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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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The Architecture Designs

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Are clients any good in terms of construction projects? source: pinterest.com First things first, without clients and initiators, there would be no projects at all. Clients usually have a good knowledge of all the aspects of work. How can clients and project managers overturn construction projects?

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Dwell

MAY 15, 2024

Blue Sky Building Systems makes steel structures to your specifications, whether for a suburban dwelling or Joshua Tree retreat. Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. The main structure of the home was constructed within a four-day period.

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Home Building Structural Engineering Structure 102

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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SW Oregon Architect

JUNE 25, 2023

Certain buildings or spaces possess an extraordinary quality that gives us reason to pause and appreciate them in their entirety. These buildings or spaces possess the special power to captivate and impress, perhaps no more so than upon our first encounter with them. We live in a three-dimensional world. We move about it.

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Dwell

APRIL 26, 2024

A generous office space to work from home was also part of the clients’ brief. All exposed timber is recycled hardwood, much of it salvaged from the original structure, regretfully demolished due to extensive flood and termite damage. The building touches the earth lightly. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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. A series of events led King to this point.

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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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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

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. We created it because we realised how essential it is to begin measuring the embodied carbon of a design as early as possible."

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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. Casa Araras / Melissa Paro. Read more »

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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. These attitudes can of course evolve but it's not a given."

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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. The vertical, white-wood cladding and standing-seam metal roof reference regional agrarian buildings, but with contemporary refinement. The original house was later demolished.

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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

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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Dwell

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The ordinance intends to allow homeowners to make multigenerational living arrangements or extra income with their existing property; proponents also advocated for ADUs as a means to build more affordable housing—a principle yet to be realized. This client was in luck: Unlike most Chicago lots that are 25 feet wide, theirs was 30.

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Sustainability IT Utilities Permits 134

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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Housing Industrial Residential Client 362

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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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. Image: Cesare Querci The initiative has so far seen the construction of a kindergarten for 120 children from the neighboring favelas.

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Foundation Client Clients Firms 363

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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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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Dwell

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

based entirely on a client’s personal preferences. Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. Turkel Design built and outfitted this multigenerational home for Canadian clients. Turkel Design creates residences starting at $1.7M

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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. The public areas are located on the slightly recessed first floor.

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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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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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Archinect

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Davies Symphony Hall building is moving forward after a proposal was made public for the first time. In September, the client submitted a proposal to begin the entitlement process for renovations to the SOM and Pietro Belluschi-designed structure. San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall.

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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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aasarchitecture

MARCH 29, 2024

SILT: a new beacon by the sea The designers have anchored the building to the site by integrating it into a new experiential landscape, inspired by the former island of Testerep, characterized by dunes (coastal defense) and tidal channels (prosperity). An understated, striking building with an open lattice of curved beams made of Accoya wood.

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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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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

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? Source by SOUR.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

After 20 years away from their home of Sydney, the clients wanted to embrace the local landscape on their bushland site. Having worked with us before on their Iron Maiden House , the clients were extremely open minded and trusted us deeply to design and build their home. Have a project to share? Post it here.

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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.

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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. Part of the balcony was converted into a bar and seating area.

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