Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Designed to serve as a "citizen check-in point", the 1,390-metre-square centre hosts ground floor restrooms easily accessed by visitors, subsequently followed by a cafe, meeting and reception rooms, and bookshop on the upper floors.

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APRIL 30, 2024

BLOX is home to the Danish Architecture Center (DAC) and includes exhibition spaces, offices, a café, a bookshop, a fitness center, twenty-two apartments, and an underground car park.</p> <p>In May 2018, BLOX, a mixed-use building in Copenhagen designed by OMA, was festively inaugurated by the Danish Queen.

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Deezen

AUGUST 3, 2023

The interior of London's most recent Aesop store in Marylebone was organised to reference a bookshop and features bespoke timber cabinetry by furniture designer Sebastian Cox. Divided into a main shop and an area for personal skin consultations, the L-shaped store features handmade cabinetry by Cox throughout.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Photography: Pedro Mascaro While it’s definitely a minimalist’s nightmare, the tiny bookshop has maximised its volume as much as possible to house over 4,000 books, magazines, vinyl records and CDs. More shelving has been added to the walls, with fixed positions for furniture.

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Architonic

JANUARY 20, 2022

The building incorporates galleries for permanent and temporary exhibitions, a multimedia education centre, auditorium, restaurant and bookshop, as well as research, restoration and storage facilities. Raised on top of a podium, the museum provides a sense of restrained civic and architectural monumentality at the entrance to the city.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 14, 2022

A second-hand bookshop in Shanghai was designed to mimic greengrocer. Popular projects this week included a second-hand bookshop in Shanghai designed to mimic greengrocer , a series of glazed volumes added to a Victorian townhouse in south London and remote hiking shelters in Australia.

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MARCH 21, 2022

Todd Saunders: New Northern Houses by Dominic Bradbury | Thames & Hudson | November 2021 | 12 x 10-1/2 inches | 256 pages | $75 | Amazon / Bookshop When I think of architect Todd Saunders , two places spring to mind: Fogo Island in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and Norway.

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MARCH 22, 2023

Bridport is home to a mix of small stores, bookshops and eateries, while the golden cliffs of West Bay Beach and the Jurassic Coast are on the doorstep. Three bedrooms fill the levels above, with the main bedroom on the first floor and a guest bedroom set beneath the sloping beams of the attic roof.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Image courtesy of Aedas Xinhua Fashion City, Chongqing, by Aedas This 300-metre-tall mixed-use tower in Chongqing will include a bookshop, a cultural plaza, retail space, apartments, offices and a boutique hotel.

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APRIL 14, 2023

Image: Salone del Mobile 2023 Over at the main fairground, they’ve paired up with architect Beppe Finessi to fashioned a full-service bookshop for Italian publisher Corraini Edizioni that organisers hope will coax visitors to momentarily switch their focus from the hectic pace outside to absorbing graphic art on the page.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

The Parisian neighbourhood is well known for its literary ties and was once a hub of bookshops, publishers, intellectuals, poets and writers. Books and cocktails are on offer at Moët Hennessy’s multi-level cocktail bar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, which captures the atmosphere of a writer’s salon.

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JUNE 27, 2022

Barber, Anton Vidokle | e-flux Architecture | February 2022 | 7 x 10 inches | 272 pages | $30 | Amazon / Bookshop The old saying goes that if you want to know the weather just stick your head out the window. Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change edited by Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A. But what about climate?

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English Buildings

JANUARY 27, 2024

Magic flutes A few weeks ago I found myself talking to another author about the demise of second hand bookshops (victims of internet sales and the now-common shops that sell used books for charity) and the similar disappearance of music shops.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Read: Offhand Practice designs second-hand bookshop in Shanghai to mimic greengrocer. Other projects in the running include a second-hand bookshop in Shanghai that uses supermarket-style crates to display its wares and a reusable sales showroom with fabric walls. Dongqi Design gave the second floor a bright white finish.

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Deezen

APRIL 14, 2023

It occupies the 19th-century Palazzo Bocconi-Rizzoli-Carraro building The existing levels now host Fondazione Luigi Rovati Museum's event spaces, archives, dining areas and a bookshop, as well as two floors of exhibition space.

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MARCH 6, 2022

From there they can reach the temporary exhibition area, the event hall, the bookshop and the FLOWDELI museum café as well as the permanent exhibition area in the old building. Visitors to the museum arrive via a forecourt that connects it with the city and enter a brightly-lit foyer in the new building.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

APRIL 11, 2022

Critique of Architecture: Essays on Theory, Autonomy, and Political Economy by Douglas Spencer | Birkhäuser | December 2020 | 5-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches | 228 pages | $34.99 | Amazon / Bookshop Critique of Architecture is the 168th title (!) in the Bauwelt Fundamente series started by German architectural historian Ulrich Conrads in 1963.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

China Dialogues by Vladimir Belogolovsky | ORO Editions | March 2021 | 7 x 9 inches | 250 pages | $24.95 | Amazon / Bookshop Uber-interviewer Vladimir Belogolovsky has compiled 21 conversations he conducted with 25 Chinese architects over a three-and-half-year period.

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The Spaces

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Bookshop in Kuala Lumpur. View this post on Instagram. A post shared by Laura ?? Rostock (@etvoila.laura). Church in Bergamo. View this post on Instagram. A post shared by Andrea Ceriani Photography (@andrea.ceriani). View this post on Instagram. A post shared by Yvonne S ?? ?? yvonnesoo). Building in Bucharest. View this post on Instagram.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

Called Public Access , the exhibition features projects designed for public use and comprises two sections, a physical outdoor component and an indoor installation with documentation and references at Brooklyn gallery and bookshop Head Hi.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Event Date: Jan 21, 2023; Event City: Berlin, DE On Saturday, 21 January, the Evens Foundation will host a launch event at Berlin bookshop Pro qm for What Makes An Assembly ? Published by Sternberg Press , it is available worldwide online and in all good architecture and design bookshops. "A A truly innovative volume inside and out.

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Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perforated metal sheets form the facade of this renovated bookshop in Shanghai, China, which local studio Wutopia Lab has filled with 10,000 metres of shelving. Named Shanghai Book City, the 12,000-square-metre building has been overhauled to transform it from a traditional bookstore into a cultural hub and public landmark.

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English Buildings

MARCH 25, 2024

For me, the shop has a more recent memory – it was until a few years ago a second hand bookshop, which always had a large selection of books on film and architecture. Quite a few volumes on my shelves came from here.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Spread from Joy and Fear: An Illustrated Report on Modernity by Theo Deutinger, published by Lars Múller Publishers , September 2023 ( Amazon / Bookshop ) The spread above can serve to illustrate how the book works.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Detroit Modern: 1935–1985 by Peter Forguson, photography by Amy Claeys, published by Visual Profile Books , November 2022 ( Amazon / Bookshop ) Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple: A Good Time Place Reborn by Pat Cannon, photography by James Caulfield, published by Unity Temple Restoration Foundation, December 2022 ( Amazon / Bookshop ) A.

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Deezen

JANUARY 11, 2022

RIBA wants the redesign to pay particular attention to rethinking the entrance of the building and potentially moving the bookshop. Bars, restaurants, and cafes will also be "interwoven throughout the building". Spaces including Lutyens Room to be restored.

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JULY 21, 2022

It’s already in #mylifetimelibrary To acquire this book, check with your local independent bookshops, as well as amazon and other sites. I love to support small privately owned bookshops and always buy books from my treasured local bookshops. This is a beautiful, soulful book.

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Deezen

AUGUST 26, 2023

Recently completed include an outpost in London's Marylebone that's organised to reference a bookshop, and another in Cambridge, England that features handwoven bulrush shelves. The photography is by Rafael Gamo.

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JUNE 19, 2023

Concrete in Switzerland: Histories from the Recent Past edited by Salvatore Aprea, Nicola Navone, Laurent Stalder and Sarah Nichols, published by EPFL Press in May 2022 ( Amazon / Bookshop ) Concrete in Switzerland is a companion publication to Beton , the exhibition held at S AM (Swiss Architecture Museum) in Basel from November 2021 to April 2022.

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Dwell

MARCH 8, 2023

Alvaro Alcocer and Alexandra Hodkowski, owners of Brooklyn design bookshop/café/gallery Head Hi, at the 2023 "Lamp Show." Anyone from a professional designer to an ambitious amateur could submit a lamp and they would consider it for the show. It runs through April 8.

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APRIL 18, 2024

This space of indeterminate yet profound significance, situated between the architectural narratives of two distinct eras, is one of the diverse offerings of the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato, featuring exhibition halls, educational workshops, a cinema, bookshop, and more.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Both the fabric curtain that framed the space and the books displayed inside have been donated to design schools, while the Flos lighting has been gifted to a bookshop. The Reading Room installation by guest of honour Formafantasma was one of the best examples.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Three decades later, this site of radical artist occupation houses several museum and gallery spaces, bookshops and cafes. And since March 2022, it has welcomed Dance House Helsinki – Finland’s first venue dedicated to dance at both grassroots and professional levels.

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Dwell

JANUARY 31, 2024

Until then, see you at the bookshop. Take this trend report from resale app Depop: "In 2024, we’re balancing chaos and order by blending comfort and familiarity with individuality and unique style. Realism is back in vogue." Bookshelf wealth and other vintage-heavy aesthetics are set to only rise in popularity as Gen Z matures.

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JANUARY 2, 2022

The referral links — the buttons and other links pointing to Amazon, AbeBooks, Bookshop, and IndieBound — vary dramatically from website to website: at the high end, earnings from Amazon averaged around $40/month in 2021; I made $50 from AbeBooks over the last three years; I earned $30 from Bookshop since signing up with them last year; and commissions (..)

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Tokyoids: The Robotic Face of Architecture by François Blanciak | The MIT Press | September 2022 | 5 x 8 inches | 216 pages | $24.95 | Amazon / Bookshop Tokyoids is like two books in one: a dense text of architectural theory and humorous photographs of building "faces" in Tokyo. Akzeptiere shows I'm not alone in this belief.

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Deezen

JULY 17, 2022

Trace Architecture Office's previous projects include a theatre complex in Hebei province featuring a stone amphitheatre, and a bookshop and cafe inserted into an abandoned house in rural China. "It is our wish that this school could be just like a city, breeding imagination, freedom and miracles," concluded the studio.

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