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• La Base Studio wraps glass Buenos Aires house with shading screen

  29-11-2023 22:29
  
  Local architecture firm La Base Studio has renovated a glass and concrete home, wrapping it in a delicate privacy and shading screen on a lush site in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  Known as Casa Mendoza, the 2,150-square foot (200-square metre) residence was completed in 2022 on a 3,350-square foot (330-square metre) lot at the connection of an urban grid and private neighbourhood.
  La Base Studio designed the project in Buenos Aires
  The site falls at an intersection of a busy cosmopolitan street and
  
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• Neom unveils plans for hexagonal-pillar hotel on the Gulf of Aqaba

  29-11-2023 19:24
  
  Saudi mega project Neom has unveiled images of a development named Siranna designed by Woods Bagot that will contain apartments and a hotel within a hexagonal structure designed to "blend into the adjoining mountain".
  The latest region to be announced as part of the Neom development in the north west of Saudi Arabia, Siranna will be located on a bay on the Gulf of Aqaba that will only be accessible from the sea.
  Neom has announced plans for a hotel on the Gulf of Aqaba in Saudi Arabia
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• Saudi Arabia set to host 2030 World Expo in Riyadh

  29-11-2023 17:30
  
  Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh has won the competition to host the 2030 World Expo, becoming the second Middle Eastern city to host the international event after Dubai in 2020.
  The Riyadh Expo 2030 won the bid after 119 out of the 182 members of the Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), the World Expo supervisor, voted in its favour.
  The news was announced yesterday and described by Riyadh Expo 2023 organisers as a "historic achievement" on X, the platform formerly known as Twit
  
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• Jonathan Tuckey Design transforms Norwegian factory into industrial Trevarefabrikken hotel

  29-11-2023 12:30
  
  London architecture studio Jonathan Tuckey Design has converted a former factory in Norway into a hotel and wellness centre, celebrating the traces of its previous uses.
  Named Trevarefabrikken, the concrete-framed building in Henningsvaer in the Lofoten archipelago originally opened in the 1940s as a cod liver oil factory and carpentry workshop, before being abandoned.
  The hotel and wellness centre is located in an archipelago in Norway
  In 2014, four friends purchased the dilapidated space with
  
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• BIG reveals stepped housing overlooking Aegean Sea

  29-11-2023 12:15
  
  Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled the design for a luxury residential building with cascading terraces named Park Rise, which will form part of the Ellinikon city masterplan near Athens.
  Designed as the centrepiece of Ellinikon's Little Athens neighbourhood, Park Rise will contain 88 apartments stacked in a staggered arrangement of two gently curving wings, the tallest of which will rise to 50 metres.
  Park Rise will be the centrepiece of a coastal neighbourhood in Ellinikon
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• Gensler to add planted balconies to Foster+ Partners' former City Hall

  29-11-2023 12:00
  
  London's former City Hall, which was designed by British studio Foster+ Partners, is set to be renovated and extended as part of an overhaul by architecture studio Gensler.
  The vacant building, renamed as 110 The Queen's Walk, is being transformed into a mixed-use scheme by Gensler for its owner – the Kuwait-owned developer St Martins.
  Gensler's current plans include the extension of its floors and the introduction of ground floor retail facilities, while landscape architecture studio LDA
  
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• "Do you like it, corporate overlords?" asks commenter

  29-11-2023 11:30
  
  In this week's comments update, readers are discussing an extension of media company Warner Bros' headquarters in Burbank, completed by LA architecture studio Gehry Partners.
  The complex features two distinctive facades – glass intended to evoke the form of icebergs is interspersed with steel facades modelled on the art deco-style buildings of early Hollywood.
  Gehry Partners references icebergs and Hollywood for Warner Bros building
  "The dystopian corporate hellscape building is finished"
  
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• Studio RAP uses 3D-printed tiles to create facade informed by knitwear

  29-11-2023 11:00
  
  Dutch architecture practice Studio RAP has designed a "wave-like" facade from ceramic tiles for a boutique store in Amsterdam using 3D-printing and algorithmic design.
  Located on the P.C. Hooftstraat shopping street, Studio RAP designed the facade to stand out within its historic surroundings by digitally reinterpreting the silhouette of the original frontage.
  Studio RAP usef 3D-printed tiles for the facade
  The material strategy was informed by the extensive ceramics collection at the nearby Rij
  
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• DIU looks to add more capabilities to 'hybrid' space-based architecture - DefenseScoop

  29-11-2023 09:00
  
  DIU looks to add more capabilities to 'hybrid' space-based architecture  DefenseScoop
  
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• Chicago Architecture Biennial Review: Floating Museum Aims High - The New York Times

  29-11-2023 09:00
  
  Chicago Architecture Biennial Review: Floating Museum Aims High  The New York Times
  
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• Professor Carl Smith Enjoys Watching Landscape Architecture ... - University of Arkansas Newswire

  29-11-2023 07:04
  Professor Carl Smith Enjoys Watching Landscape Architecture ...  University of Arkansas Newswire
  
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