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DECEMBER 18, 2023

Adopting green building practices, such as using recycled materials and designing energy-efficient structures, not only contributes to sustainability but minimizes long-term operating expenses for residents. Read more »

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Jury Chair and past Institute President Shannon Battisson said each “contain their own unique set of intricacies,” adding that, “Our hope was to send a message to all Australians about where our industry should be going in terms of sustainability, learning and listening to Country.”

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Archinect

APRIL 16, 2024

Located inside the recently refurbished old Grade II listed Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children in Hackney, London, the project is a two-storey flat that has been completely reinvented, from its external building fabric and floor slab being upgraded in terms of thermal performance to its bespoke interior and decoration.

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Archinect

JANUARY 29, 2024

Each year, the AISC’s judges choose superlative examples of the use of structural steel in construction projects in order to highlight its advantages to architectural designers. A total of six projects were honored by the 2024 edition. A total of six projects were honored by the 2024 edition. “In previous years, the jury h.

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Archinect

JANUARY 5, 2024

The results are a reminder of how far the industry still has to go in terms of raising awareness and dispelling misconceptions about inclusive design by identifying critical gaps in client and practitioner awareness. ” A post-design evaluation of occupants' usability using available tools is another key lagging.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A new entity called 10SB will take over the Americas market and leverage both 10 Design’s expertise in mixed-use projects alongside SB’s deep hospitality portfolio for a better synergistic and cohesive global brand. The integration took a reported 18 months to complete after first being announced in July of 2022.

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Archinect

JUNE 16, 2023

For this installment, we're featuring a term that was recently presented in an Archinect feature article on the architectural implications of generative AI tools such as Midjourney and DALL-E. The approach dictates that the study and creation of architecture necessitate the unraveling of the various significations inherent in built forms.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The 580,000-square-foot office known as One Westside was formerly been leased to Google for a 14-year term, but was left vacant as the company’s staff reductions began in January of this year ended the deal. The Gensler project was partially completed in 2022 at a cost of $475 million.

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ArchDaily

MAY 5, 2024

© Marc Goodwin | Expo 2020 Modular construction is a process in which a building is constructed away from its actual site, within controlled factory settings, using identical materials, and adhering to a set of codes and regulations.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Research from a professor at the University of Aberdeen has advanced evidence that the art and practice of architectural drawing may have been invented by a 12th-century Scottish clergyman working in Paris around the time of the construction of Notre-Dame Cathedral and other important Gothic structures.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

City Harbor is a mixed-use lakefront destination offering an upscale family experience in north Alabama. The project will include short-term rental condos, public green space, water features, boat docks, retail, indoor-outdoor bars, a brewery, and at least six restaurants.

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ArchDaily

MAY 22, 2023

Image © CBS News, used under Fair Use terms. They are used here as examples to mobilize issues involving multiple agents, materials, and diverse methods. Screenshot of a CBS News report. Environmental issues urgency and increasing temperatures on the planet are nothing new. Read more »

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Brook Street Residence Halls project is part of the university’s plan to expand its on-campus housing offerings and was completed using a hybrid steel and cross-laminated timber structure.

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ArchDaily

AUGUST 15, 2023

Image © Marcela Grassi Concrete has enormous resistance to compressive stress, but it is a fragile material in terms of tension, which occurs when forces are applied in opposite directions of a structure, tending to separate the parts. Read more »

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Courtesy of AXOR Nowadays, the term “ utopia ” is used to describe an idea that seems unattainable —at least in the contemporary context— intrinsically related to philosophical, scientific, urbanistic, and architectural concepts, among others.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Louisiana State University is collaborating with NASA on a project investigating the potential for natural materials on the Moon to be used as 3D printed waterless concrete. Related on Archinect: ICON to work with DARPA on a framework for Lunar architecture.

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ArchDaily

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

© Adam Mork Brick beams have been widely used in construction due to their strength, durability, and aesthetic appeal. However, it is difficult to find brick beams with excessively large spans, in order to avoid long-term structural problems. Instead, they mostly come in the form of simple lintels, which can be easier to handle.

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Archinect

JANUARY 5, 2024

” The company Fox co-founded with an architect named Sam Marshall, Partanna , has been active since 2018 in using its product, which was developed with the help of materials science researchers using a mixture of brine taken from desalination plants and slag. Their product can also be used in coral reef development.

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Archinect

MAY 26, 2023

For this installment, we're featuring a term central to current conversations on how architects can use artificial intelligence in the design process. Archinect's Lexicon focuses on newly invented (or adopted) vocabulary within the architectural community.

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Shaded pool at the Pink House making use of the heat while staying cool. With a range of long- and short-term landscaping options possible, meanwhile, luxury is available, whatever the budget. Image © Hiroyuki Oki, Hoàng Lê Designer pools bring status to luxury homes and five-star hospitality spaces.

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ArchDaily

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A vomitorium is nothing more than a corridor, used for the efficient movement of people. The original usage of the term ‘vomitorium’ – taken from the same Latin root ‘vomere’ – in fact refers to a room that allows a large building to disgorge itself of its contents. A vomitorium, therefore, is nothing more than a corridor.

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MARCH 31, 2024

A design must pair the experiences of being and using the space to be a ‘design.’ History says that these important elements are used to sell the plan and never considered or included. Should this corridor still use the term ‘boulevard’ understanding the definition of that term? (It

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Orhan Ayyüce applauded " Gezi Park activists have no place in prison and harsh terms. Gezi Park is modern times' first urbanist revolt and the government uses it to punish valuable intellec. I'm not sure what to even do about that, since it seems to be a general symptom of modern living. " Wonderful award to the right people.

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Archinect

MARCH 30, 2023

PGN Partners Jeff Goins and Sean Pichon will remain in leadership roles, while MG President and CEO Joe Furey will oversee the integration along lines related to the firm’s long-term strategic plan. Michael Graves Architecture has expanded once again with its newly-announced acquisition of Washington, D.C.’s

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Archinect

JUNE 2, 2023

For this installment, we're featuring a term central to how technology and artificial intelligence may be seamlessly incorporated into future buildings and cities. Instead of a dedicated device such as a desktop computer, ubiquitous computing can occur using any device, in any location, and in any format.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

10 Design’s global brand will leverage both its expertise in mixed-use projects alongside SB’s deep hospitality portfolio for a better synergistic and cohesive offer. Image: courtesy 10 Design & SB Architects.

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Archinect

AUGUST 4, 2023

For this installment, we're featuring a term relevant to the recent wave of generative AI tools released for public use in the AEC sector and beyond. Reinforcement Learning " (RL) is a subset of machine learning where an agent learns to make decisions by taking actions in an environment to maximize some notion of cumulative reward.

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Archinect

MAY 17, 2023

Using Epic Games’ powerful game engine Unreal Engine 5, the entire original master plan for the radical early 1960s scheme has been constructed, marking a significant expansion on the realized segment situated in Montreal , Canada. “I came to the conclusion that suburbs weren’t feasible in the long term.

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Archinect

JUNE 9, 2023

The term describes a conscious effort to link the built environment to the natural world, through various sensory experiences including sight, sound, touch, and smell. The term describes a conscious effort to link the built environment to the natural world, through various sensory experiences including sight, sound, touch, and smell.

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Archinect

APRIL 6, 2023

Amstel Design District is a future-oriented mixed-use development that aspires to become significant for the whole city of Amsterdam. The development integrates adaptability to ensure long-term resiliency, Amstel Design District facilitates new demands from work environments with a dynamic variety of business and collaboration spaces.

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Archinect

JUNE 2, 2023

In terms of personal meaning, I have approached it as a kind of meditation and reflection on the idea of deep time—planetary and galaxy time that is beyond the human timeline. It’s very significant. museum designs. museum designs. The three-month COUNTERPUBLIC exhibition is on view in St.

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Archinect

JULY 28, 2023

For this installment, we're featuring a term highly relevant to the recent wave of generative AI tools released for public use in the AEC sector and beyond. Multimodal AI " refers to artificial intelligence systems that are capable of understanding, processing, and integrating data from multiple modes or types of inputs.

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Archinect

APRIL 20, 2023

The system, developed by professor of construction science Amir Behzadan, uses crowdsourced public images of floods to inform rescue and mitigation efforts. A professor from Texas A&M University is developing an AI-infused system to capture flooding data in real-time. While flood gauges are operated by the U.S.

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Archinect

JULY 27, 2023

As architecture schools prepare for the Fall term, institutions are searching for faculty and staff to join their teams. Thus, ensuring that all spaces are being used in the most effective and efficient way possible." Thus, ensuring that all spaces are being used in the most effective and efficient way possible."

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A Swiss research team from Empa's Building Energy Materials and Components Lab explores the potential for using raw, plant-based materials as insulation for buildings. Carbon stored in biomass can be permanently fixed through the use of heat treatment. The researchers must ensure that the new insulation materials can be used as a fe.

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Archinect

MARCH 29, 2023

Following last week’s look at an opening for an Engagement Coordinator at The New York Review of Architecture , we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open position on Archinect Jobs for the Architecture Program Chair at the University of Michigan.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 8, 2023

It is also the term used by Pedro Varella to describe the practice of gru.a (a It can also mean the negation of the scale itself, the refusal to accept its physical limits. a group of architects), a Rio de Janeiro-based office of which he is a partner along with Caio Calafate. Read more »

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