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Stavros Tis Minthis – a modern relic restored

Hotel Designs

Image credit: Woods Bagot Woods Bagot Chief Executive Officer and Project Leader Nik Karalis said the redevelopment was informed by the concept of the “modern relic”, celebrating the anachronisms of a bygone era while boasting the latest in world-class amenity.

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Fifteen landmark projects by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner David Chipperfield

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Museum of Modern Literature, 2007, Germany In 2007, David Chipperfield Architects won the RIBA Stirling Prize for the Museum of Modern Literature at Marbach am Neckar in Germany. The renovation and restoration of the buildings were completed in collaboration with conservation studio Julian Harrap Architects.

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Colleen Healey combines old and new for historic DC house renovation

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The renovated eight-bedroom house fronts Logan Circle, one of the city's grand rotaries that connects several major avenues, created as part of engineer Pierre L'Enfant's original masterplan. In the bedroom, a fireplace was sacrificed in favour of a headboard and art wall.

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David Alan Chipperfield announced as Pritzker Architecture Laureate 2023

ArchiDiaries

The Hepworth Wakefield, photo courtesy of Iwan Baan Saint Louis Art Museum, photo courtesy of Simon Menges Chipperfield calculates the environmental and historical impacts of permanence, embracing the preexisting, designing and intervening in dialogue with time and place to adopt and refresh the architectural language of each locale.

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Former RIBA presidents say revamp will turn the Sainsbury Wing into "an airport lounge"

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It feels as if the architect is trying to jam a modern building into the guts of the Sainsbury Wing and wholly change its character – the VSBA ambience will be lost, and the ground and mezzanine floors detached psychologically from the main gallery floor," the comment said. "It Revised scheme "perhaps even more ill-judged" .

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THE BeCa Old Kent Road homes, South London

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THE BeCa and the Ruby Triangle masterplan form a key part of the area’s ongoing regeneration and a prime investment opportunity. acre site, THE BeCa will provide 262 design-led homes, with 40% of these being affordable, with high quality specification, state-of-the-art residents amenities and 22,195 sq.ft. Set on a 1.6-acre

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7 Formidable Sustainable Firms Dynamically Disrupting the Architectural Status Quo

Architizer

Fusing state-of-the-art technology with the wisdom of vernacular architecture, the studio shapes new structures that harmonize with the local ecosystem and revives old structures by imparting fresh purpose. One of its most ambitious concepts to date is Urban Sequoia.

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