Santa Cruz Architect

MAY 4, 2024

Engineered wood products like cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glulam beams have paved the way for skyscrapers and complex structures that were once thought impossible with wood alone. This article discusses the top 20 tallest mass timber buildings globally, exploring their design, engineering feats, and environmental impact.

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SW Oregon Architect

MARCH 12, 2023

Without necessary improvements, the 3-story concrete structure would sustain significant damage during a major earthquake. The FRP resists tensile forces by enhancing the flexural and shear strength of the structure. They can significantly enhance the performance of structures during earthquakes, reducing damage and increasing safety.

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Deezen

JUNE 28, 2022

American architecture studio Thomas Phifer and Partners has built a concrete structure at the Glenstone Museum in Maryland to house an artwork by sculptor Richard Serra. The building houses a collection of four cylindrical steel sculptures called Four Rounds: Equal Weight, Unequal Measure, which was created in 2017.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The home was completed in 2017 by Diller Scofidio + Renfro ( DS+R ) in East Hampton for Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit founder Julie Taubman and her husband, businessman Robert Taubman. The formal language was derived from a deep read of the site in which it sits: the dune," DS+R partner Charles Renfro told Dezeen.

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Deezen

JULY 6, 2023

"The new pool and pool structure are different from the house and guest house, but made of complementary materials and are quiet enough in form and scale to not dominate the original structures," Griffin said. In Situ Studio is the fourth team to work on the Morgan Creek residence. The photography is by Cristóbal Palma.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2023

To help kick off our Timber Revolution series , we republish the Dezeen guide to engineered wood , which includes CLT , glulam and dowel-laminated timber. Mass timber is the name given to the various different types of engineered wood that can be used as structural building materials.

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Deezen

APRIL 26, 2023

Owned by the New York City Department of Parks, it broke ground in 2017 but wasn't completed until 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and bureaucratic delays. Overhead, the exposed structural beams and mechanical services were painted blue, as was the acoustical plaster, to form a sky where fabric ducts hang as clouds.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2022

The culture hub, which replaced an existing civic centre, was developed as part of an extensive revitalisation of the park and first announced in 2017. The three structures were constructed using pigmented concrete. Civil engineer and landscape architect: Land Design. Vaulted arches were fitted with large windows.

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Dwell

MARCH 28, 2023

Our client purchased the house in 2017, and sought modern amenities, more interior light, and an expanded living area into the garden. The site abuts an open parkland and gardens to the north, which lend generous canopies of shade from deciduous trees. A lifetime of exquisite mementos, artifacts, and books round out the new work.

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Deezen

AUGUST 10, 2022

Located on a shallow hill at the centre of a busy traffic intersection, the pavilion was the winner of a 2017 competition held by the municipality of Tilburg, which invited young designers to propose ways of "restoring" the neglected patch of land. Structural engineer: Rutger Snoek, Transist-or. Client: Municipality of Tilburg.

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Deezen

JANUARY 24, 2022

The Ojai Valley School Upper Campus project sits on a 195-acre (79-hectare) site overlooking the Ojai Valley in Ventura County, about two hours north of Los Angeles. The project was designed in the wake of the December 2017 Thomas Fire, which devastated the region and wiped out two buildings on the upper campus of the school.

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Deezen

MAY 16, 2023

Bully Hill House is in rural New York The six-acre site slopes down to the road below and has an active hayfield for a local farmer that looks out to the distant mountains. Approximately 50 miles to the east, Studio MM Architects completed a Hudson Valley cabin in 2017, wrapping it in blackened cedar.

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e-architect

MARCH 7, 2023

The colors and scale are also reminiscent of an archeological site, further invoking historical references. The structure makes use of compression and tension members to reduce its steel volume by 20% compared to traditional designs, creating the effect of a roof that floats above the continuous glass wall. 2019, Construction: Jan.

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Deezen

AUGUST 7, 2022

Bell Phillips was approached to design a community space housing a cafe kiosk, toilets and a bookable multipurpose room for the site, which contains several mature plane trees. The structure nestles amongst large plane trees. The 18-square-metre kiosk is located in a unit at the prominent southern corner of the site.

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The Spaces

JANUARY 26, 2022

As children, we turn trees into clubhouses and play imaginary games beneath their branches; we climb them, build from them and fashion them into new structures. The 2017 Serpentine Pavilion by Francis Kéré. Kéré’s Serpentine structure has a wide, canopy-like roof that is made from timber slats covered by transparent skin.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The building design has been developed through a partnership between international architecture firm Hassell and Kampala-based LocalWorks , in collaboration with engineering giant Arup. The structure will take the form of a sheltered, open-air amphitheatre that can double as a performance venue or a community meeting space.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 22, 2023

It is a great joy and honor to work on a performing arts center for the students of this historic university on such an important site,” Steven Holl remarks. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (2019) has become a destination in Washington, D.C. due to its flexible performance spaces and open sculpted landscapes.

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Deezen

MARCH 23, 2023

Completed in 2017, Dalston Works is a 10-storey residential development in east London that contains 121 apartments with balconies as well as two ground-level courtyards, retail and restaurant space and an integrated flexible workspace. I am happy with the way it looks but would have preferred a lightweight cladding material." "We

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The Spaces

APRIL 6, 2022

The Burkinabe architect – who grew up in a rural village in the Boulgou province of Burkina Faso – is celebrated for his innovative designs that blend indigenous vernacular with modern engineering. Serpentine Pavilion 2017, designed by Francis Kéré. Photography: Lance Gerber, courtesy of Coachella.

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e-architect

MAY 16, 2023

The super-light innovative two-shell structure is place-specific, responding to pivotal historic events and to the cultural context of its location in Hull’s Queens Gardens adjacent to the ancient site of Beverley Gate. From these edges visitors can see how the structure is formed. What was the brief? How is the project unique?

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Appointed in 2017 to expand the resort, ZHA designed Studio City Phase Two with new leisure, entertainment and hospitality facilities including one of Asia’s largest indoor water parks and extensive meeting spaces.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

With the aim of creating a model that could be cheaply and easily replicated across the prefecture, Kei Kaihoh Architects constructed the two-storey structure using local cedar instead of reinforced concrete or mass timber, which would have to be shipped in.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 26, 2022

First announced in 2017 , the 310-metre-tall Varso Tower has a rectilinear form comprised of three volumes that stagger into one as they reach its tallest point at 230 metres. The structure is topped by an 80-metre-tall spire. Varso Tower is a 310-metre-tall skyscraper in Warsaw, Poland. It offers panoramic views of the city.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It has a distinctive S-shape which curves around other buildings on the site to create new courtyards as well as encouraging airflow to manage temperatures in the scorching Senegalese climate. The project was shortlisted at the 2017 World Building of the Year awards , hosted by the World Architecture Festival.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Year: 2017. Framed around views of the fourteen-acre site, the design of this weekend home is based on classic proportions while incorporating modern elements suitable to its rural East Coast setting. Project Status: Built. Size: 10,000 sqft – 25,000 sqft. Text description provided by the architects. © Olson Kundig.

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Deezen

MARCH 2, 2022

In 2017, they commissioned De Matos Ryan to oversee upgrades to the existing building and the development of several new accommodation blocks. The new amenities include a single-storey staff accommodation block that is slotted between two existing brick buildings near the site's entrance. The site contains 12 ensuite guest bedrooms .

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e-architect

JULY 23, 2023

This space was formerly used as a workshop by the students of engineering. Polished Plaster The XR Lab is built with a steel structure that incorporates thermal and acoustic insulation. Pod-Shaped Design for Energy Efficiency The XR Lab finds its home in Hangar 2, one of the 5 Hangars of the 7200 m2 STEM complex.

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Architecture Ideas

MAY 15, 2023

Whether it is a house, a big corporate office, or a small office building, every structure needs to design well. Architecture & Design Studio Source: adsttc.com Architect: KSM architecture Location: Chennai, India The KSM architecture company wanted a new office, so the designers and engineers of the company together came with this idea.

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e-architect

JUNE 28, 2023

Eventually, the architects went beyond engineering logic to create an aesthetically-pleasing and community-friendly public space. Honghu Park Water Purification Station in Shenzhen, China – Building Information Design Team: NODE Architecture & Urbanism (NODE) – [link] Design time: 2017.Nov-2021.Mar

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Architizer

JUNE 15, 2022

Their low and horizontal profiles, together with the library’s generous plaza facing the site, offers a relatively spacious urban setting on the cusp of two zones. The tower is designed as a vertical assemblage of glass boxes that radiate outward to express the pivotal location of the site.

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Community Architect Daily

JULY 10, 2023

What followed in 2012 was the lofty vision of building an apartment building inside the voluminous structure. The sad ransacked remainders of the once intact structure stood for six years left to the elements, fenced in and neglected. The main structure was listed on the National Register as historically significant in 2007.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, USA, by HOK (2017). Opened in 2017, the angular stadium is topped with a unique roof that "opens and closes like a camera aperture". The structure includes rusticated stone to align with the Giants' traditional values, combined with metal and glass for a modern look desired by the Jets.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Image Credit: OMA The new building is located in the new St John’s neighbourhood which is being developed on the site of the former Granada Studios next to the River Irwell and will make a major contribution to the ongoing regeneration of this part of the city centre. Image Credit: Pawel Paniczko Project Specifications Site: 1.80

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e-architect

JANUARY 4, 2022

Main Contractor: China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited. Structural Consultant: ARUP. Mechanical Engineers: ARUP. Lighting Engineers: Foster + Partners. Construction Start: 2017. Site Area: 17,606 sqm. Structure: Steel, SRC and RC structure for main building structure.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 18, 2023

They persistently confront challenges and surmount obstacles to see their visions materialize into groundbreaking structures that sensitively answer to the needs of their users and converse with their settings and environments, all while defying gender inequalities.

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Architizer

JULY 26, 2022

Year: 2017. The demand for additional parking, toilet facilities, upgraded picnic sites, and a sheltered area formed the functional core of this project. The thickness of each roof plane was minimized using innovative, below-grade moment connections to resist the massive uplift of this open-air structure. Project Status: Built.

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Architizer

MARCH 18, 2022

Heavily oriented towards structural expressionism and designing for adaptability, proponents of this particular architecture embraced new techniques for design and engineering. The structure of the dome is visible from both inside and outside, so does the movement of visitors. Hopkins Architects.

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