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• Bloco Arquitetos drapes screens over cantilevered steel house in Brazil

  07-02-2024 21:00
  
  Brazilian studio Bloco Arquitetos has used prefabricated elements to create a house with two stacked, perpendicular volumes clad with screens in Brasília.
  Known as the 350 House, the 500-square metre residence can be completely opened to light and views or closed for privacy because of the many screens along its side.
  Bloco Arquitetos has wrapped a residence in Brazil in adjustable screens
  BLOCO Arquitetos – which is based in Brasília and run by architects Henrique Coutinho,
  
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• Super Bowl stadium designed to be "fast, angry and intimidating"

  07-02-2024 19:00
  
  This year's NFL Super Bowl will be hosted at the Las Vegas Raiders' Allegiant Stadium in Nevada, which was designed by Manica Architecture to recall the sleekness and power of sportscars.Opened in 2020, the 62,000-seat stadium by Kansas City-based Manica Architecture is home to NFL team the Raiders, which moved from Oakland when the stadium was completed.
  Manica Architecture designed Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, where Super Bowl 58 will be held
  The stadium was initially planned for Calif
  
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• Architecture department head co-authors book on artificial intelligence - Penn State University

  07-02-2024 17:41
  
  Architecture department head co-authors book on artificial intelligence  Penn State University
  
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• "Legends Tower is a very 20th-century way to say that you are squarely entering the 21st century"

  07-02-2024 14:00
  
  Recently unveiled proposals to build America's tallest skyscraper in Oklahoma City represent an outdated way of thinking about cities' cultural status, writes Ryan Scavnicky.The 20th-century American metropolis is failing in the 21st. Cities that once welcomed flocks of working-class citizens and immigrants are now playgrounds for wealthy oligarchs and real-estate moguls. Streets covered in unique family businesses from all parts of the world are now thickly encrusted with contrived food experie
  
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• MAD unveils sunken Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing

  07-02-2024 12:20
  
  Chinese architecture studio MAD has rebuilt a historic train station in central Jiaxing, China, and expanded it with an underground terminal and public park.
  Named Train Station in the Forest, the revamp of the 354,000-square-metre building is MAD's first station and the studio hopes it will "redefine transportation infrastructure buildings in China".
  MAD designed Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing
  MAD created an underground terminal with a public park at ground level along with a full-scale
  
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• NYAWA updates traditional Japanese home to celebrate the "passage of time"

  07-02-2024 12:15
  
  Architecture studio NYAWA has restored and updated a traditional timber home in Toyama, Japan, to create a pared-back holiday home where visitors can "feel the passage of time".
  The home's Tokyo-based owner tasked the studio with creating a holiday rental that would "incorporate the local climate and culture", while also updating its structure to be earthquake resilient.
  Typical to many historical dwellings in the region, the building is organised around a large gathering space known as a hiroma
  
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• Foster + Partners designs pair of residential skyscrapers overlooking Dubai bay

  07-02-2024 11:15
  
  Developer Omniyat has revealed plans for the Vela and Vela Viento residential skyscrapers in Dubai, which will be designed by British studio Foster + Partners and feature apartments with skybridge dining rooms.
  Located in the Marasi Bay development, Foster + Partners' design for the pair of skyscrapers is characterised by floor-to-ceiling windows wrapped by terraces that overlook the waterfront and the Burj Khalifa in Downtown Dubai.
  Foster + Partners designed a pair of skyscrapers for Omni
  
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• Hill-like concrete forms shape arts centre in China by DUO

  07-02-2024 11:00
  
  Chinese studio DUO has completed Nanchang OCT Contemporary Arts Centre, a series of exhibition spaces housed in stepped concrete forms with accessible green roofs.
  Overlooking a wetland park and the nearby Gan River in Nanchang, the building is designed by DUO to "coexist" with the site.
  This is achieved by creating natural-looking, hill-like forms rather than a "spectacular figure", the studio said.
  The centre features sloping concrete forms topped with greenery
  "The site, influenced by th
  
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• UNCTAD urges reforms on global debt architecture amid rising distress | UNCTAD - UNCTAD

  07-02-2024 09:00
  
  UNCTAD urges reforms on global debt architecture amid rising distress | UNCTAD  UNCTAD
  
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