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Designers selected for new Shenzhen Natural History Museum project

B+H Architects, 3XN Architects and Zhubo Design have been selected to design the new Shenzhen Natural History Museum....

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Floating ICEBERG creatively confronts global warming

In summer 2019, a surprising sight popped up on a New Hampshire lake — ICEBERG, a floating, iceberg-shaped pavilion...

Flower-shaped vegan gingerbread marmalade sandwich cookies

'The Great British Bake Off' is back — this time, with a vegan week

The Great British Bake Off usually features an assortment of bread, dairy and meat products slathered in more butter...

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Zaha Hadid Architects wins bid to masterplan Russia’s largest port

Zaha Hadid Architects has won the Admiral Serebryakov Embankment competition, an international masterplanning contest...

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Winners of tiny house competition pack comfort and functionality into 269 square feet

Modular building company Ryterna modul recently announced the winners of their Architectural Challenge 2018 competition....

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Stay in the world's largest human birdhouse for free

Planning to attend SXSW but still searching for a place to stay? You may be in luck—HomeAway is opening up its...

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Shed of the Year shortlist includes a crocodile home and Star Wars-inspired shed

There are four finalists in eight categories: Unexpected, Eco, Cabin/Summerhouse, Workshop/Studio, Pub/Entertainment,...

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MVRDV and OVG win competition to build a vertical green village in Amsterdam

MVRDV and OVG Real Estate won a competition to design the new high-rise complex in Amsterdam's Zuidas Business...

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Construction underway on Canada's first Holocaust memorial designed by Libeskind

January 27th, 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation; a day commemorated by International...

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Solar-Powered OnTop House Can be Added to the Top of Almost Any Urban Home

The team from University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt am Main took a unique approach to this year’s Solar Decathlon...

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Solar-Powered Adaptive House Rises Above the Floods in Thailand

Designed to be ideally adapted to its environment, the Adaptive House responds to Thailand's tropical climate through...

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Hassell + Herzog & de Meuron Win Competition to Design Melbourne's Flinders Street Station

On the architectural design side of this winning design entry, Herzog & de Meuron and Hassell celebrated the...

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Building Trust International Announces Winners of Competition for Sustainable Low-Income Housing in Cambodia

Building Trust International’s competitioncalled for entrants to design homes that could withstand flooding and...

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Parallax Landscape Re-Imagines a Low-Carbon Future for a Coal-Dominated Australian City

Parallax Landscape is a design collaborative consisting of Yu Ding, designer at Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates...

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The Cultured Landscape Sets Out a Strategy for Sustainable Transformation of an Australian Brownfield

Rather than simply let the Latrobe Valley revert to a supposed “natural” state, NAAU proposes a new urban design...

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