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Rex clads "mystery box" World Trade Center performance arts center in translucent marble

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So we had to come back in and retrofit or reverse engineer the structure and find any place that we could thread the structure down through what was built. The Perelman is one of the last buildings in architect Daniel Libeskind 's 2003 masterplan for the World Trade Center site. His building was twice the size of ours."

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BDP Architecture Practice Information + News

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Fairham continues: “Our award-winning projects range from the masterplanning of entire cities to the design of interiors and building components. Manchester Engineering Campus Development – MECD: photograph : Greg Holmes. Manchester Engineering Campus Development: photo : Greg Holmes. “We

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Diocesan School for Girls Music & Drama, Auckland

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Acoustically-isolated recording and percussion studios are wired into the performance spaces to professionally capture and engineer the music produced. The building is the latest stage in the School’s 15-year Masterplan, prepared by McIldowie Partners and Upton Architects in 2005.

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Gent Design Museum, Belgium

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Led by urban development company Sogent in collaboration with Design Museum Gent, Carmody Groarke, RE-ST and TRANS Architectuur, the project aims to sensitively restore the museum’s existing buildings, extend the original masterplan and broaden the museum’s programme of design culture and visitor outreach.

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Ten landscape architecture projects by students at Clemson University

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Although the mill burned down in 2003, the saltbox homes of the mill village still stand, as does the community built by the industrial manufacturer." The intertwining of health, wellbeing and rejuvenation is explored through a diversely programmed masterplan.

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Aviva Studios in Manchester to Open on 18th October 2023

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A 33-metre-long bar is split in two by the ‘mega pig’ which is a key part of the building’s structural engineering, holding up the proscenium arch above. When SIM is open people can seamlessly move between the spaces. Additional multi-use foyers are on Level 2 and Level 3 of the building. Ellen van Loon Ellen van Loon is Partner at OMA.

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Overdrawing: LTL Architects’ Hybrid Drawing Tactic Generates Architectural Vitality

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Using the possible future of clean and quiet electric cars as a catalyst, Park Tower envisions a drive-up skyscraper, intertwining a parking garage with a mixed-use sequence of programs, all without noxious fumes or excessive engine noise. Water Proving Ground.

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