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Steven Holl Architects have presented a masterplan for Hudson Yards, a large former rail yard beside the Hudson River in Midtown, New York… Read the full story

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Dubai’s insane rate of development is easy to misinterpret—even caricature—but the cliché obscures the city’s more serious ambitions.

” Fifty years from now, New York will be considered the economic and cultural capital of the previous century, fille­d with quaint artifacts of another time and places to visit for the sake of nostalgia, but not the center of world culture—­somewhat like how we think of Paris today compared to 100 years ago. Federal immigration restrictions, the religious police, and the protection of large corporations from foreign competition will have cut off our biggest sources of wealth—invention and innovation—and historic preservation will have saved the unique character of neigh­borhoods and conserved innumerable buildings but killed the spirit that made the city the greatest of its time.

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The heart of the newspaper is the main newsroom, on the second, third and fourth floors, topped by a skylight and linked by stairways, with a wraparound balcony on the highest level.

” By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF

Writing about your employer’s new building is a tricky task. If I love it, the reader will suspect that I’m currying favor with the man who signs my checks. If I hate it, I’m just flaunting my independence. 
So let me get this out of the way: As an employee, I’m enchanted with our new building on Eighth Avenue. The grand old 18-story neo-Gothic structure on 43rd Street, home to The New York Times for nearly a century, had its sentimental charms. But it was a depressing place to work. Its labyrinthine warren of desks and piles of yellowing newspapers were redolent of tradition but also seemed an anachronism.

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The winners of the KRob 07 Awards:
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” Another great conversion by ZECC Architecten, this time an apartment in a converted chapel located in Utrecht, Netherlands. It’s on the second floor (added?), and because there were no windows at floor height, the firm designed one to be cut into the front on the street side to bring in more light - it vaguely resembles a Mondrian painting. Together with the original stained-glass windows up on high, and the white-painted interior, the whole effect is simply amazing. The bedroom and bathroom were left dark. The original organ remains as a reference to the history of the building - it’s a nice conversation piece, that’s for sure…..”

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“  A radical reinterpretation of the classic alpine massive-wood block-technique.
A single levelled prefabricated Hull made of massive wood fins was situated on a concrete basement, wich overhangs at the southside. It includes the technical rooms and the storage. For the wall construction, wood fins with spigots and sockets are stapled to the needed height, a pair of dried wood dowels is shot through the wall each 30 centimeters and fixes, after the maceration of the dowels through the airhumidity, each fin on its vertical position.
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” When the scaffolding was taken down from Airspace Tokyo, the usually quiet Kitamoagome residential neighbourhood found itself with a bold new façade. Designed by San Francisco-based architect Thom Faulders and developed in collaboration with digital technologist Sean Ahlquist of proces2, Airspace Tokyo appears to be covered with layer upon layer of artificial vegetation.

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“The Sámi Parliament building is situated on a ridge above the Karasjok town centre, on a noticeable terrace on the hillside, 35 metres above today’s alluvial plain. Surrounding the building is a landscape comprised of pinetrees and natural vegetation. Elements such as the concrete and grey colour of the larch wood panelling allow the building to blend in with the surrounding nature. The plenary meeting hall’s oblique conical form, on the edge of a steep incline, is however easily visible - even from the town centre of Karasjok.

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” Gardner 1050 in West Hollywood is indicative of the current boom in multi-unit housing in Los Angeles. Designed by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA), the 10-unit project is a result of a series of studies into how various housing typologies could be re-invigorated to create new opportunities for living within the extremely tight economic and special parameters of the speculative housing market.

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” An der Alster 1 is a newly completed office complex in Hamburg, Germany, designed by J. Mayer H Architects. ” More about this project on Dezeen

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