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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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Dutch design studio HEYHEYHEY assembled an assortment of objects including toothbrushes, books, marbles, matches and a toy train inside two suitcases to build a chain-reaction machine that signs and stamps a postcard. (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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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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New York firm REX was another of the fifteen architects commissioned to design skyscrapers for the fast-growing Yongsan International Business District of Seoul, South Korea. They’ve proposed a tower with blocks of storeys offset from the centre and cantilevered from each end. (more…)
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Designed in Hackney: scribbled faces on fabric masks feature in the latest collection from young designers Leutton Postle , who continue this week’s look at Hackney fashion designers. (more…)
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Designed in Hackney: scribbled faces on fabric masks feature in the latest collection from young designers Leutton Postle , who continue this week’s look at Hackney fashion designers. (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…)