Infrastructure

Brooks + Scarpa drapes wavy metal screen over Seattle transit station

January 3, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

California architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has wrapped a Seattle transit facility in an undulated, blue aluminium screen that was influenced by a dance performance. The Angle Lake Transit Station and Plaza is located on a seven-acre (2.8-hectare) site in the city’s SeaTac neighbourhood. It serves as a stop along an elevated light rail line that

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Urban-Think Tank develops low-cost housing for South African slum

December 28, 2017 India Block 0

Urban-Think Tank has completed the next phase of its Empower Shack project, bringing safe low-cost housing to residents of South Africa’s informal settlements. The design strategy collective first started studying Khayelitsha, Cape Town’s second largest township, in 2012 and designed and built the first four prototypes alternative slum housing two years later. This year Urban-Think Tank added

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VeloCity wins ideas competition for development of Oxford and Cambridge region

December 12, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

An all-female team has won a contest seeking ideas for how the UK government could instigate growth in the Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford corridor, with plans to revitalise six villages by adding housing, and a network of cycling and pedestrian routes. The team of architects, planners and engineers comprises Jennifer Ross of Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design, Sarah Featherstone of

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Sydney’s Sirius building goes on sale for £75 million amid heritage register controversy

December 8, 2017 Gunseli Yalcinkaya 0

One of Sydney’s finest examples of brutalist architecture has been put on sale for £75 million by the New South Wales government, despite new evidence that shows the building may already be heritage listed. The decision to sell the Sirius building comes after the New South Wales (NSW) government decided to not include it on the State Heritage Register,

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Foster + Partners to add “missing piece” to Rogers’ Marseille airport extension

November 30, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to add a glazed terminal building to Marseille Provence Airport, which will link the 1990s extension designed by Richard Rogers with the original 1960s building. London-based Foster + Partners beat Rogers’ firm, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, to win the contract for the extension. Set to be completed in two phases, the works

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Allies and Morrison challenges “identikit urbanism” with masterplan for new city in Oman

November 27, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

British firm Allies and Morrison has designed a new city for Middle Eastern country Oman, which will transform a desert valley into a 624-hectare urban centre over the next 30 years. Allies and Morrison wants to challenge “identikit urbanism” with its masterplan for Madinat Al Irfan. The aim is to create “a place that feels as if it has always

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First photos emerge of tiered tower built by Renzo Piano to house Paris law courts

November 23, 2017 India Block 0

Work has completed on Tribunal de Paris – a tiered skyscraper, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano to become the largest law complex in Europe. Comprising a series of stacked glass volumes, the building will bring together the various activities of the French capital’s judiciary system, which had previously been scattered about the city. It is not set to open

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UNStudio plans extension to Georgia airport just four years after completing it

November 23, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Dutch firm UNStudio has unveiled plans for a “user-oriented” extension to its Kutaisi International Airport terminal in Georgia, featuring a rooftop plaza.  The Ben van Berkel-led firm completed the terminal building in 2013. Just four years later, the Amsterdam-based studio was asked to design a large extension, to cater to the airport’s rapidly growing number of passengers. Passengers using the

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Waugh Thistleton completes cemetery buildings with rammed-earth walls

November 22, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Waugh Thistleton has added a pair of new prayer halls to a Jewish cemetery in the English county of Hertfordshire, which feature rammed-earth walls constructed using soil taken from the site. The London architecture office was invited to oversee the expansion of Bushey Cemetery, which is located in the capital’s greenbelt and is the UK’s

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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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