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• Researchers re-engineer cob into sustainable new building material CobBauge

  11-03-2019 15:29 via dezeen.com
  Ancient building material cob has been brought up to contemporary standards by a team of British and French researchers, who see it as an environmentally friendly option for homes.
  The team, led by Steve Goodhew from the University of Plymouth, have created a new version of cob – a building material made a mixture of water, soil and fibres like straw and hemp, which was widely used for centuries in southwestern England, Wales and northern France.
  Their version has an increased ability
  
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• Shingles cloak roof of Green Ark pavilion in Belgian botanic garden

  31-08-2024 12:00 via dezeen.com
  
  Belgian studios NU Architectuuratelier and Archipelago have created a visitor centre for the Meise Botanic Garden near Brussels that is topped by a shingle-clad vaulted roof.
  The Green Ark pavilion, which contains educational spaces and a seed bank, was completed as part of the wider renovation of the botanic garden at Bouchout Castle, which contains one of the world's largest collections of endangered plant species.
  It sits at the heart of the garden's 7,600-square-metre conservatory complex an
  
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• Reigo and Bauer uses diamond-shaped cladding for angular Toronto house

  30-08-2024 21:00 via dezeen.com
  
  Local studio Reigo and Bauer has completed a Toronto house clad in diamond-shaped panels that present a "quiet tension of that contrast" between the cladding's decorative and minimalist qualities.
  Called Neville Park, the three-level house sits on a narrow lot in an East End Toronto residential neighbourhood. It is characterised by a tall profile with a sharply sloped rooftop and off-set rows of elongated windows framed by black-painted aluminium casing.
  Reigo and Bauer has created a house clad
  
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• GMP Architekten set to "reinvent" roof of Roger Taillibert’s Olympic Stadium in Montreal

  30-08-2024 19:00 via dezeen.com
  
  German architecture studio GMP Architekten has been selected to design a replacement for the roof of Roger Taillibert’s "controversial" Olympic stadium in Montreal for the studio's first North American project.
  The ageing Olympic Stadium was designed by French architect Roger Taillibert for the 1976 Montreal Summer Games and features a now-iconic angled tower that suspends the roof from a series of cables.
  GMP Architekten has been selected to replace the roof of the Montreal Olympic Stadiu
  
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• White Arkitekter adds hyperboloid observation tower to Swedish nature reserve

  30-08-2024 12:30 via dezeen.com
  
  Swedish studio White Arkitekter has completed Observation Tower Kärven, which is constructed from a network of timber beams resembling "a bundle of twisted straws".
  Situated within a nature reserve in Getterön, the 12-metre-tall and seven-metre-wide tower by White Arkitekter has a hyperboloid structure composed of 140 beams combined with metal rings.
  White Arkitekter has completed an observation tower on a Swedish nature reserve
  White Arkitekter's design places the Observation Tower K&
  
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• White Arkitekter adds hyperboloid observation tower Swedish nature reserve

  30-08-2024 12:30 via dezeen.com
  
  Swedish studio White Arkitekter has completed Observation Tower Kärven, which is constructed from a network of timber beams resembling "a bundle of twisted straws".
  Situated within a nature reserve in Getterön, the 12-metre-tall and seven-metre-wide tower by White Arkitekter has a hyperboloid structure composed of 140 beams combined with metal rings.
  White Arkitekter has completed an observation tower on a Swedish nature reserve
  White Arkitekter's design places the Observation Tower K&
  
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• Dezeen's top five houses of August 2024

  30-08-2024 12:00 via dezeen.com
  
  A revamped ruin in rural Girona and a 12-storey block on a compact plot in Mumbai are among the top five houses to turn Dezeen readers' heads this month.
  Also featured on the list are a sculptural home in Perth, a stilted "micro-chalet" in Québec and a buff-brick residence in London.
  The roundup is the latest in our Houses of the month series, in which we spotlight the five most popular residences featured on Dezeen every month.
  Read on to discover Dezeen readers' favourites from August 2
  
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• Mould growing on Toyo Ito-designed "largest wooden building in Asia"

  30-08-2024 11:31 via dezeen.com
  
  Mould is growing on Gaia, a mass-timber business school in Singapore that was completed last year for the Nanyang Technological University by Japanese architect Toyo Ito and Singapore-based studio RSP Architects.
  Nanyang Technological University (NTU) claimed the 43,500-square-metre school was "the largest wooden building in Asia" in terms of the volume of timber used when it opened in 2023.
  The university announced this week that mould was reported to have been growing on the exterior and
  
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• Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados creates bird cage-like house on Chilean coast

  29-08-2024 21:00 via dezeen.com
  
  Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has cantilevered a glass and red-painted wood house off a forested cliffside near the sea in Chile with layers that create "increasing levels of intimacy".
  Painted a vibrant red, the elevated 2,100-square foot (195-square metre) house is located in Detif, Chiloé, Chile.
  Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has cantilevered a house off a forested cliffside in Chile
  Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados (GAAA), a studio based in Sa
  
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• Neil M Denari Architects aims for "immediate singularity" with purple LA office building

  29-08-2024 19:00 via dezeen.com
  
  American studios Neil M Denari Architects and HLW have created an office structure in Beverly Hills equipped with solar panels and a distinctive "aubergine"-coloured facade.
  9000 Wilshire is a single-tenant office building in Los Angeles' Beverly Hill neighbourhood. Positioned on a low-rise commercial strip surrounded by residential, the building utilises a distinctive cladding language with an off-kilter colour to create an effect.
  The four-storey building has a roughly rectangular layout, with
  
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• C3D Architecture breaks ground on "striking" Manhattan skyscraper

  29-08-2024 17:00 via dezeen.com
  
  Construction has begun on a skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan by local firm C3D Architecture that was designed with a bulbous facade that have a "striking visual effect".
  Located between the Empire State Building and Bryant Park, 989 6th Avenue is set to rise 73 storeys at 790 feet tall (240 metres) and contain residential and commercial spaces.
  C3D Architecture has broken ground on a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper
  Renders of the building show a slim tower with glass facades affixed to a metal spine
  
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• Villain House is a concrete replica of an old Barcelona townhouse

  29-08-2024 12:00 via dezeen.com
  
  Local studio Architecture Office Claudia Raurell has replaced a dilapidated townhouse in Barcelona with a concrete home that mimics its original footprint.
  Named Villain House, the home incorporates the existing front facade, which Architecture Office Claudia Raurell said was the only salvageable part of the structure.
  The new volume has a blocky, straw-coloured concrete structure that almost exactly matches the footprint of the original building.
  Architecture Office Claudia Raurell has complete
  
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• Hello Wood designs grass-topped CLT House as "part of the landscape"

  29-08-2024 07:00 via dezeen.com
  
  Architecture studio Hello Wood has completed a sunken house near Budapest, Hungary, which is crowned by a green roof and features an outdoor living area overlooking a pond.
  Named CLT House in reference to its structure that is built partly from cross-laminated timber (CLT), the home is designed by Hello Wood to "blend seamlessly" with its surroundings.
  To achieve this it is partially dug into its sloping site and topped by a green roof, while its living spaces extend out onto a 135-square-metre
  
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• Beyer Blinder Belle creates National Urban League HQ in Harlem

  28-08-2024 21:00 via dezeen.com
  
  Local architecture studio Beyer Blinder Belle has created a Harlem headquarters for the National Urban League, which houses the "first Civil Rights Museum" in New York.
  Civil rights advocacy organisation The National Urban League is relocating from their Lower Manhattan office at 80 Pine Street to historic West 125th Street in Harlem.
  The headquarters replaces a redeveloped state-owned parking garage adjacent to the Adam Clayton Powell, Jr State Office Building and stands 17 storeys tall.
  Beyer
  
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• Eleven US houses with bold black exteriors

  28-08-2024 19:00 via dezeen.com
  
  From a home formed of two overlapping volumes in Alabama to a structure on a narrow site in San Francisco, we've rounded up 11 houses in the United States with striking black facades.
  While there is a variety of different styles and material choices between the different states, black cladding is a unifying trend throughout the swampy climates of the Deep South and the wintery northern states.
  The featured houses are clad in dark materials ranging from blackened wooden planks, steel and shingles
  
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• Stuart Graff steps down as Frank Lloyd Wright foundation CEO

  28-08-2024 16:00 via dezeen.com
  
  American architecture organisation The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has announced its president and CEO Stuart Graff will step down after eight years of acting as the head executive.
  The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, an organisation dedicated to preserving the intellectual and physical legacy of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, announced that Graff would be stepping down from the role to pursue a new role with arts consulting firm CulturalMaterial.Graff, trained as an intellectual proper
  
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• Expansive roofs create indoor-outdoor spaces in concrete Indian home

  28-08-2024 12:30 via dezeen.com
  
  Indian practice Studio MOB has completed A House in the Farm, a modern farmhouse comprising intersecting concrete blocks and sheltered spaces to encourage indoor-outdoor living.
  Located in Coimbatore, India, the home was designed to straddle the urban sites and farmland that sit on either side of it, in a bold geometric style intended to offer a modern twist on traditional farmhouse design.
  To create a combination of internal and external living spaces, Studio MOB created the home from a number
  
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• Vote for your favourite skyscraper from the past year!

  28-08-2024 12:00 via dezeen.com
  
  Ahead of World Skyscraper Day next week, Dezeen is inviting readers to vote for their favourite skyscraper completed in the last 12 months.
  The Dezeen team has selected the 10 most significant tall buildings from the past 12 months and now we're asking you to pick a winner, to be revealed on World Skyscraper Day on 3 September.
  Our poll conducted this time in 2023 received well over 1,000 votes, with SHoP Architects' Brooklyn Tower the clear favourite.
  Read on to see the shortlist, which is in a
  
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• Critical letter found hidden inside Sainsbury Wing false column

  28-08-2024 11:30 via dezeen.com
  
  A letter has been found at the National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing, in which donor John Sainsbury calls its false columns "a mistake" of architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
  The letter, which was found last year as the wing was undergoing work for its controversial revamp by Selldorf Architects, was written by Sainsbury, one of the wing's funders, reported The Art Newspaper.
  Hidden inside one of two concrete non-structural columns in the wing's foyer, it anticipated their de
  
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• Sixteen Japanese architecture studios photographed by Marc Goodwin

  28-08-2024 10:00 via dezeen.com
  
  British architectural photographer Marc Goodwin has gone behind the scenes to capture 16 architecture workspaces in Japan.
  The project by Goodwin – who is the founder of photography studio Archmospheres – forms part of his latest photography series that documents architecture workspaces, most recently spanning Taiwan, Vienna and Munich.
  Focusing on "young, non-traditional studios" in Japan, the latest series features workspaces of various scales and settings – ranging from spac
  
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• Foster + Partners designs "elegant" Miami supertall skyscraper

  27-08-2024 21:30 via dezeen.com
  
  Architecture studio Foster + Partners has unveiled designs for a supertall skyscraper in Miami that is set to house the relocated headquarters of hedge fund Citadel.
  Designed at 54 storeys and 1,032 feet (314 metres), 1201 Brickell Bay Drive is a symmetrical supertall skyscraper designed by Foster + Partners in Miami's Brickell neighbourhood.
  Foster + Partners has unveiled designs for a supertall skyscraper in Miami
  Developed by Philadelphia-based Gattuso Development Partners, the skyscraper is
  
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• Insulation made of discarded sheep wool used for Argentina guest house

  27-08-2024 20:40 via dezeen.com
  
  Argentine studio DUB Arquitectura has created a metal-clad house called Casa La Escocesa, which features "insulating blankets" made of sheep wool that otherwise would have been incinerated.
  The 150-square-metre project is located on a farm in Argentina's subtropical Pampas region, which consists of agricultural fields that stretch over flat plains. The building site is surrounded by crops, sheep and polo horses.
  DUB Arquitectura has designed a metal-clad house with insulation made of sheep's woo
  
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• Dezeen Debate features yoghurt window coating "crazy enough to work"

  27-08-2024 20:00 via dezeen.com
  
  The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features British engineer Tom Greenhill's proposal to use yoghurt as a solution for combating heat waves. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now.
  British engineer Tom Greenhill has proposed using yoghurt to coat windows as a low-cost and low-energy solution to keep UK homes cool during heatwaves.
  Commenters were intrigued by the initiative, with one describing it as "crazy enough to work" and another calling it a "brilliant idea – simple and cost-
  
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• Jahn creates "rough and tough" military archive in Wisconsin

  27-08-2024 19:00 via dezeen.com
  
  Chicago architecture studio Jahn has used massive steel trusses and a glass envelope for a military archive building with a structure informed by amphibious landing vehicles.
  The Pritzker Military Archives Center is a facility for the storage, preservation and exhibition of documents and artefacts from participants in the US military, especially from the two world wars.
  Jahn has completed a military archives building in Wisconsin
  It sits on a plot of land off a major interstate that connects Mil
  
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• City Finds: A Look At The Best Of Mumbai's Parsi Architecture - Outlook India

  27-08-2024 13:53
  City Finds: A Look At The Best Of Mumbai's Parsi Architecture  Outlook India
  
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• FOAID 2024 enters a new era, uniting india’s architecture & interior design community - Designboom

  27-08-2024 12:59
  FOAID 2024 enters a new era, uniting india’s architecture & interior design community  Designboom
  
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• Christianity and Western Art and Architecture - New Wave Magazine

  27-08-2024 12:42
  Christianity and Western Art and Architecture  New Wave Magazine
  
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• Stone ruins turned into Spanish home by H Arquitectes

  27-08-2024 12:30 via dezeen.com
  
  The crumbling stone walls of an old farmhouse formed the starting point for Casa 1627, a house in Spain completed by local studio H Arquitectes.
  In the agricultural landscape of Pals in Girona's Baix Empordà, all that was left of the Mas Geli farmhouse was two outer cyclopean masonry walls supported by large buttresses.
  H Arquitectes has restored the structure with new elements in pale stone and concrete, designed to echo the scale and materiality of the old walls and respect the historic
  
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• Russia emphasizes growing importance of Caspian Region in new Eurasian security architecture - REPORT.az

  27-08-2024 12:30
  Russia emphasizes growing importance of Caspian Region in new Eurasian security architecture  REPORT.az
  
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• Dispatches from The Bottle Factory: OHSH Projects - Architecture Today

  27-08-2024 12:09
  Dispatches from The Bottle Factory: OHSH Projects  Architecture Today
  
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