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Kéré Architecture designs community centre in Uganda to be "source of inspiration and pride"

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This platform is used to create subtle changes in level across the site that differentiates between areas, with the playing field slightly sunken and surrounded by tribune-like steps that allow the community to watch games or gather informally. Read: Termite mounds inform Kéré Architecture's design of Kenyan education campus.

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DS2 Architecture

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He graduated in architecture in 2005 from University Vishveshwarya College of Engineering, Bengaluru. A well informed collaborative approach in synthesising a product is at the core of his design practice. All the design propositions are well informed by the place, functionally resolved and aesthetically blended or muted.

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Studio Zhu-Pei tops art centre in China with wave-like concrete roofs

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Located in a semi-rural area outside the city of Zibo, the centre was informed by the region's vernacular materials and architecture, specifically the "siheyuan", or courtyard house, typology. Studio Zhu-Pei was founded by architect Zhu Pei in 2005. Facade consultants: King Glass Engineering. Photo is by Xia Zhi.

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Macdonald Wright Architects creates low-energy home in London as "scalable prototype"

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Macdonald Wright Architects wanted to use the opportunity to study the energy performance of the home, which has the same footprint as "the average UK dwelling", to inform its future projects. Macdonald Wright Architects hopes that the Library House will become a "scalable prototype" and inform its future projects at various scales.

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Super BIM: 7 award-winning BIM/VDC-driven projects

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Launched in 2005, the program honors projects that best harness building information modeling and virtual design and construction tools and processes, and related innovations. The AIA''s Technology in Architectural Practice (TAP) Knowledge Community recently announced the winners of the 2014 AIA TAP BIM Awards. Body Image: read more.

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Dhaka Tower, Bangladesh building by OMA

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Earlier buildings include Fondazione Prada in Milan (2018), De Rotterdam (2013), CCTV Headquarters in Beijing (2012), Casa da Música in Porto (2005), and the Seattle Central Library (2004). Born in 1969 in Syria, Iyad holds a degree in Architectural Engineering from the University of Aleppo.

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LOOM Plaza Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

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This principle informs the strategies adopted with the latest refurbishment of the building interior to recover the large open spaces of the original, always conceived as versatile in nature, as well as highlighting those shared contemporary values that today mirror Noucentisme culture. LOOM Plaza Catalunya Address: Plaça Catalunya, 9.