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Lucas Museum of Narrative Art begins exterior finishes ahead of 2025 debut

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The finish line for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art may still be out on the horizon, but the exterior of the $1-billion project from Star Wars and Indiana Jones creator George Lucas is starting to take shape. We’re building an institution, a 200-plus-year proposition," Director Sandra Jackson-Dumont had said previously.

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Francois Verhoeven Architects uses contrasting finishes for Villa K340

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Dutch studio Francois Verhoeven Architects has completed Villa K340, a house in The Hague formed of interlocking blocks finished with contrasting timber and plaster. The garage at the front of the home is topped by a green roof. Designed with landscape studio Biotoop, it features a small pond surrounded by rocks.

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MAD reveals design for Lishui Airport with swooping "bird-like" roof

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Chinese architecture studio MAD has unveiled its design for the Lishui Airport in China , which will feature a swooping white roof informed by soaring birds. It will be the first airport in Lishui Located in China's southwest Zhejiang Province, MAD also drew on the surrounding mountain landscape for the design.

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Klein Dytham Architecture wraps Karuizawa Commongrounds Bookstore with "flowing" steel roof

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Tokyo-based studio Klein Dytham Architecture has designed a bookstore wrapped with an undulating steel roof resembling "outstretched arms" in Nagano, Japan. On the upper floor, the bookstore is flanked by secluded reading and study spaces, similarly finished with an exposed wooden structure and red carpeting.

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Sam Crawford Architects creates red-roofed community pavilion in Sydney

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An angular roof wrapped in translucent red-mesh panels crowns this Y-shaped pavilion in Sydney , designed by local studio Sam Crawford Architects. The building is raised on a low-lying concrete step The red-mesh roof pitches towards the building edges and is designed to provide solar protection to clerestory windows along the facade.

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trace architecture office (TAO) builds new school in haikou as a landscape of color

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a large 'floating' roof encloses a landscape of abstract, geometric volumes finished in a bold color palette. The post trace architecture office (TAO) builds new school in haikou as a landscape of color appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Ingenhoven Architects tops island health resort with Europe's largest thatched roof

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Architecture studio Ingenhoven Architects has created a series of buildings topped with large, overhanging thatched roofs for the Lanserhof Sylt health resort on the Germany island of Sylt. Its building is topped with a thatch roof that measures 7,100 square metres – making it the largest in Europe.

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