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• Our Lady of the Snows church combines Moravian and Innu influences

  01-12-2019 16:00
  
  Woodford Sheppard Architecture has completed a minimal wooden church in a remote town in Labrador, Canada.Our Lady of the Snows is located in Sheshatshiu, a small isolated village with 1,300 residents located in Canadian province Newfoundland and Labrador. The area is a settlement of indigenous people of Eastern Quebec and Labrador, known as the Innus.
  The project was commissioned by the Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation Band Council, the local institution that governs the village, to form a communi
  
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• Planted terraces overlook the sea at the Grand Park Hotel by 3LHD

  01-12-2019 13:00
  
  The Grand Park Hotel in Rovinj, Croatia, is topped with a series of planted terraces that step down towards the Adriatic Sea.
  Designed by local practice 3LHD, with interiors by Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni, the hotel has been designed to step down from the town centre to the seafront while having a minimal impact on the natural landscape.
  The hotel is the "final touch" in the wider redevelopment of the area, which has seen 3LHD design several other hotels as well as a concre
  
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• Explore contemporary architecture in Beijing's hutongs on our new Pinterest board

  01-12-2019 09:00
  
  Our latest Pinterest board features innovative architecture in Beijing's historic hutongs, including radical transformations of traditional courtyard houses such as this one by Chinese architect MAD. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our hutongs board to see more examples.
  Once common in Beijing and other northern Chinese cities, hutongs are narrow streets or alleys formed by rows of single-storey houses arranged around courtyards. This distinctive urban form dates back hundreds of years but m
  
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