Canadian architecture and multi-disciplinary practice Dialog has designed a hybrid mass timber tower prototype that promises to revolutionise tall buildings as we know them. The patent-pending design that can be used to produce hybrid…
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Sandwiched between tall towers, this Shanghai hotel by Xing Design stands out for its bridge theme
Xing Design’s latest project is NEOBRIDGE that aims to be an experiment on the relationship between the hotel and the city. The “bridge” is the theme and the solution. Located at Caojiadu, Shanghai, with St.…
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Interior of Malaysian conglomerate headoffice by Ministry of Design features vertical lobby spanning seven storeys
Malaysia-based YTL Corporation Berhad, a large infrastructure conglomerate founded in 1955, has grown from a small construction firm into a global infrastructure company spanning oil and gas, cement, construction, property development and hotels. Previously…
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Architecture Office design
Domaine Public Architects designs Lebanon office building with maximum visibility but minimum footprint
Lebanon has been lately gripped in a series of crises such as economic challenges as well as the massive explosion that rocked capital city Beirut in August this year. Amid all these adversities, As…
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Interview: Studio Symbiosis on fusing architecture and technology to design a revolutionary solution for India’s pollution problem
Lately, India’s capital New Delhi has been in the news for its hazardous air pollution levels – over 20 times the limit of what the World Health Organization considers safe. Unsurprisingly, it has earned…
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Architecture Residential design
Jim Caumeron designs geometric house with boxy volumes and panoramic windows in the Philippines
This house designed by architect Jim Caumeron in Quezon City combines a warm interior-core sheltered by a white concrete “hood” with trapezoidal niches that frame the outside views, lending it its name, the Viewpoint…
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Architecture Education Museums
Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira use light to expand small exterior of Ningbo’s Huamao Museum of Art Education into spacious interior
Located along the northern shore of Lake Donqian, Huamao Museum of Art Education of Ningbo, designed by Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira, has opened in the port city of Ningbo in eastern China’s Zhejiang province .…