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Roar recreates dizzying Indian stepwells in Jaipur Rugs’ Dubai showroom

June 30, 2023 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

UAE-based studio Roar has paid homage to the Escher-esque stepwells of India in its interior design for Jaipur Rugs’ showroom in Dubai, which features cascading, rainbow-coloured staircases. The Jaipur Rugs showroom, the Indian brand’s first in the Middle East, is located in the creative district of Aserkal, in one of the former industrial area’s previously

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Camille Walala takes colourful aesthetic to the max in self-designed studio

June 5, 2023 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

London designer Camille Walala has worked with carpentry workshop Our Department to fit out her own studio with a no-holds-barred version of her colourful design style. Electric blue floors, graphically patterned cabinetry and a kitchenette with cartoon-like proportions feature in the space, which is located in the Regent Studios building off Broadway Market in East

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Tomás Saraceno adapts Serpentine gallery to welcome all species

June 2, 2023 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno has changed the HVAC and electrical system of the Serpentine gallery in London, in an effort to make an exhibition for all the nearby species. Titled Web(s) of Life, the exhibition presents some of the artist’s most recent and well-known environmentally focused works, while also encompassing interventions into the building itself. These

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SOM and Princeton University create self-balancing arch for Venice Architecture Biennale

June 1, 2023 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Architecture studio SOM has worked with Princeton University’s Form Finding Lab for its contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale – a self-balancing brick arch that was built using augmented reality. The Angelus Novus Vault forms the entrance to the Time Space Existence group show, organised by the European Cultural Centre around the theme of the

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New York City sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers

May 25, 2023 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Researchers have discovered that the mass of buildings in New York City is contributing to it subsiding by one to two millimetres a year, adding to the city’s flood risk. Researchers from the government’s US Geological Survey and the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island calculated the mass of all the buildings in New

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“The traditional boundaries between client and architect may be a historic thing,” says Knut Ramstad

May 23, 2023 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Artificial intelligence is “not the end of the universe” and instead is building a better understanding between stakeholders in architecture projects, said a panel of experts at a discussion hosted by Dezeen and software company Autodesk. Moderated by Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft, the talk saw three experts discuss the role of data and AI in

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Henn and TU Dresden complete world’s first carbon concrete building

February 21, 2023 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

German architecture firm Henn and the Technical University of Dresden have completed the world’s first building made of carbon concrete – a form of concrete reinforced with carbon fibre instead of steel. Called the Cube, the 243-square-metre building was constructed as a test of the new material and will provide a laboratory and event space

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Space10 invites public into its Copenhagen HQ with kiosk-like design library

January 24, 2023 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

IKEA’s innovation lab Space10 has worked with interior designers Spacon & X to transform the ground floor of its headquarters into a library and community space, with a look that is meant to recall a simple kiosk. Located in a former fish factory in the city’s Meatpacking District, Space10’s offices now include a library of

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White Arkitekter and K2S Architects set to revitalise Helsinki’s Makasiiniranta waterfront

December 5, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Studios White Arkitekter and K2S Architects are set to turn an underutilised area alongside Helsinki harbour into a cultural precinct incorporating several historic buildings. Local practice K2S Architects and Sweden’s White Arkitekter won the competition to revitalise the Makasiiniranta area on the city’s South Harbour with a proposal called Saaret, or “The Islands”, developed with

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Finnish Design Shop creates forest-set logistics centre to enable “a more sustainable future”

November 30, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Avanto Architects and interior designer Joanna Laajisto have designed a logistics centre for retailer Finnish Design Shop that features warm timber, a foraged-food restaurant for staff and visitors, and views of the surrounding forest. Located on the outskirts of Turku, west of Helsinki, the logistics centre is the hub for storage, management and dispatch of

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