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Pier and Beam Foundations - KHouse Progress | Life of an Architect

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Home / Construction / Pier and Beam Foundations – KHouse Progress Pier and Beam Foundations – KHouse Progress Bob Borson — June 12, 2014 — 73 Comments On the residential part of our practice, we do a lot of pier and beam foundations. Here is a typical wall section through a pier and beam foundation.

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Holcim Awards 2023 Competition News

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With a total prize pool of USD 1 million, the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction conducts the global competition to reward and shed light on real-world examples in practice that can accelerate the global movement for sustainable design. You can enter the competition until March 30, 2023 at 14:00hrs UTC.

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Norman Foster Institute Madrid

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The inaugural course On Sustainable Cities will be a 36-week programme in three stages — Foundations, Transformations and Interventions —with time divided between classrooms, cities and studios. . • In that spirit, the course will combine practical on-site experience with academic input from the Foundation’s network of international experts.

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Gerkan Marg & Partners – gmp architects

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Von Gerkan was co-founder of the gmp Foundation and of the Academy for Architectural Culture (aac). Behind us lie six creative decades of shared designing and planning – starting out in our shared student pad and, since 1965, in the office of our architectural partnership. 451026”) has today become a worldwide successful company.

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Architectural Drawings: Toronto’s Modern Home Designs in Plan and Section

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The result is a 720 square foot, light-filled haven meticulously crafted on its original foundations, reimagining the vanishing worker’s cottage style prevalent in the city’s past. In 2012, Roundabout Studio was enlisted to transform the buildings into a cohesive residence focused on music and entertainment.

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BIG's da Vinci code of architecture comes to Hopkins

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BIG is the name of the Bjarke Ingels Danish architecture Group that made it big with projects like the Hyperloop design for the United Emirates, Google headquarters a new tower at the World Trade Center site in New York (construction has started), the "courtscraper" Via 57 West in New York and the Lego House in Denmark, the home of LEGO.

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Hawaii Coastline Report Links Resilience with Access

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In 2012, a law was passed establishing statewide policy guidelines for climate change adaptation but mandated only that state agencies “explore adaptation strategies” to respond to sea-level rise. noa , along with a team of landscape architecture faculty and students at the UHCDC.