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Home Delivery

There is something delightful about the Museum of Modern Art’s new prefabrication show Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling that opened on July 20. On an empty lot west of the museum, future home of Jean Nouvel’s Tour de Verre, five full-scale contemporary prefabricated houses have been built, creating,  as curator Barry Bergdoll put it, [...]

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HOK Sports elegant tackling – Landsdowne Road stadium

HOK Sport, with Scott Tallon Walker, is transforming Dublin’s Landsdowne Road stadium while responding to local constraints Taking shape across the skyline of Dublin is the transformation of the city’s Lansdowne Road stadium into a state-of the-art sporting venue for rugby and football. The site’s existing constraints all had to be borne in mind in [...]

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New ways to catch some rays

Photovoltaics may generate clean electricity, but they’re expensive and difficult to integrate with a building’s fabric. Will the next generation of PV technologies tackle these problems? Travel round mainland Europe and you’ll find photovoltaic panels everywhere — in fields, on houses, and on crinkly-tin sheds. Germany leads the way, with 240,000 PV units installed last [...]

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