Deezen

APRIL 22, 2024

Danish architecture studio BIG , alongside faculty at the University of Kansas, has unveiled its design for the mass-timber Makers' KUbe in Kansas, USA. The structure will serve as an educational building for the University of Kansas ( KU ) School of Architecture & Design in Lawrence, Kansas.

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Architecture Lab

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The difference between architects and structural engineers is not easy to describe at first. If you think about it, both job profiles deal with designing buildings. So if both these titles deal with the same work, why is there a distinction between them anyway?

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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.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Image: Gabriel Fernandes from São Paulo, Brasil, CC BY-SA 2.0 <[link] via Wikimedia Commons Tie rods are integral in structural engineering, primarily for transmitting traffic loads and alleviating compression forces within a structure.

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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. We were there in midsummer. The spindle shape — fatter in the middle, thinner in the ends — is also useful.

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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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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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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Join us for the fourth ArchiTangle Talk @ POPKUDAMM in Berlin, where Hanif Kara will share his experience leading AKT II , a global engineering firm that unifies the culture of architecture and structural engineering, working closely with some of the world's top architecture firms.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Top: Aurore Baulier is calling on architects to use structural stone. She advocates for the use of structural stone as part Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN), where she coordinates the Natural Materials Group. "A beam can actually be stone instead of steel, minimising its carbon footprint." It's an incredible feature."

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SW Oregon Architect

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Olive Plaza (my photo) 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.

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Deezen

APRIL 24, 2023

Iruarrizaga designed the 500-square-metre house with a timber-clad upper level that bridges two rectangular concrete structures. Bedrooms and en-suite bathrooms are located in the two concrete structures, which are separated by a covered outdoor space leading to a decked patio overlooking the lake.

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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

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. The PEMBs consist of the structure and an exterior, which consists of insulated rib metal panels.

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Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2024

American studio Schwartz and Architecture has completed a cedar -clad accessory dwelling unit on a California property that is meant to serve as "a jumping off point for a modern wine country design". The structural system is mostly wood with an occasional steel beam. The other, which is set at an angle, holds a bedroom and bathroom.

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Deezen

MARCH 28, 2024

US studio Michael Hennessey Architecture has revitalised an ageing suburban house near San Francisco , adding black cladding and bright finishes to form a family home that bridges the past, present and future. The aim was to create a dwelling that supported the family's current needs while being mindful of what might be needed in the future.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Instead of putting everything under one roof, architecture firm Lake|Flato created a network of smaller volumes to minimize impact on the forested plot. Envisioned as a home that embraces the outdoors, the residence is composed of four structures housing the home’s separate functions. Have one to share? P ost it here.

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Archinect

MARCH 27, 2023

A total of 22 projects were selected in ten categories by a jury panel that included Hacker Architects Principal Corey Martin, Cheung Chan of the Iowa-based firm Neumann Monson Architects , and Arup Senior Structural Engineer Lauren Wingo.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JANUARY 4, 2024

Charles Thornton—renowned structural engineer, educator, mentor, and founding principal of Thornton Tomasetti—died on December 12, 2023 in Maryland after a brief illness. Known by friends and family The post Charles Thornton, founding principal of Thornton Tomasetti, dies at 83 appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Deezen

APRIL 25, 2024

"Beyond its visually striking exterior, the true innovation of Rockbound lies in the unseen engineering," the team explained, lauding the collaboration with Blackwell Structural Engineers to redistribute the structural loads through a system of micro-piles. The photography is by Ema Peter.

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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.

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Deezen

AUGUST 30, 2022

A void punctures the centre of this compact concrete home, which Japanese studio Noriaki Hanaoka Architecture has elevated over a sloping site in Chiba Prefecture. Noriaki Hanaoka Architecture divided the home into two halves. It breathes together with its environment," Noriaki Hanaoka Architecture continued.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Canadian studio 25:8 Architecture + Urban Design has added a cedar-clad extension with a shape informed by birds in flight to a house in Ottawa. 25:8 Architecture + Urban Design added a cedar-clad extension to an Ottawa home "The project was inspired by a bird in flight. The photography is by Brendan Burden.

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Archinect

MARCH 21, 2023

That simple recipe for pandemic lemonade—offices people no longer use, combining with central urban locations where people want to live—is blissfully ignorant of a wide range of architectural and economic factors that make the vast majority of office buildings simply unsuitable as housing.

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Archinect

JULY 26, 2022

Stantec provided building architecture and landscape architecture as well as structural engineering services for the development. The project includes 257 residential units, artist studios, three floors of office space, street-level retail, and 474 parking spaces.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

Nestled beside the surrounding woodland, the cabin is wrapped by an external skin or 'monocoque' – similar to an eggshell – that draws on structural systems used within the aerospace and automotive industries. The structure draws aerospace and automative construction techniques Measuring 3.3-metres-wide, metres-wide, 3.5-metres-tall

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Architizer

APRIL 13, 2022

Architizer chatted with Xin Yuan, Director at XinY Structural Consultants to learn more about this project. This non-building structure consists of the rigid double curved roof and vertical columns. This non-building structure consists of the rigid double curved roof and vertical columns. © XinY Structural Consultants.

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Architizer

MAY 11, 2022

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. Architizer chatted with Anjali Iyer, project manager and senior associate at Feldman Architecture to learn more about this project.

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Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2023

Montreal studio ACDF Architecture has designed a low-slung, modernist -style home with massing shaped to surround an apple tree and provide lines of sight through the living areas. ACDF Architecture arranged the structure around an apple tree. Project credits: Architect, interior design and landscape: ACDF Architecture.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Canadian architecture studio Dialog has renovated and expanded a gymnasium with an indoor park in Calgary , Alberta. Round skylights bring light into the space The team created spaces for gathering and for quiet meditation – such as a large cloud-like space clad in metal tiles within the multi-building structure.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 2, 2024

Conventionally, the program would generate a low volume with a protruding dome, but to utilize the unique dome to create a strong interior space as well as a telling exterior form, the dome is given a focal position under a free form timber structure. The gridshell structure is constructed from flat standard LVL panels.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2024

Dutch studio Kaan Architecten has added a visitor centre to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, with a concrete form that references American memorial architecture. The only American cemetery on Dutch soil, the Netherlands American Cemetery (NEAC) was dedicated in 1960 across a 26.5-hectare The photography is by Simon Menges.

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Deezen

JANUARY 13, 2022

Brooklyn studio CO Adaptive Architecture has renovated an industrial building in the New York borough's Gowanus neighbourhood to create bright and spacious theatre rehearsal spaces. The first decision that CO Adaptive Architecture made was to open the interiors to form an expansive, top-lit space.

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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. The photography is by Lara Swimmer.

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Deezen

APRIL 20, 2024

This led to its colonnaded southern elevation, which draws on classical architecture but is crafted from concrete and brick, offering a more contemporary look. The materials aim to complement local architecture Bury Gate Farm has a stepped plan, with living spaces positioned to the south and organised linearly along the colonnade.

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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. Anacapa Architecture has offices in Santa Barbara and Portland, Oregon. The photography is by Erin Feinblatt.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 17, 2024

Photo © Rasmus Hjortshõj Spanning 22,000 m², the main timber structure, made of glulam and cross-laminated timber, forms three striking tree-trunk-like columns, fanning out to carry the entire load of the roof – enveloping visitors in a welcoming forest-like canopy. Source by Henning Larsen.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Bright colours, neon lighting and expressive furniture create a playful mood inside this Brooklyn restaurant, designed by local studio Format Architecture Office. Over in Manhattan, the number of Italian restaurants continues to balloon, with Bad Roman and Cucina Alba among the many to have opened in the past year.

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