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Manica designs glass-fronted stadium for Chicago Bears

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Manica Architecture designed the multi-purpose recreational campus – featuring a stadium enclosed with a translucent roof – to bring a variety of concerts, community celebrations, and sporting events to the Windy City's downtown, to replace the Bears' current home at Soldier Field. The remainder of the funding, approximately $1.5

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Glass and steel form rooftop Cascada House apartment in Mexico City

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o de Buen and Luis Young have used a green metallic frame to form the structure of an airy apartment built atop an existing building in Mexico City. ngel neighbourhood, a sought-after area in the south of the city. Cascada House is topped with two sloping roofs. This opens to a generous patio via sliding glass doors.

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TAEP/AAP tops Kuwait burger restaurant with large stepped roof

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An oversized stepped roof that doubles as an "amphitheatre for the city" tops BBT Hilltop, a burger restaurant in Kuwait City designed by architecture studio TAEP/AAP. Glass hatches for ordering and picking up food are sheltered by the roof, the underside of which has also been finished in a bold shade of red.

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AECOM and Luis Vidal place sleek red roof on Boston airport terminal

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Infrastructure consultants AECOM and Spanish architecture studio Luis Vidal + Architects have created a terminal for Boston 's Logan Airport capped by a long, bright-red roof. The largest airport in the city, it is located on a piece of land that juts out into Boston Harbor.

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here’s zigy, a single-seater electric urban vehicle that can navigate congested city streets

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glass curves around the roof and front of the concept single-seater electric urban vehicle, zigy, for a mini sunroof and wider road visibility. The post here’s zigy, a single-seater electric urban vehicle that can navigate congested city streets appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Wave-shaped roofs top cultural space in Shanghai by Wutopia Lab

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Chinese studio Wutopia Lab has used wave-shaped roofs of blue aluminium and translucent fabric to transform an industrial yard in Shanghai into a mixed-use cultural space. Read: Wutopia Lab wraps Shanghai Book City in perforated aluminium Inside, Wutopia Lab left the steel structure of the building exposed and painted it white.

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A6A creates "haven in the middle of the city" for its Bordeaux studio

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A mezzanine with additional workspace sits above private meeting rooms Here, original wood and glass doors to the garden have been preserved, beyond which a series of new and existing paving stones provide access to the main studio. This is accessed by a set of double-height, glass sliding doors. The photography is by Rory Gardiner.

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