Month: February 2024

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Ten buildings in China that interact with dramatic landscapes

February 2, 2024 Nat Barker 0

After Junya Ishigami unveiled a kilometre-long art museum that emerges from an artificial lake, Dezeen rounds up 10 recent Chinese architecture projects that play with arresting landscapes. Japanese architect Ishigami said he wanted his project to address a tendency for buildings in China to be “closed off” from their environment. But he is not the

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UNStudio unveils Huawei flagship store in Shanghai with “petal-like” facade

February 2, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Dutch firm UNStudio has revealed a two-storey flagship store for Chinese technology company Huawei in Shanghai with a facade clad in ivory-coloured petal-like forms. Drawing from Huawei’s global operating system, named Harmony, UNStudio’s design aimed to generate biophilic associations between the brand and its technology by integrating organic geometric shapes throughout the scheme. “Among the

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Wood Marsh creates rammed-earth Peninsula House on Australian coast

February 2, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Wood Marsh has used curving walls of charred timber and rammed earth to create this home south of Melbourne, which is designed to echo Australia’s “windswept” coastline. Called Peninsula House, the dwelling is located near the town of Flinders, overlooking the Bass Strait and surrounded by farmland. Instead of designing an orthogonal volume,

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Yatofu fosters “relaxed holiday atmosphere” in Jianze showroom

February 2, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Design studio Yatofu has completed a furniture showroom in Hangzhou, China, featuring a playful pastel colour palette and a display area housed on a steel-mesh platform. The 80-square-metre retail space belongs to Chinese design brand Jianze and forms part of an emerging cultural district in the city’s Liangzhe New Town. Yatofu set out to create

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Dezeen Debate features Manhattan skyscraper that heralds “the end of messianic Miesianism”

February 1, 2024 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features visuals of the 520 Fifth Avenue supertall skyscraper in Manhattan. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. American architecture studio Kohn Pedersen Fox has unveiled images of a supertall skyscraper that is currently being built in Midtown Manhattan. Commenters analysed the structure, with one praising the “contextual design

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“Trapezoidal” skyscraper by Gensler nears completion in Austin

February 1, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

US studio Gensler has announced progress on the construction of a skyscraper consisting of “three buildings stacked on top of one another” in Austin, Texas. The 845-foot-tall (247 metres) Sixth and Guadalupe skyscraper is located in downtown Austin. It will host a mixed-used program of residential, office and retail spaces throughout three stacked volumes that

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