DesignRulz

JANUARY 31, 2024

Exterior cladding is more than a cosmetic upgrade for your home. Here are the benefits of external cladding : Enhanced Protection Exterior cladding is much more than an aesthetic enhancement for your home. Cladding acts as an extra barrier, enhancing the building’s resilience and longevity. It offers many benefits.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

LACMA ’s Unframed blog recently profiled the work of contractor Clark Construction to build the concrete structure for the Peter Zumthor -designed $750 million new David Geffen Galleries extension. The building has no columns!," Chris Bell, the project executive for Clark Construction, shared with Unframed.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion 0 qpurcell Thu, 09/28/2023 - 10:37 Office Buildings IMEG's Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney, share seven key focuses for structural engineers when planning office-to-residential conversions. faces a housing deficit of 3.8 million units.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

Construction is progressing on a mass-timber academic building with a stone facade designed by architecture firm Studio Gang for the University of Chicago campus in Paris. Construction has commenced on the University of Chicago centre in Paris. The centre will have a mass timber structure.

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Deezen

JANUARY 17, 2024

Florida-based manufacturer Renco has created a building block made of repurposed materials that interlocks and stacks for "LEGO-like" construction. Made of a composite of glass fibres, resin and stone, the blocks were recently used to construct a Palm Springs apartment complex by Miami-based architecture studio Arquitectonica.

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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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Archinect

MARCH 15, 2022

From start to finish, the small, egg-shaped dwelling, called the Sphere, took 23 hours and 12 minutes to build. It was constructed in the city of Komaki in Japan’s Aichi Prefecture and measures 107.6 The painting of the structure’s exterior reportedly took most of the time. square feet across.

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Archinect

MARCH 6, 2024

Construction is progressing at Denver’s One River North , designed by MAD Architects. The sixteen-story tower broke ground in late 2021 and represents MAD’s first residential rental building in the United States, expected to contain 187 units. A rooftop pool, spa, and garden areas complete the 216-foot-tall structure.

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Architizer

JUNE 17, 2022

These buildings feel light and in motion. Below are just a few examples of origami-inspired structures that can offer some out-of-the-box inspiration. In addition to being an aesthetic element, the origami-like screen also acts as a sun shade on the building’s southern and western façades. Images by David Frutos.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Japanese studio Unemori Architects has used cypress wood to create Father & Son House, an extension constructed above and around a self-built annexe in Saitama. The old building, a two-storey annexe, workshop and warehouse built by the carpenter father of the current owner, was also renovated as part of the project.

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Architizer

APRIL 17, 2023

Steel is a rather overlooked material when it comes to building facades. Most commonly used for structural purposes, its function is often limited to framing systems and building foundations. What happens when we bring steel to the forefront of a building’s design?

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ArchDaily

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

© Adam Mork Brick beams have been widely used in construction due to their strength, durability, and aesthetic appeal. By embedding steel reinforcing bars into a series of bricks arranged in a specific pattern, these elements form horizontal load-bearing structures that distribute the weight and forces that act on a building.

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Deezen

MARCH 24, 2023

Our next Timber Revolution case study profiles a mass-timber office building by Michael Green Architecture , which became the first tall wooden structure in the USA when it completed in 2016. After T3 was completed, Hines went on to build other mass timber buildings in the US and globally.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, has shared new renderings and construction photos to go along with the announcement of the impending completion of a two-year, $100 million expansion project designed by Snøhetta and Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture.

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2022

This drone video captures the exterior of 1,000 Trees , a shopping centre in China that Thomas Heatherwick 's studio designed to resemble a greenery-covered mountain. Recently opened in Shanghai, the building is covered with 1,000 structural columns that Heatherwick Studio has turned into planters for over 1,000 trees and 250,000 plants.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Envisioned as a home that embraces the outdoors, the residence is composed of four structures housing the home’s separate functions. While one structure houses the kitchen, dining and living areas, a second houses the primary suite, creating a private escape. Only six trees were removed to build all four structures.

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Deezen

JULY 27, 2023

Danish practice Henning Larsen Architects has unveiled its plans for a mass-timber university building on the Faroe Islands that draws on historic Faroese settlements and ancient North Atlantic island vernacular.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

A crematorium clad in ribbed concrete and a geometric university bell tower feature in this roundup of 10 brutalist buildings photographed by Simon Phipps for his Brutal Wales book. I'm interested in the sculptural qualities of each building and the ways in which light and shade articulate them," he continued.

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2022

The architects claimed that the building combines a religious experience with secular attitude, explaining that the church "aims to create a spatial container that both respects the past and looks towards the future.". A manmade lake surrounds the building. A manmade lake that surrounds the building provides privacy on all sides.

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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". Cross-laminated timber (CLT) floors were reinforced with beams to allow for large column-free spans in the 33-by-33-metre building.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Since The Jagger began design and construction, another 10 or so projects have sprung up on that same stretch of boulevard."

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Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Bright red curving forms and cubic volumes form Haus 2+, a mixed-use building that architecture studio Office ParkScheerbarth has added to a compact riverside site in Berlin. To both harmonise and contrast, we created a timber building with a monochrome aesthetic and a clear sculptural quality," she told Dezeen.

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Deezen

JULY 21, 2022

Architecture studio SPF Architects has completed a sports facility in Los Angeles consisting of two separate buildings that were built using pre-engineered metal structures in order to not disrupt activity at the site. SPF Architects designed atheletic buildings for the Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Complex.

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Deezen

JULY 13, 2022

Japanese practice Nori Architects has completed Minimum House in Toyota, Japan , as a "new prototype of urban housing" designed to reduce construction waste and be easily repaired or adapted in the future. The studio used simple materials for its construction. Minimum House was designed by Nori Architects.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A 164-foot-tall timber tower designed by France and Australia-based firm Moreau Kusunoki has officially completed construction. Image © Maris Mezulis Each residential unit features a private exterior space carved out by the grid façade. Here, an art gallery and restaurant ar.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Construction has been completed on the MVRDV -designed Shenzhen Women & Children’s Centre, transforming an old mixed-use tower in the Chinese megacity into a “vibrant and colorful skyscraper.” The most visible aspect of the transformation is a new facade featuring a grid of multicolored exterior frames.

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Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2024

The ADU is part of a family estate During the design process, they looked to farm structures that dot Sonoma Valley, many of which are dilapidated and have "their own strange elegance", the team said. Exterior walls are wrapped in Alaskan yellow cedar with a weathered finish.

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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 exterior is covered in white wood cladding "Accordingly, the light monochromatic home helps to emphasize and appreciate the natural colours of the site and its surroundings," the studio said.

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The Architecture Designs

APRIL 18, 2024

Building or renovating a home is an exciting yet challenging endeavor. This comprehensive guide explores the intricate process of home, floor, and basement construction, offering insights, tips, and recommendations to help you navigate this complex journey successfully. Floor Construction: Choosing the Right Material source: pinterest.cl

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Deezen

JULY 8, 2022

Sustainably-sourced timber has been used for the structure, cladding and interior of this mews home in Highgate, London , designed by local architect Russell Jones. The entire exterior is clad with Siberian larch. metre garage width, proximity of adjoining structures and required setbacks," explained Russell Jones.

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Santa Cruz Architect

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The construction industry is undergoing a transformative phase thanks to breakthroughs in material science. Advanced construction materials are revolutionizing the way we build, offering enhanced durability, sustainability, and efficiency. One of the most immediate benefits is the extension of a structure’s lifespan.

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Dwell

JUNE 6, 2023

Collective Project builds a verdant residence with bricks handcrafted out of rubble from the site. In Bangalore, and across India, rampant growth has led to a boom in new construction, especially for housing. We wondered, ‘if we’re not going to use the existing building, can we reuse the material? "We

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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

MAY 2, 2024

Architecture studio Elding Oscarson has extended the National Swedish Museum of Technology with Wisdome Stockholm, a timber building topped by a curving roof that bulges over a dome inside. Topping the rectangular building is an asymmetrical roof that bulges and curves over the visualisation dome inside.

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Architecture Ideas

MAY 15, 2023

Whether it is a house, a big corporate office, or a small office building, every structure needs to design well. It does not mean that we need to sacrifice the look of the building. It takes the creativity of an Expert Interior Design And Commercial Fitout Specialist to build a sensible building that defines their purpose.

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Deezen

APRIL 6, 2022

Located five kilometres northwest of Milan's city centre in the Piazzale Accursio area, the campus will be defined by a new contemporary government building and neoclassical-informed landscaping. A multistorey office building will be incorporated into the campus. It will also features a restored Palazzo and covered walkway.

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