News: construction is now underway on M+, a new museum of visual culture in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District designed by Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron. (more…)
NORDAM: Construction of Herzog & de Meuron’s M+ museum begins in Hong Kong
Design
NORDAM: Job of the week: architects at Studio Fuksas
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for architects at Studio Fuksas, whose terminal at Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport in China is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
NORDAM: Former Icon editor Christopher Turner named deputy director of London Design Festival
NORDAM: Andrés Jaque to create water-purifying pipe network for MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program
News: Spanish architect Andrés Jaque has won this year’s MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program contest, with plans to turn the courtyard of the New York gallery into a water filtration plant. (more…)
NORDAM: IHRMK’s house with a staggered profile looks out over a landscape of paddy fields
The stepped profile of this house in Japan by architecture studio IHRMK gives clues about the complicated layout of rooms contained within. (more…)
NORDAM: Max Frommeld and Arno Mathies create a folding sled
Designers Max Frommeld and Arno Mathies have introduced modern plastic hinging to a traditional sled construction, forming a snow-skimming vehicle that can be folded flat (+ slideshow). (more…)
NORDAM: Intertwining staircases spiral around the glazed core of Hiroshi Nakamura’s Ribbon Chapel
Two curving staircases encircle the exterior of this wedding chapel by Tokyo-based architect Hiroshi Nakamura, meeting at a rooftop platform that overlooks the Hiroshima coastline (+ slideshow). (more…)
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NORDAM: Bath by BiglarKinyan Design Partnership Inc….
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