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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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David Chipperfield to restore historic palace on Venice’s Piazza San Marco

October 6, 2017 India Block 0

British architect David Chipperfield is to carry out major restoration works on the Procuratie Vecchie on Venice’s Piazza San Marco, which will see the palace opened to the public for the first time in 500 years. Due to be completed in 2020, the project will be a multi-million pound undertaking for its owners, the Italian insurance company the

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David Chipperfield to restore historic palace on Venice’s Piazza San Marco

October 6, 2017 India Block 0

British architect David Chipperfield is to carry out major restoration works on the Procuratie Vecchie on Venice’s Piazza San Marco, which will see the palace opened to the public for the first time in 500 years. Due to be completed in 2020, the project will be a multi-million pound undertaking for its owners, the Italian insurance company the

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Foster + Partner’s Bloomberg headquarters is the “world’s most sustainable office”

October 4, 2017 India Block 0

The first photos have been released of Norman Forster’s newly completed European headquarters for Bloomberg in London, which claims to be the world’s most sustainable office building. British firm Foster + Partners designed the building for the New York-based FinTech and data company to score highly against the BREEAM environmental assessment method. The building, which features a facade covered

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Winning design chosen for Norwegian government headquarters following 2011 terrorist attack

October 3, 2017 India Block 0

Haptic and Nordic Office of Architecture have won the competition to redesign the Norwegian government headquarters after it was damaged during a fatal terrorist attack six years ago. The winning proposal called Adapt was developed by Nordic Office of Architecture and Haptic under the same Team Urbis. The architects are working with engineering firm Ramboll, landscape studios SLA and Bjørbekk & Lindheim, and consultants Asplan Viak, COWI, Aas-Jacobsen, Per Rasmussen,

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Latticed shell of SOM’s Beijing tower is based on traditional Chinese paper lanterns

October 3, 2017 India Block 0

The faceted exoskeleton of the tallest of these three office towers in Beijing by Skidmore Owings & Merrill is inspired by the patterns created by the folds on paper lanterns. The concertinaed external layer of the main tower of SOM’s Poly International Plaza creates a thermal envelope around office spaces, which are enclosed in a second layer of interior glazing. The

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Tokyo kindergarten by Tezuka Architects lets children run free on the roof

October 1, 2017 India Block 0

The oval-shaped roof deck of this playful Tokyo kindergarten allows children to play and run endless laps around it – a feature that has just won it the 2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize. Completed by Tezuka Architects 10 years ago, Fuji Kindergarten is located in the Tachikawa suburb of the city. It accommodates 600 children aged between two and six.

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Architects take to Twitter to celebrate “long overdue” RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Neave Brown

September 29, 2017 India Block 0

Figures on the London creative scene have tweeted their surprise and delight over the news that social-housing pioneer Neave Brown is to receive the RIBA Royal Gold Medal. Warm tributes flooded the social media network with architect Peter Barber calling Neave a “big hero” and Alex Ely of Mae Architects describing him as “an inspiration and

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Tourist centre perches above limestone canyon in Guizhou Province

September 28, 2017 India Block 0

This tourist centre by Chinese studios 3andwich Design and He Wei Studio stands on a platform facing out over a deep limestone canyon in Anlong County in China’s Guizhou Province. Four buildings and a pavilion-like structure that make up the Anlong Limestone Resort are hidden between the peaks of the hills, with the platform and a bridge connecting them. Floor-to-ceiling windows

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