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February 9, 2022
Minimalist Design Is Found Everywhere In This New Hotel
GS Design has recently completed the Sumei Skyline Coast Boutique Hotel, that’s located in a popular tourist attraction area of Sanya, China. The minimalist, white design of the hotel has been inspired by the blue ocean and its crashing waves. Let’s take a look around the hotel… The Exterior The hotel rests right on the beachfront […]
February 8, 2022
Digi-Tech Factory by Coffey Architects – ADC
Coffey Architects has completed a translucent, saw-tooth education building for Norwich City College’s technology, engineering and design courses. The Digi-Tech Factory offers teaching facilities for digital technology students at the Norwich City College that are intended to feel more like a professional workplace than a classroom. The design by London-based Coffey Architects comprises three floors […]
February 8, 2022
Serpentine Pavilion 2022 plans revealed – ADC
Visuals have been revealed for the 21st edition of the annual Serpentine Pavilion competition, a drum-shaped structure titled Black Chapel that has been designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates with Adjaye Associates. Serpentine Pavilion 2022, Black Chapel, designed by Theaster Gates. Design render, exterior view. © 2022 Theaster Gates Studio The cylindrical pavilion will be […]
February 8, 2022
Narbo Via – ADC
Foster + Partners has designed a museum of Roman antiquities for the city of Narbonne in the south of France. Alessandra Fanari enjoys the ambiguities of a sophisticated building where the distinction between architecture and exhibits is decidedly blurred. At the entrance to the French city of Narbonne, Narbo Via, the museum of Roman antiquities, […]
February 7, 2022
Large Sliding Glass Doors Open This Kitchen And Dining Room To The Backyard
February 7, 2022 Architectural practice Paul Archer Design, has completed a full-house remodel, including a wood-clad rear extension of this home in London, England. The new kitchen and dining area opens out onto a split-level terrace, with a built-in bench for seating. Large format polished concrete tiles have been used inside as well as for […]
February 3, 2022
ARCHITECT@WORK – ADC
Taking place at London’s Truman Brewery from 13-14 April, the theme of this year’s event is Air & Architecture. In association with ARCHITECT@WORK is returning to its physical format at the Truman Brewery in the heart of London’s Shoreditch for the 2022 edition. Visitors will be able to meet industry experts who will be exhibiting […]
February 1, 2022
House of Music
Sou Fujimoto has completed the House of Music, a music museum and concert venue set beneath an undulating roof inspired by the tree canopy in Budapest’s City Park. The House of Music forms part of the Liget Budapest Project, a cultural masterplan devised to revitalise the vast Városliget or City Park, which includes the construction […]
February 1, 2022
Ashraya – ADC
Greg Lomas of Foster Lomas reviews Kirkland Fraser Moor’s Ashraya house, a low-carbon property tucked beneath an arching roof and covered in a blanket of greenery that melds it with its Chilterns Hills setting. We sit in David Kirkland’s studio, a stone’s throw from the Ashraya house, and discuss the back story of the house […]
February 1, 2022
Undercover story
Encasement explores the features and benefits of its high-quality column casings range and versatile building lining solutions. In association with Yellow GRP column casings from Encasement’s Polyma range conceal external structural steelwork at Cardiff Bay’s Premier Inn The interiors of many buildings, as well as some exteriors, would be considerably less attractive and practical if […]
January 31, 2022
MMC constraint or opportunity? – ADC
An AT Schüco webinar exploring modern methods of construction and how we decide which ones are best suited to our building projects is taking place on Wednesday 23rd February. TDO’s Fab House in North Shields is a new modular constructed dwelling typology (ph: Peter Cook) Modular construction, off-site and on-site manufacturing, as well as design […]
January 31, 2022
My kind of town: Ingrid Petit – ADC
Feilden Fowles associate Ingrid Petit on the generosity and warmth of she found in Glasgow, in contrast to the city’s cold description as Edinburgh’s ugly sibling. Glasgow tenement housing, some of which narrowly escaped demolition and proved flexible enough to be upgraded and improved. As I start thinking about this article, it feels luxurious to […]
January 31, 2022
Yuntai Mountain Ice Chrysanthemum showroom, Xiuwu County, Henan Province, China
With smart design, basic local craft skills and a flexible experimental attitude, even the most ordinary warehouse-like space can become an appealing selling environment. This was recently proven in the Yuntai Ice Chrysanthemum Industry Park in Houyanmen Village in Huanfeng Town, where Beijing-based LUO Studio www.luostudio.cn transformed a hurriedly built steel-frame warehouse into a locally […]