World Architecture Community

JANUARY 12, 2024

Foster + Partners has unveiled design for a new airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which is currently under construction on site, a ”-kilometre away from the south of the city centre.Called Techo International Airport, the new airport is made of structural trees creating.

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designboom

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

spanning 700 meters in diameter, the wooden ring roof structure will serve as the venue's main circulation path while offering protection from rain and sun exposure. The post construction starts on sou fujimoto’s wooden ring roof for expo 2025 osaka master plan appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Aric Gitomer Architect

JULY 12, 2022

Every homeowner must replace their roof shingles at some point. Roofs are the “guardians” of your home. Their primary job to withstand harsh weather makes it necessary for you to select a high-quality roof for your home. Selecting the right kind of roof in the present could save you money in the long term. How to Proceed.

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Archinect

AUGUST 23, 2023

NFL franchise Tennessee Titans has announced that Tennessee Builders Alliance (TBA) will serve as the Construction Manager at Risk on its new stadium project. TBA consists of Nashville -based ICF Builders, Polk & Associates, Turner Construction Company , and AECOM Hunt. The structure will span 1.7

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Deezen

MARCH 12, 2024

Texas-based ICON has unveiled Phoenix, a robotic-arm-mounted 3D printer that can create fully-enclosed, multi-storey structures from a low-carbon mixture, at SXSW. It said that it is currently building a prototype outside its headquarters in Austin that will have a dome-like enclosed roof. The imagery is courtesy of ICON.

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Architizer

MAY 8, 2024

The allure of hosting the Olympic Games often sparks a fervent desire to erect iconic and grandiose structures, showcasing human achievement and architectural prowess. The city invested heavily in infrastructure projects, including the construction of venues and facilities, leading to concerns about wasteful spending and corruption.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2024

British studio Foster + Partners has unveiled its design for Techo International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia , which has commenced construction 20 kilometres south of the city centre. The roof design will also use a filtering screen to capture natural light and illuminate the terminal interior.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Local studio Medprostor has covered and partially repaired a 900-year-old Romanesque church in Slovenia , placing an operable roof on top of the open structure to create a space "between a ruin and a reconstruction". The post Medprostor tops 12th-century church in Slovenia with folding roof appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The Japanese restaurant is raised on an existing jetty that extends out from the shore and has a bamboo structure with tree-like columns to support its wavy roof. Together with the layered pattern, the roof will resemble the scales of a fish." "Together with the layered pattern, the roof will resemble the scales of a fish."

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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. has explored the viability of stone as a modern, low-carbon building material that could help the construction industry minimise its vast carbon footprint. This week, Stone Age 2.0

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Aric Gitomer Architect

AUGUST 11, 2021

A roof is the covering of your home. And what’s more, is that you get the opportunity to select the type of roof for your home. Depending on the type of structure, weather, and planning permissions, your home can boast a strong roof. Each roof type serves different functions. They are more expensive to construct.

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Deezen

APRIL 22, 2024

The structure will serve as an educational building for the University of Kansas ( KU ) School of Architecture & Design in Lawrence, Kansas. It will have an all wood structure It will have chamfered edges on all of the corners, creating entrance canopies on the ground floor and terraces up top.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Another milestone has been reached in the ongoing Automated People Mover (APM) project at Los Angeles International Airport after the last structural steel elements near the historic Theme Building have been installed.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Several communities worldwide don’t necessarily have the same access to new-age materials, construction techniques or the funds to actualize these grand visions. Given that the site is located in paddy fields in the mountains there, the structure is built using layers of walls to adapt to the topography. Panyaden School.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Located in West Los Angeles on a busy thoroughfare, the project is called The Jagger – named after the massive sawtooth roof that tops it.

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BD+C

JUNE 5, 2023

How to properly assess structural wind damage 0 dbarista Mon, 06/05/2023 - 16:17 Engineers Properly assessing wind damage can identify vulnerabilities in a building's design or construction, which could lead to future damage or loss, writes Matt Wagner, SE, Principal and Managing Director with Walter P Moore.

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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. That posed the question of what to do with the felled trees.

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Deezen

MARCH 8, 2024

Architecture studio SO-IL has unveiled designs for the Williams College Museum of Art in the Berkshires , which will be topped with a tent-like cross-laminated timber roof. The undulating cross-laminated timber roof will be laid atop these volumes, unifying them below. It is punctuated by glazed openings dispersed along its facade.

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Deezen

JANUARY 28, 2024

Northeast Pavilion is a permanent bamboo structure created by Mumbai studio AtArchitecture to showcase local craft and construction techniques from the northeast of India. This includes the use of bamboo for the pavilion's structure, which makes a direct reference to the materiality of Indian handlooms.

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

Tokyo-based studio Klein Dytham Architecture has designed a bookstore wrapped with an undulating steel roof resembling "outstretched arms" in Nagano, Japan. Exposed wooden beams feature throughout the interior spaces Inside Karuizawa Commongrounds Bookstore, the spaces were organised around the existing rectangular structure.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 29, 2024

Construction works have reached roof level at the new 3.2 At the heart of West Kowloon in Hong Kong, this landmark development is located above the existing West Kowloon Station high-speed rail terminus which has remained in operation throughout construction. million sq.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A spiralling cable-net roof modelled in the image of a Fibonacci sequence tops a new public greenhouse designed by Canadian studio KPMB Architects in Winnipeg. KPMB Architects developed the design in partnership with Architecture49 and Blackwell Structural Engineers.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

Construction is progressing on a mass-timber academic building with a stone facade designed by architecture firm Studio Gang for the University of Chicago campus in Paris. Construction has commenced on the University of Chicago centre in Paris. The centre will have a mass timber structure.

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Deezen

JUNE 20, 2023

Shanghai-based studio Wutopia Lab has created Deep Time Palace, an underground museum in Changchun featuring a wavy concrete roof with eye-shaped openings. When envisioning the space, I aimed to utilize the underground structure as a starting point to convey the sense of 'depth'," Yu said.

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Deezen

APRIL 1, 2024

Located on the northern shore of Lake Constance in the Radolfzell district, the timber building contains sports courts and a stage for events, unified by a cantilevered roof overhead. The building is largely made from spruce wood "The Lake Constance region is characterised by its rural structures," studio architect Michaela Afife told Dezeen.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 24, 2024

The project will expand the functionality of the city’s central station, Gare Matabiau, strengthening the area’s public transport networks by creating a hub for bus, railway, and metro, all connected under one roof. The Hub is set to begin construction in 2026. Read more »

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Santa Cruz Architect

MAY 4, 2024

Photo by Voll Arkitekter + Rikardo Foto Mass timber construction has revolutionized the architectural landscape, offering a sustainable and innovative alternative to traditional building materials. Engineered wood products are used in a variety of applications, from home construction to commercial buildings to industrial products.

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Archinect

JUNE 15, 2022

Construction of Studio Gang ’s planned Parcel F contribution to the Mission Rock development is officially underway in San Francisco, filling in the final puzzle piece of a 28-acre mixed-use scheme led by Tishman Speyer and the local Major League Baseball affiliate San Francisco Giants.

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2024

Infrastructure consultants AECOM and Spanish architecture studio Luis Vidal + Architects have created a terminal for Boston 's Logan Airport capped by a long, bright-red roof. On the opposite side, where the gates are, the face of the structure is mostly glass. Its corners taper to sharp edges that "cut through the sky with precision".

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The monolithic structure features cascading terraces The 165-square-metre home contains live and work spaces for a young family across 11 levels that are reflected on the facade by its staggered windows. "The The post PSLA Architekten tops urban townhouse with cascading roof terraces appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Architecture studio Edition Office has created a three-bedroom house with a cutout roof and fibre-cement cladding in Mossy Point, Australia. Elevated on parallel blockwork walls within a peaceful, wooded area, the home comprises a two-storey structure with a dramatic aperture in the roofline that forms a sheltered outdoor dining space.

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Deezen

MARCH 9, 2023

Read on for 11 upcoming buildings with mass-timber structures: Image by Negativ Eco Park, UK, by Zaha Hadid Architects Set to become the world's first timber football stadium, Eco Park by Zaha Hadid Architects will be built in England as the home of Forest Green Rovers football club.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 18, 2023

From factories and warehouses to shop fronts and underpasses, Hicks explores the structures that make up the post-industrial landscape of the West Midlands region known as the Black Country. There are improvised and patched-up structures all over the region." "I It's the main structure of what remains of the Scala Theatre.

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Deezen

MAY 31, 2023

A sweeping, grass-topped concrete roof creates an artificial hill to conceal the Gurdau Winery in the Czech Republic , which has been designed by local practice Aleš Fiala Studio. Where the sloping roof meets the ground, it blends with a series of winding concrete walls supporting planters around a paved patio.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

The vertical, white-wood cladding and standing-seam metal roof reference regional agrarian buildings, but with contemporary refinement. The discrete entrance is marked by a protruding flat roof tucked into the corner between two gables. Wooden gabled houses are not uncommon in the area, as the pitched roof helps shed snow each winter.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion 0 qpurcell Thu, 09/28/2023 - 10:37 Office Buildings IMEG's Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney, share seven key focuses for structural engineers when planning office-to-residential conversions.

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Dwell

APRIL 2, 2024

A new tw0-story structure on the rear lane contains the bike and garden storage, laundry area, bathroom, and a studio space. The roof to the living space is densely planted and its concrete structure provides enough depth for the plants to thrive. Post it here.

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