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London’s Battersea Bridge Competition is a Symbol of a Divided City

The recent unveiling of the 74 entries to the Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge competition was undoubtedly intended to cause a media circus, hoping to emulate the furore that surrounded the much larger Helsinki Guggenheim competition when they released all… Sigue leyendo →
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5 Finalists Selected for the 2015 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture- Mies van der Rohe Award

Five projects have been selected as finalists of the 2015 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture- Mies van der Rohe Award. The finalists were selected from a shortlist of 40 projects, and over the next couple of months the jury members… Sigue leyendo →
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New York to Complete First Prefabricated “Micro-Apartments” this Summer

With floor areas clocking in at as little as 260 square feet, My Micro NY housing units by nARCHITECTS are the latest singles-oriented housing option to enter the New York rental market. The modular units will be stacked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard this spring, and… Sigue leyendo →
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Kotisaarenkatu Housing / Playa Arkkitehdit

Architects: Playa Arkkitehdit
Location: Kotisaarenkatu 7, 00550 Helsinki, Finland
Architect In Charge: Veikko Ojanlatva, Tuukka Vuori, Sirpa Pyyhtiä
Design Team: Marja Lapinleimu, Tuomas Raikamo, Jukka Kangasniemi, Mari Haavisto, Ulla Seppä, Jukka Sulonen
Scale Model: Daniel Lütolf
Area: 5190.0 sqm…
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Student Housing from República Portátil to Foster Stronger Community Ties

Chilean architects República Portátil have revealed their proposal for temporary multi-residential housing in Concepción, Chile.  Responding to sites left vacant in the wake of the 2010 Chile Earthquake, the Vertical Student Housing project would accommodate students and members of the general public alike.… Sigue leyendo →
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Montmatre Mixed Use / Babin+Renaud

Architects: Babin+Renaud
Location: 24 Avenue de la Porte de Montmartre, 75018 Paris, France
Area: 10296.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Cecile Septet Structural Engineering Consultancy : Evp Ingenierie
Hva C Engineering Consultancy : Cferm
Construction Economics : Tohier…
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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring / ORA

Architects: ORA
Location: Mikulov na Moravě, 692 01 Mikulov, Czech Republic
Architects In Charge: Jeník Hora, Barbora Zmeková
Area: 140.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Jan Žaloudek From the architect.… Where? The loft is a part of the former school building Sigue leyendo →
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Make It Right Releases Six Single-Family House Designs for Manheim Park Community

Make It Right, the organization formed by Brad Pitt that builds affordable and sustainable houses for people in need, has released a series of new single-family home designs by local architects to expand their efforts in Kansas City, Missouri. The new homes… Sigue leyendo →
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Lichtstrasse / HHF Architects

Architects: HHF Architects
Location: Lichtstrasse 9, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
Design Team: HERLACH HARTMANN FROMMENWILER with Cella Hubel, Nicole Baron, Philippe Guillod, Walter Gloor, Yujin Hirase, Lisa Lo, Daichi Takano, Jens Van Zele, Christian Weyell
Artist: Erik Steinbrecher
Area: 3059.0 sqm… Sigue leyendo →
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Creating A ‘Domesday Book’ Of Post-War Tower Blocks

The Edinburgh College of Art have announced that they will be creating a ‘Domesday Book’ catalogue of every multistory post-war housing project in the UK. The project - called Tower Blocks - Our Blocks! - will contain over 3,500 publicly accessible photographs from the 1980s, documented "at a time when post-1945 high-rise housing is continuously under threat threat across the [UK]." All images will be made searchable in a digital archive.

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