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Bangkok-based architectural firm, Ayutt and Associates design, has unveiled a stunning self-sustaining home in the Thai capital. The Shade House is a three-story home covered in the firm's signature perforated facade that allows for optimal natural light and airflow, while simultaneously providing...

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Kengo Kuma, K2LD win bid to design Founders’ Memorial in Singapore

  • Lucy Wang
  • 04/10/2020

Kengo Kuma & Associates and K2LD Architects have won an international competition for the Founders’ Memorial in Singapore, a national landmark that will honor not only Singapore's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, but the multi-racial team of which he was a part of in developing the island country as well....

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  • Nicole Jewell
  • 04/10/2020

Mario Cucinella Architects has created a sustainable public building that uses several active and passive elements to lower its environmental footprint. Specifically, the new timber-clad headquarters for the Regional Agency for Prevention, Environment and Energy (ARPAE) uses a soaring rooftop made up of 112 smart...

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  • Teresa Bergen
  • 04/10/2020

There is one positive impact of the tragic coronavirus pandemic — Los Angeles is experiencing its longest stretch of good air quality since 1995. On April 7, Swiss air quality technology company IQAir cited LA as one of the cities with the cleanest air in the world. While the notoriously smoggy city is on lockdown,...

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Resurrected greenhouse to honor father of modern genetics

  • Lucy Wang
  • 04/10/2020

International architecture and urban design practice CHYBIK + KRISTOF has unveiled designs for an energy-efficient greenhouse to commemorate Gregor Mendel, a scientist and Augustinian friar regarded as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Set on the foundations of the 19th-century Brno greenhouse where...

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