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Eltham Palace is a heritage site "where art deco meets Henry VIII"

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Today an English Heritage site, the many-layered Eltham Palace estate includes one of the UK's best-preserved examples of art deco interior design a house built for the wealthy Stephen and Virginia Courtauld between 1933 and 1936, designed by architectural duo Seely & Paget and dressed in the era's most cutting-edge styles.

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MPavilions find "meaningful second life" on sites across Melbourne

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Photo is by Simon Terrill MPavilion 2015 by Amanda Levete Moved to Docklands The London-based AL_A founder created a crystalline canopy of carbon-fibre petals supported on flexible stems to create the feeling of being in a forest. The post MPavilions find "meaningful second life" on sites across Melbourne appeared first on Dezeen.

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Cooke Fawcett reveals workings of "messy and noisy" Cockpit Deptford studios

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The charity had already fought off redevelopment in 2015, under the Sun Street site-wide residential masterplan. A boundary wall was removed to increase the site's community presence To achieve this, Cooke Fawcett tore down part of its boundary brick wall and replaced it with a new meshed entrance gate.

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Expo 2025 Osaka is a chance for "wonderful unity" amid global instability says Sou Fujimoto

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The event will be hosted within the Grand Ring venue designed by Fujimoto , which will encompass 60,000-square-metres and have a diameter of 700-metres and is nearing completion on the site. Recent projects by the studio include a visitors centre designed to blend harmoniously into its site at Ruinart's historic champagne house in France.

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Project Mingde uses "cascading" roofs on Chinese nursery to recycle rainfall

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Taking into consideration the site's topography, airflow, landscape views, and culture, the building adopts a cascading form, culminating in a series of tiered roofs," the studio said. The solution was three buildings of varying heights with roofs that channel rainfall into a lotus pond.

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Muda Architects punctures sinuous retail centre in China with double-helix viewpoint

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Within a contemporary design language, the architecture not only respects the ecological essence of the site but also accentuates the distinctive charm of Wenjiang's local culture." Muda Architects was founded in Chengdu in 2015. It contains glazed retail spaces Slim columns support two curving rooftops.

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Dílna houses Brno art studios within a stack of white cubes

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On the floors below, a painting studio is illuminated by a large, square window framing the trees behind the site, and workshops for cutting, drilling and welding overlook the street through a ribbon window. Glazing is used to maximise the feeling of space and light Based in Brno, Dílna was founded by Palaščak in 2015.

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