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Interiors Lifestyle Residential design Retail designNendo optimises unused Tokyo retail store space by converting it into twin-purpose shared accommodation for urban dwellers
Japan’s Marui Group, which owns numerous commercial facilities in and around the Tokyo metropolitan area, many of them located in highly convenient locations such as station-fronts, recently collaborated with the renowned multidisciplinary studio, Nendo,…
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Architecture Community architecture Education Residential design Sustainable design Urban designBjarke Ingels designs sustainable floating housing units signalling new urban living and mobility solution
Globally-acclaimed architect Bjarke Ingels has been at the forefront of cutting-edge innovation when it comes to building sustainably. With projects spanning the world, his Copenhagen-based practice BIG is leading the discourse on climate change…
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Architecture Interviews Urban designSocialist public housing concept by a Singaporean architect could transform urban living in dense cities
Bryant Lau Liang Cheng, an up-and-coming Singaporean architect, who graduated in 2019 from the National University of Singapore with a Master’s in Architecture, has proposed a concept on time-based homeownership incentivisation model called Tesseract.…