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51 Concrete Decor Items That Create An Interesting Industrial Aesthetic

July 21, 2022 HD Staff 0

Concrete decor elements, large or small, install an edgy dash of style into a home interior. Most synonymous with the industrial aesthetic, concrete accessories also befit minimalist spaces, boho schemes, Scandi interiors, the vintage look, and modern farmhouse decor. This cool material can take a standard room design to a new level with either raw […]

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Pasturebird introduces solar-powered robot chicken coop

June 12, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Automated Range Coop by Pasturebird

American poultry producer Pasturebird has invented a solar-powered robot chicken coop on wheels, which it says fosters regenerative farming while allowing the animals to “live their best life”. Pasturebird’s Automated Range Coop (ARC) is a large, floorless barn that each day rolls itself a short distance to allow the chickens within to graze on fresh

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BIG completes “world’s most environmentally-friendly furniture factory” in Norway

May 25, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0
Birde-eye view of The Plus furniture factory by BIG for Vestre in a forest

Architecture firm BIG has constructed a mass-timber Passivhaus factory in a Norwegian forest for outdoor furnituremaker Vestre, which features a green roof and solar panels as well as an exterior slide. Instead of being hidden away on an industrial estate, The Plus factory development is nestled in 300 acres of woodland near the village of

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Bahrain weaving facility by Leopold Banchini Architects “celebrates local construction and craft traditions”

May 19, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0
Exterior of weaving facility in Bahrain by Leopold Banchini Architects

Ponds, palm trees and sunken seating areas interrupt the gridded layout of the Al Naseej Textile Factory in Bahrain, which Leopold Banchini Architects designed to incorporate traditional building methods. Geneva studio Leopold Banchini Architects created the textile factory and social space for the local craftspeople of Bani Jamrah, a village that is renowned for maintaining a traditional

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Skroz reimagines Croatian rural buildings with Eco Pig Farm

April 5, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Black Slavonian Eco Pig Farm by Skroz

Pigs live in modular pens in barns with airy lattice-like facades on this Croatian farm designed by architecture studio Skroz. Skroz designed the Eco Pig Farm for Sin Ravnice, one of the first professional breeders dedicated to the long-neglected Slavonian Black pig, which is indigenous to the Slavonia region of eastern Croatia. The pig is prized

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Revival Projects’ Zero Footprint Repurposing hub saves construction waste from landfill

March 24, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Zero Footprint Repurposing hub by Revival Projects

Australian building company Revival Projects has turned a warehouse that is set for redevelopment into a hub for repurposing construction and demolition waste, which is open to the public during Melbourne Design Week. Melbourne Design Week describes the Zero Footprint Repurposing hub as one of the world’s first free hubs dedicated to the storage and

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Fanned and sawtooth roofs top Sanand Factory in India by Studio Saar

March 22, 2022 Jon Astbury 0
Buildings at the factory are made up from geometric shapes

Kite-like canopies and geometric roofs shelter the spaces of this factory by Studio Saar, which sits atop a seasonal lake in Sanand, India. Designed for electronics manufacturer Secure Meters, the project sits above a seasonal lake that can expand from one to three acres during the monsoon season. Four individual buildings housing an entrance area,

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Hollaway Studio designs “bicycle factory of the future” for Brompton

March 7, 2022 Amy Frearson 0
Cycle ramp leading into Brompton factory and headquarters in Ashford by Hollaway Studio

British bicycle manufacturer Brompton has unveiled plans to build a carbon-neutral headquarters and factory building designed by architects Hollaway Studio in Ashford, Kent. Envisioned by Brompton as a “factory of the future”, the facility will sit within an unused wetlands area that will be rewilded to become a nature reserve as part of the plans. Planned

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1540 Arquitectura references agave plant with triangular-shaped ranch

February 21, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
Exterior 1540 Arquitectura Ranch Tequila

Mexican studio 1540 Arquitectura has created a series of triangular structures incorporating a stable called Services Agavero Ranch in the Tequila district of Jalisco, Mexico. Set in the Mexican countryside, the ranch was designed to resemble the shape of the agave plant, which is used to make tequila in the region that shares its name. 1540

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Levitt Bernstein and TKMT cover Neutron Research Centre in perforated metal fins

February 9, 2022 Jon Astbury 0
The Neutron Research Centre has a perforated metal facade

Perforated metal fins cover the facade of this new visitor centre designed by Levitt Bernstein and TKMT Architects for the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) science facility in Grenoble, France. Won through an international competition in 2019, the project provides the world-leading neutron facility’s campus with a range of new spaces for visiting researchers, as part of

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