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Who Is Riken Yamamoto? 16 Things to Know About the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Laureate

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Tianjin Library (2012). Photo courtesy of Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop. Riken Yamamoto's receipt of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2024 is met with pleasant surprise.

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Sam Lubell on what's new at Lautner's Sheats-Goldstein House

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Big kudos to the Times for referencing Lautner’s 1960 (now-demolished) Concannon House with a link to our 2012 feature story " Lautner's Concannon Residence, from Dust to Dust " by Archinect senior contributing writer Orhan Ayyüce.

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Archinect readers predict the 2024 Pritzker Prize winner

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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer ; the critic and Brazilian Ambassador to India André Aranha Corrêa do Lago; and the 2010 and 2012 laureates Kazuyo Sejima and Wang Shu. Here's what some of the commenters in the discussion thread predicted: ae_0 listed " H arquitectes , Centro de Colabora.

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Why Nearly Every City in the U.S. Needs a Walkability Study

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About two weeks ago, I received an intriguing email from Jeff Speck, the author of two of the most influential books on urban planning in the past two decades: Suburban Nation (2010; co-authored by Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk) and Walkable City (2012; reissued in 2022 with new material).

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Two University of Toronto researchers selected as recipients of 2023 CTBUH International Research Seed Funding

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Varuni Jayasooriya from the University's Mississauga campus are both co-authors of the forthcoming study 'Architectural Harmony in Chilly Times: Exploring the Thermal Comfort and Heating Energy Demand Trends in Non-Uniform Twin Tower Skyscrapers,’ which used MAD Architects ’ 2012 design for the Absolute World Towers in Mississauga, Canada (..)

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Regent Park Aquatic Centre / MJMA

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© Shai Gil architects: MJMA Location: Toronto, ON, Canada Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Shai Gil Photographs: Scott Norsworthy Area: 28000.0 ft2 Read more »

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The Multiple Facets of the Architect: Exploring the Works of Álvaro Siza Vieira

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It is not only because he was the first Portuguese architect to receive a Pritzker Prize in 1992 or for the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2012. There are many reasons for this distinction. It is not solely due to his extensive and prolific career.

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