Archinect

MARCH 7, 2024

Framing existing conditions as opportunities, SHED Architecture & Design created a coherent family compound on the shores of Seattle’s Lake Washington in which an old and new structure speak to one another and the surrounding landscape via a design solution informed by restraint, material relationship, and attention to detail.

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ArchDaily

APRIL 11, 2024

Image © Sergio Grazia No longer relegated to the domain of temporary structures or utilitarian living, modular housing is increasingly gaining traction. Prefabricated homes are disrupting the architecture industry with their efficient construction, predictable costs, and reduced environmental impact. Read more »

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Deezen

MAY 28, 2024

Weathering steel and accoya wood wrap the exterior of the Alta House, which was created by US studio Lever Architecture to embrace the "sublime mountain landscape". Located in the small Wyoming town of Alta, the house serves as a holiday home for an outdoor-loving couple from Portland, Oregon. Situated on a half-acre (0.2-hectare)

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ArchDaily

APRIL 25, 2024

© Michael Biondo Shigeru Ban Architects, in collaboration with The Glass House and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union , have just revealed “Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log House at The Glass House.” Read more »

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Archinect

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Snøhetta has unveiled its design for an opera house in Diriyah, on the outskirts of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Inspired by the surrounding desert landscape, local cultural heritage, and Najdi building traditions, the Royal Diriyah Opera House forms part of a wider master plan to redevelop the historic area.

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designboom

JUNE 2, 2024

The post ROOVICE and cabbage truck restore centennial row house’s structural frame in tokyo appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. renovation by roovice and cabbage truck reveals historical materials within the wall, showcasing traditional construction methods.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 10, 2023

This is a reinforced concrete structured house for a family of 3. This house was required to respond flexibly to changes in their lifestyle and the. Completed in 2023 in Saitama, Japan. Images by Ooki Jingu.

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Avontuura

JANUARY 2, 2024

Composed of a flexible metal mesh, a wide surface is created for the support of the growth of a climbing plant, the species Congea tomentosa, The post MACh Arquitetos and Rizoma Arquitetura design tensile shading structure for UNESCO house in Minas Gerais appeared first on Åvontuura.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 10, 2024

Hotel in renovated house made of corrugated pipes.& & The project is to renovate a structure made of corrugated pipe, a civil engineering material, Completed in 2023 in Japan. Images by Yoshiro Masuda.

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Archinect

MAY 15, 2024

Summer 2021 saw Phillips International Auction House open its new headquarters designed by studioMDA, at 432 Park Avenue in New York. With this unique, vibrant atmosphere, Phillips exists as an evolving institution—one that breaks the typical mold of an auction house.

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designboom

OCTOBER 12, 2022

a new york startup invented a building technique that uses an air pump and a compressor to build homes by filling cement into a balloon-like structure. The post just like balloons, concrete structures inflate and shapeshift into houses appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

MARCH 29, 2024

If you're in search of new, exciting architecture and design competitions, take a look at the latest curated picks of challenges listed on Bustler. For the complete directory of newly listed competitions, click here.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Berm House is a private residence that doubles as the common house and gathering space for a 19 house mixed-income community in Washington’s Methow Valley. The house is set into the landscape, with a panoramic view of the farmland down valley, but hidden from the road by a berm that ramps up onto and across the roof.

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Archinect

APRIL 29, 2024

The reopening returns a certain architectural equilibrium to Johnson’s estate. The original paired structures, said Kirsten Reoch, who was named executive director of the Glass House campus last summer, “are two parts of a whole. Neither was conceived without the other.

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Archinect

MAY 31, 2024

For the complete directory of newly listed competitions, click here.

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Archinect

MARCH 25, 2022

Tucked away in Los Altos Hills, the aptly named Round House is a geometrically unique structure; one of a few similarly shaped homes built in California in the 60s. The clients fell in love with this quirky circular house and initially planned a modest remodel.

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Deezen

MAY 14, 2024

The aim for Kunstsilo was to preserve and celebrate the architecture of the former grain store, completed by Norwegian functionalist architects Arne Korsmo and Sverre Aasland in 1935. The post Dezeen Debate features "an intelligent re-use of an industrial structure" appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

series, we've collected 10 recently completed and upcoming buildings that show the potential of structural stone as a modern construction material. In this roundup, we collect 10 diverse projects that demonstrate this concept, including social housing, a winery with a rippling facade and an oval-shaped school. This week, Stone Age 2.0

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

California studio TW Ryan Architecture has completed a wildfire-resistant house in the American West that features a Corten steel exterior and pyramidal roofs that allude to the mountainous terrain. Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville.

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designboom

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

the 'father and son house' by tokyo-based UNEMORI ARCHITECTS stands as the renovation and addition of a multi-generational home in japan. The post UNEMORI ARCHITECTS exposes the intricate structure of its ‘father and son house’ appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Image © Ath Salem/Flickr The Climat de France is a French colonial social housing project in Algeria designed by Fernand Pouillon and currently renamed Oued Koriche. Located approximately 8km west of the country’s capital, Algiers, it was built from 1954 to 1957, right in the middle of the Algerian War of Independence.

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Deezen

APRIL 6, 2024

Amsterdam studio Woonpioniers has used natural materials and prefabricated elements throughout the Sprout Ruben & Marjolein house , which includes an open, greenhouse-like volume. For this prototype, which is located in Olst, Woonpioniers created a small house comprising a two-storey volume topped with a mono-pitched roof.

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Avontuura

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Larch wood is used as cladding on all surfaces, while the structures of the wood frame walls are made of Douglas fir. The post Atelier Architecture Vincent Parreira (AAVP) design timber and concrete housing project in Paris appeared first on Åvontuura.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. Named Madrone Ridge, the 4,920 square-foot (460 square-metre) house sits within the watershed of northern California's Russian River. the studio said. "By

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Archeyes

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Amancio Williams (1913-1989), though many of his designs never materialized, remains a towering figure in Argentine architecture. His most acclaimed work, the “Casa sobre el Arroyo“, or the Bridge House, The post The Bridge House by Amancio Williams: A Modernist Structure in Mar del Plata appeared first on ArchEyes.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

From monolithic concrete pillars to ornately decorated columns, this lookbook collates ten living room interiors that embrace existing structural columns. The style was popular in ancient Greek and Roman architecture. The post Ten inspiring living spaces punctuated by structural columns appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

US studio CLB Architects has created a retreat in rural Wyoming that has three wood-clad structures, with a creek running underneath the primary residence. Located on a 35-acre (14-hectare) property near the town of Wilson, the home was envisioned as a series of "tectonic structures" set within a diverse ecosystem.

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aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Since dismantling the platforms requires a tremendous amount of money, many companies leave the structures on the site. Image © AI Architecture. This project reimagines how to transform abandoned oil rigs into habitable structures. Housing typologies are explored and integrated with sustainable & renewable energy systems.

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Prefabricated units of concrete and wood were given varied facades to "mitigate the feeling of repetition" at this student housing project in Agen, France , by Parisian studio Ignacio Prego Architectures. This meant solving a tricky puzzle: designing architecture that is both standardised and welcoming," it continued.

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Deezen

MARCH 28, 2024

US studio Michael Hennessey Architecture has revitalised an ageing suburban house near San Francisco , adding black cladding and bright finishes to form a family home that bridges the past, present and future. Built into a hillside, the home is U-shaped in plan, with gabled volumes organised around a central courtyard.

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Archeyes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Amidst the lush landscape of Camino a San Gabriel, Jalisco, the Glass House designed by COA arquitectura stands as an architectural testament to the poetic harmony of structure and nature. The post Glass House by COA arquitectura: A Harmonious Interplay of Structure and Nature appeared first on ArchEyes.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2024

Named Tor Alva , or White Tower, the building will become the world's "tallest 3D-printed structure" once complete in Mulegns later this year, according to Hansmeyer and Dillenburger. ETH Zurich has commenced the 3D printing process and so far created eight out of 32 structural columns. This saves mass and material."

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Deezen

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Architecture studio Snøhetta has revealed its design for an opera house in the historic town of Diriyah, Saudi Arabia , informed by traditional Najdi architecture. An amphitheatre will be located on a rooftop The Royal Diriyah Opera House will also include a cafe, retail space, public gardens and shaded outdoor spaces.

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Archeyes

JUNE 6, 2023

John Hejduk, one of the famous New York Five, is best known for his exceptional creativity and highly conceptual work in the architectural domain. His Wall House II, also known. The post The Wall House II by John Hejduk: A Structural Symphony appeared first on ArchEyes.

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Architizer

APRIL 30, 2024

They can be material structures that connect two (or more!) Beyond spanning from point A to B, architects are designing bridges as inhabitable structures to build connections between people and places. Architects: Want to have your project featured? Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters.

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Deezen

MARCH 9, 2023

A stadium by Zaha Hadid Architects and housing by Adjaye Associates feature in this roundup of upcoming wooden buildings , curated as part of our Timber Revolution series. Also featured on the list are towers, university buildings and an airport terminal, illustrating mass timber 's potential for use in a variety of architectural projects.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

British architecture practice Studio Bark has worked with students from the University of East London to devise a roof-supporting column with otherwise unusable timber at a site within ancient English woodland. We were there in midsummer. The spindle shape — fatter in the middle, thinner in the ends — is also useful.

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