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• 565 Broome Soho is Renzo Piano's first residential project in New York City

  26-11-2019 23:00
  
  Italian architect Renzo Piano has completed his 565 Broome Soho – a New York condominium development comprising two identical glass towers.Piano's firm Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) has completed the 30-storey residential tower in Lower Manhattan, with interiors by Paris studio Rena Dumas Architecture Interieure (RDAI).
  Called 565 Broome Soho, the project occupies a formerly vacant lot on the western edge of Soho – between Broome and Watts Street – and the border of TriB
  
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• Works Progress Architecture creates triangular Portland Flatiron building for unusual site

  26-11-2019 16:00
  
  Protruding corner windows that are set at different angles front this timber-framed, three-sided building in northern Portland designed by American firm Works Progress Architecture.The Portland Flatiron building is located on a sloped, triangular site in the city's Boise Eliot neighbourhood. Rising five storeys, the building contains retail space on the ground level and offices up above. There also is a basement level for parking.
  The project is named after Manhattan's Flatiron Building –
  
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• Renzo Piano is the Italian high-tech architect

  26-11-2019 13:00
  
  Renzo Piano designed one of high-tech architecture's seminal buildings – the Centre Pompidou. Continuing our high-tech architecture series we profile the Italian architect who was a key figure in the largely British-led movement.
  Piano would tell you that he doesn't have a signature style, that he finds the idea of it inhibiting. He likes to treat every project as a problem requiring its own practical solution.
  However, there is no denying that, across his wide-ranging&
  
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• "The creative industries are misreading the public"

  26-11-2019 12:55
  
  With Brexit the British people have shown a greater appetite for risk than the creative sector, which needs to take the public more seriously or risk becoming irrelevant, says Martyn Perks of the Dissenters Design Network.A general election has been called. No one knows exactly what the UK public will do, but they will likely, again, take a huge risk and vote for the unknown.
  The 2016 EU referendum was a turning point. The UK public, in the face of 'expert' advice and exhortations, voted to leav
  
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• Gate of Bright Lights by Space Popular is a portal to a digital world

  26-11-2019 12:55
  
  Design practice Space Popular has inserted a video installation in the gate of a historic palace in Seoul to show viewers the past and the future.
  Called Gate of Bright Lights, the project is an invitation for passers-by to see how screens are portals to digital realms, and symbols of South Korea's place in the modern economy.The screens sit in the middle opening of the Gwangmyeongmun Gate at Deoksugung Palace and play a video of a digitally-rendered wooden gate opening and shutting to reveal di
  
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• Odile Decq unveils sinuous Antares tower for Barcelona

  26-11-2019 11:50
  
  Odile Decq has revealed visuals of a tower wrapped with sinuous red and white balconies in Barcelona, Spain, which will be her first residential tower.
  Designed by the French architect's eponymous firm Studio Odile Decq for a site close to Santiago Calatrava's Telefonica tower, the 28-storey Antares will contain 89 luxury apartments.
  Its undulating form created by the envelope of balconies is intended to be "a distinctive architectural statement", while complementing the organic forms of so
  
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• Flow Architecture lines stairwell of London house conversion with timber slats

  26-11-2019 03:00
  
  Flow Architecture and Maria Grazia Savito Architects have wrapped timber slats around the lightwell of a Victorian house conversion in Kensington, London.
  Called Light Falls, the project involved the complete remodelling of a 19th century end-of-terrace, stacking its living spaces on top of each other to maximise natural light.Due to its location in the Abingdon Conservation Area, any alterations to the original building were required to have a minimal impact.
  Drawing on the form of a waterfall,
  
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