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The interiors of an abandoned plane have been converted into a retail store clad in full orange colour in Alor Gajah, Melaka, Malaysia.The project, named Coach Airways Store and Café, was designed by Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur-based architecture practice Spacemen and Coach New York to provide the sense of illustrious golden era of air travel in the 1970s.The 420-square-metre project was envisioned as a revamp of interiors of an abandoned Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The design adds a retro-futuristic ode to 1970s air travel.The orange color is enhanced with bright lights and clean and pastel-toned surfaces and details. The store has also…

TerraViva Competitions launches Call For Competitions, a new contest that aims to challenge our creative community to get involved in the search for unique architecture competition topics. Prizes up to 15.000 € will be awarded to the winners selected by TerraViva founders.BriefFostering new concepts and fresh ideas from around the globe, this open call challenges architects, designers and enthusiasts to submit original and unconventional design themes for future competitions. The goal is to directly involve our community of creatives, giving them the chance to become TerraViva ambassadors or – if they wish – even part‐time and full‐time collaborators.What is this…

During the course of the pandemic, through a series of community surveys as well as virtual meetings with the residents, design architect Perkins&Will raised a three-story high, 42000 Sq ft ( ~3900 Sq mt) brick, metal, and glass community center as the focal point in the historic city of Oak park outside Chicago as an anchor for future revitalization of the area. Within this diverse community withholding equity, inclusivity, and sustainability as core values, Oak Park, IL, has extended the Community Recreation Center, a net-zero building with a multitude of programming for people of all ages and abilities, embracing the…

Sharp transparent corners and a sculptural copper staircase mark this hotel in old Tbilisi, Georgia. The new hotel, designed by Tbilisi-based architecture practice Laboratory of Architecture #3, is located within the historic confines of old Tbilisi. The new hotel, named Glarros Oldtown, stands as a distinctive landmark that emphasizes its own context. Artistic elements, like mosaic-tiled walls inside, copper staircase, fully-glazed facades, enhances the depth of the structure. Laboratory of Architecture #3, led by Dimitri Shapakidze and Irakli Abashidze, designed this new hotel by replacing a 1980s administrative building on the existing site.The four-storey building, making a loop in a plan layout, features a generous courtyard…

UNStudio has won a competition to design a new mixed-use development in Düsseldorf, Germany.UNStudio’s proposal was selected by die developer, the state capital Düsseldorf (LHD) and the competition jury last week unanimously as the winner in which the two-stage competition featured ten renowned international architectural firms. 3XN, BIG, Büro Ole Scheeren, C. F. Moller Architects, David Chipperfield Architects and MVRDV Germany were among the participating offices in the competition. Called New Heart on the Block, the new complex, envisioned Düsseldorf’s northern city centre, will consist of two highly sustainable, mixed-use towers with heights of up to 120 metres, surrounding a low-rise community…

International firm AECOM has revealed plans for a new equestrian village featuring low-lying and sand-colored units in the AlUla desert in Saudi Arabia.Dubbed as a “world-class equestrian village”, the project, commissioned by the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), will be built as a comprehensive and sustainable equestrian village as part of RCU’s strategy to develop an equestrian sector for AlUla County in north-west Saudi Arabia.The development life cycle of the project will be led under RCU Assets Planning & Development department led by Vice President Ashraf S Mahmoud along with Ken Flook and Ali Khachab. The project, called AlMuatadil Equestrian Village, is led by…

What if your workplace was a showroom, an event space, and an art gallery? Flexibility is a benefit for nearly all design typologies, but the new home for Milan-based creative company Spazio Pesca required several purpose-built spaces at once. Founder Benedetta Gambino had a vision for a multifunctional office that could truly do it all, providing a productive environment for her team of designers, developers, new media experts, and their clients while also opening itself up as a host for its community of local creatives. Acid green defines the various purpose-built sections of the studio (Nicolò Panzeri) Cevenini chose the…

San Francisco-based architecture studio Mork-Ulnes Architects has designed a new house in collaboration with local interior design practice Alison Damonte who designed interiors of the house. Named Silver Lining House, the 152-square-metre house is located in Bernal Heights, a residential neighborhood in San Francisco, at the southern edge of the Missionvalley. According to the architects, this district survived the 1906 earthquake and fire that destroyed much of San Francisco, thanks to the hill’s bedrock foundation. And in fact it bloomed after the disaster, as there was plentiful land to build houses for those displaced by the fires that ravaged the city.Mork-Ulnes Architects…

What if your workplace was a showroom, an event space, and an art gallery? Flexibility is a benefit for nearly all design typologies, but the new home for Milan-based creative company Studio Pesca required several purpose-built spaces at once. Founder Benedetta Gambino had a vision for a multifunctional office that could truly do it all, providing a productive environment for her team of designers, developers, new media experts, and their clients while also opening itself up as a host for its community of local creatives. Acid green defines the various purpose-built sections of the studio (Nicolò Panzeri) Cevenini chose the…

Rotterdam-based architecture firms IND [Inter.National.Design] and Powerhouse Company have opened Çanakkale Antenna Tower in Çanakkale, Turkey. The 100-metre-tall structure challenges to the traditional typologies of a broadcast tower with its “iconic” design. Perched atop a scenic hill in Çanakkale, the meandering tower offers panoramic views of the Dardanelles.Image © Sebastian van DammeIND [Inter.National.Design] and Powerhouse Company envisioned the design of the tower to leave the maximum visual impact and minimum ecological impact in the environment. Çanakkale Antenna Tower is enriched with a public park, viewing platforms, a visitor center, and a restaurant.Çanakkale Antenna Tower has opened its doors to the public in March…