Chaos

MARCH 5, 2024

Dive deeper into the captivating world of architectural visualization in our comprehensive blog post, and uncover the latest trends shaping the archviz community.

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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 5, 2025

Post Office, Eugene (photo by Tamanoeconomico, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) 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.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In a blog post , Burning Man's creative team said: "Selecting the Temple for Black Rock City is a uniquely challenging decision. We look for a design with a strong visual impact that can serve as a meaningful space to hold the full range of our community’s experiences and offerings.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The building will house some 3,000 employees of the tech giant, who said in a blog post that its design is responsive to a research-driven office strategy and supports a new workplace model that’s meant to foster greater collaboration, creativity, and growth. million square feet of new offices.

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Archinect

JULY 19, 2022

told the AIA’s Topic A blog. “We’ve made blueprints for hemp villages,” Jayeson Hendyrsan, CEO of Hempcrete Natural Building Ltd., “We want families to live in these carbon neutral homes for generations. While we’re a way off from that being widespread, we.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The announcement was made via Google’s The Keyword blog and appears to show improvements to the ground-level plaza area, facades, and HVAC system, minus the significant alterations to the atrium that were first detailed by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lee Bey back in October.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Miami is now number one on a list of the most expensive areas to own a home in the United States according to statistics published in the industry blog The Real Deal.

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SW Oregon Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash This is another in my series of posts inspired by 1000 Awesome Things , the Webby Award-winning blog written by Neil Pasricha. The series is my meditation on the awesome reasons why I was and continue to be attracted to the art of architecture.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

LACMA ’s Unframed blog recently profiled the work of contractor Clark Construction to build the concrete structure for the Peter Zumthor -designed $750 million new David Geffen Galleries extension. The concrete will be left untreated to match its architect’s long-established aesthetic and elevate the "hand of the craftsman."

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Archinect

APRIL 14, 2023

“Most of the power plants in New York City are located within environmental justice communities with overwhelming numbers of affordable housing or NYCHA projects,” he told the blog. We need to prioritize disadvantaged communities in the process of transitioning out and building t.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The news comes as the blog New York YIMBY reports scenes of added glass curtain panels and other facade elements amidst renewed construction at or near the crown of the 912-foot tower.

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Archinect

MARCH 14, 2024

According to an assessment of the plan from the Disney Tourist Blog , “DisneylandForward is the company’s pitch to the public and City of Anaheim for more flexibility in the master plans from the 1990s in order to give the company greater autonomy over what to build and where.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 24, 2024

He explains the situation to Northwestern's vaunted J-school's Local News Initiative blog. "I We covered the debut of the Windy City’s newest critic Edward Keegan back in August along with the restart of work on 400 Lake Shore Drive. His position is being funded by Blair Kamin after Kamin stepped aside in January 2021.

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Archinect

APRIL 20, 2023

Hello Archinect, I'm at 518 Valencia in San Francisco for a panel discussion hosted by San Francisco Transit Riders on the role of public transit in fighting climate change.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The blog reports that once that work is done, "above-grade work will start in Q1 2025 and continue through Q2 2027. An important milestone has been reached in the construction of 400 Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. According to Urbanize Chicago , a caisson permit has been issued, and below-grade work is scheduled to kick off early next year.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The news comes as the blog New York YIMBY reports scenes of added glass curtain panels and other facade elements amidst renewed construction at or near the crown of the 912-foot tower.

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Archinect

JUNE 2, 2022

Longtime Archinectors will surely recognize the name John Hill as the writer behind one of the oldest architecture blogs on the internet, A Daily Dose of Architecture ( changed to A Daily Dose of Architecture Books in 2019 ).

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Archinect

AUGUST 15, 2022

Environmentalist blog Treehugger has published an exchange between the author of an anonymous new Twitter manifesto that outlines in 25 points the need to combat the capitalistic notion that endless growth is the only option for modern industrial societies.

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Archinect

JULY 17, 2023

“Stable Doodle is geared to both professionals and novices, regardless of their familiarity with AI tools,” Stability AI explained in a blog post. Having drawn a sketch, users can enter a supporting text prompt to explain the scene, as well as select preferred styles including photographic reality and comic book art.

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Archinect

APRIL 29, 2022

” According to the Disney Parks blog, the space will offer guests areas to rest and relax, along w. ” In addition to Space Mountain, the park’s Tomorrowland will get an updated plaza, which “will represent a future where humans are in harmony with nature.”

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Archinect

MAY 17, 2023

I started the blog McMansion Hell to document—and deride—the endless cosmetic variations of this uniquely American form of architectural blight. [.] I worry that I’ve actually reinforced the idea that McMansions are a relic of the recent past. the McMansion is alive and well.

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Archinect

JULY 11, 2022

“As the story goes, Burke had originally charged the brothers a hefty upfront fee that the fledgling pizza start-up wasn’t able to scrape together,” the company wrote in a 2015 blog post.

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SW Oregon Architect

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Blogging encourages me to think about the way architects can work toward building places and communities that help people live healthy and productive lives in the face of an increasingly uncertain future. Below are links to one blog post from each month this past year. 2022 will undoubtedly bring us more.

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SW Oregon Architect

APRIL 30, 2022

My weekend schedule precludes producing an original blog entry, so I am happy to share an excerpt once again from SYNTHESIS , the foundational textbook written, self-published, and oft revised by my college professor, Bill Kleinsasser.

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SW Oregon Architect

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The Kennell Ellis Building (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. I took the photo at the head of this blog post back in 2011. The Lane County property account information lists Divine & Hammer, LCC as the building’s owner.

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Enscape

DECEMBER 17, 2024

With the year drawing to a close, let's revisit the blog posts that stole the spotlight in 2024. From intriguing industry insights to helpful how-tos, these posts were read more than 135,000 times by the Enscape community .

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SW Oregon Architect

OCTOBER 10, 2021

I also use Twitter to broaden the reach of this blog, as many of my updates announce and link the latest SW Oregon Architect posts. Nina included a link in her tweets to a blog post by Sean Joyner about the student-run organization ASTERISK at Woodbury University. They make Twitter endlessly fun and interesting.

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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 21, 2024

Quackenbush Building (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. Many of these will be familiar to most who live here but there are likely to be a few buildings that are less so.

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SW Oregon Architect

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Farmers Market Pavilion - view from 8th looking north (this and other renderings by FFA Architecture + Interiors) Just a brief blog entry this week, as seasonal obligations and work demands compete for my limited time: I recently stumbled across the renderings for the new Lane County Farmers Market pavilion by FFA Architecture + Interiors.

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Contractor Site Cities Construction 219

SW Oregon Architect

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Prince Lucien Campbell Hall (all photos by me) 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.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 15, 2024

After 25 years of running this blog under various names — all of which can be lumped under the "Archidose" monicker — I've decided to shut it down, moving this hobby, this labor of love, to Substack, which I have used since mid-2021 and where I will continue to send out weekly newsletters focused on architecture books, but in a new format.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Dabito, founder of creative studio Old Brand New , first broke into the world of interior design through his blog of the same name, which he started in 2010 as a creative outlet. With a background in printmaking, photography, and graphic design, he never expected to have a career in interior design—until he started blogging about it.

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Dwell

MARCH 7, 2025

One particular blog post by biomechanist, movement teacher, and author Katy Bowman titled " Why I Went Furniture-Free " changed our home entirely.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Another example of Soviet modernism’s grandiosity is the Big Solar Furnace, also known as "the Sun," located in Parkent (roughly 30 miles east of Tashkent), which blogs have rightly pointed out looks a bit like a Bond villain lair.

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Brandon Donnelly

OCTOBER 3, 2023

On her blog , Joanne describes the project as being a “labor of love”, and that certainly sounds right. If you’d like to see how 122 Waverly was assembled, here’s a short video that Joanne recently posted on her blog:

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Inspired by her global experiences, she shares captivating insights into the world’s most extraordinary cities and buildings and provides travel tips on her blog, The Travel Album. Ema is a trained architect, writer and photographer who works as a Junior Architect at REX in NYC.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Inspired by her global experiences, she shares captivating insights into the world’s most extraordinary cities and buildings and provides travel tips on her blog, The Travel Album. Ema is a trained architect, writer and photographer who works as a Junior Architect at REX in NYC.

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