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50 Beautiful Ways With Porch Swings (50 photos)

August 9, 2019 Annie Thornton 0

These 50 porch swings won’t make back-to-school, the end of summer and the return of fall any less real, but they may help us forget they’re coming — even if only for five minutes. Take a seat and enjoy a mini break from real life with this favorite s…

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“Ultra-camp meets ultra-luxury” in London’s Bob Bob Cité restaurant

August 9, 2019 Sabina Sohail 0
Bob Bob Cité restaurant

Eight miles of mirror-polished steel trim creates a glistening finish inside Bob Bob Cité, a maximalist French restaurant in the City of London designed by BradyWilliams. Designed in collaboration with restaurant owner Leonid Shutov, the interior is described as “ultra-camp meets ultra-luxury” by Shayne Brady, co-founder of interior design studio BradyWilliams. It is suspended 30

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Italians Ban Large Cruises from the Historical Center Of Venice

August 9, 2019 Christele Harrouk 0

Starting September, all ships that exceed 1000 tones will be obliged to change their route, in order to prevail them from entering Venice’s lagoon. The Italian government took the decision after major protests due to many incidents, the latest being in June of 2019 where 5 people were injured from a collision between a cruise ship, the dock, and a small tourist boat.

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Publicity of the Bid Evaluation Result for the International Bidding of Curator of the Opening Ceremony of Brewery Arts Festival and Architectural Exhibition (Luohu•2021)

August 9, 2019 Milly Mo 0

The Opening Ceremony of Brewery Arts Festival and Architectural Exhibition (Luohu•2021) is a plan to fulfill the future vision for the comprehensive improvement of the industrial heritage of Kingway Brewery’s urban renewal unit. The project has attracted much attention as Shenzhen’s first case where urban renewal contributes to industrial heritage preservation and activated renovation on land. 

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Slack Headquarters / Studio O+A

August 9, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

When Slack asked O+A to create its new multi-floor headquarters in San Francisco one design story presented itself immediately. Slack’s CEO Stewart Butterfeld is an outdoorsman, a hiker who goes off grid every year and recharges in the various types of wilderness—desert, mountains, forest—that make up the Pacifc Crest Trail.

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Entwined timber columns define structure of The House of Three Trees

August 9, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
The House of Three Trees by JK-AR

A canopy of tree-like timber columns crowns the double-height living space at the centre of this polycarbonate-clad house, which JK-AR has completed in South Korea. Named The House of Three Trees, the residence centres around the ornate wooden structure that JK-AR has created by merging the traditional wooden joinery technique Gong-po, otherwise known as Dougong,

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Synthetic Design Method as a Tool for Design in the Second Machine Age / Matthias Hank Haeusler for the Shenzhen Biennale (UABB) 2019

August 9, 2019 Matthias Hank Haeusler 0

What happens when the sensor-imbued city acquires the ability to see – almost as if it had eyes? Ahead of the 2019 Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), titled “Urban Interactions,” Archdaily is working with the curators of the “Eyes of the City” section at the Biennial to stimulate a discussion on how new technologies – and Artificial Intelligence in particular – might impact architecture and urban life. Here you can read the “Eyes of the City” curatorial statement by Carlo Ratti, the Politecnico di Torino and SCUT.

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Schemata Architects stacks up red bricks inside South Korea’s first Blue Bottle Coffee cafe

August 9, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Blue Bottle Coffee cafe in Seongsu by Schemata Architects

The materiality of Seoul’s architecture informed the interiors of this Blue Bottle Coffee cafe, which Schemata Architects has completed with steel surfaces and red-brick fixtures. The sparsely-decorated cafe is situated in Seoul’s artsy Seongsu neighbourhood, surrounded by craft coffee bars and organic eateries that occupy disused warehouses. This is the first Blue Bottle Coffee cafe

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The House of Silence / Natura Futura Arquitectura

August 9, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

The project is located in the city of Quevedo, in the province of Los Ríos, Ecuador. With approximately 16.000 inhabitants it has become one of the great conurbations of the country. Its high commercial potential makes the city an economic attraction but at the same time a noise attractor.