Archinect

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The building’s form—a set of interlocking white cubes—responds to the client’s initial idea for what the house would look like and emerges from careful evaluations of views and spatial optimization. Built as a 100-year structure, the house was designed to meet the changing needs of a growing family.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Secrets of a structural engineer 0 dbarista Fri, 09/08/2023 - 11:54 Engineers Walter P Moore's Scott Martin, PE, LEED AP, DBIA, offers tips and takeaways for young—and veteran—structural engineers in the AEC industry. Below is a summary of the presentation “Secrets of a Structural Engineer” that I gave to the students.

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Deezen

APRIL 8, 2024

Chengdu studio Muda Architects has completed Tianfu Museum of Chinese Medicine in Pengzhou, China , which is based on the shape of the yin-yang symbol. Tianfu Museum of Chinese Medicine's curved structure is topped with an undulating roof clad with perforated aluminium panels, which links up with the circular walkway.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

Architecture studio dMFK Architects has restored and renovated the Voysey House office in Chiswick, London , which was originally designed as a wallpaper factory by architect CFA Voysey. This included replacing the non-original windows with steel reproductions of the original frames.

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Archinect

MAY 31, 2023

Site strategy, connection to place, site history, vernacular precedent and a willingness to consider program appropriateness are important issues that can be used to satisfy client needs and protect a delicate environment. Its mass is dug into the topography, anchoring the structure to the site.

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The Architecture Designs

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Project managers, architects, civil engineers, contractors, laborers, and other professionals work together to achieve the goals. Are clients any good in terms of construction projects? source: pinterest.com First things first, without clients and initiators, there would be no projects at all. Construction is complicated work.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Omar Gandhi Architects has completed a house on Canada’s Atlantic coastline that “emerges from rocky terrain.” ” Named Rockbound, and located in Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia, the home was commissioned as a place of refuge for a busy client.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Basecamp is used as both family get away and as hosting space for their clients from around the world, allowing people who would normally meet in corporate board rooms to build consensus in an inspiring setting. The starting point for the concept was to create a ca.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A blocky form animated by hit-and-miss brickwork defines Peckham House, a self-build project by architecture studio Surman Weston that draws on its surroundings in southeast London. We enjoy referencing the surrounding architectural styles, often subverting them or playfully interpreting them in our buildings," he explained.

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Deezen

APRIL 26, 2024

London studio Mae Architects has created Harriet Hardy House in Southwark, a block of 119 social homes complete with a community centre and cafe. Commissioned by Southwark Council, the housing forms part of the Aylesbury estate redevelopment and is organised in a U-shape around a central courtyard.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Dutch architecture firm UNStudio has unveiled plans for The Kyklos building, a mixed-use office building in Belval, Luxembourg , designed in collaboration with local studio HYP Architects. On the ground floor, a lobby will offer a reception and commercial functions that are accessible for both office users and the public.

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Deezen

MARCH 14, 2024

Dutch studio Powerhouse Company has created the Marga Klompé Building at Tilburg University, the Netherlands , is "the first college building in Europe to be entirely constructed from solid wood". Situated on a forested university campus in Tilburg , the cuboid building has a mass timber structure and facades clad in Portuguese stone.

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2024

London studio Woo Architects will employ the principles of a circular economy for its design of the UK Pavilion at the Expo 2025 Osaka , which will have a reversible gridded structure. It is being masterplanned by Sou Fujimoto Architects in collaboration with fellow Japanese studios Tohata Architects & Engineers and Azusa Sekkei.

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The Arch Insider

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Planning to build your career as an architect? Let us try to brief out the life of an architect in this article! What does the Career as an Architect involve? If one is choosing architecture as a career, one would essentially be responsible for planning, designing, and overseeing the construction of a building.

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The Arch Insider

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Planning to build your career as an architect? Let us try to brief out the life of an architect in this article! What does the Career as an Architect involve? If one is choosing architecture as a career, one would essentially be responsible for planning, designing, and overseeing the construction of a building.

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ArchDaily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Buildings around the world are being erected with wooden structures, driven by the increasing interest in sustainable solutions based on renewable resources, a demand from both the public and architects and their clients. Read more »

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Local studio Oliver Leech Architects has extended a Victorian terrace house in south London, introducing a four-metre-wide skylight at its centre that offers views of a wildflower meadow roof. The extension features a window seat overlooking the rear courtyard Oliver Leech Architects was founded in 2016.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

British studio Moxon Architects has repurposed a small cluster of 19th-century farm buildings in Aberdeenshire, Scotland , into a guesthouse , glasshouse and private artist's studio. Remnant stone walls became a backdrop for a glazed extension which was framed with structural timber and a steel portal enclosure.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

Local studio DKA Architects has designed a white wood-clad home with three connected gables in Terrebonne, Quebec , just outside of Montreal. The vertical, white-wood cladding and standing-seam metal roof reference regional agrarian buildings, but with contemporary refinement. The photography is by Josée Marino.

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Deezen

JULY 22, 2022

Canadian studio Icon Architects has released its design for a 31-storey tower in Toronto that, if completed, will be the tallest mass-timber structure in North America. The structure has been proposed for downtown Toronto, near the University of Toronto. The building will leave the heritage buildings at streetlevel.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 6, 2024

Image © CLOU architects With industrial transformation and subsequent community renewal, the area is subject to a comprehensive re-development whose cultural and commercial heart manages to preserve and convey the pivotal idea of community values.

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Dwell

APRIL 2, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The private spaces are stacked vertically in the original part of building while the new lower ground living space stretches out horizontally. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

MARCH 29, 2024

Mumbai-based architecture studio Sanjay Puri Architects has designed a swirling community centre with a sloping green roof in Rajasthan, India. Between the museum and library, further multifunctional spaces curve through the building and flank the stepped amphitheatre and stage outside.

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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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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Muted tones and textured material finishes define the spaces of this mid-terrace Georgian home in north London , overhauled by local studio Paolo Cossu Architects. Named Nelson Terrace, the renovation and extension in the Colebrook Row conservation area of Islington showcases the contemporary art and furniture collection of its client.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 8, 2024

Møller Architects has advised the NHS Trust in the planning and phasing of the surrounding residential development and urban design around the hospital, including the conversion of the former golf course into a new public park. Møller Architects. Photo © Mark Hadden Location: Wandsworth, London, UK Architect: C.F. Source by C.F.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Renovation is not only a new creative frontier for architects, it is the future of architecture: according to Deloitte estimates, up to 90 percent of future development will involve re-designing existing buildings. This fact alone should give architects without previously engaged in this type of design pause.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Helsinki-based JKMM Architects used glulam and black spruce cladding to relate the Chappe Art House to surrounding timber structures in the coastal town of Tammisaari, Finland. It has a glued laminated (glulam) timber structure and was clad in black-stained spruce as a nod to the nearby timber buildings.

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Deezen

MARCH 6, 2024

Japanese studio Akio Isshiki Architects has updated a house in Osaka by adding a multi-level void designed to maximise light and encourage play. Working within a tight budget, Akio Isshiki Architects brightened and enlivened the home by preserving the majority of the existing building and introducing a void within its front portion.

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Deezen

APRIL 12, 2024

Promotion : Swiss furniture brand Vitra is expanding its European presence through a programme of showroom openings in renovated, distinctive historic buildings. The space contains offices for Vitra local staff and also functions as a place for the brand to host architects and designers.

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Design Thoughts Architects

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I recently had the opportunity to explain to one of our new house desired clients what it is that we do as an architectural firm. I design for a living and I often forget that other people don’t necessarily understand what architects do. The truth is that I don’t think I can even define what architects do.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 8, 2024

The site featured industrial relics such as a long and narrow industrial building, a few mechanical rooms, a dormitory, and a dilapidated pavilion. In and around these structures, camphor trees had grown to maturity. Its walls were kept, while a new structure penetrates and juts out of the existing volume.

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Deezen

JUNE 2, 2023

International auction house Sotheby's has announced its acquisition of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Marcel Breuer -designed building on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. The company said that it would employ an architect to "review and maintain" the structure after it takes possession in September 2024.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The school occupies the grade II-listed former transmitter building of Rugby Radio Station, which was at one time the largest radio transmitting station in the world. In the highly regulated worlds of both school design and building codes, this is a significant achievement and one to be applauded."

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Following the Grenfell Tower inquiry, architects must face up to their responsibility for Britain's building safety crisis instead of blaming contracts that lessen their influence, writes Peter Apps. It may not make national headlines anymore, but Britain is experiencing an ongoing building safety crisis. Take Grenfell Tower.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

London studio Coffey Architects has completed Modern Barn, a home in Dorset, UK , that mimics a cluster of timber-clad barns in order to blend in with the surrounding landscape. Oak panelling on the interiors is intended to reflect a warm light from the home's skylights, as well as provide space for the client's print collection.

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2024

Clay-plaster walls, exposed brickwork and tile floors aim to evoke a feeling of a traditional Moroccan home at this London house , overhauled by local studios Merrett Houmøller Architects and All & Nxthing. The photography is courtesy of Merrett Houmøller Architects and All & Nxthing.

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