This stunning new design for an antenna tower outside the Turkish city of Çanakkale has just won an international competition, beating out such big-name firms as Snohetta, Fernando Romero, and Sou Fujimoto. Designed by IND and Powerhouse Company—who worked with structural engineers ABT to make sure it’d all work as planned—the antenna is a racetrack-like loop through the forest, sporting an outdoor pedestrian walkway and indoor public spaces at the tower’s base.
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Qatar’s overtly yonic World Cup facility has also been the cause of a staggering number of construction deaths
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The Swiss Alpine Club built its first shed on this Alpine peak back in 1929 to serve as a refuge for climbers. But Savioz Fabrizzi Architects recently replaced the aging shack to offer more modern comforts—like solar energy. Since the site is 9,768 feet above the ground, each piece of the building was dropped off by helicopter. [ArchDaily]
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In London this year, six well-known architects will jockey for a chance to build a large public building. Sounds pretty unremarkable, right? Except that the structure was already designed and finished—more than 150 years ago. Now, a Chinese property developer is holding a design competition to recreate it.
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Artist Allan Wexler‘s most recent work—going on display March 29th at New York’s Ronald Feldman Fine Arts gallery—explores architecture purified down to its most basic conceptual elements. There are foundation pits and walls, yawning excavations and the cubic masses that are pulled from them.
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San Francisco’s iconic Victorian style homes, such as the Painted Ladies of Full House fame, weren’t built merely as protection against the elements. Like 19th century Klout Scores, these houses were just as much status symbols as they were domiciles. But what do their ornate facades actually mean? 7×7’s Mary Jo Bowling explains.
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The ReGeneration: An International Living Competition is looking for
designers to solve the problem of modern intergenerational living in the
United States caused by zoning American cities by general use. If you
can find a great way to keep senior citizens a central and active part
of our communities, you may earn $1,000!
The industrial silhouette of a former sugar refinery in Montréal has gotten a pretty sweet makeover, being transformed into a fully-equipped climbing gym. Now, Allez-Up‘s sky-high ceilings house faceted white walls studded with colorful holds, like bits of candy in a saccharine mine.
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When you live in a closet-sized city apartment, it’s no fun to cook in a teeny, tiny cramped kitchen. But a kitchen completely hidden behind lovely wood cabinets when not in use? That’s kind of ingenious.
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Earlier this week, surreal images emerged of Ukrainian protesters storming the palace of President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled the capital city after violent unrest. Now, protesters have made their way into another mansion, the home of attorney general Victor P. Pshonka. No ostriches, as were found on Yanukovych’s estate, but there are Fabergé eggs!
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