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Buenos Aires studio Guillermo Radovich Arquitecto have wrapped an existing brick house in Buenos Aires in a band of white concrete. (more…)

Croatian architects 3LHD have converted a cinema in Zagreb, Croatia, into a dance centre. (more…)

Architect Didier Fiuza Faustino of Paris studio Mésarchitectures has installed a pair of swing seats on a billboard frame as part of the Shenzhen & Hong Kong bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in China this week. (more…)

Dezeenwire: architects Squire & Partners, Dixon Jones and landscape architects Kim Wilkie Associates are to design a new masterplan for the Chelsea Barracks redevelopment in London – BDonline

Related: Dezeenwire – Prince’s meddling ‘unconstitutional’ – The Guardian.

Speaking of the architecture of our past, there’s been some past-the-11th-hour movement here in Chicago to save the remaining Walter Gropius-designed buildings that are a part of the Michael Reese Hospital. Despite years of activism to try and save the whole complex, several of the buildings have already met their maker via a wrecking ball and construction crews, but late this past Friday it seemed as though the rest might have a fighting chance as the Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council voted unanimously to “recommend to federal officials that the hospital’s remaining buildings be named to the National Register of Historic Places.” This doesn’t slow the city down at all in their bulldozing, but should those recommendations go through to the feds quickly enough, the preservationists might still have a chance to save a few more buildings than just the one the city has said it will leave intact. To take a look at what’s there, we recommend checking out Lee Bey’s photographs of the massive campus.

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