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Stephen Lawrence Prize 2023 News

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RIBA announces new-look Stephen Lawrence Prize and student mentoring. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced revised eligibility for the Stephen Lawrence Prize and an associated student mentoring opportunity. Matthew Goldschmied , Managing Trustee at the Marco Goldschmied Foundation,?said: Stirling Prize.

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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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Top 10 tallest mass-timber buildings around the world

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Photo by Jannes Linders for Team V Architecture Haut, the Netherlands, Team V Architecture (2022) Dutch architecture studio Team V Architecture designed the 21-storey Haut residential building with floors and load-bearing inner walls made from CLT, along with a predominantly glazed facade and a core, basement and foundations made of concrete.

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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. . • Norman Foster said: “The future of our society is the future of our cities— they are our greatest invention.

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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. Kunsthalle Mannheim – 7 Dec 2012. Eurocampus.

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Three Monographs

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The presentation is chronological, moving from "A Student's Sketchbook" (spread above) that spans from 1985 to 1995 to the designs for plays, performances, and installations she is known for, one after the other for at least 250 pages.

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Michael Hopkins Architects, London Practice

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2012 London Olympics VeloPark building design by Hopkins Architects with Expedition Engineering, BDSP and Grant Associates: photo from Olympic Delivery Authority Their early adoption of energy efficient design demonstrated a progressive outlook that was ahead of its time. An architecture that was always generous and open to an unknown future.