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Architect and educator Meejin Yoon is named the 2022 Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts winner

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She is one of two architects to receive the award (along with Mexican architect Enrique Norten in 2005) and was commended for her recent involvement in memorial projects at the University of Virginia (Memorial to Enslaved Laborers) and MIT (Collier Memorial). "In

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Interior designer Iris Apfel dies aged 102

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Apfel, who worked in the interiors and fashion industries throughout her career, shot to international fame in her 80s and 90s after New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibited a show of her eclectic clothes and accessories in 2005.

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Robertson/Sherwood/Architects' Newest Principals

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Evolution isn’t just about survival on the competitive landscape—it’s about seizing the occasion to redefine and excel, to embrace new technologies and ways of working, and to shape the future of a firm with informed foresight. I expect great things from Lana and Becky. They’ve waited patiently for this opportunity.

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Embracing Timelessness: The Scoop Bathtub and WOLF Architects’ Design Philosophy

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Just as a house designed by WOLF Architects is crafted to stand the test of time, so too does the Scoop bathtub, a masterpiece conceived by the visionary Michael Schmidt and brought to life by Falper in 2005.

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Work begins on timber daycare centre by Kéré Architecture in Munich

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A slated facade will enclose the building Kéré founded his eponymous studio in Berlin in 2005. Other recent projects by his studio include a community centre in Uganda and a Kenyan education campus informed by termite mounds. The renders are courtesy of Kéré Architecture.

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BIG designs stage set with inflatable orb for WhoMadeWho's world tour

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It is BIG 's latest inflatable structure and was informed by the floating 26-metre-diameter, mirrored sphere it created for Burning Man in 2018. Founded in 2005 by Bjarke Ingels, BIG is one of the world's most influential architecture studios with headquarters in both Copenhagen and New York.

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BIG designs trio of villas nestled into remote Japanese island

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Traditional Danish modern architecture is, in fact, very informed by traditional Japanese architecture," said Ingels. The villas will overlook Seto Inland Founded by Ingels in 2005, BIG is an international architecture studio that has offices in Copenhagen, New York, London and Barcelona, as well as Shenzhen, Zurich, Los Angeles and Oslo.

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