Archinect

APRIL 3, 2023

While it's said to "be the first facility of its kind in the United States," what makes this endeavor even more notable is that its project team is 85% female-led, across five firms and practices specializing in architecture, landscape architecture, construction, and real estate.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

Page Southerland Page led the planning and urban design – guiding the full team that included HKS , Kirksey, Jacobs, Sasaki , and Coleman Assoc. – The Texas Capitol Complex – designed for the Texas Facilities Commission – spans approximately 150 acres across 40 city blocks around the Texas State Capitol.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

“Workshop XR will transform how architects and building engineers plan and review projects,” said Nicolas Fonta, Senior Director & General Manager, XR at Autodesk, in a statement. “Most building projects that go over budget do so because issues are discovered once construction has begun.

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Archinect

MAY 24, 2023

Winners of the 2023 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge and Build Challenge, organized by the U.S. Department of Energy, feature a series of student projects that address renewable energy building methods.

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Archinect

JULY 28, 2023

Stanford University has published new research exploring the use of plastic waste in constructing roads and buildings. The team, led by Stanford engineers Zhiye Li and Michael Lepech, incorporated computer modeling, scientific research, field data, and stakeholder interviews in their research, which was recently published in a white paper.

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Archinect

JULY 29, 2022

A research team out of the University of Virginia (UVA) has developed a new innovative and sustainable approach to building that utilizes the power of 3D printing to create structures made of soil implanted with seeds.

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Archinect

APRIL 6, 2023

Portland/Los Angeles-based LEVER Architecture has published a new report in collaboration with engineering firm Atelier Ten addressing what the authors call “common myths about mass timber construction.” ” For design teams seeking to achieve a carbon-neutral building, the report s.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Work has been completed on the 80 M office building in Washington DC. The project, which saw a three-story timber extension added atop an existing seven-story concrete building, is described by the design team as “the first commercial office building in Washington DC to feature a vertical extension constructed using mass timber.”

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Archinect

MAY 10, 2023

UC San Diego has hosted the tallest full-scale seismic building test on an earthquake simulator. The 10-story building, made of cross-laminated timber, was tested on what the organizers say is the world’s largest outdoor shake table.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Researchers from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have published details of a new material that can auto-regulate its environment by changing its infrared colors and liquid-solid state. ” Image courtesy University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.

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Deezen

APRIL 25, 2024

Approaching the building from the public side, a sense of privacy and shelter welcomes visitors," the team said. Omar Gandhi clad the home in naturally weathering cedar boards Naturally weathering cedar boards were interspersed with detail elements of Corten steel to form picture frame hoops around the windows.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Jun Mitsui & Associates and Pelli Clarke & Partners have converted a grocery store into a sake brewery The site contains three buildings – the brewery, housed in the shell of a former Stop & Shop grocery store, a small rice polishing building and a wastewater treatment facility.

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Archinect

MARCH 27, 2023

WoodWorks has announced the winners of the 2023 Wood Design Awards, an annual showcase of the industry’s most inspiring applications of mass timber and wood in building designs across the United States. Investing in a more sustainable future deserves to be recognized.

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Archinect

MAY 16, 2022

The MIT Media Lab has shared insights into their pioneering project to build habitats in outer space. Named TESSERAE, the project seeks to create a highly-engineered tile which can be used as a building block for self-assembling, adaptive, reconfigurable structures. Artist's render of TESSERAE spaceship.

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Archinect

APRIL 28, 2023

A team including Gensler and CIVILIAN has completed the adaptive reuse of an old book depository in Detroit. On the campus, Newlab will create what the organization calls a “center of gravity for startups, entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists to build breakthrough companies in Detroit.”

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Archinect

JULY 19, 2023

The design team includes various disciplines including, urban planners, architects, engineers, and sustainability experts. The site is currently home to the Cambridge Waste Water Treatment Plant, a gold driving range, and commercial buildings. The Hartree site in Cambridge. The development places a strong emphasis.

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Archinect

MARCH 17, 2023

A new prototype multilayered fluid window system devised by researchers at the University of Toronto may have the potential to be an effective tool in the push toward greater sustainability in the building industry, according to their research published in the national academy of sciences journal PNAS.

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Archinect

AUGUST 31, 2022

Earlier this month, we used our Job Highlights series to ask the question: ‘ What does a building scientist do, and how can architects become one? Related on Archinect: What a building scientist does, and how architects can become one. Image: Tufts University Science and Engineering Complex by Payette. Photo: Chuck Choi.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

A primary goal for the team was to create a low-impact home that merges with its natural setting, both day and night. Roughly rectangular in plan, the house sits on a gently sloping site and was built atop the footprint of a former building. Sustainability was a guiding concern for the team. The photography is by Jason Roehner.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Composed of three distinct buildings – a main house, guesthouse and writer's studio – the project was designed for a California-based couple who manage an independent record label. Each building responds to its immediate setting. The other two buildings are tucked within the woods and feel more intimate.

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Archinect

JUNE 14, 2022

The interdisciplinary team, led by associate professor Rahman Azari from the university’s architecture school, will study the embodied carbon emissions associated with the manufacturing, transportation, and construction of materials used in urban buildings, as well as their demolition.

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Archinect

JUNE 6, 2023

The meaning of “Mountain & Sea” comes from its position, keeping away from the hustle and bustle of the city and appearing vividly on the mountain, as well as from its location at the north end of the Dianchi Lake system, with excellent landscape resources, and the city, water and mountains are all included in the sight.

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Archinect

JUNE 21, 2022

million grant for the development of resilient, 3D-printed building designs using a new green material called hempcrete. Leading the project is Petro Sideris, assistant professor in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who will develop residential and potential commercial construction designs.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Secrets of a structural engineer 0 dbarista Fri, 09/08/2023 - 11:54 Engineers Walter P Moore's Scott Martin, PE, LEED AP, DBIA, offers tips and takeaways for young—and veteran—structural engineers in the AEC industry. Below is a summary of the presentation “Secrets of a Structural Engineer” that I gave to the students.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

New York firm RKTB Architects has completed One Sullivan Place, a mixed-income apartment building that rises 12 storeys and cantilevers in two directions over the rooftop of an adjacent structure. The building is located in the Crown Heights neighbourhood, near Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

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Deezen

APRIL 22, 2024

The tower will feature floor-to-ceiling glass, landscaped terraces, and a stepped configuration to create an iconic, distinctive skyscraper," said the team. The building will include a "high-performance building envelope" and use "resilient materials" as sustainable design strategies.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The team aimed to accomplish several goals, including honouring the site's history and making the most of the natural setting. The original stage building was torn down, and in its place, the team created a rectangular, steel -framed building. Facades are partly lined with light-grey metal poles.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Google has opened a building serving its North American operations in New York City that is housed in a 1930s rail terminal restored and adapted by architecture studios CookFox Architects and Gensler. The building's original rail beds were left exposed on the facade and then covered in plantings, creating a linear overhang at its entrance.

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Deezen

MARCH 19, 2024

CannonDesign has created a student centre for a Michigan university "The primary concept of the building was to celebrate place, with a focus on elements and symbols that are universal to all people – and especially important to the Western community," Brett Lawrence, Cannon Design project manager, told Dezeen.

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Deezen

MARCH 6, 2024

Sited on the Las Vegas Strip, the ballpark was designed by BIG in collaboration with engineering firm HNTB for Major League Baseball team the Athletics (The As), which is moving from Oakland, California, following the 2024 season.

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designboom

APRIL 13, 2023

engineer sergii gordieiev and his team recycle discarded bicycle parts to create a custom bike with square wheels from scratch. The post engineer builds custom bike with square wheels using discarded bicycle parts appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

MARCH 27, 2024

Read: Sagrada Familia shows stone "can return to being used as a structural material" In recent years, the speed of construction has increased with a team from engineering firm Arup invited to help speed up the construction and reduce the weight of one of its many colossal elements. The main image is by Maksim Sokolov.

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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. Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2024

Students from London's Architectural Association have used timber battens and foraged waste wood to build a demountable forest pavilion called Field Station. Other wooden pavilions featured on Dezeen include Craft Not Carbon by Studio Saar and Webb Yates Engineers and Growing Up by New Office Works.

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Deezen

APRIL 2, 2024

The white building will be wrapped in glazing shaded by a monumental cantilevered roof with swooping rounded corners. Populous has unveiled a design for New York's Belmont Park The new five-storey grandstand will maintain the current 50,000 seats, but reorganize them in a flexible layout that accommodates off-season events.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The house has two main levels, a basement and a rooftop terrace Roughly V-shaped in plan, the building has an angular form that was driven by the site's orientation and geometry. The architecture shapes the views, providing privacy where necessary while drawing the landscape's calmness and serenity into the home's heart," the team said.

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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 Top: engineer Tristram Carfrae is a proponent of structural stone. Photo courtesy of Arup.

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