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• Bjarke Ingels meets Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro to "change the face of tourism in Brazil"

  17-01-2020 18:53
  
  Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has met Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro as part of a visit to investigate developing a tourism masterplan for the northeast region of the country.
  Bolsonaro met Ingels, described as "the most important architect of today", earlier this week as part of a trip with investors from Mexican company Nômade Group.
  "The President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro, received this Tuesday (14) the Danish Bjarke Ingels – considered the most important architect
  
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• Pastel colours and polka-dots cover a fantastical miniature city for children in Shenzhen

  17-01-2020 13:19
  
  Architecture studio X+ Living has built a polka-dot slide into a ball pit and giant pastel parasols within the Shenzhen Neobio Family Park in a shopping centre in China.
  Shenzhen Neobio Family Park is the latest in the Neobio series of immersive parent and child restaurants with playgrounds that X+ Living has been building in China.Parents can eat at the restaurant while their children explore the colourful and zany play area.
  Shenzhen Neobio Family Park occupies the atrium of the
  
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• Akon finalises deal to create his own cryptocurrency city in Senegal

  17-01-2020 13:08
  
  Senegalese-American singer Akon says he has signed an agreement with the government of Senegal to build a city with a cryptocurrency-based economy named Akon City.
  "Just finalized the agreement for Akon City in Senegal," Akon tweeted earlier this week. "Looking forward to hosting you there in the future."
  The singer initially announced plans to create a city in the west African country, which will use his own cryptocurrency called the Akoin for currency, at the Cannes Lions advert
  
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• Loyn & Co reveals proposal for carbon neutral neighbourhood in Wales

  17-01-2020 12:13
  
  Loyn & Co has unveiled its design for Parc Hadau, a net-zero-carbon housing scheme in Wales that will be built from cross-laminated timber and powered by renewable energy.Developed by Loyn & Co and landscape architects Farrer Huxley for Sero Homes, the Parc Hadau neighbourhood will comprise 35 eco-friendly dwellings on a scrubland site in Pontardawe.
  According to the studio, the homes will have a net-zero-embodied-carbon primary structure, use passive design, use renewable energy te
  
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• Cristina Iglesias wins 2020 Royal Academy Architecture Prize

  17-01-2020 11:00
  
  London's Royal Academy of Arts has named Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias the winner of its 2020 architecture prize for her urban sculptures in public spaces.
  This is the third year the 2020 Royal Academy Architecture Prize has been awarded. Previous winners are Diller Scofidio + Renfro founders Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, and Japanese architect Itsuko Hasegawa.
  Iglesias, who is based in Madrid, produced a series of works called Rivers and Public Spaces between 2006 and 2018 that used
  
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• B.E. Architecture builds Mermaid Beach Residence with a sense of "permanence"

  17-01-2020 10:00
  
  Heavy concrete walls anchor this family home in Queensland, Australia, to its beachside setting, while hiding it from a busy road nearby.
  Mermaid Beach Residence is situated in Queensland's Gold Coast region and has been designed to reflect "a desire to stay and age".Its owners – a couple with two young children – had, for the past decade, lived further along the same stretch of beach in a timber-framed house that B.E. Architecture compared to the quaint properties found in American
  
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• The Whole Architecture Catalog - e-flux Architecture - E-Flux

  17-01-2020 09:00
  
  The Whole Architecture Catalog - e-flux Architecture  E-Flux
  
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• Project Manager for Interior Architecture Projects - Archpaper.com - Archpaper.com - The Architect's Newspaper

  17-01-2020 09:00
  
  Project Manager for Interior Architecture Projects - Archpaper.com - Archpaper.com  The Architect's Newspaper
  
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• Hotel on the Santorini coast has rooms in white-painted caves

  17-01-2020 08:00
  
  Greek studio Kapsimalis Architects has turned a cluster of former homes, barns and cellars on the island of Santorini into a hotel with rooms in caves.
  Located among a strip of buildings that form the edge of the village of Odi, the Saint Hotel steps down on a cliff by the sea.Each level has unobstructed views out to the island's volcanic bay, with rooms dug into the steep hillside.
  Sixteen rooms open onto private terraces with pools and loungers, separated by bright white walls.The rooms,
  
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