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Airbnb creates rentals based on famous places and movies for guests

May 2, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Rental platform Airbnb has announced the addition of its Icons program, a category that provides a range of international experiences including a stay in the house from Pixar’s Up and an overnight in the Musee D’ Orsay in Paris. The first 11 Icons experiences include recreations of houses from popular culture, such as the floating

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Airbnb creates rentals based on famous places and movies for guests

May 2, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Rental platform Airbnb has announced the addition of its Icons program, a category that provides a range of international experiences including a stay in the house from Pixar’s Up and an overnight in the Musee D’ Orsay in Paris. The first 11 Icons experiences include recreations of houses from popular culture, such as the floating

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“London’s lowest whole-life carbon high-rise” by Foster + Partners receives planning approval

May 1, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has been granted planning approval for office and residential development 18 Blackfriars Road, which the studio claims will be net-zero carbon. Located on a two-acre brownfield site in London’s Bankside, 18 Blackfriars Road will contain two residential blocks and a 45-storey office skyscraper. Foster + Partners claimed the project

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Manica Architecture designs glass-fronted stadium for Chicago Bears

April 29, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

American studio Manica Architecture and National Football League team Chicago Bears have unveiled the design of a football stadium along Lake Michigan in Chicago, drawing criticism from preservationists. Manica Architecture designed the multi-purpose recreational campus – featuring a stadium enclosed with a translucent roof – to bring a variety of concerts, community celebrations, and sporting

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Work begins on timber daycare centre by Kéré Architecture in Munich

April 26, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A wooden structure will be left exposed throughout this children’s daycare centre at the Technical University of Munich, on which Berlin-based studio Kéré Architecture has started construction in Germany. Named Ingeborg Pohl Kinderoase an der TUM, the centre will sit beside the university’s cafeteria and be open to children with parents or carers who work

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Study Pavilion by Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke wins Mies van der Rohe Award 2024

April 25, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Berlin architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke have been awarded this year’s Mies van der Rohe Award for Study Pavilion, a steel-framed university building in Germany. Düsing and Hacke, who founded their eponymous studios in 2015 and 2016 respectively, are the youngest people to have ever received the biennial accolade, also known as the European Union

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Windmill sails fall off Moulin Rouge cabaret in Paris

April 25, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

The windmill sails of the Moulin Rouge, an iconic 135-year-old cabaret venue in Paris, collapsed to the ground in the early hours. Just before 2am this morning, the four blades attached to a red-painted windmill on top of the Moulin Rouge venue fell off and landed bent in front of the building, according to newspaper

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Chris Pratt destruction of Ellwood house in LA symptom of “systemic problems”

April 22, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Unprotected historic homes are at risk of demolition where land holds greater value than architectural importance, says conservation group Docomomo US in response to actor Chris Pratt’s tearing down a mid-century home designed by modernist architect Craig Ellwood. Pratt and his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger drew attention online when news broke that the couple had begun

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Don’t Move, Improve! unveils London’s best house renovations of 2024

April 19, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A dwelling with a “tin hat” by Nimtim Architects and a colourful extension by Charles Holland are among the 16 London homes named on the shortlist for this year’s Don’t Move, Improve! competition. A triangular house in a former garage by studio Brown Urbanism is also on the shortlist, alongside an extension by Cairn that

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Don’t Move, Improve! unveils London’s best house renovations of 2024

April 19, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A dwelling with a “tin hat” by Nimtim Architects and a colourful extension by Charles Holland are among the 16 London homes named on the shortlist for this year’s Don’t Move, Improve! competition. A triangular house in a former garage by studio Brown Urbanism is also on the shortlist, alongside an extension by Cairn that

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