Deezen

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A blocky form animated by hit-and-miss brickwork defines Peckham House, a self-build project by architecture studio Surman Weston that draws on its surroundings in southeast London. We enjoy referencing the surrounding architectural styles, often subverting them or playfully interpreting them in our buildings," he explained.

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Deezen

MARCH 14, 2024

Dutch studio Powerhouse Company has created the Marga Klompé Building at Tilburg University, the Netherlands , is "the first college building in Europe to be entirely constructed from solid wood". Situated on a forested university campus in Tilburg , the cuboid building has a mass timber structure and facades clad in Portuguese stone.

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Building Consulting Education Sustainability 128

Habitus Living

APRIL 18, 2022

In one corner of the room, Finn Juhl’s 1940 Pelican Chair in a deep charcoal navy rests under a poster designed by King that reads “Earth the new client”. It’s imperative now, that every design job is seen as both the client’s problem and the Earth’s problem in one. I just thought that was so honest and beautiful”.

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Deezen

MAY 23, 2023

Artificial intelligence is "not the end of the universe" and instead is building a better understanding between stakeholders in architecture projects, experts said at a discussion hosted by Dezeen and Autodesk. The traditional boundaries between the client and the architect is maybe a historic thing."

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Dutch architecture firm UNStudio has unveiled plans for The Kyklos building, a mixed-use office building in Belval, Luxembourg , designed in collaboration with local studio HYP Architects. On the ground floor, a lobby will offer a reception and commercial functions that are accessible for both office users and the public.

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Building Masterplanning Industrial Structure 143

Archinect

JANUARY 5, 2024

Charlie Thornton, the well-admired structural engineer, co-founder and CEO of Thornton Tomasetti , passed away in early December at the age of 83, according to his firm. The Bronx-born Thornton began his career in the New York offices of Lev Zetlin Associates before pursuing a new venture with Richard Tomasetti after 1977.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Dutch street artist Frankey has linked the upper floors of two Amsterdam buildings with a structure designed to look like one of the city's historic canal bridges. Frankey , whose real name is Frank de Ruwe, installed his cartoonish Canal Skybridge between a pair of buildings on Rokin, a major street in central Amsterdam.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

The vertical, white-wood cladding and standing-seam metal roof reference regional agrarian buildings, but with contemporary refinement. A swimming pool is located in the back garden The volumes were arranged based on site orientation, program and spatial relationships that allow the home's circulation to be fluid and symmetrical.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Stone has the potential to become a go-to, low-carbon structural material, but barriers around quarrying and a lack of awareness must be overcome to make this a reality, experts tell Dezeen in this Stone Age 2.0 The structural use of stone is not new," said Blasi.

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ArchDaily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Buildings around the world are being erected with wooden structures, driven by the increasing interest in sustainable solutions based on renewable resources, a demand from both the public and architects and their clients. Read more »

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 24, 2024

The Opticum is an interdisciplinary research building for Leibniz University of Hanover currently under construction on the Science Park site located in the urban district of Marienwerder. To the east, the building opens up towards the main entrance. Its surface uses warm, iridescent hues to blend into its natural environment.

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Deezen

APRIL 12, 2024

Promotion : Swiss furniture brand Vitra is expanding its European presence through a programme of showroom openings in renovated, distinctive historic buildings. The space was renovated by Spanish studio Carlos Manzano Arquitectos to create a bright and open space that showcases many of the building's original features.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Whether looking at a project’s structural beginnings, its high-grade finishes, or thinking more holistically about its entire lifetime, there are huge gains to be made with sustainable substitutes and alternatives to traditional materials and techniques.

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Materials Technique Commercial Sustainability 300

Dwell

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. More than 25 years ago, Studio Arthur Casas started building a reputation in São Paulo by serving commercial clients. SysHaus starts with a metal frame and clients can choose finishes. Get in touch!

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2023

Separate brightly coloured classroom buildings make up this preschool in Gujarat state, India , which was designed by local practice Shreesh Design Studio. The steel structures also allowed for quick assembly on site and the 66,061-square-foot project was completed in four months. The photography and video are by Smit Mehta.

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Deezen

JUNE 2, 2023

International auction house Sotheby's has announced its acquisition of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Marcel Breuer -designed building on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. The company said that it would employ an architect to "review and maintain" the structure after it takes possession in September 2024.

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Design Thoughts Architects

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I recently had the opportunity to explain to one of our new house desired clients what it is that we do as an architectural firm. We design buildings that are functional and meet the client’s needs, but we also design them with a theme or an architectural style in mind. Best Architects do so much more than that.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Home designs from Surman Weston and Haysom Ward Miller are the next two to compete for the now nine-year-old title, which, this year, features "Hard to Build" residential structures across the country.

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Archinect

JUNE 12, 2023

Italian architecture and landscape firm Mixtura has designed a wood-structured conventual complex in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil , that provides both a space for worship and philanthropic services. It also includes the construction of a school complex for more than 500 children living in conditions of serious hardship.

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Foundation Client Clients Firms 363

Deezen

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As ditching demolition in favour of reusing existing buildings becomes crucial in the face of climate change , Building for Change author Ruth Lang selects six buildings that show that renovations don't need to be dull. Reuse "a provocation to be more inventive".

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Building Client Clients Structure 133

Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Brooklyn-based studio Modu has created a building envelope that lowers the ambient air temperature in order to help cool the interior and exterior of this Houston building. In hot climates like that, if you can lower the air temperature, then it would require less air conditioning because the air around the building is cooler."

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Exterior Building Civil Engineering Engineering 124

The Architect's Newsletter

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Brought to you by: Architect SGA Architecture Location Nashville, Tennessee Completion Date August, 2020 Architect of Record Centric Architecture Client Vanderbilt University Construction Manager Messer Structural Engineer Structural Design Group [.].

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Archinect

AUGUST 29, 2023

As well as housing new work spaces, the building aims to provide a space of interaction and communication between the company and its network of suppliers, partners and clients. The resulting visual effect is that of a roc.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The building’s form—a set of interlocking white cubes—responds to the client’s initial idea for what the house would look like and emerges from careful evaluations of views and spatial optimization. Built as a 100-year structure, the house was designed to meet the changing needs of a growing family.

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Deezen

AUGUST 3, 2022

metre-tall mass-timber tower in Wisconsin designed by Korb + Associates Architects, has been certified as the world's tallest timber building. The 25-storey tower, which opened in July, has a concrete base, elevator and stair shafts, with the rest of the structure made from cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glulam. Ascent, an 86.6-metre-tall

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Deezen

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Linden Brown Architecture created a live-work structure in Oregon The mixed-use building is located in the St Johns neighbourhood in North Portland and sits on a sloped parcel that was formerly occupied by a post-war dwelling. The old structures's concrete foundation and basement walls were retained.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 24, 2022

In 2022, hardly a week passed on Archinect without the hottest construction material of the year making the news: Mass timber was everywhere — in novel conceptual proposals, competition-winning entries, experimental school projects, and, increasingly so, in completed, real-life, and often record-shattering buildings.

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Architizer

APRIL 13, 2022

The town is famous for its traditional Chinese building and street style that has been preserved for more than hundreds of years. 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.

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Consulting Structure Mining Roofing 98

RMJM Architecture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

While 60% of the total property space has been allocated to over 40 open and green spaces, the project houses 240 1–3 bedroom apartments, spread over two low-rise buildings. All of these carefully curated features of Terrazzo come together to offer a unique and serene living experience.

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Client Clients Real Estate Residential 52

aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Building on a site that is at high risk of and requires extensive ground improvements, how might we create a substructure that is naturally isolated from earthquake loads, floods, and rising sea levels? Is it possible to have a building with no foundation?

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Deezen

AUGUST 27, 2022

Memola Estudio stripped back walls in the apartment to reveal the concrete structure. To contrast the wooden floors Memola Estudio removed walls and parts of the ceiling, and stripped back finishes to expose the building's concrete structure, piping and ductwork. The photography is by Fran Parente.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2023

Los Angeles architecture studio Formation Association has turned an assemblage of buildings in West Hollywood into a new home for London-based auction house Phillips. We started with idiosyncratic conditions and buildings layered with history," said studio co-founder John K Chan, who led the project. "We With a ceiling over 15 feet (4.5

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Deezen

JULY 14, 2023

Local studio De Zwarte Hond has completed a series of timber buildings for the regional headquarters of Dutch energy company Alliander in Amsterdam. The headquarters' timber structures are clad in corten steel and were designed with flexible, modular spaces that aim to meet the studio's sustainability goals.

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Building Education Structure Site 98

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.

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e-architect

JUNE 29, 2023

The project structure creates a functional social space within the landscape and urban context, forming a covered bus stop, mountain trail and external terraces and public squares. The first layer is a stone base embedded in the ground, which protects and anchors the building on steep slopes.

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Building Housing Real Estate Commercial 83

BD+C

JUNE 16, 2023

Can a VR-enabled AEC Firm transform building projects? 0 dbarista Fri, 06/16/2023 - 14:36 Virtual Reality With the aid of virtual reality and 3D visualization technologies, designers, consultants, and their clients can envision a place as though the project were in a later stage. The space, volume, and structure.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Welcome to Prefab Profiles, an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. Later, on trail rides together around Boulder, Colorado, they threw around the idea of building storage units as a side business. The structures are made of fir and engineered wood.

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