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atelier guo inserts cinema into an ancestral hall in china without touching its past

a lightweight panel system reconfigures the interior into a cinema and public hub, activating the space while leaving the historic shell untouched.
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lithuania’s ‘lost shtetl jewish museum’ takes shape as a gleaming, clustered village

in lithuania, lahdelma & mahlamäki transforms the memory of a destroyed village into the clustered ‘lost shtetl jewish museum’.
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clustered domes dot this landscaped rooftop park atop reworked warehouses

the renovation by atelier cnS introduces a series of translucent, domed canopies that gather across the yongping warehouse’s roofline.
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LLDS reworks ‘northcote house’ in melbourne with robotically-milled interiors

northcote house by LLDS elevates a narrow melbourne terrace with a roof garden, central void, and CNC-formed concrete walls.
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lush facade of potted plants screens this vietnamese residence by H&P architects

‘flying vegetation’ integrates urban agriculture through a planted facade that filters sunlight and breezes.
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History

12,000 Years Ago, Native Americans Were Playing Games of Chance with Handmade Dice

New research suggests that dice developed much earlier—to the tune of 6,000 years—than originally thought.
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this home in korea is shaped by twin timber gables atop a concrete base

BRBB architects designs this ‘shin-dae-ri house’ as a concrete and timber dwelling overlooking a distant valley in south korea.
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FASHION

5 Fashion Lessons Sex & The City Taught Me

Watching Sex & The City for the plot is a lie. We all know it’s for the shoes, the questionable fashion choices, and the occasional moral panic about dating in New York. Somewhere between a tutu

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These 1,000-Year-Old Paper Flowers, Sealed in a Cave, Are a Marvel of Preservation

Among the Mogao Caves’ nearly 500 chambers and temples in China, a space known as Cave 17 revealed thousands of extraordinary objects in the early 20th century.
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Hope and Love Prevail During a Terrible Historic Era in the Short Film ‘Father’s Letters’

A scientist imprisoned at a remote Soviet Gulag corresponds with his daughter in Moscow.
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