Tag: Architects
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Six watches designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architects
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As numerous architects turn their hands to designing watches, we round up six designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winners including Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry and Álvaro Siza. LeBond Souto de Moura by Eduardo Souto de Moura Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura designed a minimalist watch for LeBond that has its face rotated by 30 degrees.…
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Concrete columns frame Bury Gate Farm by Sandy Rendel Architects
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A “classical” two-storey colonnade characterises this family home in the South Downs National Park, completed by London studio Sandy Rendel Architects. Named Bury Gate Farm, the five-bedroom house replaces a 1950s bungalow on a sloped site on the outskirts of Pulborough, which overlooks fields and woodland. A two-storey colonnade characterises Bury Gate Farm According to Sandy…
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Fletcher Crane Architects completes home overlooking Richmond Park
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UK studio Fletcher Crane Architects has completed Kingston Villa in Richmond, London, offering a contemporary “evolution” of the area’s typical suburban architecture in pale brick and metal. Tasked with turning a dilapidated bungalow on the edge of Richmond Park into a new family home, the Surrey-based studio drew on its neighbouring buildings to create a…
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A Dutch Architect’s Vision of Cities That Float on Water
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A first batch of four houses for the city was recently towed out into the ocean, and Olthuis estimated that construction would be completed by 2028. “It could be faster,” he said, adding that, because the homes are modular, multiple factories can be involved in manufacturing them at once. But previous projects have been delayed…
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Sam Crawford Architects creates red-roofed community pavilion in Sydney
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An angular roof wrapped in translucent red-mesh panels crowns this Y-shaped pavilion in Sydney, designed by local studio Sam Crawford Architects. Located on the disused lawn of a bowls club in Hurlstone Memorial Reserve, the timber-clad structure is designed as a flexible community centre with uninterrupted connections to the surrounding park. Sam Crawford Architects has designed…
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NORD Architects designs dementia care centre in Pennsylvania
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Copenhagen studio NORD Architects has designed its first project in the United States, a dementia care centre in Pennsylvania for elderly patients aimed at creating a welcoming environment to enhance knowledge and care around the disease. Called the Memory Care Center, the project will encompass a 150,700-square-foot (14,000 square metre) assisted-care campus that will host…
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CCY Architects wraps Colorado house in patinated copper
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US studio CCY Architects has clad a mountainside house in patinated copper panels and tilted the roof to adhere with the topography of its site in Colorado. Known as DNA Alpine, the 4,000-square foot (372-square metre) home was completed in 2022 and designed to “disappear into or somehow become” the 75-acre site in San Miguel…
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Boyd Architects creates monolithic-metal forms for South Carolina house
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US studio Boyd Architects has wrapped a house in standing seam metal and pine boards and articulated each form with a vernacular hip roof in Summerville, South Carolina. Based in Charleston, Boyd Architects completed the 3,611-square foot (335-square metre) Summerville House in 2023, as a “process of form-making”. Summerville House is comprised of monolithic volumes…
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Tall Architects wraps X-shaped Alabama cabin in black metal
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US studio Tall Architects has created a cabin that has two stacked gabled forms that are rotated into an X-shape and clad in corrugated metal near a river in southern Alabama. Known as Fowl River Cabin, the 2,100-square foot (195-square metre) residence was completed in 2023 in Theodore, Alabama – a small community along the…
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SHoP Architects designs Mercedes-Benz’ first US residential skyscraper
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German car brand Mercedes-Benz has unveiled its first branded skyscraper in North America created in collaboration with ShoP Architects and informed by a philosophy of “sensual purity”. Mercedes-Benz Places is a planned 67-storey, mixed-used skyscraper under construction in the Brickell neighbourhood of Miami. Developed by JDS Development Group (JDS), the building was designed collaboratively between New…
