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• Colorado campus by Paul Andersen features buildings with "false fronts"

  23-12-2019 16:00
  
  American architect Paul Andersen has designed a series of commercial structures in Colorado with deceptive facades that rise higher than the actual buildings – a style that was popular in the Old West.The project, called Emerald Workshops, is located in Frederick, a small town just outside of Denver and near a major highway.
  The development provides affordable office, workshop and retail spaces geared toward "makers and doers". The client, Emerald Management, owns several light-industrial
  
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• Haeckels' Victorian bathing machine warms up winter seaside dippers

  23-12-2019 13:15
  
  Skincare brand Haeckels has built a traditional wood-burning sauna on the sands of Margate beach, in a bid to "reacquaint the community" with the health-giving properties of their local waters.
  Located in the town of Margate on Britain's southeast coast, the bathing machine is constructed from traditional sauna wood planks, with oak wheels attached to a steel frame.
  It features a waxed cloth awning that can be retracted and steps that double up as a door and can be pulled up to make the bathing
  
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• Billund carpark covered with roads from Lego play sets

  23-12-2019 13:00
  
  Danish architecture studio CEBRA has designed the facades of a car park for Lego in Billund, Denmark, which features a road layout based on the toy company's City road plates.
  The facades, created by CEBRA, cover a five-storey car park designed by architecture studio Ravn Arkitektur, which will be used by people working in the Lego offices and visiting the nearby Legoland.
  The design used across the facades is directly based on Lego's City road plates, which were or
  
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• Billund car park covered with roads from Lego play sets

  23-12-2019 13:00
  
  Danish architecture studio CEBRA has designed the facades of a car park for Lego in Billund, Denmark, which features a road layout based on the toy company's City road plates.
  The facades, created by CEBRA, cover a five-storey car park designed by architecture studio Ravn Arkitektur, which will be used by people working in the Lego offices and visiting the nearby Legoland.
  The design used across the facades is directly based on Lego's City road plates, which were or
  
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• 2019 goes green: top environmental stories of the year

  23-12-2019 11:35
  
  Green cities and innovative transport stand in the spotlight of 2019's most read environmental stories
  
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• 2019's most read commercial stories

  23-12-2019 11:16
  
  The Rolling Stones, Yangtze River and black and white themes all proved popular in 2019, making it onto the top commercial stories of the year
  
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• Black timber and zinc house with sauna sits next to a Finnish lake

  23-12-2019 03:00
  
  A house by Studio Puisto in Finland, sits between a lake and a dense spruce forest and is clad in black-oiled wood and topped by sloping zinc roofs.
  Called Three Square House, the house in Southern Savonia is made up of three interlocking volumes, with a central building flanked by two smaller spaces.These auxiliary rooms house a garage, storage and a sauna.
  Between the garage and the main house a corner of raised wooden decking with a sunken tub connects to a walkway down to a jetty out into th
  
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