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• SCI-Arc founding director and "unparalleled" architect Ray Kappe dies aged 92

  25-11-2019 21:40
  
  SCI-Arc founding director and celebrated Californian modernist Ray Kappe has passed away aged 92, leaving behind "a body of architecture of the highest level".
  Kappe established the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) with his wife Shelly Kappe, Thom Mayne, Jim Stafford, Glen Small, Ahde Lahti and Bill Simonian in 1972.
  The late architect is also celebrated for his influence on Californian modernism, a style that was emerging in the 1950s as he was starting his architectural
  
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• Atelier Masomi designs raw-earth-brick cultural centre in Niger

  25-11-2019 19:30
  
  Atelier Masomi has designed a cluster of five raw-earth buildings that will become the Niamey Cultural Center in the capital of Niger.
  The group of buildings in the capital of the west African country will contain a performance auditorium, gallery, cafe and community facilities and a library, which will be the first municipal library built in the city since the country's independence.The arts centre and library will be built alongside a valley, which is a natural ba
  
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• Hutong Bubble 218 by MAD gives "new life" to ageing Beijing hutong

  25-11-2019 13:40
  
  MAD has transformed a vacant courtyard house in one of Beijing's ancient hutongs by adding two bubble-like workspaces to its roof.
  Named Hutong Bubble 218, the overhaul is hoped to revive the hutong – a type of alley formed by lines of traditional courtyard residences – and attract more people to the neighbourhood in the Qianmen East area.It forms part of MAD's ongoing project that spotlights the potential of these ancient neighbourhoods in the Chinese capital, which are continually
  
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• Stansted Airport "challenged all the rules of terminal design"

  25-11-2019 13:30
  
  Thirty-six structural trees support the roof of Stansted Airport by Norman Foster's studio, which is the next project in our high-tech architecture series.
  At London's Stansted Airport, British firm Foster Associates, which is now Foster + Partners, turned the typical airport layout upside-down by placing all of the heavy environmental services underground, instead of on the rooftop.
  Beneath the roof, which is supported by structural trees, the airport's main concourse is a large,
  
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• Norman Foster's Stansted Airport "challenged all the rules of terminal design"

  25-11-2019 13:30
  
  Thirty-six structural trees support the roof of Stansted Airport by Norman Foster's studio, which is the next project in our high-tech architecture series.
  At London's Stansted Airport, British firm Foster Associates, which is now Foster + Partners, turned the typical airport layout upside-down by placing all of the heavy environmental services underground, instead of on the rooftop.
  Beneath the roof, which is supported by structural trees, the airport's main concourse is a large,
  
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• Frank Gehry crowns Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul with glass sails

  25-11-2019 03:00
  
  Frank Gehry has perched a stack of sweeping glass sails atop a cube of white stone for Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul, with interiors by architect Peter Marino.
  The roof is a reference to the curved roofs found in traditional Korean architecture, and a nod to the billowing forms of Gehry's Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris.Designed to "give an impression of flight", these louvred glass panels help to filter light throughout the building. The roof forms zigzags up the Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul, crea
  
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