Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Brooklyn-based studio Modu has created a building envelope that lowers the ambient air temperature in order to help cool the interior and exterior of this Houston building. In hot climates like that, if you can lower the air temperature, then it would require less air conditioning because the air around the building is cooler."

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Architizer

AUGUST 26, 2022

Text description provided by the architects. The Health Sciences Innovation Building (HSIB) provides space for integrated, interprofessional medical and healthcare education, training and research. © CO Architects. © CO Architects. CO Architects: Executive & Design Architect; Swaim Associates: Associate Architect.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

US studio CLB Architects has created a retreat in rural Wyoming that has three wood-clad structures, with a creek running underneath the primary residence. Composed of three distinct buildings – a main house, guesthouse and writer's studio – the project was designed for a California-based couple who manage an independent record label.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

Design studio HGA has completed a pair of educational facilities , Mills Hall and Gibbons Center, that are among the first "commercially scaled mass-timber buildings" in the state of Maine. Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2024

French architecture practice TVK has completed a neighbourhood in Paris made up of limestone buildings surrounding a garden and designed as a sustainable development that aims to increase biodiversity. We chose to use mainly limestone from the Paris region – it's the same one used to build the Haussmann buildings."

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Gehry Partners has created a building for Warner Bros in Burbank Second Century Burbank is divided into two large blocks connected by a two-storey volume that is topped by a landscaped courtyard. These are used across the building's highway-facing elevations and have an "icy white appearance" intended to evoke the form of icebergs.

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Deezen

AUGUST 12, 2022

Polycarbonate walls and a row of tall window boxes bring diffused sunlight into the Iowa City Public Works building by US firm Neumann Monson Architects. The low-lying building is located just south of Iowa City's downtown district, near a recreational area and a future housing development. A 12-foot (3.6-metre)

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 18, 2024

Marrying function and aesthetics, the building is figuratively and literally a simple machine for learning. Photo © Alan Brandt The 3,750-square-foot shed-roofed building, sited on the campus’ public threshold, puts science education on display. The north façade is scaled to relate to the larger campus buildings and campus green.

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Dwell

MAY 3, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The clients had worked with another architect on a first floor addition and realized for the cost of the building, they were adding potentially unused space for a very high cost. Post it here.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Seattle-based studio LMN Architects has created a university building in Santa Barbara, California , with two separate volumes connected by a series of walkways clad in perforated aluminium. The facades of the building were informed by the geology of the area, specifically the "Southern California seaside context" according to LMN.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

A crematorium clad in ribbed concrete and a geometric university bell tower feature in this roundup of 10 brutalist buildings photographed by Simon Phipps for his Brutal Wales book. I'm interested in the sculptural qualities of each building and the ways in which light and shade articulate them," he continued.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Metal screening was placed over the facade in the middle of the building The screen also allowed the studio to bypass certain height requirements put in place by the city.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Maine studio Elliott Architects has created a seaside house that includes a dramatic, cantilevered volume on stilt that stretches towards the ocean and the tree line. Elliott Architects demolished the main house and relocated the other two structures to start the design with a clean slate. Structural engineer: Thorton Tomasetti.

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aasarchitecture

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Photo © Zhu Runzi The renovated atrium is filled with natural light from the skylight, with moderately sized office units and staggered platforms, blurring the boundaries between outdoor and indoor spaces, and naturally linking the urban environment to the building’s interior. Source by CLOU Architects.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

UK architecture firm Studio Egret West has shared its plans to create housing within two concrete 1960s buildings in London , which were formerly the headquarters of food company Heinz. Studio Egret West has received planning permission to create 124 apartments across the two office buildings while preserving their external concrete frames.

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Deezen

JUNE 9, 2023

The academic building is located on ASU's main campus in Tempe, which is part of the Phoenix metropolitan area. Encompassing 281,000 square feet (26,106 square metres), the building houses a range of research institutes focused on topics such as food, water, energy and climate change.

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Deezen

MARCH 8, 2024

SO-IL has unveiled the design for the Williams College Museum of Art Renderings show a low-lying, tiled building, topped with a tent-like roof that echoes the hills behind it. It will extend outwards from the building's core to create overhangs. The studio designed the building to achieve Living Building Challenge 4.0

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Deezen

APRIL 6, 2023

Stirling Prize-winning studio Niall McLaughlin Architects has completed a seven-storey museum in Limerick, Ireland , with vaulted ceilings and walls designed to "reflect the forces found in rugby". The 2,110-square-metre building has arched ceilings and red brickwork on the exterior facades and interior floors and walls.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

Daniel Joseph Chenin designed the house in the Las Vegas desert Named Fort 137, "the building pays homage to the old fort structures from the early settlement days of Las Vegas, which relied upon site-sourced materials along with tried-and-true techniques for designing and building in an arid climate," the team told Dezeen.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Project Status: Built Year: 2021 Size: 10,000 sqft – 25,000 sqft Nicol Building, Sprott School of Business – is a new academic building at Carleton University in Ottawa inspired by the school’s values of creativity, connection, and innovation. Architizer: What inspired the initial concept for your design?

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

Concrete blocks provide seating at the building's front "Many wars and struggles for freedom are commemorated, all designed and built in a very solid manner with the intention of preserving these sacrifices for eternity," added Panhuysen. "All This inspiring concept has set the tone for the design of this building for us," he continued.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Ballard Food Bank in Seattle Building, Washington Community Facility, Wilcox Construction Inc. Ballard Food Bank, Seattle Building Design. Design: Graham Baba Architects. To provide a permanent and secure base for their operations and to address the increased needs within the community, the Food Bank set out to build a new home.

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e-architect

AUGUST 25, 2023

Grappling with context, history, and appropriateness, the design looked to the building and material typologies of the surrounding 1920s-era warehouses, as well as the masonry and concrete construction found at Huston Tillotson University (a historically Black university that overlooks the property).

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Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2023

New York architecture studio REX has completed the "most automated" performance building in the world at Brown University's campus in Providence, Rhode Island. I feel like the building is a bit of a holy grail. It has a "fractal" aluminium facade "It was effectively like building five buildings in one," said Ramus.

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A new ISO standard has the goal of optimizing building use to realize a structure’s full potential throughout its life cycle. ISO 20887, Sustainability in buildings and civil engineering works , pertains to design for disassembly and adaptability.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners have converted a grocery store into a sake brewery The site contains three buildings – the brewery, housed in the shell of a former Stop & Shop grocery store, a small rice polishing building and a wastewater treatment facility.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Dutch studio OMA has completed its first major public building in the UK , Aviva Studios, designed to provide flexible event space for Manchester-based arts and music company Factory International. It is a space that can create multiple opportunities and endless configurations and environments." "It

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Deezen

APRIL 14, 2024

HGX Design created the house to host the owner's visiting family and it now stands as the main dwelling on the 35-acre property, which is dotted with agricultural buildings and another residence. The structure's horizontal form was informed by the vernacular architecture of the surrounding farmland.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

International studio Snøhetta has completed Beijing City Library in China , a glass-lined building filled with towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills. According to the Snøhetta, it is one of three new major cultural buildings in Tongzhou that are hoped to transform the district into "a lively arts and cultural destination".

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Deezen

JUNE 22, 2023

Hugh Broughton Architects has completed a sensitive restoration of a 19th-century church to provide a community hub in a historic dockyard on the Isle of Sheppey. Located in a prominent position in the port town of Sheerness in north Kent, the church is a key part of an 18th-century masterplan by Scottish civil engineer John Rennie.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Seattle-based studio LMN Architects has completed the mass-timber Founders Hall building for the University of Washington's Foster School of Business in Seattle. Founders Hall is an 84,800-square-foot building with five floors spread over three volumes on the University of Washington's campus in northern Seattle.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The project is formed of five interconnected glazed buildings in a stepped arrangement, with the lowest volumes located next to the Kai Tak river. It also features landscaped spaces Inside, the lower buildings house 60,000 square metres of retail space, while the tower holds 100,000 square metres of office space.

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Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2023

LA studio Kevin Daly Architecture has created a headquarters for a Houston foundation that has a latticed canopy suspended over a white building that was created using steel and cross-laminated timber. Kevin Daly Architects created a headquarters for Houston Endowment. Project credits: Architect: Kevin Daly Architects.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Snøhetta created an 8,000 square feet (743 square metres) building for the museum, as well as adjoining outdoor spaces that connect the museum's Heritage Park to the street. "As The project includes the addition of a gallery and office building, as well as the further development of the museum's outdoor greenspace.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

It includes two new high-rise office buildings that measure over one million square feet (92,903 square metres), a central utility plant for efficient cooling and a five-storey, below-grade structure with over 3,000 square feet (280 square metres) of parking space. The photography is by Albert Vecerka/Esto.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The program for the house is simple: a three-bedroom, two-bath house with space for playing music and drawing for a musician and an architect. "The Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Bay Area studio David Baker Architects has completed 145 units of social housing using modular construction and a weathering steel facade in San Francisco , California. David Baker Architects added a rainbow mural-lined courtyard to the ground floor. Architect: David Baker Architects. Landscape architect: Fletcher Studio.

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