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• The Phoenix Garden is a green retreat in London's West End

  23-09-2020 18:00
  
  The Phoenix Garden, a green space and community building tucked into London's West End, takes centre stage in the next short film published with Open House London.
  Filmed by Jim Stephenson, the documentary is one of nine videos that will feature on Dezeen throughout Open House London 2020 to celebrate rarely published places in the capital.
  The Phoenix Garden is located on a former World War II bomb site near Convent Garden. It opened to the public in 1984 as one of seven green retreats in the a
  
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• Nicholas Boys Smith to lead new government taskforce to "embed beauty" in the planning system

  23-09-2020 16:54
  
  Create Streets founder Nicholas Boys Smith has been appointed by UK housing secretary Robert Jenrick to lead a national design body that has been tasked with "driving up design standards" for planning applications.
  Boys Smith will lead a steering group that will create the government's as-yet-unnamed architecture taskforce, which will work with local communities to develop legally binding design codes. Once the group's role has been finalised he will lead it as chairperson.
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• Nicholas Boys Smith to lead new government task force to "embed beauty" in the planning system

  23-09-2020 16:54
  
  Create Streets founder Nicholas Boys Smith has been appointed by UK housing secretary Robert Jenrick to lead a national design body that has been tasked with "driving up design standards" for planning applications.
  Boys Smith will lead a steering group that will create the government's as-yet-unnamed architecture task force, which will work with local communities to develop legally binding design codes. Once the group's role has been finalised he will lead it as chairperson.
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• Rieder's sculptural concrete cladding wraps Berlin office block

  23-09-2020 15:00
  
  Dezeen promotion: materials developer Rieder has created a three-dimensional facade from tailor-made, precast concrete panels for the Lichtfabrik office block in Berlin.
  The office block, designed by German architecture practices Bollinger+Fehlig and Stoeckert Architects, has a distinctive facade made using Rieder's formparts.fab cladding system.
  Located on Kottbusser Strasse in Berlin's Luisenstadt district, the block was designed as an extension of the Lichtfabrik commercial property to contai
  
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• Water Gardens Pod underneath high-rise seems to be "excavated from the tower block"

  23-09-2020 13:30
  
  Fletcher Crane Architects has designed The Water Gardens Pod, a three-bedroom house below a seventeen-storey high-rise on the Water Gardens estate near Hyde Park, London.
  The infill development was commissioned by charity institution The Church Commissioners, the owner of the estate, which was designed in 1966 as luxury residences.
  Top: The house is set beneath the 1960s tower block. Above: Water Gardens Pod was designed for The Church Commissioners
  Fletcher Crane Architects fitted out an existi
  
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• SOM unveils modular School/House classrooms in response to coronavirus

  23-09-2020 12:58
  
  American architecture studio SOM has created a design for a ventilated, high-ceilinged, modular classroom for schools that need temporary accommodation.
  Named School/House, the pop-up classrooms were designed in response to the current coronavirus pandemic but are intended to provide a more healthy alternative to current options available for schools in need of additional classroom space.
  "We designed School/House to address two key issues: an urgent need for temporary additional educational spa
  
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• New international competition: BORDERS: Transforming Forgotten Lines

  23-09-2020 12:12
  
  The main purpose is to design an architectural project able to transform a crossing border chosen by the participant, to join cultures, peoples, and create a vital spot for economic growth for all sides
  
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• Website to support interest in architecture careers

  23-09-2020 11:36
  
  Those Amazing Professions Inc. (TAP) has launched Those Amazing Architects, an innovative website to inform young people about careers in architecture
  
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• Ortraum Architects builds timber music studio beside house in Helsinki

  23-09-2020 11:00
  
  Ortraum Architects has built an asymmetric studio called 12 in the garden of a house in Helsinki, Finland, to provide its owners with space to compose music and make ceramics.
  The structure was commissioned by a couple who wanted an external space to work from home, beside their existing 1960s home in the Jollas neighbourhood.
  It features two contrasting storeys that Ortraum Architects has set askew, giving rise to a sculptural form and two individual workspaces inside for the couple.
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• AIA: Architecture billings remain sluggish – Finance & Commerce - Finance and Commerce

  23-09-2020 09:00 via finance-commerce.com
  AIA: Architecture billings remain sluggish – Finance & Commerce  Finance and Commerce
  
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• Double O Studio tops trefoil-shaped concrete house with rooftop pool

  23-09-2020 03:00
  
  Double O Studio has designed Trefoil House in Aroeira, Portugal, as a series of overlapping concrete shapes topped by a long swimming pool.
  Set on a sandy site amongst pine trees close to the Atlantic Ocean, the two-storey house has an unusual geometry that gives it its name.
  The swimming pool runs along the rooftop. Photo by Marco Antunes
  The ground floor is arranged around a hexagon-shaped hall, with a kitchen, living room and dining room in adjoining, tessellating hexagons. Between the rooms,
  
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