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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The opportunity to renovate one of New York City’s most important cultural buildings, Marcel Breuer ’s Brutalist icon at 945 Madison Avenue, has been granted to a partnership that includes Herzog & de Meuron and PBDW Architects after Sotheby’s named the firm to the project on Monday.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

The embattled owner of Frank Lloyd Wright ’s landmark Price Tower in Bartlesville Oklahoma has filed suit against The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy in order to void liens which have been placed on the property, the New York Times is reporting.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is looking into a rare designation for the interior spaces of the recently sold 945 Madison Avenue (aka the Breuer Building) on the Upper East Side. According to The Art Newspaper , a hearing on the issues is expected to take place within the next few months.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

As I step into this new role, I am honored by the opportunity to lead ArchDaily into a new chapter, building on our strong foundation to reach even greater heights. Addressing you directly marks a meaningful shift from our usual approach, and I believe it's the perfect way to begin the year.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Image Maxwell MacKenzie The United States is a country with an extensive history, its buildings holding onto legacies from later times. Preservationists argue that historic buildings deserve protection from potentially damaging retrofits. As cities push toward reaching climate goals, these mandates are under scrutiny.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

Because of the thermal mass the temperature inside the building changes a lot slower than a conventional build saving you a lot in energy costs. It’s mold resistant and pest resistant, fire resistant. Click here to learn more about the Lower Sioux Hemp Program and Housing Project.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In hermetically sealed buildings, less fresh air gets in. [.] This raises the question of how buildings pollute the air around them, what pollutants they produce, and whether this expelled air is sufficiently diluted once outdoors. To fix it, authors César Martín-Gómez and Arturo H.

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Archinect

MARCH 16, 2025

A new LA Times poll has discovered a plurality of Angelenos now support stronger building codes and more building restrictions after the Los Angeles Fires. According to the results, "[80%] of those polled backed tougher building codes to make homes more fire resistant even if doing so added to costs.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

ORIGIN Tree House by Atelier LAVIT. Image Marco Lavit Nicora Despite their whimsical appearance, treehouses offer a unique platform for structural innovations and design explorations.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

to require new buildings to achieve net zero carbon emissions standards upon opening. ” With buildings accounting for approximately 71% of Boston’s carbon emissions, the NZC Zoning policy aims to reduce emissions by promoting energy efficiency, increasing electrification, and shifting to renewable energy sources.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

The new building is set to be inaugurated with the first major career retrospective of sculptor Tom Lloyd, whose solo exhibition was notably the first shown at the museum’s founding loft space on 125th Street when it opened in 1968.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The long road back for residents of the western North Carolina counties that were heavily impacted due to flooding from Hurricane Helene is still being mapped out, but now the New York Times and other local outlets are reporting on critics who say reforms to the state’s building codes could have exacerbated the scale of property losses.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2025

"I fear that I have integrated my people into a burning house" — MLK At the end of 2024, in my new position as incoming president of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), I was asked to weigh in on an issue that has consumed much of my professional life and intellectual energy.

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MARCH 17, 2025

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) have released a new status report on emissions benchmarks with findings relevant to the global building sector. The UNEP says, however, that funding challenges pose a serious threat to achieving other climate-related targets.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

A research team in Oregon has unveiled a mass timber prototype home that seeks to showcase a sustainable, energy-efficient alternative to traditional home construction.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

Efforts currently underway to amend existing building and construction codes in order to create more affordable housing could soon be boosted via the removal of a long-held and potentially outdated requirement—the need for two egress routes in multifamily buildings with heights up to six stories.

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MARCH 3, 2025

The report finds that single-stair buildings can help architects achieve a better variety of configurations, contort to irregular-shaped lots, improve ventilation, and increase the amount of natural light that flows inside. This applies to buildings of between three to six stories. The new report also includes da.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Courtesy of HGA | Barabara and Gerson Bakar Research and Academic Building (BRAB) Architectural firms Snøhetta and HGA have just began work on the Barbara and Gerson Bakar Research and Academic Building (BRAB) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

On November 8th, the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University will host the Urban Workshop Symposium , the latest iteration of the Urban Workshop's engagements in community-based design and education.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects , the Heartland Whole Health Institute building is set to open on May 1st. For the institute’s new building, the design team drew inspiration from the natural landscape of the Ozarks, with curvilinear forms that echo the region’s bluffs, caves, and forests.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The three-day festival concludes tomorrow with the announcement of the World Building of the Year and World Interior of the Year winners. COMPLETED BUILDINGS The winners from Day Two can be seen below in their respective categories.

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DECEMBER 23, 2024

According to a new study by McKinsey, the number of heat pumps worldwide still needs to increase significantly in magnitude from its current 15% global market share to 65% by 2050 in order to meet climate targets.

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MARCH 3, 2025

Architecture firm Studio Libeskind has revealed its design for Fan d'Issy, a geometric building with angular, fan-like facades that will be located in the Paris commune of Issy-les-Moulineaux. It was designed to be a landmark building in the ZAC Lon Blum eco-district, which is currently under development.

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MARCH 12, 2025

” Among the requirements for the role are an active architecture license, 15 years of post-degree experience, and experience in code evaluation, spec writing, and/or diagnosing building defects.

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MARCH 5, 2025

Following the completion of Brazil's tallest skyscraper , we've rounded up the tallest building in each of the South American countries, from Colombia to Argentina. The spread of skyscrapers in South America is very uneven, with Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela and Brazil claiming all of the 20 tallest buildings on the continent.

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DECEMBER 23, 2024

Megan Jones The construction industry, traditionally reliant on the intensive use of non-renewable natural materials, is at a decisive moment to reevaluate its processes and mitigate its significant environmental impact. How can the growing demand for infrastructure, housing, healthcare, and education be met without depleting natural resources?

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MARCH 4, 2025

His buildings are reflections of the everyday lives of ordinary people, crafted with an understanding of place, culture, and materiality. His buildings reflect an authenticity that speaks to both past and present, avoiding grand gestures in favor of spaces that foster interaction, spirituality, and human connection. Read more

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Designed by Peris + Toral Arquitectes , the six-story timber-framed building is a notable example of innovative social housing design. The design prioritizes cross-ventilation, dual orientation, and a central communal courtyard, fostering social interaction and community building. Its modular structure, based on a 3.6m Read more »

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

As an architectural movement, Modernism was ideal for the day, and newly independent countries had extensive building programs to assert themselves as fully functioning nations. Hotels are one type of building that illustrates the complex architectural and political history of the times.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The building also provides conference facilities, including a large auditorium suitable for performances, presentations, and industry events. The 24,000 square-meter structure houses diverse spaces, including a network of exhibition galleries, both permanent and temporary, capable of showcasing a wide range of displays.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

New findings produced by the Institute of Psychology at the University of Freiburg and German Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems have shown the proven social acceptance of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs) in different urban conditions.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

While big architectural gestures commonly feature glass and steel, those building with the material hope to show that hemp can be grand in its own right. building code appendix in 2022. We were really on this mission to try to find a material that was truly regenerative.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Weaver Building. Image Ty Cole for "Capital Brutalism" Exhibition Brutalist architecture in the United States is a monument to collective postwar optimism and reassurance that the city and federal governments are in authority.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Temple du Soleil and Voiles Blanches residential buildings. Image © Charly Broyez & Laurent Kronenta In the south of France , a 40-minute drive east of Montpellier, lies the otherworldly resort town of La Grande Motte.

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MARCH 2, 2025

Image Take Photo via Shutterstock Prefabrication is one of the most transformative innovations in architecture and construction, redefining how buildings are designed, manufactured, and assembled. This shift has fueled its resurgence across high-end, design-driven projects and large-scale, cost-efficient public buildings. Take Photo.

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