Dezeen Debate options "intriguing" archival facility in Quebec

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B+H Architects has designed an archival storage facility in Gatineau, Quebec, named the Preservation Storage Facility.

The 2-storey constructing’s outer sheath is produced from compact concrete panels layered right into a double envelope.

Readers had been divided. One thought the construction was “intriguing however unusually stunning”, whereas one other disagreed, describing it as “considerably banal”.

Snøhetta's Redisgn for New York's Times Square — Snøhetta New York workers goal to unionise to “achieve a collective voice”

Different tales on this week’s publication that fired up the feedback part included workers’ plans to unionise at Snøhetta’s New York workplace, Tadao Ando’s design for the tenth MPavilion in Australia and a charred cypress-clad lake home in North Carolina by Fuller Overby.

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