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Paris 2024 Olympic Village features street lamps made from salvaged building materials

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Read: Timber Aquatics Centre completes in Paris for 2024 Olympic Games The old lampposts, with their generic and standardised shapes, have been phased out by many local authorities in favour of more architecturally innovative designs that are produced in a wide range of colours and materials, Lebossé explained.

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Ten upcoming Zaha Hadid Architects skyscrapers

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Founded by the late Zaha Hadid in 1980, the studio has designed many well-known buildings including the MAXXI in Rome and London's Aquatic Centre. Visuals recently released by Neom show a supertall structure defined by numerous columns that taper toward the peak and will house observation decks and restaurants.

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Orchard House, London, southeast England

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Full height glazing surrounding the open plan kitchen, dining and living spaces opens up to a private courtyard and allows the house to feel transparent and connected with the landscaped garden.

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Thinking Outside of the Modernist Box: Revisiting Deconstructivist Architecture

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Exterior and interior of London Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects , London, England. For example, London Aquatics Centre, which was originally built for the London 2012 Olympic Games, has a shell-like roof. Salerno Maritime Terminal is more “solid” than the Aquatics Centre.

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Zaha Hadid embraced the potential of deconstructivism

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Continuing our series revitising deconstructivist architecture we look at the late Zaha Hadid , the "queen of the curve" who designed the Heydar Aliyev Centre and London Aquatics Centre. This fascination began in the 1970s, while Hadid was studying at the Architectural Association in London.

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Ten architecture student projects from Dezeen's Pinterest

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This roundup includes international universities such as Bartlett School of Architecture , Tulane University , Ravensbourne University London , American University in Dubai and University of Applied Arts Vienna. The industrial interface uses an aquatic centre to achieve this.

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A Step Above: 6 Spectacular Outdoor Stairs That Merge Functionality and Imagination

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Sitting right on Yeosu’s coastline, the One Ocean Expo center mirrors all things aquatic. If the structure represents an aquatic body, then the stairs are the cascade that bring the water down to the ocean. By AL_A , London, United Kingdom. Mariehøj Cultural Centre. By soma architecture , Yeosu-si, South Korea.