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Kiln It: 7 Times Architects Reused Former Firing Sites

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Interestingly, products that had a long association with regional or local techniques and expressions of identity, became universally available. The ancient facilities now lay in ruin, however, their former site serves as the perfect platform to display the many precious porcelain artifacts that were once fired in their brick ovens.

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Invisible Studio & Pearce+ tops domed woodworking pavilion with aluminium shingles

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Designed for Forestry England as a companion to an existing community building, Invisible Studio and Pearce+ combined unprocessed timber construction methods and digital fabrication techniques to configure the hemispherical pavilion. Locating all the 'points in space' on site for the centre of each shingle was challenging but fun.

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Benzene rings inform patterned facades of Ascentage Pharmaceutical Headquarters

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OLI Architecture has created Ascentage Pharmaceutical Headquarters Comprising a range of repeating units, the facades were created by OLI Architecture using parametric technology and digital fabrication techniques and are intended as a reference to the work of the cancer drug company Ascentage Pharma.

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Studio Symbiosis extends and renovates Mumbai office block with flowing metal forms

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The new facade of the project creates a locus for the site, and acts as a visual marker for the entrance to the overall site, which spreads over 12 acres of land," it continued. The urban rehabilitation of the site extends into the urban fabric by rerouting the entrances and exits to decongest the entrance road," said the practice.

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Studio Ardete

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Badrinath Kaleru & Prerna Kaleru, an Alumni of IIT Roorkee, founded Studio Ardete in 2010 as a proponent of “SPACE IS MORE” with the belief that built spaces need to celebrate the Human existence, the Life. (“Text taken from website”). Badrinath Kaleru & Prerna Kaleru.

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SOM and Princeton University create self-balancing arch for Venice Architecture Biennale

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The group chose to do an updated take on what Beghini calls a "lost" construction technique – the laying of bricks in a herringbone pattern, as used by Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi on the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. The Venice Architecture Biennale takes place from 20 May to 26 November 2023.

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City Analysis Collage

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They are the site of highly diverse interactions, rapid ¯ fluctuations of capital, hazy physical boundaries and seemingly irreconcilable architectural and urban movements.” 127, California College of Arts and Crafts, 2010. It’s the participant’s choice, however our suggestion goes to a site from your home country. Eligibility.

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