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• Sabine Marcelis creates furniture and lighting from same materials as Barcelona Pavilion

  09-01-2020 17:30
  
  Designer Sabine Marcelis has used glass, travertine and polished metal to create a collection of sculptural interventions that respond to the materiality of Mies van Der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion.
  No Fear of Glass is the latest in a series of temporary installations staged at the pavilion, which is a recreation of the structure built by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich for the Barcelona Expo in 1929.
  One of the instructions given to Mies van der Rohe when designing the pavilion was to "not use
  
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• A Metallic Villadrone movie by Studio MK27 depicts metabolist future city

  09-01-2020 15:58
  
  Brazilian architecture firm Studio MK27 has created this short sci-fi animation that imagines a city in 2100 with drone-powered flying homes, 3D-printed food, and replaceable body organs.
  Directed by Studio MK27 founder Marcio Kogan, A Metallic Villadrone depicts a city that takes cues from the Japanese metabolism movement, a post-war modernist architectural movement led by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange."Personally, I believe that metabolism is the future of cities with its architectural megast
  
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• Hemp is used on the inside and out of Cambridgeshire's Flat House

  09-01-2020 12:30
  
  Practice Architecture worked alongside hemp farmers to erect this zero carbon home in Cambridgeshire, England, from pre-fabricated panels in just two days.
  Flat House is located on Margent Farm, a 53-acre farming facility in rural Cambridgeshire that aims to show off the capabilities of hemp – a fast-growing strain of the cannabis plant.
  Hemp is already used commercially to manufacture everything from clothing to biofuel. It's increasingly being employed as an eco-friendly building materia
  
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• Studio Symbiosis proposes Aũra towers to alleviate air pollution in Delhi

  09-01-2020 11:49
  
  Studio Symbiosis has designed Aũra air purifying towers for Delhi, India, to help tackle the increasingly dangerous levels of pollution in the city.
  Described by Studio Symbiosis as "breathing lungs of the city", the Aũra towers have tapered, twisting forms designed to draw in polluted air and expel it in a purified form.
  The proposal responds to increasing levels of thick smog in Delhi that the studio says feels like "a gas chamber", which can be attributed to industrial waste, diesel
  
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• Arch Studio surrounds holiday house in China with covered courtyards

  09-01-2020 03:00
  
  A brick holiday home in Tangshan, China designed by Arch Studio has four external terraces partially sheltered under a pitched roof.
  Replacing a demolished wooden dwelling, the site is near to an organic food plant and a Buddhist shrine also completed by Arch Studio.Aptly named Courtyard Villa, the holiday home is an inversion of traditional courtyard dwellings in China called siheyuan.
  "Siheyuan has an inward-facing architectural structure, with buildings arranged around a central courtyard," s
  
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• Snøhetta gets go ahead for public garden at Phillip Johnson's AT&T building

  09-01-2020 00:17
  
  Snøhetta has been granted planning permission for an indoor garden at New York's 550 Madison, which forms part of its overhaul of the postmodern tower.
  Snøhetta's proposal for the indoor public garden on the ground floor of the 37-storey office building was approved by the New York City Planning Commission this week.
  The garden is part of an updated proposal that the firm revealed in 2018, after a major backlash against its initial design resulted in the postmodern tower gaining la
  
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