Deezen

MARCH 5, 2024

American developer Related Midwest has resumed construction on the 400 Lake Shore skyscraper in Chicago on a site that has experienced more than a decade's worth of revisions and delays. Construction teams in Chicago have begun work on the foundation for the 72-storey skyscraper designed by SOM. Images courtesy of Related Midwest.

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Architizer

MAY 11, 2022

The design sensitively accommodating the need for more space and program for a young family without detriment to the surrounding landscape. The distinctly modern forms contrast with the organic surrounds they occupy but the materiality and scale of the structures make them ‘of the landscape’… like they fit right in.

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Architizer

JUNE 2, 2022

Despite technical complications involved in construction, inclined sites can invoke inspiring new architectural possibilities that just aren’t possible on flat sites. Better views, unique spatial design, creation of privacy using a variety of levels, and much more. Villa Vals by SeARCH , Vals, Switzerland.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

British architecture practice Studio Bark has worked with students from the University of East London to devise a roof-supporting column with otherwise unusable timber at a site within ancient English woodland. This is "an old technique", said Thorns, but one that opens up a lot of opportunities to use smaller trees.

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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. My selection criteria for each will be threefold: The building must be of architectural interest, local importance, or historically significant. Designed by Portland architect F.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The latest edition of the Tiny Library Architecture Competition has published its winning entries, awarding the top positions to designs from Canada, India, and the UK. The jury included Puran Kumar (Studio PKA), Peter W.

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Architizer

APRIL 30, 2024

They can be material structures that connect two (or more!) Architects are well aware of this dual meaning, and more and more designers are leaning into it for its symbolic potency. Architects are well aware of this dual meaning, and more and more designers are leaning into it for its symbolic potency.

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Archinect

AUGUST 11, 2023

A Bangkok landmark known as the “robot building” has been stripped of its identity, heritage campaigners have said, as they called for the city’s distinctive architecture to preserved. [.] Campaigners have urged the bank to find a way to improve energy efficiency while maintaining the facade’s unique design.

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2024

It was commissioned during the pandemic as a second home for the client The design team had multiple goals for the project. It was elevated to avoid humidity and provide greater views and more illumination The architects conceived a two-storey house that is partly lifted above the site by steel piers.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2024

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a mirrored cafe pavilion and courtyard at the site of The Old War Office in Whitehall, London. Designed by DaeWha Kang Design, the circular pavilion has a glass facade and mirrored stainless-steel roof panels. JZ agreed, calling it a "fantastic intervention". Do you agree?

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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.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

series, we've collected 10 recently completed and upcoming buildings that show the potential of structural stone as a modern construction material. It was designed by Diana Kellogg Architects to educate over 400 girls between the ages of five and sixteen and incorporates a paved courtyard and ten classrooms linked by shaded corridors.

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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. Architectural details such as a large smokestack from the original structure were preserved on the facade.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Argentinian architect Malvina Zayat has completed a white home for herself and her family that is lifted above a sloped site and enters into "an intimate dialogue with the sky and clouds". The residence sits within a native forest in the town of Salsipuedes, which lies about 30 kilometers from the city of Córdoba.

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Archinect

JANUARY 31, 2024

The four-year construction effort yielded a total two million square feet of new office space that was built above active railroad tracks in what the firm describes as an "extraordinary" advancement of the methods used in urban design, structural engineering, and architecture.

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Prefabricated units of concrete and wood were given varied facades to "mitigate the feeling of repetition" at this student housing project in Agen, France , by Parisian studio Ignacio Prego Architectures. This meant solving a tricky puzzle: designing architecture that is both standardised and welcoming," it continued.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture ( ACSA ) and the Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) have just revealed the winners of the 2022 Timber in the City 4: Urban Habitats Competition in partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture and the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Architecture firm Alterstudio has completed a tower-like house in Texas that rises up from a steep, wooded site that was long overlooked "as a possible home site". The site had long been overlooked as feasible for home construction. Alterstudio saw potential and let the constraints guide the home's design.

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Archinect

MAY 11, 2023

Tadao Ando ’s design for the 10th MPavilion in Melbourne has been revealed, showcasing the architect’s ambition towards placemaking and the social cohesion of memory and his related desire to "find a scene of eternity within the oasis" that is the city’s 12-acre Queen Victoria Gardens.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

A pair of stone towers and a thatched -roof palapa are among the features at a nature retreat in southern Mexico designed by architects Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo. It sits at the edge of a nature preserve on Punta Cometa, or Comet Point, a peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean and was once the site of an Aztec fort.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Harnessing stone as a structural material can make architecture more enjoyable to both build and inhabit argues Tristram Carfrae, an Arup engineer working on the Sagrada Familia , in this Stone Age 2.0 The main benefit of structural stone is that it is a plentiful, natural, low carbon and beautiful material," said Carfrae. "It

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Chinese studio Lin Architecture abstracted and merged local architectural forms for the design of this angular pavilion in rural Yunnan, which is made from white-painted concrete. Thick clouds reflect on the walls, contrasting with the pristine white," described the studio.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. The house is clad in insulated stucco "The hillside as an old problem in house design was a major motivator. Our clients knew many hilly sites from growing up in the area and their time in Greece.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

US architecture practice StudioSC teamed up with Colombian studio Base Taller to design a triangular concrete commercial office building in Medellín, Colombia. Known as Indie Lab, the 69,632-square foot (6,469-square metre) complex is situated on a steeply sloped site next to a nature preserve outside the city of Medellín.

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Deezen

MARCH 9, 2023

Also featured on the list are towers, university buildings and an airport terminal, illustrating mass timber 's potential for use in a variety of architectural projects. According to the studio, the 5,000-seat venue will be built almost entirely from wood – including its overhanging roof, structure and cladding.

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Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

California studio TW Ryan Architecture has completed a wildfire-resistant house in the American West that features a Corten steel exterior and pyramidal roofs that allude to the mountainous terrain. Four Roof House features a Corten steel exterior Their chosen site was a bluff overlooking a lake near the town of Helmville.

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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.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 18, 2023

From factories and warehouses to shop fronts and underpasses, Hicks explores the structures that make up the post-industrial landscape of the West Midlands region known as the Black Country. There are improvised and patched-up structures all over the region." "I It's the main structure of what remains of the Scala Theatre.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

British artist Steve Messam has created four inflatable sculptures with spiky and bulbous protrusions that intend to "reimagine the architecture" of their locations at Clerkenwell Design Week. In that way, the sites are part of the work, as is the wider environment," the artist told Dezeen. "By considered the artist.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Designed by Atelier Bow Wow and built in 2008, the minimalist home opens to the Sierra Nevada with immense glass doors and an airy top floor. Designed by the internationally renowned Japanese firm Atelier Bow-Wow, the property unfolds over 60 private, forested acres. The Iconic Evans House Lands Back on the Market for $2.2M

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Also featured is a building resembling an onion that houses people preparing for voyages to Mars and an extension to a house designed according to the idea of Afrofuturism. Students will be introduced to the conceptual and technical facilities essential to the study of architecture as a discipline and its practice as a profession. "To

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Trio of "luxury high-end boutique hotels" unveiled as latest Neom region "Not architecture" Planned projects for Leyja include a mirrored hotel by Shuan Killa, a rock-shaped hotel by Mario Cucinella (above) and a stepped cliffside hotel by Chris van Duiijn (below). These structures will only destroy nature and everything that lives around it."

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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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designboom

JULY 25, 2023

james stockwell's design seeks to erase the boundaries between structure and earth. The post bunkeren house: half-buried volumes integrate into sloping rocky site in australian village appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Architonic

APRIL 29, 2024

The construction technology conglomerate has one of its largest sites in Kaufering near Munich. Lindner Building Envelope, part of the Lindner Group, has realised a highly thermally insulated aluminium mullion-transom facade for the new Hilti Innovation Centre in Kaufering. From the curved bridge as a striking access area to…

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2023

Beijing-based BLUE Architecture Studio has created a range of street furniture made from bamboo including seating , tables and accessories that are stabilised by the fabric of the surrounding city. Most modern cities have gradually lost their local texture and 'protrusions'," said BLUE Architecture.

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