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Stefano Boeri imagines dome-covered Mars colony with “vertical forests”

October 22, 2017 India Block 0

Stefano Boeri has suggested that a “new Shanghai” made up of “vertical forests” could be built on Mars, should rising sea levels render Earth uninhabitable. The ambitious Mars-based eco city envisioned by the Italian architect would be made up of his studio’s signature plant-covered towers built under giant sealed “space-proof” domes. The hypothetical project was dreamed up in response to

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Duggan Morris builds office with millennial-pink exterior in London’s King’s Cross

October 19, 2017 India Block 0

London firm Duggan Morris Architects has completed an office building in London, featuring an aluminium facade in this year’s trendiest colour. R7 is an 11-storey-high building in the fast-developing area of King’s Cross. Its gridded facade is finished in two shades of pink, one of which is a close match to 2017’s hottest hue, millennial pink. However Duggan Morris Architects director

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UNStudio and Werner Sobek set to build Dubai tower with “world’s tallest ceramic facade”

October 18, 2017 India Block 0

UNStudio has unveiled plans for a Dubai skyscraper featuring a 300-metre-high ceramic-tile facade, which will be illuminated at night to make it look like the building is breathing. Designed by the Dutch studio in collaboration with German architect Werner Sobek, Wasl Tower is due to be completed in 2020. The mixed-use tower will be clad in glazed clay tiles

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Diébédo Francis Kéré says school that launched his career is “not a traditional African building”

October 17, 2017 India Block 0

In this exclusive movie produced by Dezeen, Serpentine Pavilion architect Diébédo Francis Kéré reveals how building a school for his home village in Burkina Faso was the starting point for his career. Kéré was born in a village named Gando, a village on the east side of the African country. While studying to become an architect in Germany, back

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Amos and Amos takes cues from Scandinavian design for AKQA’s new Gothenburg studio

October 16, 2017 India Block 0

London practice Amos and Amos has created a collaborative workspace in a former Gothenburg shipbuilding warehouse for the digital agency AKQA that references traditional Swedish architecture. The vertical wooden planks were inspired by the traditional cladding on Gothenburg’s buildings, while the blackened wood was inspired by the cabins that stud Sweden’s archipelagos. “We wanted to have something that

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Snøhetta makes every interior surface a canvas in new £100-million arts school in Bergen

October 13, 2017 India Block 0

Students at this new Snøhetta-designed Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design in Bergen are invited to use the inner walls as a canvas for their work. The Norwegian architecture firm won a competition to design the faculty in 2005 and completed it earlier this year. The students have just moved in to their new space in

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Pinecone-shaped treehouse in the Dolomites allows visitors to sleep under the stars

October 10, 2017 India Block 0

A circular skylight in the tip of this pinecone-shaped treehouse by architect Claudio Beltrame in the Italian Alps allows the occupant to gaze up into the starry sky at night. The structure located in the town of Ugovizza in the Dolomites is available as a holiday let. Italian architect Claudio Beltrame created the treehouse in the shape of a

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Pinecone-shaped treehouse in the Dolomites allows visitors to sleep under the stars

October 10, 2017 India Block 0

A circular skylight in the tip of this pinecone-shaped treehouse by architect Claudio Beltrame in the Italian Alps allows the occupant to gaze up into the starry sky at night. The structure located in the town of Ugovizza in the Dolomites is available as a holiday let. Italian architect Claudio Beltrame created the treehouse in the shape of a

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Alvar Aalto library renovation wins Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2017

October 9, 2017 India Block 0

Interior architecture practice JKMM has won Finland’s most important architecture prize for its renovation of the Aalto University campus library in Otaniemi. JKMM wins the Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2017 for its overhaul of the Harald Herlin Learning Centre, which was originally designed by the Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto, along with several other buildings on the campus, and

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Slatted shades keep house by the Sea of Galilee cool during hot summer days

October 8, 2017 India Block 0

Perched on the edge of a village by the Sea of Galilee in Israel, this house by Golany Architects features numerous balconies that can be shaded by rolling wooden screens. Set on the slopes of the Jordan Rift Valley, Golany Architects wanted to make the most of the potential views out over the Sea of Galilee

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