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Ædifica presents “vision of densification” for Cité Angus II housing block in Montreal

April 5, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Local architecture studio Ædifica has created a residential apartment building outside Montreal with an interior courtyard and a metal-mesh second skin on the facade. Called Cité Angus II, the structure is part of Technopôle Angus, an urban revitalization project that its developers say is a “full-scale sustainable development”. It will put multi-storey residential and businesses

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Sam Crawford Architects creates red-roofed community pavilion in Sydney

March 23, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

An angular roof wrapped in translucent red-mesh panels crowns this Y-shaped pavilion in Sydney, designed by local studio Sam Crawford Architects. Located on the disused lawn of a bowls club in Hurlstone Memorial Reserve, the timber-clad structure is designed as a flexible community centre with uninterrupted connections to the surrounding park. The pavilion hosts a multipurpose

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Mesh veil wraps exhibition space in China by Trace Architecture Office

March 5, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A veil of metal mesh wraps the steel structure of In-Between Pavilion, an exhibition space in Shenzhen, China, designed by Beijing studio Trace Architecture Office. In-Between Pavilion provides a home for the Design Homology Museum, tucked between two buildings in the dense streetscape of the historic Nantou area. The museum is dedicated to exploring “the

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Peter Pichler Architecture encloses geometric office block with pleated facades

February 22, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Italian studio Peter Pichler Architecture has designed the angular headquarters for manufacturing company Bonfiglioli in Bologna, with a slanted roof covered in pleated mesh. Located in Bonfigliolo’s industrial site in Calderara di Reno, the building has a rectangular form punctured by a central outdoor courtyard and a series of terraces on the sloping roof. According

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Yatofu fosters “relaxed holiday atmosphere” in Jianze showroom

February 2, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Design studio Yatofu has completed a furniture showroom in Hangzhou, China, featuring a playful pastel colour palette and a display area housed on a steel-mesh platform. The 80-square-metre retail space belongs to Chinese design brand Jianze and forms part of an emerging cultural district in the city’s Liangzhe New Town. Yatofu set out to create

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Hayhurst & Co designs London school with a “landscape sensibility”

October 21, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

London studio Hayhurst & Co has completed the Edith Neville Primary School near King’s Cross, with pockets of landscape and external play spaces wrapped by a filigree screen of white aluminium mesh. Located within a wider masterplan for Central Somers Town developed by architecture practice DSDHA, the new school stands on a site that was

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Baldio Arquitectura designs Córdoba row house around existing carob tree

May 15, 2022 James Brillon 0
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Baldio Arquitectura has completed a small apartment with light wells and a central tree as part of a residential complex in Córdoba. The project, named Three Houses and a Carob Tree, is located in Córdoba, the capital of Argentina’s eponymous province. Completed in 2021, it began as a commission for Baldio Arquitectura to design two

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Buddhist principles inform PRO’s design of Mandala Lab in New York

October 28, 2021 Jenna McKnight 0

Brooklyn architecture studio PRO has designed an interactive gallery for a museum of Himalayan art that is meant to help people cope with “day-to-day challenges and emotional burdens”. The Mandala Lab occupies the third level of Manhattan’s Rubin Museum of Art, which is largely focused on art and culture from the Himalayas region. Designed by

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Plant-covered mesh panels surround preschool in Vietnam by HGAA

October 10, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Screens of metal mesh allow plants to climb up the walls of this steel-framed school in Ha Long City by Vietnamese studio HGAA, which has been shortlisted in the civic building category of Dezeen Awards 2021. Called My Montessori Garden, the preschool is designed to support the Montessori education system, which encourages children to develop

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Steel mesh wraps Nike’s LeBron James Innovation Center by Olson Kundig

October 8, 2021 Jenna McKnight 0
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A full-size basketball court and a 200-metre track are among the spaces found inside a large, metal-clad building designed by US firm Olson Kundig on the Nike campus in Oregon. The LeBron James Innovation Center is part of the 300-acre (121-hectare) Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. The new facility is named after the basketball

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