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Restored floodgates by Studio Roosegaarde reflect the headlights of passing cars

November 20, 2017 India Block 0

Studio Roosegaarde has restored a set of flood defences in the Netherlands, impregnating the floodgates with a new retro-reflective material that glows in the headlights of oncoming cars. The Gates of Light are the permanent part of the Icoon Afsluitdijk exhibition on a 32-kilometre dike, along with two temporary installations that will run from November to

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RIAS chief Neil Baxter resigns following outcry from Scottish architects

November 17, 2017 India Block 0

Neil Baxter has resigned as secretary and treasurer of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, after more than 150 architects accused the organisation of financial mismanagement. The RIAS said it had agreed to a request from Baxter to step down with immediate effect. He has been with the organisation for 10 years. “Neil will be standing down as

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Skýli mountain shelter is designed to withstand extreme weather conditions

November 15, 2017 India Block 0

Utopia Arkitekter has designed a tent-like shelter that could provide a cosy retreat for trekkers in the mountains. Called Skýli, which means shelter in Icelandic, the conceptual cabin is designed by Stockholm-based Utopia Arkitekter to withstand the extreme weather conditions of Iceland’s mountain landscape. Built from both steel and cross-laminated timber, it would sleep up to 15 mountaineers,

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Soho salon by JaK Studio gathers patrons around a fire pit

November 13, 2017 India Block 0

JaK Studio has designed a hair salon in London’s Soho, where customers get their hair cut and coloured while seated at giant jewellery boxes arranged around an open fire. Inlaid with a mirror, dark stained oak veneer and purple velvet, the boxes provide clients with everything they might need including a place to safely store jewellery, charge

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Soho salon by JaK Studio gathers patrons around a fire pit

November 13, 2017 India Block 0

JaK Studio has designed a hair salon in London’s Soho where customers can get their cut and colour while seated at giant jewellery boxes arranged around an open fire. Inlaid with a mirror, dark stained oak veneer and purple velvet, the boxes provide clients with everything they might need including a place to safely store jewellery, charge

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Soho salon by JaK Studio gathers patrons around a fire pit

November 13, 2017 India Block 0

JaK Studio has designed a hair salon in London’s Soho where customers can get their cut and colour while seated at giant jewellery boxes arranged around an open fire. Inlaid with a mirror, dark stained oak veneer and purple velvet, the boxes provide clients with everything they might need including a place to safely store jewellery, charge

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Soho salon by JaK Studio gathers patrons around a fire pit

November 13, 2017 India Block 0

JaK Studio has designed a hair salon in London’s Soho, where customers get their hair cut and coloured while seated at giant jewellery boxes arranged around an open fire. Inlaid with a mirror, dark stained oak veneer and purple velvet, the boxes provide clients with everything they might need including a place to safely store jewellery, charge

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Tropical plants and geometric glass walls screen house and restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City

November 12, 2017 India Block 0

An old house in a narrow alleyway in Ho Chi Minh City has been given a modernist makeover by local architecture studio Kientruc O, which transformed it to include a restaurant with a lush garden wrapped by gridded glazing. Kientruc O redesigned the 161-square-metre building to connect the house with the garden, and garden with the street, and

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Gilbert and George are turning an east London brewery into an art gallery

November 11, 2017 India Block 0

Artists Gilbert and George are converting 19th-century brewery in London’s Spitalfields into their own public gallery “because the Tate never shows our work”. The building off Brick Lane is being converted by SIRS – a design firm founded by Gilbert Prousch’s architect nephew – and planning permission has been granted by Tower Hamlets council. George Prousch and George

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Underground Roman temple reopens as immersive museum using light, haze and sound

November 9, 2017 India Block 0

A subterranean Roman temple where a mysterious cult worshipped has been restored within an immersive museum below Bloomberg’s headquarters in London by 9/11 memorial museum exhibition designers Local Projects. Part of Bloomberg’s £1 billion Norman Foster-designed European headquarters was restoring the Temple of Mithras to its original location seven metres below modern street level. The reconstructed temple sits in a

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