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New Biennale App for 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale

Posted on August 20th, 2010 by Mark

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Get ready for next week’s launch of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010 by downloading Biennale App for free
Biennale App will guide you around the labyrinthine alleys and canals of Venice to find exactly what you are looking for at the world’s greatest architecture event.

The brainchild of PR teams Flint Public Relations and Theresa Simon & Partners , Biennale App is designed to make the experience of navigating the events and exhibitions, that run through from the vernissage to the conclusion of the Biennale, a much simpler exercise.
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SUGAR CUBE MODELS PROVIDE SWEET CELEBRATION OF LONDON FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE

Posted on July 1st, 2010 by Mark

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To mark this summer’s London Festival of Architecture, Native Land and Grosvenor commissioned sculptor Brendan Jamison to recreate NEO Bankside, its new residential development, as well as Tate Modern, entirely from sugar cubes.
The completed models will be built to a scale of 1:100, with Tate Modern’s chimney being over one metre high. The sculpture will be constructed from over 80,000 sugar cubes weighing around 255 kilograms.
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The Future of Architecture: The AA School’s Projects Review Exhibition Launches Friday 25th June 2010

Posted on June 25th, 2010 by Mark

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A new exhibition of work by 650 students will go on display this Friday (25 June) at the Architectural Association School. The exhibition is set to demonstrate some of the most radical and experimental thinking in architecture and cultural enquiry today.

The exhibition opening will also mark the grand opening of the AA School’s newly expanded Bedford Square campus which will be open to the public for the first time.
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Chiswick House Gardens cafe by Caruso St John Architects

Posted on June 25th, 2010 by Mark

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Caruso St John Architects have installed this cafe in the grounds of an English 18th century villa.

The new cafe at Chiswick House Gardens inLondon is located to the east of the main house and provides seating for 80 people indoors and a further 100 outside.
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Balenciaga New Mens Store opens in Paris

Posted on June 25th, 2010 by Mark

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Balenciaga menswear has a new home. The new Paris store is open just in time for mens fashion week and sure to be trampled by menswear traffic over the coming weeks. The new fit out is in keeping with the new bold and minimal look of the brand and inparticular its menswear.
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Home 07 by i29

Posted on June 24th, 2010 by Mark

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This apartment full of holes in Amsterdam was designed by Dutch interior architects i29.Titled Home 07, the residence features a series of cabinets with laser-cut holes across their surfaces, which double as handles.A double-height pine wall lines the staircase and links the two floors.
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Land Architecture People At Ambika P3, London, from Friday 25th June

Posted on June 24th, 2010 by Mark

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25 June – 26 July 2010
Land Architecture People is a major exhibition which offers behind-the-scenes insights into how buildings are made – from the mysterious rules and conditions of land ownership through to the symbiotic relationship between architect and client. Conceived by award-winning architects Pierre d’Avoine and Andrew Houlton and anthropologist Clare Melhuish, the show dispels some of the mystique around the architectural design process. Land Architecture People opens in the vast subterranean gallery Ambika P3 in central London on 25 June and runs until 26 July 2010.
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Sustainable Cottages Are Hidden In The Hillside

Posted on May 31st, 2010 by Mark

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Vancouver-based Patkau Architects have won the competition to design on-site cottages at Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s historic landmark in Pennsylvania.

The cottages will provide residential educational programs for students in the Fallingwater Institute. Patkau Architects designed six small, efficient and sustainable cottages that will serve as the basis for a final design. The cottages will be built by The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, which maintains Fallingwater, in the Bear Run Nature Reserve which surrounds the famous house. Via:[PSFK]

Website:www.patkau.ca/