The Architect's Newsletter

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

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Civil Engineering 132

Civil Engineering Roofing Structural Engineering Engineering 132

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.

Civil Engineering 131

Civil Engineering Consulting Structural Engineering Engineering 131

Deezen

MARCH 8, 2024

Architecture studio SO-IL has unveiled designs for the Williams College Museum of Art in the Berkshires , which will be topped with a tent-like cross-laminated timber roof. The roof was designed to evoke the surrounding mountains Both the building's structure and roof will be built from mass timber.

Roofing 122

Roofing Civil Engineering Consulting Engineering 122

aasarchitecture

APRIL 18, 2024

Design for integration & Design for Discovery: The Science Station is integrated into the broader context of the high desert and the immediate context of the new OSU-Cascades campus in form and materiality. The design team drew on prior experience designing for the unique high-desert climate of Central Oregon.

Architect 59

Architect Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Students 59

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. Located on a 35-acre (14-hectare) property near the town of Wilson, the home was envisioned as a series of "tectonic structures" set within a diverse ecosystem.

Structure 125

Structure Architect Civil Engineering Client 125

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. The roof is designed to accommodate solar arrays in the future.

Building 122

Building Students Civil Engineering Design 122

Deezen

APRIL 14, 2024

New York architecture studio HGX Design has created a linear, glass-fronted home in the Hudson Valley informed by the "individual notes of a music composition". HGX Design has created a linear home in the Hudson Valley. HGX Design has created a linear home in the Hudson Valley. This photo and top photo are by Peter Aaron.

Housing 114

Housing Civil Engineering Consulting Design 114

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.

Housing 145

Housing Architect Civil Engineering Engineering 145

aasarchitecture

MAY 24, 2024

The second-floor studios – for drawing, design, printmaking, painting, woodworking, and cinema – are efficiently organized around a ‘Commons’ gathering space for students which doubles as an informal presentation space. Source by Steven Hall Architects.

Visualization 52

Visualization Art Architect Consulting 52

Architizer

AUGUST 26, 2022

Text description provided by the architects. © CO Architects. © CO Architects. The Center for Advanced Technologies in Healthcare unites the health professions disciplines, engineering, behavioral sciences, information systems and others in multidisciplinary research and development endeavors. Project Status: Built.

Innovation 78

Innovation Civil Engineering Building Architect 78

aasarchitecture

JUNE 12, 2023

It is our goal to create a vi-brant space for designers, artists, and the broader community to connect over events, performances, and critical discourse. Once complete, the complex will provide over 10,000 square feet of interior space for experimenta-tion, design, and fabrication that Skylab will share with PDX Contemporary Art.

Civil Engineering 96

Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Design Engineering 96

Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. We looked to the bush – those forested, undeveloped areas of nature that surround the house – while allowing the built structures to adapt to the natural terrain," the studio said. the studio said.

Civil Engineering 144

Civil Engineering Housing Architecture Engineering 144

aasarchitecture

JUNE 27, 2023

de Reus Architects is the lead architect for more than 400,000 square feet of club amenity facilities and residential dwellings that comprise the core of this project. The interior architecture and design have modernist sensibilities, while their textures and materials reference the club’s tropical location.

Civil Engineering 59

Civil Engineering Architect Structural Engineering Engineering 59

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.

Engineering 110

Engineering Engineering Structure Architect 110

Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Called The Lindemann Performing Arts Center (The Lindemann) the 101,000 square-foot (9,383-square-metre) structure consists of a shoebox theatre with a long bridge-like walkway. It stands between Brown's primary campus and Pembroke College, a women's college that merged with the primary campus in 1971.

Space 132

Space Civil Engineering Consulting Safety 132

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. This inspiring concept has set the tone for the design of this building for us," he continued.

Civil Engineering 131

Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Engineering Engineering 131

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. Since The Jagger began design and construction, another 10 or so projects have sprung up on that same stretch of boulevard."

Roofing 131

Roofing Interior Building Civil Engineering 131

Deezen

MAY 5, 2023

The property has a main residence designed by Pennsylvania-based Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in 2012. The building partly cantilevers over the site The guesthouse was designed to serve as a flexible space that could accommodate extended stays by family and friends. The guesthouse was built on a 24-acre (9.7-hectare)

Nature 144

Nature Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering 144

Deezen

MAY 11, 2022

Studio Gang designed a firestation in Brooklyn. These teams are highly specialized in extreme conditions that include rappelling down buildings, navigating collapsed structures, and even deploying for underwater rescue operations. "The The architects put in skylights for more comfortable habitation. Landscape architect: SCAPE.

Civil Engineering 111

Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering Consulting 111

Dwell

JULY 20, 2022

The concrete-and-steel home by Faulkner Architects gives one family a refined escape in the mountains of Northern California. The site sits on a north facing slope and looks down to the Martis Valley and up to Lookout Mountain through a natural screen of 100-year-old Jeffrey pine trees.

Civil Engineering 145

Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Engineering Engineering 145

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. Skylights punctuate the gabled roofs "Gibbons has a more mysterious, introverted quality," said Nat Madison, design principal at HGA.

Building 128

Building Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Education 128

DesignScape Architects

APRIL 17, 2023

Beginning any design project is always a significant undertaking. Whether you are designing a traditional home or your interests lie in large scale commercial buildings, you will find many different people involved in the construction process. This can lead to confusion and not feeling in control of your own project.

Project 52

Project Estimating Architect Structural Engineering 52

Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Most of its campus was originally designed by American architects Charles Moore and William Turnbull in the early 1970s. Four buildings were designed to complement the existing structures – California modern-style buildings with stucco walls and splashes of colour – and the woodland environment.

Consulting 132

Consulting Civil Engineering Structural Engineering Residential 132

Architizer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Text description provided by the architects. Our design response is a spacious, off white and simple pitched roof classical form with slender exposed structural steel work creating a functional and elegant, light-filled interior. © H2o Architects. © H2o Architects. © H2o Architects. © H2o Architects.

Civil Engineering 56

Civil Engineering Architect Consulting Engineering 56

Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. On a secluded wooded site, the new structure grounds itself to the earth with its approach to material and form. Have one to share? Post it here.

Site 104

Site Civil Engineering Roofing Engineering 104

Deezen

JUNE 9, 2023

Architecture studios Grimshaw and Architekton looked to natural elements such as rocks and saguaro cacti while designing the Walton Center of Planetary Health at Arizona State University. The centre's design is "rooted in resiliency, site-specificity and inspiration", the team said. The photography is by Bill Timmerman.

Information 105

Information Building Civil Engineering Engineering 105

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. Neumann Monson Architects completed a municipal building in Iowa. On the north and south facades, the architects incorporated large swaths of polycarbonate to bring in soft daylight.

Building 105

Building Architect Civil Engineering Exterior 105

Architizer

APRIL 20, 2022

Text description provided by the architects. The Queen’s Lane Pavilion is the fifth project that CLB Architects has designed for one family on the same property over a 25-year period. © CLB Architects. © CLB Architects. © CLB Architects. © CLB Architects. © CLB Architects. © CLB Architects.

Architect 77

Architect Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering 77

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. Balancing security with transparency through layered glazed spaces, the ground floor opens to a rainbow mural-lined courtyard designed by Fletcher Studio.

Construction 116

Construction Construction Housing Architect 116

Deezen

MAY 16, 2024

Local studio Forge Craft Architecture + Design has created affordable apartments for people transitioning out of homelessness in Austin that feature a breezeway to encourage rest and preserve heritage trees on the site. The breezeway connects the common spaces to foster social interaction and relaxation.

Space 115

Space Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering 115

Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Partly because the client was a Japanese brewer who mainly makes sake, we also incorporated 'Japanese-ness' into the design." According to the team, it was informed by the Engawa, an element of Japanese architecture that resembles a veranda or porch that runs along the perimeter of a structure.

Civil Engineering 133

Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering Windows 133

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. LMN Architects designed Founders Hall for the University of Washington. LMN Architects designed Founders Hall for the University of Washington.

Architect 105

Architect Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering 105

e-architect

JULY 24, 2023

Situated on an extraordinary estate with several existing traditional-style buildings, including an adjoining pool house, the 18,194-square-foot home was designed to extend the contact between living space and landscape through transparency and erosion of mass.

Civil Engineering 76

Civil Engineering Consulting Engineering Engineering 76

Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

So what we were trying to do is to think about how you can design for that climate and specifically, an idea of designing to lower the heat of the air that's around the building." "In These are the spaces that were designed for outdoor comfort."

Exterior 124

Exterior Building Civil Engineering Engineering 124

Deezen

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The architects ended up conceiving a "theatrical destination integrated with nature". Read: Manifesto of Canadian Design urges designers to "un-f**k" their industry Across from the stage, the team installed benches made of wood, concrete and steel, which form a fan-shaped seating area that holds about 1,700 people.

Civil Engineering 137

Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering Structural Engineering 137

aasarchitecture

JUNE 22, 2023

The University of Pennsylvania announces Steven Holl Architects’ design for a new $75 million, 37,300-square-foot Student Performing Arts Center. The building will target LEED silver certification and serve as an exemplar of sustainable performing arts design. The REACH Expansion at the John F.

Students 52

Students Art Architect Civil Engineering 52

Deezen

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The studio created the canopy's soaring form based on traditional Norwegian boat design. The project includes the addition of a gallery and office building, as well as the further development of the museum's outdoor greenspace. A glass volume that spans the two upper floors was inserted off-centre, facing the street.

Civil Engineering 130

Civil Engineering Contractor Engineering Engineering 130