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• Architecture grad makes affordable prefab homes from Hawaii's invasive trees

  28-12-2019 19:00
  
  University of Hawaii architect graduate Joey Valenti has designed prefabricated and low-cost housing units made entirely from invasive albizia trees on the island of Oahu.The prefab Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) – a type of small residence typically built in backgardens – form part of Valenti's greater Albizia Project, which spawned from his seventh-year dissertation.
  The initiative aims to address Honolulu's affordable housing shortage, while restoring native forests. Like other isl
  
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• Sadie Morgan and Jamie Fobert recognised in Queen's New Year Honours list

  28-12-2019 13:56
  
  Jamie Fobert has received a CBE for services to architecture, Sadie Morgan has received an OBE for services to design advocacy, and Forensic Architecture's Eyal Weizman has been made a MBE in the New Year Honours list 2020.
  Canadian-born British architect Fobert, who designed the cliffside extension to the Tate St Ives, has been made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE), in the Queen's biannual honours programme, which "recognises the outstanding achievements of people across the United Kingd
  
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• Jamie Fobert, Peter Saville and Sadie Morgan recognised in Queen's New Year Honours list

  28-12-2019 13:56
  
  Architect Jamie Fobert and graphic designer Peter Saville have received CBEs in the New Year Honours 2020, while architect Sadie Morgan and design advocate Hilary Cottam received OBEs and Forensic Architecture's Eyal Weizman has been made a MBE.
  Canadian-born British architect Fobert, who designed the cliffside extension to the Tate St Ives, has been made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE), in the Queen's biannual honours programme, which "recognises the outstanding achievements of people a
  
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• Dezeen's top 10 Chinese architecture projects of 2019

  28-12-2019 11:00
  
  Continuing our review of 2019, Benedict Hobson picks out 10 diverse architecture projects from across China, including a collection of wooden huts on a remote mountainside and one of the largest airports in the world.
  Jishou Art Museum, Jishou, by Atelier FCJZ
  Beijing architecture studio Atelier FCJZ created the Jishou Art Museum over the Wanrong river in the city of Jishou to encourage people to engage with art on their daily commute.
  Initially, the municipal government had planned to buil
  
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• MIA Design Studio covers Vietnamese home with protruding planters

  28-12-2019 07:00
  
  Cuboid planters containing trees and shrubs protrude from the elevations of this home in Saigon, Vietnam, designed by MIA Design Studio.
  Called Sky House, the house was designed by MIA Design Studio to create a sense of being close to nature within its busy urban surroundings.The living spaces of the three-storey home are set back from the site boundary, protected by a buffer space of planted terraces and looking inwards to a central, sky-lit atrium.
  "Without interference to the land or the
  
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