Architecture news

• Rever & Drage builds one third of a house for a deer hunter in Norway

  29-11-2019 13:54
  
  Norwegian studio Rever & Drage has completed 1/3 House, a building that one part house and two parts empty space.
  The two-storey building is a home for a young, married couple in rural Norway.As the pair had a limited budget, they could only afford to build a small residence for themselves. But they wanted a building that would be easy to extend when they have a family.
  Rever & Drage's solution was to create the structure of a larger home, but to leave two-thirds of it empty fo
  
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• Renzo Piano's Kansai airport has a mile-long high-tech terminal

  29-11-2019 12:30
  
  Next in our high-tech architecture series is Renzo Piano's Kansai International Airport, which was built on an artificial island in Osaka Bay.
  The high-tech architecture movement, of which the Italian architect Piano was a key proponent, was defined by buildings that utilised the latest developments in technology and industrial design.
  Japan's Kansai International Airport, with its asymmetrical clear-span roof and visible structure, demonstrates many of the movement's qualities.
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• Takt Studio shades its workspace with corrugated plastic shutters

  29-11-2019 08:00
  
  Moving shutters of corrugated plastic shade this drawing studio pavilion in the Illawarra Escarpment, Australia, designed by Takt Studio as an extension to its workspaces.
  Located on a slope and abutting a large retaining wall, The Drawing Room has a long, thin footprint of 1.8 metres by 6.4 metres.It provides a meeting and work space for Takt Studio, along with a coffee kitchen and a storage space.
  A path of decking hugs the contour of the slope, and leads to a series of steps up the hillside t
  
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• Two robotic fabrication methods entwine to make Tongji University bridge

  29-11-2019 03:00
  
  Thin carbon fibres wind over a 3D-printed metal frame to form this hybrid bridge, made by university students in Shanghai using two emerging robotic fabrication techniques.
  Students participating in the DigitalFUTURES International 2019 summer workshop at Tongji University worked with local research studio Fab-Union to design the bridge, which can hold more than 20 people.
  The Robot Fabricated Hybrid Bridge is an exploration of two relatively recent construction methods – large-scale metal
  
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