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The Sponge Evangelist

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By Stephen Zacks An old industrial site in 2020, before the construction of Benjakitti Forest Park in Bangkok. Photo © Turenscape, courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation. Photo © Turenscape, courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation. Photo © Turenscape, courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation. Elizabeth K.

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Waugh Thistleton Architects designs "visibly sustainable" mass-timber office in London

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It's a simple form driven by the context of timber engineering, as well as the context of the surrounding Victorian buildings – these were also constructed using current methods and built to a brief," Waugh added. And then the columns and beams are made from quite a highly engineered product called LVL.". It's] smaller columns.".

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Bridge Building: 7 Inhabitable Structures Spanning Spaces and Ideas

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THE TWIST / KISTEFOS GALLERY By BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group , Viken, Norway Jury Winner, Architecture +Engineering; Jury & Popular Choice Winner, Gallery & Exhibition Spaces, 8th Annual A+Awards The Kistefos museum ingeniously bridges three landscapes — natural, industrial and artistic — in its design.

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News: Harvard GSD reveals four 2023 Wheelwright Prize finalists

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In 2015, she founded the architecture studio LANZA Atelier, along with Alessandro Arienzo. From 2015 to 2017, Abascal was the Executive Director of LIGA, Espacio para Arquitectura, a platform dedicated to the dissemination and discussion of Latin American architecture. She is also a 2022 Graham Foundation Grantee.

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Ten projects by RIBA Stirling Prize-winner Niall McLaughlin Architects

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Its previous shortlisted projects were the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre in 2018, Darbishire Place in 2015 and Bishop Edward King Chapel in 2013. The studio's design is informed by an illustration in a book about medieval fortifications and is intended to mimic a siege engine. Fishing Hut, 2015. Photo is by Nick Kane.

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Pyramid of Tirana by MVRDV

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Photo © Ossip van Duivenbode Even though Tirana’s Pyramid was until recently a building site, it was already heavily in use the past summer. Steps have been added to the building’s sloping façades, allowing the people of Albania to literally walk all over the showpiece of the former dictator.

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"How we respond to disasters tells us a lot about our future"

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There are a litany of things I failed at with Architecture for Humanity , the humanitarian design non-profit that ran from 1999 to 2015, but the system we built was always an outlier; it was never meant to represent or supplement the responsibilities of the design or architecture industry. The photo is by Saikiran Kesari via Unsplash.

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