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Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation searches for new Executive Director after Cynthia Phifer Kracauer steps down

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Cynthia Phifer Kracauer, the well-respected longtime head of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF), has announced she will be retiring from the organization at the end of December after serving as its executive director for more than seven years. Interested candidates can find more details and apply through Archinect Jobs.

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Under Construction: Infraestudio and the new Cuban Architecture

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Image © Mauricio Chavez Infraestudio is an architecture and art practice based in Havana that has been obsessed with fiction since its foundation in 2016. Center for Contemporary Art Línea 508.

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Construction commences on SOM skyscrapers at former Chicago Spire site

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Construction teams in Chicago have begun work on the foundation for the 72-storey skyscraper designed by SOM. Images show workers filling the giant foundation hole that has been left at the site alongside the Chicago River on Lake Michigan for nearly twenty years.

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"Strong focus on aesthetics" contributed to collapse of Norway timber bridge

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"A short construction period, span lengths and reuse of existing foundation were framework conditions for the planning of the bridge," it continued. Photo by Jan-Tore Egge "When new regulations (Eurocode) in 2016 revealed a few critical weak joints nothing was done to improve these joints," he continued.

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A historic home in Cape Cod is teetering on the brink after this weekend’s bomb cyclone

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In Truro, a house was left suspended on stilts over a beach after violent waves from the blizzard’s storm surge essentially washed away its remaining foundation. A 2016 profile of the beach community published by The Seattle Times revealed a rare “managed retreat” organized amongst the locals.

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MPavilion 10 design by Tadao Ando Architect

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Among his many notable works are the Church of the Light (1989; Osaka, Japan), Pulitzer Arts Foundation (2001; St. MPavilion is an annual initiative of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation and is supported by the City of Melbourne and the Victorian State Government through Creative Victoria. Self-taught in architecture.

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Herzog & de Meuron and UniFor team up for a fun and flexible Milan office

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In 2016, Herzog & de Meuron designed a Milan home for Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, a foundation that studies the history of ideas and social movements. Six years later, the firm The post Herzog & de Meuron and UniFor team up for a fun and flexible Milan office appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.