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Allsteel's Experience Center reimagines the role of the contract furniture showroom

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Promotion: workplace furniture brand Allsteel's latest showroom in Chicago is designed to showcase its latest products and share new workplace concepts through architectural features and experiences. The post Allsteel's Experience Center reimagines the role of the contract furniture showroom appeared first on Dezeen.

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Hawaii house by Walker Warner Architects designed to be "elegant but spare"

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The home is elegant but spare, exhibiting a spiritual existence that adapts to the environment with ease and comfort." The main dwelling contains a primary bedroom suite and an open-concept kitchen, dining area and living room. Neutral colours mimic those found in the natural environment and help keep the focus on the landscape.

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Prada designing lunar spacesuits for NASA moon mission

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They are an evolution of NASA 's Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) spacesuit design and will use "innovative technologies and design" to be more flexible and provide more protection against the harsh lunar environment, according to the brand. NASA is currently working with a number of companies on its space missions.

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Textural metal skin wraps University of Washington building by Miller Hull

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US studio The Miller Hull Partnership has completed the Health Sciences Education Building in Seattle , which features corrugated metal cladding and a warm interior that departs from the "hospital-like environments found in most university medical buildings".

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"Architects must reject the 'follow your passion' narrative and see ourselves as workers"

Deezen

As workers, our conception of acceptable work habits is generated from our superiors. As workers, our conception of acceptable work habits is generated from our superiors. We – as designers of the built environment – have little or no leverage. This is not to say that we are not passionate about what we do. We love what we do.

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Shanghai Valley by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects

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Image © DMAA DMAA was contracted to develop a new, mixed-use complex that, in addition to a defined spatial programme totalling 350,000 square metres of usable space, should also provide generous green areas and a clear improvement in the quality of the workplace environment.

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The Rise and Fall of Baltimore's HarborPlace

Community Architect

This development has a lot to do with the concept of the right to the city. Peter Hall) At its peak the festival concept had been replicated some 43 times in North America alone. Instead, chain stores took over and visitors felt, that they had seen the same concept before. Some had seen decline coming.

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