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All Hands on Decq: Odile Decq’s 1990 masterpiece Banque Populaire de l’Ouest de Montgermont is facin g the threat of demolition. Among the most technologically advanced buildings of its time, the BPO, as it is known, in Rennes has won numerous awards including a Golden Lion for the French firm at the 1996 Venice Biennale —…
Lake|Flato Architects won the 2015 A+Awards, Jury Choice, for the Architecture+Sustainability Catego ry with Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion. This living building, the first in Texas, physically embodies the Dixon Water Foundation’s mission to promote healthy watersheds circa sustainable land management, ensuring the preservation of our water resources. Firm name: Lake|Flato ArchitectsLocation: San AntonioYour names: Bob…
Spitz, Austria
Return of the Adjaye: The London-based architect’s star continues to rise as New York City”s Studio Museum in Harlem has just announced [PDF] that David Adjaye will be designing a new ground-up building (pictured at top) to replace its current home on West 125th Street. The plans will be filed on July 14th, and construction…
L: 22 Bishopsgate within the new London skyline, via theGuardian; R: Cardiff Interchange byFoster + Partners. Glass Goliath: A new tower at 22 Bishopsgate is set to dwarf London’s eclectic array of existing skyscrapers, the Guardian reports. Oliver Wainwright writes that the broad-footed high-rise “will be inescapable from every angle, an urban cliff face that…
Paris, France
West Vancouver, Canada
It’s not architecture (or maybe it is?), but we’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the major new s this morning: the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the Constitution guarantees marriage equality! And now back to your regularly scheduled programming … L: Álvaro Siza, via Archdaily; R: Zaha Hadid, via Design…
L: David Chipperfield’s Fayland House, via ArchDaily; R: Cosmo by Andrés Jaque, via Dezeen. Contempo rary Classic: David Chipperfield’s Fayland House in Buckinghamshire has been proclaimed the winner of the 2015 AR House Awards, with the Architectural Review praising the architect’s “radical new take on the English country house.” Judges waxed lyrical about Chipperfield’s restrained residence,…