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• Dezeen Debate features "impressive" Basel pavilion

  30-11-2023 20:00
  The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features the Novartis Pavilion in Basel by AMDL Circle and Iart. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now.
  Italian studio AMDL Circle and interdisciplinary design studio Iart have completed the Novartis Pavilion in Basel, Switzerland.
  The round pavilion is wrapped in a media facade that is comprised of 10,000 solar modules with 30,000 embedded LEDs.
  Readers were amazed by the structure, with one describing it as "impressive". Another thought it was "somew
  
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• Kelly Wearstler designs Ulla Johnson store to capture the "spirit of southern California"

  30-11-2023 19:00
  
  American interior designer Kelly Wearstler has paired a towering tree with speckled burl wood panelling and vintage furniture by Carlo Scarpa at the Ulla Johnson flagship store in West Hollywood.
  Wearstler created the light-filled, two-storey shop as the flagship Los Angeles location for Johnson's eponymous clothing brand.
  Kelly Wearstler has designed the interiors for Ulla Johnson's LA flagship
  The duo worked together to envisage the sandy-hued interiors, which Wearstler described as "something
  
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• Kengo Kuma unveils colourful structure for Miami Design District

  30-11-2023 18:08
  
  Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates is set to create a sculptural block of buildings that will serve as retail locations for the Miami Design District.
  Called Mirai – Japanese for "distant future" – renders of the development show a series of colourful fluted pillars wrapped around a retail building on a corner in the north of the city.
  The Kengo Kuma and Associates (KKAA) design is meant to combine elements of both Japanese and Floridian architecture, with colourf
  
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• Hayhurst and Co designs low-energy London home as "domestic-scale greenhouse"

  30-11-2023 12:30
  
  Informed by the greenhouses that once occupied the site, local architecture studio Hayhurst and Co added bamboo planting behind polycarbonate screens to the facade of a family home in London.
  Named Green House, Hayhurst and Co created the home as an example of low-cost, low-energy housing, with a cross-laminated timber (CLT) structure and repurposed materials used for cladding and flooring.
  Bamboo planting sits behind the polycarbonate facade
  "The design for Green House draws on the natural hist
  
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• Michael Gove prohibits planning authority from blocking MSG Sphere in Stratford

  30-11-2023 11:45
  
  The UK's levelling up secretary Michael Gove is believed to be considering calling in the planning application for the MSG Sphere London in Stratford after mayor Sadiq Khan blocked it earlier this month.
  Gove has the right to overrule the decision made by Khan, which was to block the application for the Populous-designed music venue on the edge of the Olympic Park.
  The levelling up secretary's department has written to the London Legacy Development Corporation – the planning authority for
  
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• Pricegore revives brutalist 1960s townhouse in London

  30-11-2023 10:00
  
  Architecture studio Pricegore has renovated a modernist townhouse in Chelsea, London, reconfiguring the four-storey house into a contemporary three-bedroom home.
  Pricegore aimed to revamp the existing home by creating generous and flexible living spaces, while respecting the building's brutalist ideals with exposed material finishes.
  Pricegore revives brutalist 1960s townhouse in London
  While investigating the site's history, the studio discovered the deep foundations of former Victorian homes b
  
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• NASA Conducts Annual Moon to Mars Architecture Concept Review - NASA

  30-11-2023 09:00
  
  NASA Conducts Annual Moon to Mars Architecture Concept Review  NASA
  
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• Cuddymoss by Ann Nisbet Studio named Scotland's best new building

  30-11-2023 01:01
  
  A remote house by architecture practice Ann Nisbet Studio that is "close to perfection" has been named the winner of the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award for 2023.
  Named Cuddymoss, the home in Ayrshire is the first one-off residence to ever win the award since it was founded in 2002 by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS).
  Cuddymoss has won the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award for 2023
  Cuddymoss was selected as this year's Andrew Doolan Bes
  
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