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Bofill Foundation Headquarters, Barcelona, Spain

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Built in 1850, the 21x21m block stands as a testament to the industrial architecture of its time, representing a protected heritage example. It has seven partners, six associates, and a large multidisciplinary team of more than 100 people, with offices in Barcelona and Madrid.

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Education Above All Foundation to place 27 tents by Zaha Hadid Architects

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Education Above All (EAA) Foundation, the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, and its human and social legacy programme, Generation Amazing Foundation, announced that 27 tents, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) to serve and support displaced populations. Photo © Luke Hayes.

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all(zone) will push new material boundaries in the ninth MPavilion

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Image courtesy Naomi Milgrom Foundation. AECOM and the specialist engineering consultancy TENSYS are now working with all(zone) on a construction pr.

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Forge Craft uses "hammock" approach to create outdoor space for transitional apartments

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Called Zilker Studios, the structure includes 110 affordable apartments operated by local housing organisation Foundation Communities. Strategic window sizes were used to help make the building energy-efficient Beyond helping to finance the project, Foundation Communities has pledged to pay the energy bills for the building.

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Ross Barney Architects encloses NASA testing facility in unique copper-concrete panels

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Ross Barney Architects created the Aerospace Communications Facility at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, which originally opened as the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in 1942 to test jet propulsion. Etchings from the chalkboard seen in the film Hidden Figures fill the bottom edges of the precast panelling.

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Killa Design's Museum of the Future opens in Dubai

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Built for the Dubai Future Foundation , the seven-storey building contains a combination of exhibits dedicated to the future and workshops for testing and developing emerging technology. The photography is courtesy of Dubai Future Foundation. Project credits: Client: Dubai Future Foundation. Cost consultant: AECOM.

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A Retreat in the Mountains of Central Mexico Sources 100% of Its Water From the Sky

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All three of the structures share a tectonic vocabulary of volcanic-rock clad foundations and vegetated roofs." The nearby, stand-alone bathhouse inverts this relationship by orienting towards sky above and water below, and supports four bathing activities: hot bath, sauna, steam shower, and washroom.

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