Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dutch architecture studio, Universe Architecture is planning to construct a house for the first time using a 3D printer. The Landscape House, which has a looping form based on a Möbius strip, will be printed in sections of up to 6x9 metres using the giant D-Shape printer and a mixture of sand and a binding agent.
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Los Angeles, United States of America
The Los Angeles City Council has approved the $2 billion redevelopment of the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City. In 2009 the developer threatened to tear down the hotel but preservationists have fought for a compromise, which will see the 1966 hotel renovated alongside the building of two new residential towers, 100,000-square-foot retail and restaurant plaza and two acres of public open space.
Century Plaza, with new towers behind and new public space in front. Image: pei cobb freed and partners
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Ontario, Canada
The influence of native design has been expressed on the north shore of Lake Superior, in a redevelopment that honors the local aboriginal wish to create an “inclusive circle” between all people and nature. As part of a transformed, publicly accessible waterfront now complete in Thunder Bay, architect Ryan Gorrie has worked traditional bentwood, a material once honed by his ancestors, to craft a lyrical vessel that is open to the city and the waters beyond.
Ryan Gorrie’s bentwood spruce Gathering Circle
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Glasgow, Scotland
John McAslan & Partners will not get to overhaul Glasgow’s George Square - despite winning the highly controversial competition for the £15 million. Glasgow City leader Gordon Matheson said the council had binned the contest and would proceed no further with the contract after the public made it clear they did not want a radical redesign of the square.
John McAslan's winning entry in the Glasgow City Council's George Square redevelopment competition
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New York, United States of America
The Ithaca New York-based design firm, CODA has scooped this year’s MoMA/PS 1 Young Architects Program (YAP) competition with its proposal ‘Party Wall’. The design features a series of perforated walls made of cast off scraps from skateboards hung on a metal armature to form spaces of varying scale and character that will serve as backdrop for the museum’s popular summer music program, Warm Up.
Image: CODA
Courtesy World Architecture News
