Tag / Paris
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Suspended gardens
Floating, hovering, suspended gardens… How to make a garden fly? At the heart of our Paris Gateway project, our suspended garden aimed to resolve conflicting constraints. The very valuable « ground plane » needed to be used for transport whilst other underground infrastructures occupying the whole site made it impossible to plant. Simultaneously, the elevated…
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The Skewed church
Spatial sequencing Without theological commentary intended, our answer for a new Russian Orthodox Church was the literal sequencing of its spatial DNA. Simultaneously as an answer to the trapezoidal site and its oddness in regards to contemporary design, we choose to slice and displace an archetypal model to create a new species. The gradient translation…
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DROO finalist for FAIRE 2020
DROO is a finalist for FAIRE 2020, the Paris accelerator for innovative architectural and urban projects. We are delighted to be selected for the final round for our post-pandemic urban revitalisation project. “FAIRE platform invites multidisciplinary teams to propose innovative research and experimentation in the face of major urban challenges: climate, materials crisis, new technologies,…
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New year New name
New year, new name, RARE architecture becomes DROO short for Da Costa Mahindroo Architects. Expanding now into the southern hemisphere with Melbourne joining our main offices in London and Paris.
