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Samira Rathod creates House of Concrete Experiments in India
3 min · · Sculptural concrete walls cast with debris and a range of finishes define this home in the coastal town of Alibag, India, designed by Samira Rathod Design Atelier. · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
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Junya Ishigami hides mud-covered house and restaurant below ground level in Japan
3 min · · A Japanese house and restaurant are contained within this mud-covered building by architect Junya Ishigami, which was crafted by pouring concrete into holes in the ground. · Shared by 16, including Rick Powell, MariadPDC
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Olson Kundig designs concrete Truckee home with metal tower for Faulkner Architects founder
4 min · · Seattle architecture studio Olson Kundig Architects has collaborated with Greg Faulkner and his wife Lesa to create a home built around the trees in a California forest with a three-storey, steel-clad… · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
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Saudi Arabia reveals design for 170-kilometre-long mirrored skyscraper
· The Saudi Arabian government has unveiled visuals of a 500-metre-tall, linear city named The Line, which will be built near the Red Sea as part of Neom. · Shared by 15, including Alf Rehn, Rick Powell
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Retro capsule hotel in Tokyo renovated by Schemata Architects
· Jo Nagasaka's architecture studio has overhauled a capsule hotel in Tokyo, pairing old sleeping cabins with a suite of timber-lined saunas. · Shared by 10, including Rick Powell
Fast Company
How urban gondolas grew from a tourist attraction to a viable transit option
5 min · · Paris recently greenlit a gondola line. It’s one of a number of cities taking a serious look at this airborne mode of transit. · Shared by 33, including Brent Toderian, Rick Powell
nationalgeographic.co.uk
What is ‘Gothic’? It’s more complicated than you think.
1 min · · Hidden in the architecture of some of the world’s most famous buildings is a cultural exchange between Europe and the Middle East. · Shared by 980, including Rick Powell, Stephanie A Kowalski
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Zinc-clad hikers' cabin perches on a cliff edge in the Dolomites
2 min · · Architecture practice Demogo has perched a small cabin on the dramatic Marmarole mountain range in Northern Italy's Dolomites, with a full-height window that gives the impression of almost falling… · Shared by 11, including Rick Powell
Aeon+Psyche
The Tempietto in Rome should be a full-body experience
13+ min · · One of the great buildings of the Renaissance reminds us that buildings are made to be explored, smelled and even tasted · Shared by 20, including Esther Schindler, Massimo Pigliucci, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Rick Powell
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Neri&Hu completes whisky distillery in China for Pernod Ricard
3 min · · Mount Emei forms the backdrop to this expansive whisky distillery, which Shanghai studio Neri&Hu has completed for Pernod Ricard in Sichuan province, China. · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
The New York Times
After a Billionaire Designed a Dorm, an Architect Resigned in Protest
5 min · · Charles Munger, Warren Buffett’s business partner, said the windowless rooms of an 11-story tower he conceived for the University of California, Santa Barbara, were “cheerful.” · Shared by 36, including The Indian Express, Rick Powell, John Schwartz, Inga Saffron
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Al Borde integrates nature into Casa Jardin in northern Ecuador
3 min · · Rammed-earth walls and a glass outhouse feature in a rural Ecuadorian house by architecture studio Al Borde that is meant to challenge standards of comfort. · Shared by 10, including Rick Powell
The New Yorker
Richard Neutra’s Architectural Vanishing Act
9 min · · The Austrian-born designer perfected a signature Los Angeles look: houses that erase the boundary between inside and outside. · Shared by 21, including Christopher Knight, Rick Powell
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Ennead Architects designs Shanghai Astronomy Museum to "echo the essence of the Universe"
5 min · · New York studio Ennead Architects has completed the world's largest museum dedicated to astronomy in Shanghai, China. · Shared by 13, including Rick Powell