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Simply sustainable: a look at architecture in Norway
Contemporary architecture in Norway stays true to its traditions of simplicity and refinement, and uses its mastery of timber to explore increasing sustainability There is a timeless, sustainable aesthetic to Norwegian architecture and its trademark timber structures that have ensured it is still highly relevant today, as studios seek to put eco-friendly principles at the …
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- Architecture , Top Story , Travel
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- architecture , Fjords , Forests , Green Architecture , landscape , norway , Oslo , Scandinavian Architecture , sustainability
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Hong Kong firm ALT-254 tackles the challenges in designing villas in Indonesia
Steep slopes, difficult access and a remote location were among the challenges for Hong Kong-based practice ALT-254 to create the villa residences on Indonesia’s Lombok Island Selong Selo Resort & Residences in the south of Indonesia’s Lombok Island sits on hills overlooking Selong Belanak Beach and its turquoise waters. Hong Kong-based design and project management firm ALT-254 …
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- Architecture , Interiors , Top Story , Travel
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- ALT-254 , Indonesia , Lombok Island , villa residence
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UABB Hong Kong will be a community-driven discussion of identity, liveability and sustainability
Communities in Hong Kong and Shenzhen will be invited to discuss liveability and sustainability at the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture Community engagement will play a key role in the 2019 edition of Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), organised by the Hong Kong Institute of Architects Biennale Foundation. UABB Hong Kong is guided by the central …
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- Architecture , News
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- Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture , HKIA , Hong Kong , Hong Kong architecture , Hong Kong Institute of Architects , Shenzhen , The Mills , UABB , UABB 2019
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Hong Kong architects and designers pick their favourite holiday retreats
Perspective’s friends in the architectural and design community pick their favourite holiday retreats and resorts for the festive season With Christmas, the New Year and the Year of the Rat fast approaching, many Hong Kongers are trawling travel sites to find the perfect hotel or resort for some quality vacation time. Naturally, Perspective readers gravitate …
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- Architecture , Dose of Design , Interview , Lifestyle , Top Story , Travel
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- Christmas Getaway , Designers Top Travel Picks , Holiday Retreats , Holiday Season 2019 , Hong Kong Architects , Hong Kong Designers , Luxury Travel , travel
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Exclusive: Jacques Herzog on M+ and its locally inspired elements
“It’s a museum of the 21st century, but locally inspired throughout,” says Jacques Herzog exclusively to Perspective of the new cultural space in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District Swiss architectural pioneer Herzog & de Meuron (HdM) has blazed a very singular trail across the globe’s architectural landscape with its material interventions, at once countercultural and …
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- Architecture , Developments , Interview , Top Story
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- Architecture and Art , Art Museum , Herzog & Meuron , Hong Kong architecture , interview , Jacques Herzog , M+ , Perspective Exclusive , Tate , Tate London , West Kowloon Cultural District
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A&D TROPHY AWARDS 2019 WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Winners of Perspective‘s A&D Trophy Awards 2019 have been revealed in a jam-packed ceremony in Hong Kong Perspective was proud to host the gala presentation for the A&D Trophy Awards 2019 as well as the A&D China Awards 2019 at ArtisTree in Taikoo Place, Quarry Bay, on December 2, the 16th edition of the award since its inception in 2004. …
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- A&D Trophy Awards , Architecture , Awards , Interiors , Products , Top Story
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- A&D Trophy Awards , ADT Awards , architecture , interior design , product design
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Hong Kong Green Building Council celebrates 10 years of green excellence
As it reaches its 10-year milestone, the Hong Kong Green Building Council looks at the process of getting all parties in the building industry onto a more sustainable path Build quality is an important issue when it comes to environmental and climate change and, while our densely packed metropolis is filled with high-rises, only a …
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- Architecture , Perspective Promotions , Top Story
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- BEAM Plus , energy saving , green building , HKGBC , Hong Kong Green Building Council , sustainability
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The One Wall Street residential conversion is well in the works
The art-deco style skyscraper, formerly occupied by Irving Trust and the Bank of New York, is currently undergoing a major redevelopment into a 556-unit condo and retail space, a monumental project helmed by Macklowe Properties and designed by Robert A.M. Stern and SLCE Architects. A prominent building in Lower Manhattan and an art deco masterpiece, One Wall …
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- Architecture , Developments , Interiors
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- architecture , Art Deco , developments , Macklowe Properties , Manhattan
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Henning Larsen Architects on fostering communities and sensible living through architecture
Henning Larsen Architects brings environmental consciousness and community building to each of its projects, with site-specific solutions that address clients’ needs. Scandinavian design is internationally respected for reasons beyond its minimal aesthetic. Its underlying principles have much to do with ideals found at the heart of many welfare states: people living in harmony with each …
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- Architecture , Dose of Design , Interview
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- architecture , BODW , Copenhagen , Danish architecture , Henning Larsen Architects , Nordic , Scandinavian designs
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Neri&Hu on family and business
Neri&Hu’s Lyndon Neri reveals how he and wife Rossana Hu combine a thriving practice with raising three children, and sheds light on the controversy at this year’s Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair It’s a crisp Saturday afternoon in Shanghai, and one of the salons in Neri&Hu’s Design Republic Commune retail concept store is being prepared …
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- Architecture , Interiors , Lifestyle , Products , Top Story
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- Lyndon Neri , neri&hu , Rossana Hu
