove for San Francisco

September 28, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
The Cove by EPX2

London-based Heatherwick Studio has designed an elevated work campus and park bolstered against rising sea levels caused by climate change to replace deteriorating historic piers in San Francisco. Heatherwick Studio developed The Cove in a team of 20 called EPX2 for the site of Piers 30-32 at the southern end of the Central Embarcadero Piers

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New York clothing store Nanamica is designed like a Japanese house

September 21, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Nanamica store by Taichi Kuma

Woodwork form the frame of a gabled house inside this clothing store in New York designed by Japanese architect Taichi Kuma. Tokyo-based Kuma designed the store cn the city’s Soho neighbourhood for Japanese clothing brand Nanamica. Marking its second outpost following another in Tokyo, the store was designed to draw on the brand’s Nanamica, which

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Alice D’Andrea creates industrial coffee roastery in Vancouver steel foundry

September 19, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Coffee roasting and tasting takes place in this industrial-style coffee shop in Vancouver, which local studio Alice D’Andrea has designed inside a historic factory building. Located in Vancouver’s Railtown neighbourhood, the space was built in 1923 as the Settlement Building, a steel foundry for manufacturing machinery parts, and then later used as a warehouse for

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Alice D’Andrea creates industrial coffee roastery in Vancouver steel foundry

September 19, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Coffee roasting and tasting takes place in this industrial-style coffee shop in Vancouver, which local studio Alice D’Andrea has designed inside a historic factory building. Located in Vancouver’s Railtown neighbourhood, the space was built in 1923 as the Settlement Building, a steel foundry for manufacturing machinery parts, and then later used as a warehouse for

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Snøhetta to design Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota

September 18, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Snøhetta to design Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota

Architecture firm Snøhetta has been announced as the winner of a competition to design the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota. The New York- and Oslo-based firm was chosen from a shortlist containing US firm Studio Gang and Danish studio Henning Larsen to design the library. Snøhetta’s winning design is topped with a huge curved

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Abraham Thomas named architecture and design curator for The Met

September 16, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Portrait of Abraham Thomas

Abraham Thomas, former director of the Sir John Soane’s Museum, has been named curator of architecture and design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Thomas said he was “thrilled and honored” to join The Met as Thomas in the newly created role, Daniel Brodsky Curator of Modern Architecture, Design, and Decorative Arts.

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Red roofs are layered atop wooden frame of Casa Malalcahuello by GAAA

September 16, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Casa Malalcahuello by GAAA

Bright red roofs stand out in the setting of this house in Malalcahuello, Chile, which Santiago firm Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has built from CNC-cut wood. Casa Malalcahuello has an impressive natural setting that includes a mountainous backdrop, the Malalcahuello National Reserve and Lonquimay Volcano to its north, and the nearby Conguillo National Park and

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