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AKA West Hollywood by Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects [LOHA]

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This redevelopment project harnesses the site’s inherent complexity and the neighborhood’s world-renowned cultural legacy to create a vibrant new hub of diverse urban activity. The transparency of the glass-enclosed ground level blurs the distinction between the public and private realms.

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Foster + Partners unveils latest Apple Store concept for Shanghai

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The firm’s newest design for the company is located in Jing’an Park and forms the centerpiece of an urban regeneration that creates a permeable new connection between its site and the adjacent historic Jing’an Temple. Image courtesy Foste.

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Snøhetta's spiraling Shanghai Grand Opera House is taking form

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What’s most noticeable is the formation of the structure’s distinctive fan-shaped roof, which frames the Opera House’s spiraling form. This visual identity is evoked throughout the project, expressed through the winding staircase, the lobby, the halls, and the three auditoriums.

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Snøhetta unveils green design for new Westchester Square Library in the Bronx

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Snøhetta has recently unveiled designs for a new 12,000-square-foot library project in the Bronx ’s Westchester Square it says will expand on the diverse neighborhood’s lineage as a “place where knowledge is acquired and shared for generations to come.” ” Image co.

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Explore images of Moreau Kusunoki's recently completed timber residential tower in Paris

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The project features 77 housing units, serveing as a new residential center in the southeastern end of Paris. The grid is envisioned as an inhabited wall, which functions as "a filter to keep the surrounding dense urban environment at a distance."

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Frank Gehry gets back in on the LA River action with a new Headwaters Pavilion design

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A few short weeks removed from the greenlighting of its proposed Ocean Avenue project in Santa Monica, Gehry Partners has revealed a new design for a Headwaters Pavilion to the LA River Greenway located within a city-owned plot in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Canoga Park. The total estimated cost of the design is $5.1

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Mudu Library by Atelier Diameter

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Mudu Library is an industrialized model building located in an open space which will be developed into an urban public green space in future. Named after Mudugang River besides the project, the building is designed to be a riverside reading room. A wooden reading room sits alongside Mudugang River.