NORDAM: Prefabricated house in Melbourne’s City Square can produce more energy than it uses



Modular buildings specialist ArchiBlox has unveiled its prototype for a compact carbon-positive house, featuring “edible garden walls”, a sunroom and an insulating grass roof (+ slideshow). (more…)

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NORDAM: Joel Karlsson designs pebble-shaped pendant lights for Örsjö Belysning



Stockholm 2015: Swedish lighting brand Örsjö Belysning has launched a range of lamps by designer Joel Karlsson made from spun steel and mouth-blown glass. (more…)

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NORDAM: New Pinterest board: Kengo Kuma

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Following the publication of three projects by Kengo Kuma this week, we’ve collected together the best examples of the Japanese architect’s work from the pages of Dezeen and pinned them to a new Pinterest board.

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NORDAM: Golf clubhouse designed by GRAS to resemble “a rock in the middle of the course”



The walls and roofs of this golf clubhouse in Mallorca are clad in local stone to give the building a homogenous appearance that emphasises its angular monolithic form (+ slideshow). (more…)

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NORDAM: Drone movie shows progress on Apple Campus construction



News: updated footage of construction work on the Foster + Partners-designed Apple Campus 2 in California has been published on YouTube by another amateur videographer using a drone-mounted GoPro video camera (+ movie). (more…)

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NORDAM: Fujiko Nakaya hides Bristol bridge behind a blanket of fog



A cloud of fog engulfs a steel bridge in Bristol, England, partially concealing two conical sculptures that look like the horns of a giant creature (+ slideshow). (more…)

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NORDAM: Kanye West debuts first Adidas collection and Yeezy Boost trainer



News: musician Kanye West has partnered with Adidas to produce Yeezy Season 1 – a collection of clothing and footwear that he described as the world’s “first solutions-based” clothing line (+ slideshow). (more…)

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NORDAM: Stone house in Bulgaria by I/O Architects features a veranda that steps up and down



I/O Architects raised one corner of this house in Bulgaria, creating a stepped veranda that stretches along the all-glazed facade (+ slideshow). (more…)

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NORDAM: Katrin Olina bends steel pipes into products for reading

Reading Horses and Black Dhalia by Katrin Olina

Stockholm 2015: Icelandic designer Katrin Olina has created a set of home products made by shaping steel tubes with an old exhaust pipe bending machine. (more…)

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NORDAM: Sheffer Chicken Coop is a metal-clad New York home for eight hens



Asked to design a New York home for chickens rather than people, Architecture Research Office has completed a metal-clad bunker featuring wooden nesting boxes and underfloor heating (+ slideshow). (more…)

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