• Local cedar forms snow-cooled rice warehouse in Niigata Prefecture

    Local cedar forms snow-cooled rice warehouse in Niigata Prefecture
    Japanese studio Kei Kaihoh Architects has completed a timber-framed storage facility in Joetsu City that offers rice farmers a way to refrigerate their harvest without relying on gas or electricity.
    Instead, the Yukinohako facility is naturally cooled using snow – an abundant local material in this mountainous part of Niigata Prefecture, surrounded by ski resorts and terraced rice paddies.
    With the aim of creating a model that could be cheaply and easily replicated across the prefecture, K
  • This week BIG and Foster + Partners unveiled New York skyscrapers

    This week BIG and Foster + Partners unveiled New York skyscrapers
    This week on Dezeen, we revealed images of BIG's One High Line skyscraper as it nears completion and Foster + Partners' JPMorgan Chase headquarters, which topped out.
    Located near New York's High Line, the 122-metre-high development by Danish architecture studio BIG comprises two twisting, condominium towers joined at their base.
    Described by BIG founder Bjarke Ingels as "good neighbours", the towers will contain a total of 236 apartments across 36 floors, along with a public courtyard and

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