Deezen

MAY 1, 2024

American architecture studio SOM has designed a skyscraper in downtown Miami defined by two expansive terraces and an "exposed structure". An "exposed structure" wraps around the building's facade, with angled support beams framing the outdoor spaces.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Image: © Maíra Acayaba The landscape of downtown São Paulo would not be the same without the presence of Copan. The building inserts Niemeyer's curves into São Paulo's dense verticality, creating a distinctive rhythm that becomes a landmark for all who encounter it. Read more »

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Deezen

OCTOBER 2, 2023

British architecture studio Stanton Williams has designed a 35,000-square-metre academic building for the University College London, located in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The studio described the building's material palette as industrial, chosen to evoke the site's industrial history.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Courtesy of NEXT Office | Hormuz Eco Resort Water , fluid and dynamic in its nature, has long been an inspiration for architects and designers. From ancient civilizations to modern metropolises , the presence of water has shaped architectural schemes and urban landscapes.

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Archinect

MARCH 6, 2024

Construction is progressing at Denver’s One River North , designed by MAD Architects. The sixteen-story tower broke ground in late 2021 and represents MAD’s first residential rental building in the United States, expected to contain 187 units. A rooftop pool, spa, and garden areas complete the 216-foot-tall structure.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2024

Architects Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger are creating a 30-metre-tall tower in the Swiss Alps, which is being 3D-printed with concrete by technology university ETH Zurich. ETH Zurich has commenced the 3D printing process and so far created eight out of 32 structural columns.

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Archinect

JANUARY 9, 2024

The design for a home here must respond to these conditions and engage the landscape in a resilient way, while remaining functional and enjoyable to its inhabitants. It also prompts a reconfiguration of the domestic paradigm: the house is lifted, its program inverted, and its mass perforated.

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Archinect

APRIL 8, 2024

The fale’s vernacular form consists of a high, domed, thatched roof raised on a structure of wood columns. The roof provides shelter from the sun and rain while allowing outside air to circulate into the upper reaches of the structure, ventilating through the top.

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Deezen

MAY 3, 2024

Japanese studio Tono Mirai Architects has used soil and wood to create Toiletowa, a curving structure in Saitama prefecture containing a public toilet that reuses wastewater. Until now, it had only been used as a roadbed material for pavement, but this is the first time it has been used as a building material."

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

The most important aspect of the project, Studio Bark architect Ella Thorns explained to Dezeen, was the approach the practice took to thinking about timber and responding to the particular ecological conditions of a site. We were there in midsummer. The spindle shape — fatter in the middle, thinner in the ends — is also useful.

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Deezen

JULY 21, 2022

Architecture studio SPF Architects has completed a sports facility in Los Angeles consisting of two separate buildings that were built using pre-engineered metal structures in order to not disrupt activity at the site. SPF Architects designed atheletic buildings for the Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Complex.

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Deezen

APRIL 20, 2024

A "classical" two-storey colonnade characterises this family home in the South Downs National Park , completed by London studio Sandy Rendel Architects. The challenge was how to craft sensitive contemporary design that responds to and enhances this protected landscape without resorting to historic mimicry," he continued.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Ring of Bjólfur By ESJA Architecture , exa nordic , Okarheima , ANNA Landscape architect , Arkibygg arkitekar , Seydisfjordur, Iceland Jury Winner, 2023 A+ Awards, Unbuilt Landscape If you’ve even glanced at Iceland from a passing plane window you’ll know the country doesn’t do much that isn’t packed with awe.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates is set to create a sculptural block of buildings that will serve as retail locations for the Miami Design District. Marcel Wanders created a Louis Vuitton store for the area, while architect Rafael de Cárdenas created an outlet for Nodaleto.

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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

MAY 1, 2024

American studio Walker Warner Architects has completed Hale Kiawe, a family retreat with simple, gabled forms are set within an undulating landscape dotted with chunky lava rocks. Walker Warner Architects designed the retreat with simple, gabled forms For a 4.7 (1.9-hectare)

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Architizer

APRIL 17, 2023

Architects: Want to have your project featured? Steel is a rather overlooked material when it comes to building facades. Most commonly used for structural purposes, its function is often limited to framing systems and building foundations. What happens when we bring steel to the forefront of a building’s design?

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Archinect

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects (EYRC) has completed their adaptive re-use of an abandoned Los Angeles Times print facility in Costa Mesa, Orange County. Photo credit: Matthew Millman “The subtractive design interventions tie landscape and structure together, suggesting ruins recaptured by nature,” EYRC told Archinect.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A flowing landscape of grass-topped, terracotta-coloured concrete animates the Chaohu Natural and Cultural Centre designed by Chinese studio Change Architects to reference mountains in Anhui province. The logic of the architectural concept derived from the idea of natural elements," explained Change Architects. "The

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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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Architizer

JANUARY 17, 2023

The relationship between built and organic landscapes can sometimes be a fraught one. When architects respond thoughtfully to a site’s native ecology, development can elevate nature and shape meaningful, enduring spaces that enrich the planet and the lives of its population. Merging Old and New Landscapes.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

These complex feats of engineering offer passage between buildings, supported in their entirety by the structures they connect. In the dexterous hands of architects, the skybridge is a creative canvas, eliciting architectural intrigue within the vertical mass.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Envisioned as a home that embraces the outdoors, the residence is composed of four structures housing the home’s separate functions. Only six trees were removed to build all four structures.

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Architizer

APRIL 16, 2022

The “ Landscape of Traces ” design concept envisions past transformations on the site as historical imprints or urban traces to be revealed to the public. Architizer chatted with Grace Cheung AIA , Principal Architect at XRANGE Architects to learn more about the Landscape Of Traces project. © XRANGE Architects.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

The rough finishes of an existing concrete and brick structure are contrasted by white exhibition spaces at Arario Gallery in Seoul , completed by Japanese studio Schemata Architects. The gallery is located at the rear of the Space Group Building, a modernist icon in South Korea that houses the Arario Museum.

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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 design was generally inspired by the vernacular language of the agricultural landscape based on the origins of the site and its surroundings," the studio said.

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Deezen

MAY 31, 2023

The winery is located in a rolling green landscape of fields and vineyards outside the village of Kurdějov, which has historically been one of the region's most important wine-growing sites and subject to a recent growth in wine tourism. At the rear of the building, large concrete columns frame a parking and delivery area.

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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

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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BD+C

JUNE 5, 2023

How to properly assess structural wind damage 0 dbarista Mon, 06/05/2023 - 16:17 Engineers Properly assessing wind damage can identify vulnerabilities in a building's design or construction, which could lead to future damage or loss, writes Matt Wagner, SE, Principal and Managing Director with Walter P Moore.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2024

Also included is an urban design scheme that aims to withstand the effects of extreme weather events caused by climate change and an adaptive reuse project that turns a derelict building into a community food hub. The research takes into analysis a typical H-shaped building located in the Barca district of Bologna. "By

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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

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

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Promotion: Swiss architecture studio Küchel Architects has designed a cantilevered house on an elevated site overlooking Lake Maggiore in Ascona, Switzerland. Described by the studio as an "architectural marvel", the home aims to showcase its natural surroundings, while ensuring the privacy of its residents.

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Deezen

MARCH 19, 2024

US architecture studio Cannon Design has referenced the local landscape and "prioritized inclusion", drawing on the Native American heritage of the site for its design of a university student centre in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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Deezen

APRIL 25, 2024

Canadian studio Omar Gandhi Architects has completed a cedar-wrapped house "inspired by the scattered boulders" that trail down the seaside property in Hubbards, Nova Scotia. Approaching the building from the public side, a sense of privacy and shelter welcomes visitors," the team said. The photography is by Ema Peter.

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