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Studio Gang’s first project in continental Europe is complete
For a company with a Paris place of work, it could appear as a surprise that Studio Gang did not have a one finished developing in continental Europe—until now. Before this month, the firm celebrated the opening of Q Residences, a 297,000-square-foot condominium intricate in Buitenveldert, a community in the south of Amsterdam and one of the capital’s remaining garden cities. The 23-story Quartz, pictured in this article, is the taller of the two structures at Q Residences. (Kees Hummel) Q Residences’ 248 flats are divided amongst two buildings, Quartz and Qube. The most placing element of the taller (23-story) Quartz are staggered white precast concrete balconies that groove and…
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Chicago design studio has MAPPED out local community-based resources
An online database launched this year is trying to fill an information gap on Chicago-area community projects. MAPPED, a project of Design Trust Chicago, was started because the three founders of the trust realized there was a lack of accessible information about community design programs. “The website, we wanted it to be playful, fun, engaging, conversational,” said Emma Jasinski, the community designer at Design Trust Chicago. “A lot of this information lives on city websites or on other platforms, but oftentimes it’s really dense information that’s hard to navigate.” Clio Lyons, the operations manager for Design Trust Chicago, said the goal is for the site to act as a “Wikipedia…
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