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Richard Meier & Partners has completed its first international residential tower and its first project in Israel. The new Rothschild Tower is inspired by the scale and Bauhaus design principles of its neighbors in Tel Aviv’s White City.

21.09

Atxu Amann, has been announced as the 2018 curator for the Spanish pavilion at the Venice Biennale

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Architecture, Exhibitions, Recommendations

The Spanish pavilion already has curator for the next Venice Biennale. Not much more is known, pending the official declaration.

20.09

Getty Museum to Exhibit an extraordinary Michelangelo Drawing. In November 2018, at the Met in New York

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Art, Exhibitions, Recommendations

The Getty Museum exhibit, from today, a rare drawing by one of history’s most admired artists, Michelangelo, for a limited time from September 20 through October 29, 2017.

20.09

A derelict glasshouse rethinked as a new event space by HASA Architects

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Architecture, Projects, Recommendations

What was formerly an abandoned glasshouse at the Highgate Bowl, has managed to reinvent itself and become an event space. This has been achieved through subtle small-scale interventions, such as the creation of new pathways, new spaces and furniture.

20.09

LWZ 38, a reinterpretation of the ornament of ‘Wienzeilenhäuser’ by MORPHtopia

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Architecture, Projects, Recommendations

An intervention consisting of a new residential attic and a new façade located on the central building of the "Wienzeilenhäuser" designed by Otto Wagner, forms LWZ 38, a project that wants to reinterpret the original ornament in a new contemporary languag

20.09

New images of the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Terminal design

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Architecture, Competitions, Recommendations

The building will be located at Jan Dellaert Plein, south of Schiphol Plaza, the main airport meeting area and arrival point for passengers via Schiphol train station and the A4 highway. The new terminal slated for completion in 2023.

19.09

Visitors Center and Overview Tower in the Jungle by Patrick Dillon, ENSITU

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Architecture, Recommendations

Panama Rainforest Discovery Center is a 150m² visitor´s center, a 40 m high observation tower and 2 km of trails on a 25 hectare site in the tropical humid forest.

19.09

Reshaping the Landscape. Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio

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Architecture, HOUSING, Recommendations

A house that seeks maximum integration of the landscape and the context, due to its border location between a pine area and the vineyards of the estate, located in Valencian lands, uses only two materials to mark the housing program: concrete and wood.

18.09

The overlap of past and present in Escuelas Pías by José Ignacio Linazasoro

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Architecture, Projects, Recommendations, REMODELING-RENOVATION

Built between 1996 and 2004, the headquarters of UNED Escuelas Pías in Lavapies is an absolutely unique work with a difficult classification, since it covers areas linked to restoration, renovation and new construction.