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Walmart HQ features mass timber at an "unprecedented scale"

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Gensler and SWA Group are among the architecture studios that have completed a 142-hectare Walmart headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas that includes mass-timber office buildings and two artificial lakes. The Home Office campus includes over 30 buildings, including parking garages, shops, a hotel and a fitness distributed across a sprawling campus designed by landscape architect SWA […]

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Dezeen Debate features "a treat of sophisticated simplicity"

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The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a hotel in Kyoto by Kengo Kuma and Associates. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Kengo Kuma and Associates took inspiration from the “ethereal beauty” of classical Japanese Noh theatre in their design of the Banyan Tree hotel in Kyoto, which includes a stage discreetly nestled within its

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More Richard Neutra houses confirmed lost as toll of LA fires becomes clear

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Two more houses by modernist architect Richard Neutra and a house by local architect Eric Owen Moss have been confirmed destroyed due to the deadly wildfires sweeping through Greater Los Angeles. Neutra’s Hees and Kesler houses have been destroyed by the Pacific Palisades Fire, the worst of the ongoing series of wildfires that have devastated

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Studio Hallett Ike transforms London home with series of "subtle adjustments"

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Oxford practice Studio Hallett Ike has refurbished BR House, a Victorian townhouse in east London, and added a studio to its garden. Studio Hallett Ike reconfigured the home, which occupies the ground and lower ground floors of a house in Hackney, to open up its dark and cramped interiors. As a more typical extension was

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Grafton Architects' UTEC Lima campus was the most significant building of 2015

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We continue our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series with Grafton Architects’ concrete university campus in Lima, Peru, a building that set a new standard for urban higher-education environments. Completed in 2015, the University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) campus in Lima paved the way for Grafton Architects’ Pritzker win, which would come five years

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Trump signs executive order to promote "beautiful federal civic architecture"

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US president Donald Trump has issued the Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture executive order on his first day back in office. One of numerous executive orders issued on his inauguration day yesterday, the presidential action aims to promote the use of “traditional and classical” architecture for civic buildings. The order requires heads of US government

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Valerio Olgiati reveals plans for trio of concrete skyscrapers in Tirana

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Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati has unveiled a mixed-use development set to comprise “three totemic figures” in Tirana, Albania. Named Rruga Adem Jashari, the development by Olgiati will comprise three skyscrapers reaching 150 metres, 192 metres and 266 metres, which will contain a hotel and apartment block. Valerio Olgiati has unveiled a trio of skyscrapers in

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China to launch one-kilometre-wide solar farm into space

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Construction of a giant celestial solar farm is underway in China, with a scale comparable to creating a “Three Gorges Dam project above the Earth”. The solar farm, which would be launched into space using heavy-lift rockets, is expected to stretch one kilometre in width and continuously harvest renewable energy for Earth. It would be

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Shortlisted design teams for Grenfell Tower Memorial revealed

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Freehaus and Office Sian are among the five architecture studios shortlisted to create the memorial for victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, selected by The Grenfell Tower Memorial Commission and RIBA. Also shortlisted are Curl La Tourelle Head Architecture, New South and George King Architects with Grow to Know. The five practices were chosen from

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