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Resilient design is most commonly associated with disaster prone areas where buildings are designed to withstand severe storms, flooding, wildfire, and other environmental impacts brought about by natural causes, climate change, or infrastructure failures. The Resilient Design Institute defines Resilient ...
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While some hotels love to be flashy and extravagant, the newly opened One Suite Hotel located in Srebreno, Croatia takes the opposite approach. You won’t find an intricate facade outside or lavish amenities inside. Instead, the beauty and draw of ...
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Italian architect Carlo Ratti has revealed plans for a covered garden in Milan, which would use climate-control technology to allow visitors to experience spring, summer, autumn and winter at any time of year. Carlo Ratti Associati designed The Garden of the Four Seasons to offer city-dwellers a ...
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Step inside the National Building Museum’s Great Hall and you will find the Hive, a mountainous sound chamber designed by Studio Gang Architects for the Museum’s 2017 Summer Block Party. The interactive installation comprises three interconnected domed structures made from over 2,500 wound paper ...
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Its enormous self-deploy mechanism generates various combinations of space and facilities and it works by using a hand-held battery-powered drill. Different designs have already been imagined in order to meet the needs and desires of the customers, but the process ...
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The Inteltion office is no exception to the trend. Renovated by Onion, the workspace is unique in that it isn’t actually designed for 9-to-5 staff. Inteltion is an IT consultancy company with around 60 employees who typically work at clients’ ...
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Travelers to Paris can soon immerse themselves in a paradise of greenery at the Kengo Kuma-designed Eco-Luxury Hotel. Located on the banks of the River Seine in the Rive Gauche neighborhood, the plant-covered building will deliver a breath of fresh air to Paris’ ...
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Ateliers Jean Nouvel has released new renderings for its plant-covered luxury hotel adjoining a former maternity hospital in São Paulo, which will feature interiors by Philippe Starck.Nouvel’s Paris-based firm teamed up with developer Alexandre Allard of Groupe Allard to create Cidade Matarazzo – a 550,000 square-metre complex of historic ...
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Artist Janet Laurence is combining art with medical botany to create what she calls the “breathing bubble” which displays the diversities of medicinal plant life. The bubble-shaped structure is made from a steel frame and a transparent covering. The interior ...