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1 day ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury
A blanket-like roof of perforated concrete covers the Al-Mujadilah Centre and Mosque for Women in Qatar, which has been completed by American studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Located in Doha's Education City, Al-Mujadilah – meaning "she who engages in dialogue" – combines social and educational spaces with the first purpose-built contemporary mosque for women in the Muslim world.
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2 days ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury |Eleanor Gibson
New! Dezeen Agenda US Sent on alternate Fridays, this US edition of Dezeen Agenda is a fortnightly newsletter rounding up everything you need to know from America, featuring news, projects and interviews with industry figures. Plus occasional updates and invitations to Dezeen events. New! Dezeen Showroom New Releases A quarterly newsletter rounding up a selection of recently launched products by designers and studios, published on Dezeen Showroom.
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2 days ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury
A concrete grid frames views of a leafy garden at this home in São Paulo, completed by local architects Gabriel Kogan and Guilherme Pianca in collaboration with Clara Werneck. Located close to the city centre, the home called Rua Polônia House occupies a narrow 42-by-15-metre plot that is set back from the street.
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3 days ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury
Spanish studio Raúl Sánchez Architects has perched a blocky concrete home on a steeply sloping site near Barcelona, cloaking it in an earthy, burnt orange-toned render. Called Casa Magarola, the two-storey home is elevated above its steep plot on large concrete columns designed to minimise its impact on the landscape.
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5 days ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury
Chinese studio DoDesign has perched the Drifting Stones pavilion on a rocky site in Chongqing, concealing a panoramic viewing area beneath a stepped roof of imitation stone. DoDesign's design for the glazed pavilion draws on its discovery of a large flat-topped boulder on the valley site in Nanchuan District, which is surrounded by trees, mountains and a small stream.
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1 week ago | 
msn.com | Jon Astbury
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1 week ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury
Swedish studio In Praise of Shadows has renovated a 1960s riverside villa in Umeå, restoring its original features while introducing "clearly contemporary yet harmoniously integrated" details. Named Villa by the River, the existing dwelling is one of three modernist villas designed by architect Istvan Poroszlay along the Ume river, of which only two were ever completed.
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1 week ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury
London studio Archmongers has updated and extended Ray House, a Victorian terrace in Hackney, to be a "celebration of craftsmanship", incorporating bespoke finishes including a decorative concrete frieze designed by its client. The renovation of the three-storey home in a conservation area in Dalston was prompted by its dark, compartmentalised floor plan and poor energy performance.
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1 week ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury
Architect Max Otto Zitzelsberger worked with students from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau to create the Learning House, a barn-like teaching building in Bavaria with an exposed timber structure. Located in Freilandmuseum Oberpfalz, an open-air museum displaying the history of rural life in the area, the Learning House replaces a former farm building that was lost in a fire with a new space for the teaching of environmental education.
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1 week ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury
London studio Hugh Strange Architects has restored and extended a hillside Victorian home in Hastings, reinstating its connection to a terraced concrete garden with a series of stepped metal and timber forms. Named House on a Hill, the home sits in the West Hill area of Hastings, where Victorian terraces back onto gardens with retaining walls that step down towards the coastline.
