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URB reveals its masterplan vision to make dubai the ‘best cycling city by 2040’

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The post URB reveals its masterplan vision to make dubai the ‘best cycling city by 2040’ appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. the dubai cycle city 2040 study also includes THE LOOP, a 93 km cycling highway by URB.

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Tadao Ando designs concrete arts centre for Sharjah to be "round like the Earth"

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Japanese architect Tadao Ando has unveiled the design for Il Teatro at Aljada, a cylindrical performing arts centre in Sharjah that will overlook a sunken water feature. This will let visitors enter the arts centre via concrete walkways leading across the water pools. "Il It will be surrounded by greenery, with parks on both sides.

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Bao'An Performing Arts Center by Rocco Design Architects opens in Shenzhen

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Rocco Design Architects Associates have completed the Performing Arts Center as part of their wider Bao-An Cultural District masterplan in Shenzhen , China. The design of the Performing Arts Center takes inspiration from the long and narrow waterfront site. The Library was completed in 2013 and the Youth Palace in 2018.

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Zaha Hadid Architects win design for Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre

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The centre’s design intertwines with the city’s existing urban masterplan to connect the new library to the north of Jinghe Avenue. The post Zaha Hadid Architects win design for Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre appeared first on Åvontuura.

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Coffey Architects references industrial history for London housing and arts spaces

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Occupying the former Rich Industrial Estate that was once the centre of Bermondsey's 19th-century tannery trade, the three buildings by Coffey Architects are part of a wider masterplan for the neighbourhood by architects AHMM for developer London Square. The photography is by Phil Coffey.

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Snøhetta Completes Vesterheim Commons, A Place Where Norwegian-American Art Flourish

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Vesterheim, a Norwegian-American Museum and Folk Art School established in Decorah, Iowa has been working collaborating with the architecture firm Snøhetta since ”'. The initial partnership which had resulted in a masterplan is now crowned by the new &uum.

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BIG designs Mindfulness City in Bhutan connected by "inhabitable bridges"

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Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled its masterplan for a 1,000-square-kilometre development in Bhutan that will include an international airport and a hydroelectric dam incorporating a temple. Turning engineering into art and turning the forces of nature into power," said Ingels.