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Wolfgang Buttress’ bee-inspired Pavilion moved to Kew Gardens!

British artist and creative lead Wolfgang Buttress' bee-inspired honeycomb Pavilion called 'The Hive Pavilion' has now been moved to Kew Gardens and reopened to the public on June 2016. Buttress' pavilion was originally created for the Milano Expo 2015 and will be on view until  November 2017 at the Kew Gardens. The honeycomb structure attracted over 3.3 million visitors at the Milano Expo 2015 and became one of the main attractions.

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COLORWAY is a new passageway created by the community efforts, proposed by New York-based designer and artist Beomki Lee. 

Beomki Lee's project seeks to redefine the notion of passageway and to find a way for revitalizing negative spaces in urban fabric, by offering human scaled architecture and encouraging the public to create their own spaces.

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He Wei reimagines the circulation of 1970s factory in China by adding Tea Chamber!

Called 'Ding Hui Yuan Zen & Tea Chamber', He Wei has rebuilt Tea Chamber into an office in the factory's latest renovation when the old factory experienced several times of renovation after its construction in 1970s.

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Merge Architects clads this family house with tree-trunk hue weathering steel panels!

Designed for an MIT University Professor, his wife, and their young son, the outer facade of the house creates a visual contrast between the crisp geometry of the house and the sinuous landscape.

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New Blue Suites are made up of Cocoon elements and harmonized with shades of blue by KLab Architecture!

The Blue Suites were designed as a continuing refurbishment of the hotel that KLab designed before and those fluid spaces emerge new type of rooms, using elements from the Cocoon Suites designed by the office in 2012. The projects includes a new open air bar called 'Sky Bar', and a gym.

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A new and vibrant lifestyle design hotel by Philippe Starck completed in Singapore. 

Titled 'M Social Singapore', the new hotel has 293 rooms and thrives on an interplay of friendship, community and new experiences. It is built on the democratic premise of giving the best, while being affordable to the greatest number of people, particularly those with a millennial mindset. Guided by these principles, Starck conceptualised the project as an avant-garde laboratory in the ever-evolving neighbourhood of Robertson Quay.

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A very dramatic cantilever of Aluminium House in Madrid's landscape creates 'one-storey' effect, combining with surrounded gardens and big trees within the metropolis of Madrid. 

The surrounding landscape was the starting point of design approach for Fran Silvestre, founder and design director of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos in Valencia. Fran Silvestre's buildings always try to combine local materiality with natural environment through innovative, simplistic, pure but elegance design forms, which brings new formal identities in relation to different contexts.

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AMO, the research branch of OMA, designed a linear metallic-coloured structure for 2017 SS Prada Men’s and Women’s Show. 

AMO conceived new catwalk as a 'stratification of architectures', which creates a psychedelic effect throughout the space. The studio used the remnants of its design from the previous show on the periphery of the room as foundation and visible background for the new scenography, but the center is freed to host the new set.

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Swiss architect Peter Zumthor revives Norway's old mining region, Allmannajuvet, with new three modest buildings functioned as a museum facility for communicating the history of the mines, a café and a service building near the main road in Suada in the Ryfylke region.

See all buildings of the architect in Norway on World Architecture!

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Aesop opened its second store in Oslo, Norway by using traditional woodworking technique 'intarsia' elaborated by Norwegian practice Snøhetta. 

Snøhetta has collaborated with Aesop's ongoing projects and it opened three stores in Düsseldorf,  Singapore and Berlin.

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OMA's design the Pierre Lassonde Pavilion, the fourth building of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ), opens its doors today in Québec, Canada, the design led by OMA New York Partner, Sho Shigematsu. 

The largest cultural project in Québec, the Pierre Lassonde pavilion is opening its doors on the Grande Allée in Québec City.

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French-based architecture practice Mikou Studio, led by Selma Mikou and Salwa Mikou, completed new Feng Shui Swimming Pool, Sports and Well-Being Centre in Issy les Moulineaux, France. 

Mikou Studio's new swimming pool in the Fort at Issy les Moulineaux was designed according to a totally ecological and environment-friendly bioclimatic approach. The building’s envelope is created to attenuate the linear effect of the massing and to introduce a variation in the visual perception according to the viewing angle.

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China-based architecture practice Arch Studio completed the interior of Lily Nails Salon in Chaoyang District, Beijing. Arch Studio was commissioned to the design for the brand’s new store in Yau Tang Shopping Centre, Beijing. 

The store is a rectangular space with an area of more than 66 meter-square. Lily Nails is a nail and eyelash salon that owns numerous chain stores in Beijing and Shanghai.

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Snøhetta completed the renovation of Summit Bar on the 21st floor of the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel in Oslo.

The studio's basic design approach was to provide a breathtaking view over Oslo, it was a natural direction to emphasize this quality and to the strengthen the concept behind the summit. By establishing a highly reflective fourth wall reflecting a warm light out in the space, the wall disappears in the reflections from the cityscape, accentuating the space’s exceptional location.

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'152 Elizabeth Street' is a new luxury condominiums, embracing Manhattan's urban fabric with clear materialities-concrete, iron and glass. 

Designed by prominent Japanese architect Tadao Ando and developed by Sumaida + Khurana in collaboration with Michael Gabellini, the project covers 32,000 square feet and consists of seven stories with seven residences. 

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Kengo Kuma and Associates designed a new Hongkou Soho office building in the city of Shanghai, China.

The office building covers 95,000m2 area at site, harmonized with transparent facade and linear 'pleats', which are made of aluminum mesh in -18mm width-like woven lace. The most attractive architectural element of the Hongkou Soho is the skin that creates a soft dress for women.

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Designer Li Xiang, president and creative director of X+Living, designed temple of books, endlessly and theatrically arranged in the city of Hangzhou, China. 

Li Xiang creates the most beautiful bookstore for readers, and constantly strives to work on the most culturally artistic bookstore, from learning how to walk, to live, to brave and to persevere. Zhongshuge Hangzhou is a new artistic- but probably the most triggering reading and working space of Hangzhou, which is shaped through the cultural domains of China.