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Architecture Brio creates holiday home with “strong presence” on hillside above Mumbai Bay

October 11, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Indian studio Architecture Brio has created a holiday home topped with two gabled, timber structures perched on a hillside overlooking Mumbai Bay in India. Named The Ray, the 1,800-square-metre holiday home in Alibag was designed by Architecture Brio to take advantage of the site’s prominent, hillside location. “We knew at the outset this house would have

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“Giant of radical thinking” Andrea Branzi dies aged 84

October 10, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Italian architect and designer Andrea Branzi, who was one of the founders of influential studio Archizoom Associati and the Domus Academy, has died aged 84. Over a six-decade career, Branzi created numerous avant-garde designs along with his work as an educator, first at the Domus Academy and then at the School of Interior Design at

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This week Neom unveiled a crystalline skyscraper

October 7, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week on Dezeen, Neom released renders of a supertall skyscraper and a viewpoint, both designed by UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects for the Trojena ski resort in Saudi Arabia. The 330-metre-high skyscraper, which is named Discovery Tower, will stand on top of a mountain overlooking the central lake of the Trojena ski resort being developed in the northwest

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Zaha Hadid Architects designing sinuous lookout at Neom ski resort

October 6, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has designed a mountaintop viewpoint as part of the Trojena ski resort at Neom in Saudi Arabia. The lookout was on display alongside a 330-metre-tall skyscraper also designed by the studio, as part of the Neom stand at the Cityscape conference in Riyadh. Neom also revealed renders of the structure seemingly showing two possible options for the

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Neom releases renders of Zaha Hadid Architects’ crystalline skyscraper

October 5, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Renders have been revealed of a supertall skyscraper designed by UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects for the Trojena ski resort at Neom in Saudi Arabia. Neom have released images of the skyscraper, named Discovery Tower, which was initially revealed on the development’s stand at the Cityscape conference in Riyadh last month. Designed to stand on top of a mountain overlooking an artificial lake at the

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UK prime minister’s 15-minute city ban “baffling” says concept creator

October 3, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Urbanist Carlos Moreno has urged UK prime minister Rishi Sunak to rethink his stance on 15-minute cities following the announcement that he will stop councils implementing the concept. In a statement sent by Moreno to Dezeen, he said that Sunak’s position on cars “raise deep concerns” and urged him to rethink his position on the 15-minute city concept. “Personally,

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This week we revealed Shrek’s Swamp in the Scottish Highlands

September 30, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week on Dezeen, rental website Airbnb unveiled its latest themed holiday home, a grass-and-mud-covered hut underneath a tree hosted by Donkey from the movie series Shrek. Named Shrek’s Swamp, the small house, which is being hosted by Donkey while Shrek is away for Halloween, was described as “a stumpy, secluded haven fit for a

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Conservation groups call for Charles Correa’s under-threat modernist stadium to be saved

September 29, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Conservation groups including the Twentieth Century Society and World Monuments Fund have called for the 1960s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad, India, to be saved from demolition. The groups made statements following news that the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, which was designed by Indian architect Charles Correa, is set to be demolished as part of Ahmedabad’s bid

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Christ & Gantenbein wraps Paris social housing in “rather unexpected” steel facade

September 28, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architecture studio Christ & Gantenbein has created a 124-metre-long block of social housing in Paris that is clad in steel. Designed in collaboration with Margot-Duclot Architectes Associes, the linear building is in the city’s 15th arrondissement and contains 104 apartments split across five floors. It sits above a subway maintenance workshop and is constructed from a concrete frame

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Għallis exhibition suggests alternative to Malta’s “unstoppable trajectory of hyper-development”

September 27, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Valentino Architects and curator Ann Dingli have presented a proposal to retrofit a historic fortification at the Venice Architecture Biennale to suggest alternative methods of conservation in the face of Malta’s rapid development. Curated by Dingli, the small-scale exhibition was part of the Time Space Existence showcase and featured an abstracted plan to retrofit the 17th-century watchtower on

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