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• Iosa Ghini Associati counters Moscow's "monotony" with brightly coloured apartment blocks

  27-12-2019 13:00
  
  Italian architecture studio Iosa Ghini Associati has worked with Russian firm Mosproekt-3 to complete  47 high-rise buildings clad with colourful panels on the outskirts of Moscow.
  Situated in the Dmitrovskoe Shosse district, the development consists of numerous 16-story high-rise blocks arranged around two vast communal courtyards with a strip of green space and low-rise buildings in between.While Mosproekt-3 dealt with the technical aspects of the buildings, Iosa Ghini
  
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• Dezeen's top 10 staircases of 2019

  27-12-2019 11:00
  
  Continuing our review of 2019, Lizzie Crook spotlights 10 of the best staircase designs from this year including concrete steps intended to attract Japanese spirits and stairs that double as a meeting space.
  Hapimag Headquarters, Switzerland, by Hildebrand
  A giant concrete staircase winds its way up through the the four storeys of this open-plan office by Hildebrand in Steinhausen.
  It is lit by a large elliptical skylight above it and is designed to double as an "open and playful space
  
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• Zaha Hadid Architects wins approval for world's first all-timber stadium

  27-12-2019 09:00
  
  Zaha Hadid Architects has won planning permission for the world's first wooden football stadium, which will be built in Gloucestershire, England.
  When complete it aims to be the world's greenest football stadium, constructed entirely from timber and powered by sustainable energy sources.It was the second attempt to gain planning permission for the 5,000-seat timber stadium for the Forest Green Rovers football club, after the original proposal was blocked by Stroud's local council in June 20
  
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• Atelier Tao+C lines walls of capsule hotel with bamboo bookshelves

  27-12-2019 07:00
  
  Bamboo bookshelves line the triple-height atrium of a glass-walled capsule hotel and library in Zhejiang Province, China, by Atelier Tao+C.
  Surrounded by mountains, the hotel in the village of Qinglongwu was built inside an old rammed-earth structure that has been given a glazed gable-end extension.A wooden extension covered in translucent corrugated plastic panels projects from the eastern gable end of the original structure
  The full-height glazed gable end fills the lobby with light, that filt
  
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• Prayer hall sits inside a cluster of rock-shaped buildings

  27-12-2019 05:00
  
  CEBRA has completed a cave-like prayer centre in Abu Dhabi housed in a landscape of jagged, rock-like forms.
  Al Musallah prayer hall is also a new park for the city.
  Commissioned by the city's Department of Culture and Tourism, the prayer centre is part of a wider masterplan for a site adjacent to the Qasr Al Hosn Fort – Abu Dhabi's oldest stone structure.Drawing on the mud-crack patterns of Abu Dhabi's coastal desert landscape, the rock shapes rise out of a small pool of water.
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