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

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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SW Oregon Architect

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Jan’s entreaty to his fellow professionals in the building sector was to add their names to a letter addressed to the mayor and city council that supports policies to transition structures from polluting fossil fuels to renewable electricity. Electrification is a prevalent building decarbonization strategy.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JUNE 17, 2022

Architect LMN Architects Location Kirkland, Washington Occupied 2021 Structural and Civil Engineer Coughlin Porter Lundeen, Inc. Landscape Architect Hewitt Architects Lighting Design Fisher Marantz Stone MEP Engineer Rushing General Contractor [.].

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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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Urban Design Associates

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Building a home is a huge undertaking, but something that is entirely worth it the moment you walk through your front door for the first time. This means hiring a contractor and an architect who has the ability to bring your vision to life. Do I Really Need a Contractor? The short answer is yes.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

And building an addition seemed like it would be less work than undertaking an entirely new structure from the ground up. A lot of the problems we experienced are directly related to not fully understanding all the legalese in the contract we signed when we hired a contractor. The contractor we hired had a design-build team.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Bright white plaster clads the exterior of a 1960s concrete building that has been turned into the self-designed studio of Baldridge Architects, which acted as the designer and contractor. Once loved, these buildings had suffered from years of neglect and ad-hoc adaptive reuse that had masked their potential."

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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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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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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Hosted by Architects David Lee and Marina Bourderonnet, it features different creative professionals in unscripted conversations that allow for thoughtful takes and personal discussions. Courtesy of TSSP The Second Studio (formerly The Midnight Charette) is an explicit podcast about design, architecture, and the everyday. Read more »

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BD+C

JULY 12, 2023

Navigating homelessness with modular building solutions 0 dbarista Wed, 07/12/2023 - 14:47 San Francisco-based architect Chuck Bloszies, FAIA, SE, LEED AP, discusses his firm's designs for Navigation Centers, temporary housing for the homeless in northern California.

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Archinect

JULY 28, 2023

TenBerke has announced a new dormitory project for the University of Washington in Seattle co-led with local mainstays Mahlum Architects , a leader in green building design. The firm’s first-ever West Coast project will incorporate its surroundings on an acre-and-a-half site on the periphery of campus and a woodland area.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

LACMA ’s Unframed blog recently profiled the work of contractor Clark Construction to build the concrete structure for the Peter Zumthor -designed $750 million new David Geffen Galleries extension. The concrete will be left untreated to match its architect’s long-established aesthetic and elevate the "hand of the craftsman."

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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 16, 2022

One of the aspects of being an architect I find most enjoyable is the opportunity to see a project take concrete shape during construction. Drawings, a scale model, or a convincing digital reproduction can stand in for that vision, but nothing surpasses how satisfying it is to watch a building come together, piece by piece.

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BD+C

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Developers, general contractors, and architects, whose firms have built more than 300,000 student residence beds in recent years, were represented at Student Housing ProCONNECT on November 10-12, 2019.

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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. Contractor: Merit Construction.

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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

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 designed by Woo Architects alongside Japanese contractor ES Global, which has said the modular structure will also enable rapid construction.

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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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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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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2024

The "ruin-like" concrete frame of a former chemistry laboratory has been transformed into a series of workspaces for the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands , in this project by Civic Architects and VDNDP. It repurposes an abandoned 1970s structure to house bright interiors organised around courtyard gardens.

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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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DesignScape Architects

JUNE 2, 2020

Today, no project can be built without a contractor because they play one of the biggest roles in the construction process and carry out some of the most important duties. Therefore, it is crucial for clients to understand exactly what contractors do, how to find the correct contractor, and their relationship with architects.

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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

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

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. JKMM Architects designed the Chappe Art House "Chappe is a place for encounters and encountering art," JKMM Architects founding partner Asmo Jaaksi told Dezeen. "In

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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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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Baldridge Architects has had many homes since its founding in 2005. Following that, the firm renovated an office building at 1010 West Lynn, a space which garnered multiple design awards. Photo © Casey Dunn Once loved, these buildings had suffered from years of neglect and ad-hoc adaptive reuse that had masked their potential.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Laherrère centre Pau building, Southwest France HQ architecture, Zaragoza district project photos, French office design Laherrère centre in Pau 22 September 2023 Location: Zaragoza district, Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwest France.

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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 2, 2024

The architects set out to create an ADU that would appear demure from certain perspectives yet "come alive" upon approach. Its design was informed by surrounding farm structures "How might we use the qualities of these decaying yet compelling utilitarian buildings as the jumping off point for a modern wine country design?"

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Dwell

MARCH 22, 2024

Photo by Felix Grisé It was located in Orgues de Flandre, the social housing project designed by German architect Martin Van Trek in the latter half of the 1970s. The brutalist complex comprises more than 2,000 apartments set across several mid-rise buildings and four towers that reach 30-stories tall.

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Architizer

APRIL 22, 2024

Subscribe to our Awards Newsletter to receive updates about Public Voting, and stay tuned for winners announcements later this spring. Happy Earth Day, architects! For colder climates, position buildings to maximize sun exposure during the winter months. The judging process for Architizer's 12th Annual A+Awards is now away.

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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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Architizer

APRIL 22, 2024

Subscribe to our Awards Newsletter to receive updates about Public Voting, and stay tuned for winners announcements later this spring. Happy Earth Day, architects! For colder climates, position buildings to maximize sun exposure during the winter months. The judging process for Architizer's 12th Annual A+Awards is now away.

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