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Melania Trump criticised for “upsetting” White House Rose Garden renovation on social media

August 24, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

White House Rose Garden renovation by Melania Trump

First lady Melania Trump has been criticised on social media for her pared-back redesign of the Rose Garden at the White House, with users comparing her to French queen Marie Antionette. Melania Trump’s design, which was created with landscape architecture firms Perry Guillot and Oehme, van Sweden & Associates, was described as “upsetting” and “an uninteresting patch of lawn”. The first

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Ten translucent buildings with see-through exteriors

August 22, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology by Behnisch Architekten

A laboratory, a tennis pavilion and a kindergarten are among these ten translucent buildings with exteriors made from polycarbonate or glass that showcase their internal structure. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, by Behnisch Architekten This timber and concrete laboratory at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is encased in translucent polycarbonate panels, echoing the industrial buildings

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This week, architects designed innovative public toilets for Tokyo

August 22, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Public toilets in Tokyo's Yoyogi Fukamachi Mini Park and the Haru-No-Ogawa Community Park by Shigeru Ban for the Tokyo Toilet project

This week on Dezeen, we featured three unusual restrooms designed for the Tokyo Toilet project, including Shigeru Ban’s colourful, transparent design. As well as Ban’s restroom, whose transparent walls become opaque when the toilets are in use, designs include Wonderwall’s concrete toilet that references primitive Japanese huts, and Fumihiko Maki’s “squid toilet” which is located

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Beiruti architects and designers assess damage to their “shattered” businesses after devastating explosion

August 20, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

David/Nicolas studio after the Beirut explosion

Two weeks after a giant explosion destroyed large parts of Beirut, architects and designers are pondering how to rebuild their lives and businesses, with some considering leaving the city for good. “Most of the locations where Beirut Design Week used to take place are in ruins,” said Doreen Toutikian, founder of Beirut Design Week. “The

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Barozzi Veiga designs Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne with ridged brick facade

August 20, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Musée cantonale des Beaux-Arts Lausanne by Barozzi Veiga

Slender grey brick walls protrude from the front of fine arts museum Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, which Barcelona studio Barozzi Veiga created in the Lausanne city centre. The studio won an international competition to design both art museum the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne (MCBA) and the masterplan for the city’s new art district,

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CL3 unveils interior design for Intercontinental Chongqing Raffles City

August 19, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Intercontinental Chongqing Raffles City by CL3

Sailing and nautical aesthetics informed CL3’s interiors for the Intercontinental hotel in the Raffles City Chongqing complex in China, which includes guest rooms that draw on the design of yacht cabins. Intercontinental Chongqing Raffles City is located in the Raffles City Chongqing development, which features a “horizontal skyscraper,” the Crystal skybridge that connects four 250-metre tall

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Architecture “is more elitist than the most elite university in the world” says Phineas Harper

August 18, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Phineas Harper appointed director of Open City

The architecture profession needs to face up to the fact that it is dominated by those that went to private schools, according to Open City director Phineas Harper. “[W]e *need* to start talking about the impact of private schools on architecture,” the Open City director and former Architecture Foundation deputy editor wrote in a thread

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Waterstudio.NL designs yacht villa that can be raised out of the water

August 18, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Dutch architecture studio Waterstudio.NL has created a solar-powered electric yacht-cum-villa with retractable stilts that allow it to be raised fully out of the water to become an off-grid home. Named Arkup 75, the craft was designed for yacht company Arkup with a hybrid foundation that allows it to float when moving, be semi-supported when alongside

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La Shed Architecture creates translucent barn to give cows “a better quality of life”

August 16, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Au Gré des Champs by La Shed Architecture

Architecture studio La Shed Architecture has built a large agricultural barn with polycarbonate sheeting walls for a farm in Montérégie, Québec. The Montréal studio designed the barn to improve the quality of life for both the animals and the workers at organic cheese farm Au Gré des Champs. To create a building that would blend

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Anti-drone antennas set to be built on top of Oscar Niemeyer palaces in Brásilia

August 10, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

The Brazilian government is planning to install anti-drone antennas on the Oscar Niemeyer-designed Planalto, Alvorada and Jaburu palaces in Brásilia, which would disrupt the clean form of the modernist buildings. Brazil’s Institutional Security Office (GSI) is planning to place a 1.5-metre antenna on top of the Planalto Palace and five-metre antennas on the Alvorado and

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