Shanghai- and Hamburg-based urban design and architecture practice, Atelier MIC has designed an installation called Weaving Dream for children in Yingchun village in Sichuan province’s Chengdu city, commissioned by the city’s municipal authority. The…
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Landscape architecture Lifestyle
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Architecture Lighting Design
Multimedia lighting installation by Luftwerk and Iker Gil brightens up Mies Farnsworth House
Chicago-based lighting-installation practice Luftwerk, led by Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero, and architect Iker Gil, who recently joined SOM Foundation as executive director, and Oriol Tarragó, a Barcelona-based sound designer, have designed Geometry of…
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Architecture Art Public Institution Sustainable design
Snohetta designs monolithic visitor centre for Svalbard Global Seed Vault in remote Arctic region
Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta has designed a new visitor center for Arctic preservation storage called The Arc in Svalbard off the coast of Norway. At 78° north of the Earth’s equator, the project referencing…
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Architecture Public Institution
New Bauhaus Museum Dessau by Spanish Architects González Hinz Zabala opens in modernist style
This year the Bauhaus movement, one of the most widely-acknowledged design schools of all time, celebrates its 100th anniversary. Back in 2015, Barcelona-based Gonzalez Hinz Zabala, which works within a collective beat 831 entries…
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Architecture Transport Travel
After suspending role in Neom project, Norman Foster’s firm wins competition in Saudi to design Red Sea airport terminal
In a somewhat interesting turn of events, months after Lord Norman Foster, pulled out of the advisory board of the Neom project in Saudi Arabia due to the controversy surrounding the assassination of Washington…
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Architecture Public Institution
5 shortlisted designs for Singapore’s Founders’ Memorial announced; Kengo Kuma, Cox Architecture and DP Architects among those in the fray
Following an international competition launched in January 2019, a shortlist of five local and international architecture practices out of 193 entries has been selected for the Founders’ Memorial, which honours Singapore’s pioneer leaders and…
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Architecture Sustainable design
Lead8 architects reveals masterplan for Kiara Bay sustainable city in Kuala Lumpur
Lead8, an architectural practice based out of Hong Kong with offices in Singapore, Malaysia, and the UK, has revealed details of the Kiara Bay masterplan for Kuala Lumpur-based clients UEM Sunrise and Melati Ehsan…