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The Irish Architecture Foundation has kicked off its new education programme with “A Space for Learning”, a design competition that aims to challenge current thinking on school design. |
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GOING IT ALONE?
Have you, either through choice or redundancy, set up on your own recently? Plan Online is organising a series of profiles on practices who've decided to go it alone. Contact denise@planmagazine.ie for more information.
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| Designs by Joon&Jung |
Design in Fashion |
'It was looking pretty fake' |
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Joon&Jung is a conceptual design studio based in Eindhoven. Here are two of their designs – Cloud Umbrella and I'm too sad to separate mug cup.
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Italian studio AquiliAlberg created angular scenography for fashion designer Neil Barrett’s catwalk show in Milan recently.
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A 1970s building designed to mimic the vernacular architecture of the Veneto countryside has been refurbished by Italian studio Andrea Tognon.
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Brit Insurance Designs Awards
Showcasing some of the most forward thinking designs from around the world, the Brit Insurance Designs Awards exhibition opens 17 February.
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Architecture still an attractive career
Department head at WIT, Maire Henry, urges school leavers and mature students not to overlook a professional career in architecture because of concerns about the impact of the recession
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Container Graveyard
Basing their approach on the cradle-to-cradle principle, Danish architects MAPT has developed a sustainable container-pavilion for the North Harbour Exhibition in Copenhagen.
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Ekokook
Victor Massip and Laurent Lebot, designers at French studio Faltazi, have designed a conceptual system where water is recycled and waste is broken down by worms inside the kitchen.
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Rafael Viñoly designs first airport in Uruguay
Rafael Viñoly Architects has designed the new Carrasco International Airport in Montevideo, Uruguay. The firm’s first completed airport and its largest project in Viñoly’s home country, the new building was created to expand capacity and spur commercial growth and tourism in the surrounding region.
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Sustainability – the great debate
There is no doubt that the word “sustainability” is overused and misunderstood in many areas of the market but in fact what we should be discussing is sustainable development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” says Lennart Jonsson.
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Sound advice
What do you do when residential work is drying up? You set up your own scheme to give homeowners expert advice on house defects of course. Plan went to meet the brains behind the Help My House scheme, architect Anthony Brabazon.
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Big Art
Need a space big enough to display your larger than life sculpture or art installation? The new Visual arts gallery in Carlow town could be just the ticket. Denise Maguire went along to get a first look inside Visual and the George Bernard Shaw Theatre and to meet its architect, Terry Pawson
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OMA wins Hong Kong college competition
Architects Office for Metropolitan Architecture have won a competition to design a new campus for Chu Hai College of Higher Education in the New Territories, Hong Kong.
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Culture vulture
French Architects RMDM have completed a cultural centre near Paris, clad with horizontal strips of poplar wood and ceramic tiles.
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Civic Pride
Now home to Birr Civic Offices and Library, an old Pugin-designed convent building has been restored to its former glory by McCarthy O’Hora. The project involved the complete restoration of the convent, including the restoration and protection of the stained glass windows but the biggest challenge was getting light into the building.
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| Dancing with nature |
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Paris studio Hugh Dutton Associés has won a competition to design electricity pylons for Italian energy company Terna.
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