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As The Shard nears completion in London, here is the transcript of an interview conducted with architect Renzo Piano before work started on the 300 metre-high tower. (more…)
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World Architecture Festival 2012: in the final movie from our series announcing the call for exhibitors at this year’s World Architecture Festival in Singapore from 3-5 October, programme director Paul Finch discusses why an experimental office building with an inflatable facade was named World Building of the Year in 2011. (more…)
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Slideshow feature: this week we’ve run a series of stories on the Yongsan International Business District , a new commercial hub in Seoul, South Korea, that’s due for completion in 2024. Commissioned by South Korean developer DreamHub , the new district has been masterplanned by architect Daniel Libeskind and will include skyscrapers by a host of international architects including Renzo Piano, BIG, MVRDV, REX, Dominique Perrault and Libeskind. Here’s a slideshow to bring them all together. (more…)
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© Adrià Goula Sardà Architects: Vora Arquitectura Location: Rambla de Sant Francesc, Vilafranca del Penedès , Spain Design Team: Rui Santos, Eva Cotman Area: 8,500 sqm Completion: 2010 Photographer: Adrià Goula Sardà © Adrià Goula Sardà The new Sant Francesc Boulevard brings the vineyards landscape of the Penedès region into the heart of Vilafranca and improves the versatility of this central space, scenery of many important urban events.
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The next building in our series from the new Yongsan International Business District in Seoul, South Korea, is a skyscraper designed by French architect Dominique Perrault , with faceted glass that will ripple across the surface. (more…)
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The next building in our series from the new Yongsan International Business District in Seoul, South Korea, is a skyscraper designed by French architect Dominique Perrault , with faceted glass that will ripple across the surface. (more…)
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World Architecture Festival 2012: Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI National Museum of the XXI Century Arts is the focus of our next movie about the World Architecture Festival , as programme director Paul Finch explains why the jury unanimously voted for it to win the festival’s World Building of the Year award in 2010. (more…)
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World Architecture Festival 2012: Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI National Museum of the XXI Century Arts is the focus of our next movie about the World Architecture Festival , as programme director Paul Finch explains why the jury unanimously voted for it to win the festival’s World Building of the Year award in 2010. (more…)
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The latest issue of our Dezeen Mail newsletter leads with the completion of London’s Olympic venues and, in particular, our readers’ horrified reaction to Anish Kapoor’s ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture (above), which one commenter described as an “
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Courtesy of OFIS Arhitekti The new extension for the Crossroad Offices by OFIS Arhitekti acts as a crossroad regulator between the existing villa and its approach from the street on the south side and the underground parking on the east side. The actual form derives from the main logical directions on the site to the main destinations as the new volume is positioned behind the existing villa with individual cut outs, ‘green bays’, in function of the extended external park coming into the pavilion.