New Dating Technique used to prove Llwyn Celyn Farmhouse to Medieval Period
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A new dating technique has been used to prove the famous medieval Welsh farmstead, Llwyn Celyn, and it has been confirmed that the farmhouse sitting in the Black Mountains is no lesser than 600-year-old, the Guardian reports.Llwyn Celyn, a Welsh farmhouse thaGroup show “Spectrum II; The Weight of Light” at Joy Mardini Design Gallery, Beirut
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Joy Mardini Design Gallery, Beirut, is hosting a group exhibition celebration of the gallery’s seventh year anniversary and a second edition of “Spectrum,” a group show launched back in 2015. The exhibition will be on view through February 28, 2019.The
Vibrant Wall Art and Graffiti Dominate the Interiors of Bengaluru Eateries
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Wall art, graffiti, antique paintings, and showpieces dominate the decors of eateries in India’s tech hub, Bengaluru. Eateries in the city are often turning into canvasses for local and upcoming artists, who, in turn, are happy to have discovered a profitabNendo Unveils New Gravity-Inspired Melt Furniture for WonderGlass
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Iconic Japanese design studio, Nendo, unveiled new collection of melt furniture that has been designed by its founder and master designer Oki Sato for WonderGlass. These “gravity-formed” pieces mark the Venice-based brand’s debut into furniture design,Foster + Partners’ Apple Store in Kyoto Inspired From Traditional Japanese Houses and Lanterns
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Apple unveiled its first store in Kyoto Japan designed by British international design studio Foster + Partners. The store is located on a prominent corner plot along the historic Shijo Dori street, which has been the city’s primary shopping location sinceAdrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Wins Competition to Design China’s Tallest Skyscraper
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In a recent press release, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG), a Chicago based international architecture firm, announced their competition win to design the Shimao Longgang Master Plan that includes a 700-meter tall skyscraper called the ShenzheBest in Home & Interiors at IMM Cologne 2019
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The International furniture and interiors fair IMM Cologne 2019 opens today and runs through January 20, 2019.This year’s edition brings nearly 1,300 exhibitors, with more than 70 percent coming from outside Germany. The two-yearly LivingKitchen event is alInteriors Spotlight: Hotel Joaquin by Studio Robert McKinley
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Auric Road, the lifestyle curators of petite resorts, debuted its much-anticipated SoCal property, Hotel Joaquin, last year. The hotel occupies a renovated 1930s motor lodge in Laguna Beach. Studio Robert McKinley has designed the “chic, playful, and layereNir Meiri’s New Mycelium and Metal Light Collection
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The London-based Nir Meiri Studio, in collaboration with BIOHM, has created a new lighting collection from Mycelium and metal.According to Nir Meiri, the table lamps collection is a result of an ongoing material research in mycelium — the vegetative part oSnøhetta Wins Budapest South Gate Competition
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International architecture firm Snohetta recently won the Budapest South Gate International Masterplan Design Competition. The competition invited innovative designs for a new neighborhood in the Hungarian capital that would accommodate 12,000 students, and pSnøhetta Launches Outdoor Care Retreats in Norway
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Oslo and New York-based architectural firm Snohetta has launched two wooden outdoor care units in the vicinity of two of Norway’s largest hospitals. Nestled in the peaceful ambience of the woods, only a short walking distance from the hospitals, these elevaHong Kong’s Colonial Buildings Get a Cultural Transformation Courtesy Herzog and de Meuron, and Purcell
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In a collaborative project, Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron, and UK-based conservation architects Purcell, have transformed Hong Kong’s former police station, central magistracy, and prison into a new, non-profit, cultural hub called Tai Kwun, meaninKPF Completes Third Tallest Building in Shenzhen
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Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) has completed the China Resources Headquarters in Shenzhen. The 400-meter tall commercial office tower, located in the Houhai District, is the third tallest building in the city.The building, inspired by the shape of the winClaude Lalanne on the Legacy of Les Lalanne
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I hate the word ‘creation,’” Claude Lalanne announced brusquely over the phone from her home in Ury, a commune in the Seine-et-Marne region of France, outside of Fontainebleau. “I make things that amuse me, and that I want to make, and that’s that.The Mumbai International Emigration & Luxury Property Expo to be held in Mumbai
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The large-scale conference and exhibition, the Mumbai International Emigration and Luxury Property Expo 2019, will be held on January 16 and 17, 2019, at the St. Regis, in Mumbai, India. On the first day (January 16), the Expo will hold a conference and on th“The Value of Good Design” at MoMA, New York
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The Museum of Modern Art in New York will be presenting “The Value of Good Design” from February 10 through May 27.The show will explore the “democratizing potential of design” beginning with MoMA’s Good Design initiatives from the late 1930s througGalerie Patrick Seguin Presents “Jean Prouvé, l’âme du metal” in Château La Coste
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“Jean Prouve, l’ame du metal,” featuring furniture and architectural elements by Jean Prouve from Laurence and Patrick Seguin’s private collection is on view at Galerie Patrick Seguin in Chateau La Coste, through March 5, 2019. “Since the openiFoster + Partners Designs China Merchants Bank’s Shenzhen Headquarters
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Foster + Partners has unveiled designs for China Merchants Bank’s new global headquarters in Shenzhen. The 350-meter office tower will be complemented by a 180-meter-high luxury hotel and office mixed use tower, cultural and retail amenities, and green connJohn Pawson Awarded CBE in Queen’s 2019 New Year’s Honors
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The British architect and designer John Pawson has been recognized for his services to design and architecture by the Queen with a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2019 New Year’s Honors. The Queen’s biannual honors program “recOMA Set to Build an Iconic New Stadium for Football Club Feyenoord Rotterdam
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Rotterdam’s home football club Feyenoord is soon going to get its new stadium, courtesy the city-based Dutch architectural firm OMA. Designed by the firm’s managing partner and architect, David Gianotten, the 63,000-seat stadium is set to become the largeSaudi Prince to Build Desert Art Oasis with the Help of Sotheby’s
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Sotheby’s is in talks to work on a contemporary art program with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. It is considered to be one of the highest-profile agendas of Prince Salman for his desert kingdom. He has approached the biggest auction house of the US, SothArchitects Who Won the Top Honors in 2018
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Pritzker Architecture PrizeIndian architect Balkrishna Doshi was awarded the 2018 Pritzker Prize, the highest honor in the field of architecture.Born in India’s Pune city in 1927, Doshi, as he is fondly called, worked with Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn durinTop Ten Architectural Works of 2018
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As the year 2018 comes to an end, we take a look at the highlights from the world of architecture. From museums and schools to memorials and a library, these 10 projects steal the limelight for their cultural and social significance.Children Village by AlephChâteau La Coste Presents “Jean Prouvé, l’âme du metal” at Galerie Patrick Seguin in Paris
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“Jean Prouve, l’ame du metal,” featuring furniture and architectural elements by Jean Prouve from Laurence and Patrick Seguin’s private collection is on view at Chateau La Coste, through March 5, 2019. “Since the opening of their gallery in 198Spotlight: Foster+Partners-designed Lusail Stadium for FIFA 2022 Qatar World Cup
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Latest images of the Foster+Partners-designed Lusail Stadium were recently released by the organizers behind the FIFA 2022 Qatar World Cup. Lusail Stadium will be the venue for the opening and final games of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar™, which will kick o“Have a Ball” at Galerie VIVID
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Galerie VIVID brings together the works of three Rotterdam-based design studios in “Have a Ball,” which starts in the end-of-the-year festive period and is all about having a party, according to the gallery. The three studios participating in the exCollectible History in Anatolian Kilims
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During the 18th and 19th centuries in rural Anatolia, generations of nomadic women demonstrated their artistic and practical sensibilities by creating colorful flat-weave carpets known as kilims. These rugs with their deep reds and bright blues would adorn thUNStudio's TBC Forum in Tbilisi, Georgia
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UNStudio’s new TBC Bank headquarters broke ground on the hills of Tbilisi in Georgia, earlier this week.UNStudio’s design for the new TBC Bank headquarters breaks away from the traditional closed and introverted working model previously favored in the banMAD Architects’ “Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center” Nears Completion
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MAD Architects’ “Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center” in Nanjing, China has entered its final phase of construction. Led by Ma Yansong, Founder and Principal Partner of MAD Architects, the 560,000 square-meters mixed-use development “seeks to restore theAIA Awards 2019 Topaz Medallion to Toshiko Mori
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Toshiko Mori has won the 2019 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education from the Board of Directors and the Strategic Council of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) along with the Association of Collegiate Schools of ArchitectuSchmidt Hammer Lassen’s First U.S. Project Breaks Ground
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Construction breaks ground on Monroe Blocks, Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s first US project. A mixed-use development featuring modern office space, residential units, restaurants, retail, and outdoor public areas, the project is coming up on the northeast cornerHarvard Graduate School of Design Announces Winners of 2019 Richard Rogers Fellowship
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The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced the six winners of the 2019 Richard Rogers Fellowship. The 2019 fellows were chosen from nearly 140 applicants from around the world. The fellows have won a three-and-a-half-month residency at the Wimb‘Ocean Liners: Speed and Style’ at V&A Dundee
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“Ocean Liners: Speed and Style,” an exhibition organized by the V&A in London and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, is on view through February 24, 2019.The exhibition is the first of its kinds to explore the design and cultural impact of the ocean lGio Ponti: The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
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A nimble walnut desk appears to slant slightly, as if crouching, ready to take off.“I call it my jumping horse: I mean it is a piece of furniture that is very simple but not formally inert,” said Italian designer and architect, Gio Ponti (1891-1979), of tDesign Miami 2018 Curio Exhibitions
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This year’s Design Miami 2018 Curio program featured eleven new presentations that tipped hat to time-honored and traditional design methodologies, tools, and materials. The installations explored historical materials and techniques from Argentina, Korea, TZaha Hadid Architects to Build Two New Stations for Norway’s Fornebubanen Metro Line
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Zaha Hadid Architects and A_Lab will be designing the Fornebubanen and Fornebu Senter Stations. The two firms won the architectural competition to build two of the six stations planned for the new Fornebubanen metro line in Oslo.Oslo is one of the fastest groRIBA Awards President’s Medals 2018 for World’s Best Architecture Student Projects
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RIBA received 328 entries from 101 schools of architecture across the globe for the prestigious RIBA President’s Medals 2018. The winners were recently announced at a ceremony at 66 Portland Place. Projects that won the medals include a design for a hotel s
