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New Nobel Peace Center by David Adjaye

Architecture Ideas

Status 2005 Location Oslo, Norway Area 445 m² / 4,800 ft² Category Civic, Culture, Education Design Architect Adjaye Associates Architect of Record Anders W. Today, the center is one of Norway’s most visited museums, welcoming around 250,000 visitors annually.

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Places in Time III

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

If I were doing that roundup now, having had more time to delve into the new book, I would write that politics and finance were, if not the most prevalent, the most illuminating and thoroughly discussed aspects in the book's presentation of skyscrapers over fifty years last century. So why include it?

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2022 RIBA Annie Spink Award

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She was made FRIBA in 2005 and Professor at Westminster in 2014. The £10,000 Annie Spink Award is financed by the Annie Spink Trust Fund, which was established in 1974 by architect Herbert Spink FRIBA. Structural Engineer: TZG Partnership. London Architecture School Events. AA School Events. photograph : Will Pryce.

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Mya and The Shop SLC, Salt Lake City, Utah

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photo © Tim Hursley Deal Structure Mya had a unique finance capital stack defined by deferred development fees, tax exempt bonds, and housing tax credits equity. A standalone ground-up commercial project with no direct subsidies like The Shop would have been challenging to finance on its own.

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HOK Architects: Architecture Office News

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Under Hellmuth’s guidance, HOK earned recognition as one of Time Magazine’s most influential companies and consistently ranked among the world’s largest and greenest architecture/engineering firms. He joined HOK in 2005 in New York, where his projects included NewYork Presbyterian Hospital’s David H.

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Guardian Building Bridge

A Detroit Architect's Journal

The engineer in me wonders what amount of shear force would cause the bridge to break catatrophically from the face of the building. It was nicknamed the Cathedral of Finance and is particularly known for it's vaulted Lobby and pewabic tile decorated Banking Hall. The building's delicate skin is pierced with the precision of a needle.

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How the failed Security Square Mall could become a thriving town center

Community Architect Daily

But while successful mixed use town center style redevelopments have become success stories and new economic engines, Security Square mall's decline is reaching levels that many had thought unimaginable a few years back, even when the vultures were already circling over the 90 some acres making up the mall.