Archinect

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The collaboration between Fiberline and Professor Jan Søndergaard of KHR Architects has produced a distinctive production and office facility that seamlessly blends practicality with architectural elegance. Minimizing steel constructions, the architecture incorporates Fiberline's glass fiber in windows for maximum light penetration.

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SW Oregon Architect

MAY 12, 2024

This is the next in my Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet series of blog posts, the focus of each being a landmark building here in Eugene. Many of these will be familiar to most who live here but there are likely to be a few buildings that are less so. The building must be extant so you or I can visit it in person.

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Architizer

AUGUST 29, 2022

In his 1927 manifesto, Five Points of Architecture, Le Corbusier made horizontal windows a core concept of his architectural philosophy. Le Corbusier’s ‘ribbon window’ (highlighted in emblematic projects like his Villa Savoye ) quickly became a staple of modernist architecture. Casas Cubo. Photos by Felipe Gomes.

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Archinect

MAY 17, 2022

Architecture students at Drury University have unveiled a new shelter designed and built to aid the homeless community in Springfield, Missouri. Photograph by Traci Sooter FAIA Outside, the shelter’s exposed timber structure and cladding are brought to life by a multicolored window forming a second skin around the patio.

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Deezen

APRIL 6, 2024

Built as a prototype for the studio's Sprout concept, the Netherlands home was designed to feature as many bio-based materials as possible, including a wooden frame structure and hemp insulation. The post Timber structure defines compact bio-based home in the Netherlands appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Chiela.

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Architizer

JUNE 17, 2022

Much like these paper figures, origami-inspired architecture is a series of volumes that appear to be formed using folded sheets of paper. These buildings feel light and in motion. Cutouts and inward folds help carve out windows, balconies and terraces. Cutouts and inward folds help carve out windows, balconies and terraces.

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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. 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.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Local architecture studio Practice for Architecture and Urbanism has installed a glass office building with a vaulted roof inside the shell of the 19th-century Domino Sugar Refinery on the waterfront in Brooklyn. There was no building to adapt.

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Deezen

MARCH 3, 2023

New York design studio New Affiliates and architect and historian Samuel Steward-Halevy have created a prototype of their Testbeds project, which repurposes architectural models used for large projects. They are often made to the same standard as the buildings they are modelling and are usually disposed of after the building is complete.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 16, 2023

US studio Anacapa Architecture has transformed an early 1900s, stucco -clad building that was formerly closed off to the public into a welcoming hotel filled with compact rooms and handcrafted decor. The building has served various uses over time. The building's terracotta tile roof was retained, as well.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Danish architecture studio BIG has completed the EPIQ tower in Ecuador , which consists of L-shaped stacked blocks that curve as they meet at the structure's centre. Each section has curved edges that wrap inwards where the two volumes meet, creating an opening that serves as the entrance to the building.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing Mexican architecture firm Estudio MMX's recently completed Progreso Museum of Geology and other top architecture and design stories. Ken Steffes remarked that it showcases "a fantastic way to apply architectural history to a modern structure. The view is everything.

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Deezen

JANUARY 25, 2023

Architecture practice Fabric Architecture has designed a cabin in the West Coast region of New Zealand that provides accommodation for vacationers and features framed views of the surrounding landscape. It was built with a CLT structure and concrete floor "We really wanted a 'cabin in the bush' as opposed to landscaping around a cabin.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Tall roof monitors lend a sculptural look to the Gradient House and Studio, which was designed by Oregon studio Linden Brown Architecture for the founders of a shoe design company. The old structures's concrete foundation and basement walls were retained. Zinc-coated, aluminium shingles clad the building's roof.

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Deezen

JULY 17, 2023

Following photos of BIG's soon-to-be-completed HQ in Copenhagen harbour being released last week, Dezeen rounds up 10 architecture studios that designed their own office buildings. Workspaces are organised around a central atrium, with the concrete structure left completely exposed.

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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. All of the images in the book are in black and white because that is the way I approach architectural photography," Phipps told Dezeen. "All

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Gridded fibre-cement cladding and a swimming pool with underwater windows feature at the East Van Residence in Vancouver by Canadian firm SMStudio. The project's swimming pool features underwater windows The studio conceived a 251-square-metre, three-storey house that was designed to be a "bold yet friendly addition to the neighbourhood".

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Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Bright red curving forms and cubic volumes form Haus 2+, a mixed-use building that architecture studio Office ParkScheerbarth has added to a compact riverside site in Berlin. To both harmonise and contrast, we created a timber building with a monochrome aesthetic and a clear sculptural quality," she told Dezeen.

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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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Deezen

APRIL 8, 2024

An angular English home extension and a timber-clad Guatemalan retreat feature in our roundup of buildings with butterfly roofs. Otherwise known as inverted-pitched roofs, the V-shaped structures take their name from the angled form of a butterfly's wings. Here are eight buildings with butterfly roofs from the Dezeen archive.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion 0 qpurcell Thu, 09/28/2023 - 10:37 Office Buildings IMEG's Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney, share seven key focuses for structural engineers when planning office-to-residential conversions. faces a housing deficit of 3.8 million units.

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Dwell

MAY 22, 2024

A new book rounds up hundreds of unbuilt structures and city plans from the 20th century to today that show just how different our world could have looked. We’ve lost countless historic and architecturally significant buildings over the course of human history, but there are even more that never made it past the drafting stage.

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Deezen

JULY 13, 2023

UK studio Corstorphine & Wright has converted a world war two bunker in Dorset, UK, into a holiday home with a blast-shaped window cut in its front. Corstorphine & Wright worked with structural engineer Symmetrys to maintain a sense of history by retaining almost all of the existing structure.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2023

Waechter Architecture has completed an "all-wood" commercial building in Portland , which it says is the first commercial building in Oregon to "use mass timber construction for all components of the building". The three-storey structure comprises six volumes arrayed around a central courtyard.

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Deezen

MAY 25, 2024

Greek studio Doriza Design has converted a 19th-century stone building into Drakoni House, a holiday home in Crete with purposefully rough and imperfect details. Located in the village of Pano Pines, Drakoni House occupies a structure made of local stone and owned by the same family for six decades. It has been uninhabited since 1920.

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Deezen

AUGUST 10, 2022

Chicago architecture studio Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture has announced plans for 2100 N Southport Avenue, a mass-timber residential tower in the Lincoln Park neighbourhood of Chicago. According to the studio, there are numerous advantages with mass-timber buildings. Construction to begin next year.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

Toronto studio Workshop Architecture Inc has created a prefabricated home in Ontario with an exposed structure and blue-painted element on the interior. The house looks raw and unvarnished," said Workshop Architecture Inc.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

The vertical, white-wood cladding and standing-seam metal roof reference regional agrarian buildings, but with contemporary refinement. The crossbar gable – with an arcade of large windows on either side – contains the family spaces with an open plan kitchen, dining and living space under a vaulted ceiling.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

We've rounded up seven interlocking architecture projects, as searches for the term on Pinterest for the term are experiencing a nearly twenty-nine-fold increase. From cantilevers in Dubai to high-rises in Ecuador, this roundup showcases the diverse and innovative applications of interlocking architecture across the globe.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

LA architecture studio Gehry Partners has completed the extension of media company Warner Bros' headquarters in Burbank, which juxtaposes two distinctive facade styles. 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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Architecture Ideas

JANUARY 19, 2023

Although traditional glass windows provide excellent insulation, a range of alternative materials is becoming increasingly popular for window construction. Types of Window Glass Float Glass Source: gharpedia.com Float glass is a large flat glass panel that is floated on the molten tin to create a smooth thin glass panel.

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The Architecture Designs

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Exploring the Beauty of Milgard Bay Windows Windows play a pivotal role in shaping the aesthetics and functionality of a home, and among the various styles available, bay windows stand out for their elegance and versatility. Transformative Impact Beyond their aesthetic appeal, these windows offer practical benefits.

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Deezen

JUNE 28, 2023

Chinese studio Open Architecture has revealed photos of its 50-metre-high viewing tower in Yantai as it nears completion. Open Architecture's Sun Tower has topped out Now at its full height, the concrete building has a conical form that appears to be sliced open to reveal the internal spaces.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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. Instead, the studio "planned a new independent structure outside the existing structure," Unemori Architects team member Keita Komori told Dezeen.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The architecture in Jordan has been shaped by these two polarities, developing and transforming in response to the needs of the people and their shift towards a more globalized way of living. On the plot, an existing historical building was reserved, turned into a restaurant with a commercial area.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A glazed skin hangs from a timber exoskeleton at this office building in France by French studio GRAAM Architecture, which has been shortlisted in the business building category of Dezeen Awards 2022. The Burgundy office building was designed by GRAAM Architecture. The building incorporates a timber exoskeleton.

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