Bustler

JANUARY 28, 2024

The results of this year’s Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel (IDEAS²) Awards have been shared by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) as part of the competition’s 64th edition. A total of six projects were honored by the 2024 edition. Read the full post on Bustler

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

ACAN Natural Materials Group co-ordinator Aurore Baulier calls on architects to embrace stone 's natural qualities and reintroduce the material into their toolkits in this Stone Age 2.0 Top: Aurore Baulier is calling on architects to use structural stone. Above: she believes stone should be embraced for its natural qualities.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

New York firm RKTB Architects has completed One Sullivan Place, a mixed-income apartment building that rises 12 storeys and cantilevers in two directions over the rooftop of an adjacent structure. The building is located in the Crown Heights neighbourhood, near Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Moss Structural Engineers and the Toronto Metropolitan University announce the winners of its now-returned, in-person, annual TimberFever student design-build competition. He added, "I wanted to give students the opportunity to work with tools, learn about wood, and introduce collaboration between engineers and architects."

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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Japanese studio Unemori Architects has used cypress wood to create Father & Son House, an extension constructed above and around a self-built annexe in Saitama. The old building, a two-storey annexe, workshop and warehouse built by the carpenter father of the current owner, was also renovated as part of the project.

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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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Deezen

MAY 6, 2024

Japanese studio Kooo Architects has designed the skinny Hotel Rakuragu in central Tokyo to have a "unique shape", with cut-out balconies that help to preserve privacy. The nine-storey building occupies a site measuring just 83.5 square metres, which has buildings on either side.

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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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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

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 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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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 colonnade offers the building presence and scale in the wider landscape and a classical order that is reminiscent of a parkland villa," said Rendel.

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Deezen

APRIL 16, 2024

US architecture Ross Barney Architects has completed a NASA laboratory for deep-space technology testing in Cleveland , USA, which includes a tower made of pre-cast concrete panels for testing antennas. The copper in the concrete allows for the building to act like a Faraday cage, completely isolating it from outside radio interference.

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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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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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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

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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The Architect's Newsletter

JULY 22, 2022

Brought to you by: Architect KieranTimberlake Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia Completion Date May 2020 Structural and Facade Engineer Thornton Tomasetti Structural Engineer (Construction Phase) Keast & Hood Landscape Architect West 8 [.].

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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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Archinect

MARCH 27, 2023

WoodWorks has announced the winners of the 2023 Wood Design Awards, an annual showcase of the industry’s most inspiring applications of mass timber and wood in building designs across the United States.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A web of glass and carbon fibres envelops Texoversum, a university building for textiles that architecture studios Allmannwappner and Menges Scheffler Architekten have created in Germany. During manufacturing, a lattice of white glass fibres is generated, onto which the black carbon fibres are placed where they are structurally needed." "In

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Deezen

MARCH 19, 2024

CannonDesign has created a student centre for a Michigan university "The primary concept of the building was to celebrate place, with a focus on elements and symbols that are universal to all people – and especially important to the Western community," Brett Lawrence, Cannon Design project manager, told Dezeen.

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2024

California studio AO Architects has put forward plans for a supertall skyscraper as part of a development in Oklahoma City that, if completed, will be the second-tallest building in the United States. If built, it would be only 26 feet shorter than the SOM-designed One World Trade Center in New York, the tallest building in the US.

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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. The ADU is part of a family estate During the design process, they looked to farm structures that dot Sonoma Valley, many of which are dilapidated and have "their own strange elegance", the team said.

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The Architect's Newsletter

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Brought to you by: Architect SGA Architecture Location Nashville, Tennessee Completion Date August, 2020 Architect of Record Centric Architecture Client Vanderbilt University Construction Manager Messer Structural Engineer Structural Design Group [.].

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The Architect's Newsletter

JULY 29, 2022

Brought to you by: Architect Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners Location New York, New York Completion Date Winter 2022 Architect of Record SLCE Architects Structural Engineer Gace NYC Facade Engineer [.].

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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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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. Its facade is interspersed with many skinny windows The seven-storey structure has a ground-level podium clad in green-painted concrete interspersed with steel gates.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JULY 27, 2023

The site of the 2021 Surfside Collapse—the structural engineering failure of a 13-story condominium building in Surfside, Florida—will not include a memorial after a developer’s plans to move forward with The post Zaha Hadid Architects’ luxury multifamily project on the site of the Surfside collapse will not include a memorial appeared first on The (..)

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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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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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Dwell

MARCH 21, 2023

Hé Architectuur redesigned an industrial building with plaster made of dirt, straw insulation sourced from hay bales, and plenty of exposed timber. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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. Called Burnet Road Offices, the project involved the adaptive reuse of a small commercial complex along a main street in Austin.

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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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aasarchitecture

APRIL 24, 2024

The Opticum is an interdisciplinary research building for Leibniz University of Hanover currently under construction on the Science Park site located in the urban district of Marienwerder. To the east, the building opens up towards the main entrance. Its surface uses warm, iridescent hues to blend into its natural environment.

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