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A Swedish architecture firm that came up with a plan to roll buildings through a city on rails has won third prize in a competition to develop the Norwegian city of Åndalsnes.

The company, Jagnafalt Milton, suggested that existing and new railroads could be built to provide the base for buildings that could be positioned differently depending on the seasons and on the weather. It proposed designs for rail-mounted single- and double-birth cabins, along with a two-storey suite. It also imagined lookout towers, kitchens, lifeguard stations, changing rooms, and — in true Swedish spirit — a sauna.
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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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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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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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Image:By Richard Bryant

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 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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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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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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