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Gallery 90220 / Gensler

January 1, 2022 Paula Pintos 0

Gallery 90220 provided the unique opportunity for Gensler and Sola Impact to work for hand and hand on realizing the overall vision of creating a truly community-centric space, with many custom features. These details were crucial to solving really complex issues in a low-tech or budget-friendly way. One example is the storage wall, which might otherwise be an uninteresting detail, became an opportunity to create a dynamic solution.

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ORIZZONT Apartments / RVdM Arquitectos

January 1, 2022 Valeria Silva 0

ORIZZONT BUILDING – Aveiro Until recently the city of Aveiro was turned back to the water landscape. The salt pans and the Ria de Aveiro were understood, especially until the 1980s, as spaces that were affected by industrial production. For the production of salt, the collection of ‘moliço’ and the careless use of its channels as wastewater conductors of the region’s industry. Everything has changed, however, for the better. The building is now positioned in a privileged location facing the Ria, on the western edge of the city.

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Uncovered Ground: Architectural Elements, Urbanism and the Cities of New Territories

January 1, 2022 Matthew Maganga 0

The year 2021 has been a turbulent one –coronavirus rages on, and the design and construction industries have been forced to keep adapting two years into a global pandemic. As virtual methods of working and communicating continue to be tweaked and honed, a plethora of virtual events has meant that architectural discourse outside the western canon and Eurocentric gaze, in a small way, has been able to claim space front and center in the global architectural conversation.

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Van Eyck’s Brothers Altarpiece Renovation / Bressers Architecten

January 1, 2022 Andreas Luco 0

In October 2012, the restoration campaign of the Ghent Altarpiece which involved the re-exposure of the original layers of paint by the Van Eyck Brothers commenced. The first two phases of the project were completed in spring 2020. The last phase, the upper register of the inner panels, will follow between 2022 and 2025. The Ghent Altarpiece has been installed in the Villa Chapel since the 1980s. From a religious and cultural-tourist point of view, the commissioners decided to provide a new location for the Altarpiece.

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Lithuania House of Basketball / Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius & Partners

January 1, 2022 Andreas Luco 0

Lithuania House of Basketball is an exceptionally designed Basketball Museum building, located in an exclusive location between the urbanistic old town, near the historic Kaunas Castle and natural Santaka Park, at the confluence of the largest Lithuanian rivers. The laconic building is the last building of Kaunas Old Town urban fabric, which seems to complete the quarter – a passer-by is already entering Santaka Park here.