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Take a look inside Magazzino Italian Art's new minimalist Robert Olnick Pavilion

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Sited on the grounds perpendicular to Quismondo’s existing L-shaped main museum building from 2017, the Robert Olnick Pavilion repeats the scale, cornice lines, layout, and materiality of the older structure while adding much-needed room for educational and events programming in time for the start of the fall arts season.

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Ten post-industrial structures from the Black Country

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From factories and warehouses to shop fronts and underpasses, Hicks explores the structures that make up the post-industrial landscape of the West Midlands region known as the Black Country. There are improvised and patched-up structures all over the region." "I It's the main structure of what remains of the Scala Theatre.

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Mork-Ulnes Architects and Alison Damonte reimagine San Francisco home destroyed by fire

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” Image credit: Bruce Damonte Image credit: Bruce Damonte The new scheme replaces an original 1908 wood house, which was damaged by a fire on Christmas Eve, 2017, when the project had already commenced.

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Cool Schools: 7 Educational Structures Championing Affordable and Sustainable Construction

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Given that the site is located in paddy fields in the mountains there, the structure is built using layers of walls to adapt to the topography. Jury Winner, 2017 A+Awards, Primary & High School. Bamboo is bundled, bent and intertwined to create a supporting structure in a way that creates a mesmerizing pattern.

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Izat Arundell clads remote Outer Hebrides home with local stone

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Looking to blend the home in with its dramatic surroundings, Izat Arundell finished the simple, timber-frame structure with blocks of local stone called Lewisian Gneiss. The site's remote nature informed the simple material choices, as well as making it more viable to construct the timber frame on-site rather than prefabricating it.

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Experience 12 interactive, site-specific installations at Sydney Contemporary

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As such, it affords an opportunity to experience innovative, site-specific, and interactive installations within the unique architecture of Carriageworks. Forbidden by her Christian-abiding parents to enter, Zhang recreates the structure at Carriageworks in an attempt to rebuild missing links between her and her ancestors. 300 x 65 cm.

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Conversation Plinth by TSKP x ikd

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The Conversation Plinth was the first hardwood CLT (Cross Laminated Timber) structure constructed in the United States. Pei, the First Christian Church designed by Eliel Saarinen, and the Large Arch sculpture by Henry Moore.

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