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• Architecture Faculty Presenting Personal Artworks In Biennial Exhibition - Texas A&M Today - Texas A&M University Today

  01-04-2021 22:29 via today.tamu.edu
  
  Architecture Faculty Presenting Personal Artworks In Biennial Exhibition - Texas A&M Today  Texas A&M University Today
  
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• Dallas photographer Nikola Olic finds poetry in architecture

  01-04-2021 21:00
  
  Skyscrapers tucked behind tower-blocks and nature imitating architecture are themes in Nikola Olic's urban photography series, which he describes as a collection of "individual poems".
  Dallas-based photographer Nikola Olic has curated Structure Photography, an online collection of 88 digital photographs he took of architecture from cities across America, as well as Europe and Asia.
  Top: Moon Tennis, a photograph of Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas. Above: Shadows, Heroes, an image from Belgra
  
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• Gridded steel facade evokes bamboo forest at Hermès store in Tokyo

  01-04-2021 19:00
  
  Parisian studio RDAI has designed a store on Tokyo's prestigious Omotesando Avenue for fashion house Hermès, which was designed to evoke aspects of Japanese nature and culture.
  The 488-square-metre store is the first freestanding Hermès outlet in Tokyo since the brand opened its Ginza emporium in 2001, which was also designed by RDAI.
  Above: a Hermès store on Tokyo's Omotesando Avenue. Top image: it has a gridded steel facade
  The latest store occupies a p
  
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• UNA2 covers Italian public square with bright-red loggia

  01-04-2021 13:30
  
  Red aluminium slats form an angular canopy atop a structure designed by Italian architecture office UNA2 to shelter part of a public square in the town of Rosignano Marittimo, Italy.
  UNA2, which is based in nearby Genoa, was commissioned by the local authority to oversee the redevelopment of the Piazza della Repubblica into a versatile, car-free public space.
  Above: UNA2 has redeveloped a public square in Italy. Top image: its centrepiece is an angular loggia-style pavilion
  The focal point of th
  
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• Architecture Discipline wraps New Delhi office in "protective armour"

  01-04-2021 13:10
  
  Indian studio Architecture Discipline has renovated an office in New Dehli to create an inward-facing headquarters for Rug Republic that is wrapped in a weathering-steel shell.
  Created in response to the "hostile" local environment, the three-storey building was wrapped in a banded Corten-steel shell to protect it.
  "It has been designed as a protective armour offering very little views of the outside, keeping the hostile and acrid environment away," said Architecture Discipline founder
  
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• Covid-19 has helped kill "indiscriminate international architecture" says Reinier de Graaf

  01-04-2021 12:48
  
  The coronavirus pandemic has helped encourage a return to regional architectural styles, according to OMA partner Reinier de Graaf.
  The Dutch architect said Covid-related travel restrictions have hastened the demise of "indiscriminate international architecture" designed by globe-trotting starchitects.
  "I think there might be an increasing localism again emerging in architecture," de Graaf said. "Maybe a form of regionalism is emerging in architecture and architects generally working more locall
  
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• Secret proposal for "Even Higher Line" on top of New York's High Line revealed

  01-04-2021 10:00
  
  New York City planners are working on secret plans for a controversial new pedestrian walkway on top of the High Line, dubbed "The Even Higher Line".
  The plans, which were leaked to Dezeen, involve turning the former elevated railway into a multi-storey attraction, increasing visitor capacity while allowing for social distancing.
  The development would also allow real-estate owners to double the height of buildings adjacent to the High Line in exchange for backing the proposal.
  The current walkwa
  
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• Five architecture and design events in April from Dezeen Events Guide

  01-04-2021 09:00
  
  Nairobi Design Week, a retrospective of work by Yayoi Kusama and a tour of Frank Sinatra's Palm Springs estate designed by E Stewart Williams are among the architecture and design events listed in Dezeen Events Guide this April.
  Other events this month include an online version of Furisalone and the first-ever Dezeen Club social, which will take place in a virtual rooftop bar.
  Among the events taking place this month is a retrospective of work by Yayoi Kusama (top) and a virtual Dezeen Club soci
  
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• An Architecture Critic Ranks the 5 Most Interesting Philadelphia Buildings - Philadelphia magazine

  01-04-2021 09:00 via phillymag.com
  
  An Architecture Critic Ranks the 5 Most Interesting Philadelphia Buildings  Philadelphia magazine
  
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• WT Architecture's glass writer's studio creates "sense of being almost outdoors"

  01-04-2021 03:00
  
  Scottish studio WT Architecture has created a glasshouse in Edinburgh as a writer's studio in the garden of a Victorian villa.
  Built to replace a dilapidated Victorian glasshouse, the studio was designed to replicate the simplicity and feeling of the original building, but make it suitable for regular use by the pair of client writers.
  WT Architecture has created a writer's studio in Edinburgh
  "We were asked specifically to maintain the simplicity of a glass house providing a sense of being almo
  
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