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OMA's Harajuku Quest center performs an urban balancing act in Tokyo

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Construction has begun on the OMA -designed Harajuku Quest project in Tokyo. The 84,000-square-foot mixed-use scheme will contain commercial and cultural functions set within a building form shaped by two differing urban contexts that interact with the site. Concept diagram. Image credit: OMA Concept diagram.

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Building for the Pacific Northwest

SW Oregon Architect

I attended the 2023 Construction Specifications Institute Northwest Region Conference in Bellingham, Washington May 4 through May 6. Rainier Chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute served as the most gracious host for the conference, which took place at the Hotel Bellwether , idyllically situated overlooking Bellingham Bay.

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New entry/junior-level job opportunities in New York City

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Tasks include diagraming, technical drawings, rendering, and physical model building. Junior Architects work to establish, develop, and communicate the design in the early phases, and in coordination and administration through the construction documentation and execution phases." Read more here.

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ICON Initiative 99 by Beta Realities

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With “Collective Parts”, Beta Realities combines the power of construction-scale 3D printing with a software approach to planning that integrates the homeowners into a collective planning process. A flexible kit of parts – Through user-friendly custom software, future homeowners easily select suitable and affordable building parts.

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Muda Architects completes circular museum dedicated to traditional Chinese medicine

Deezen

Its circular form spans land and water and is designed by Muda Architects as a giant Taiji diagram, or yin-yang symbol, to represent the philosophy of holistic traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It traverses the building's three storeys and is illuminated by skylights.

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These 8 Video Tutorials Will Help Take Your Axonometric Diagrams to the Next Level

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An axonometric projection uses all three axes to represent architectural or construction details in a more accurate way. An axonometric of an urban plan can be just as important as one showing a specific building. The post These 8 Video Tutorials Will Help Take Your Axonometric Diagrams to the Next Level appeared first on Journal.

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Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: O

SW Oregon Architect

Olive Plaza (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. The building must be extant so you or I can visit it in person.