Archinect

APRIL 16, 2024

New updates have been shared recently by the Los Angeles Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), charting progress on the $750 million new David Geffen Galleries from Peter Zumthor that is expected to finish construction by the end of this year. A recent look inside the project with its contractor Clark Construction can be found here.)

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Archinect

MAY 20, 2022

Earlier this week, we explored the relationship between architecture and construction science disciplines through the lens of a Building Scientist position at Payette. Students from the school's architecture and building construction science departments worked together in a unique studio called the PCI Foundation Studio.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Cortesia de Urbem Mass timber is an innovative construction solution that is gaining prominence worldwide due to its sustainability and technological benefits. In addition, its use allows for cleaner, lighter, and faster construction compared to traditional building methods.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 11, 2024

Facade of a modern building with ventilation pipes. The building background. Image © Stanislav71/ Shutterstock Rising demands for energy efficiency, technical functionality, and interior comfort in buildings necessitate the development of more efficient building envelope constructions. Read more »

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Archinect

MARCH 19, 2024

Chinese state-owned construction contractor will build China’s largest soccer park in Guangzhou on the site where struggling Chinese property developer China Evergrande Group was supposed to build its soccer stadium. The site was originally meant for a 100,000-seat stadium designed by Gensler.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

MVRDV says a total of 390 trees will be planted throughout the structure, helping to defy “traditional housing norms” in order to present a refreshed take on urban dwelling that’s in tune with Paris’ need for biodiversity and constructed using a host of low-carbon materials.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Image © Will Boase Photography Bricks are part of the collective imagination when thinking about construction. These are elementary, ubiquitous, modular, light, and reliable materials for erecting buildings. AWF Primary Schools in Karamoja / Localworks.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The codes will require new homes and buildings to meet the same total energy performance as those built with electric heat pumps while allowing builders flexibility to choose appliances. Basically, if builders choose gas appliances, they will need to make up the efficiency losses elsewhere in the construction.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The intervention in such buildings requires a delicate balance between honoring their heritage and meeting contemporary demands. Often, the most innovative and radical solutions emerge when architects attempt to renew a building while maintaining its original footprint and as many features as possible.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The industry group Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) has just published a new guide to AI resources for contractors working closely with architects on building projects across the U.S.

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Archinect

AUGUST 25, 2023

The body in charge of K-12 planning and construction in New York City was recently profiled by the AIA New York as it prepares for a surge in student enrollment that’s expected over the next decade. million students. million students.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Reuters is reporting that construction on the forthcoming 64-story Elbtower Tower project in Hamburg, Germany, from David Chipperfield Architects has been halted over a payment dispute between its client Signa and a local builder. The news came last week after more than two years of construction.

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Archinect

APRIL 12, 2022

If we have to take the moral standards and political correctness into account, then we should instead be talking about where you can then even build at all. Then I can’t build in Russia, and I can’t build in China or Saudi Arabia. I’m not allowed to build for the Church, either, because it is morally depraved.

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Archinect

APRIL 21, 2023

Construction is set to begin on the Steven Holl Architects -designed Ostrava Concert Hall in the Czech Republic. Hall won the competition for the scheme’s design back in 2018 with a proposal that saw the concert hall “encased” in a case of zinc.

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Archinect

MARCH 12, 2024

Preliminary details from the ongoing National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) investigation into the deadly 2021 collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Florida were shared recently, revealing evidence that supports theories about the precise source of its structural failure and other prevailing factors.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 21, 2023

Courtesy of Artium Ljungberg | Henning Larsen Atrium Ljungberg has just revealed Stockholm Wood City – the world's largest urban construction project in wood. Construction on the project is expected to begin in 2025, and the first buildings are expected to be completed in 2027. Read more »

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

While Portland has developed a bad reputation regarding its homelessness problem, in the past four years resources have flowed in the right direction, and designers have taken this in stride to design livable and striking buildings, within very restrictive budgets.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In 45 days, the construction team will be on site to begin site clearing and mobilization. Once underground work is done, crews will transition to vertical construction, including concrete pours, the building enclosure, and interiors. Crews will begin below-grade work, including caissons, sheeting, and the cofferdam.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A new report driven by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Yale University 's newly-formed Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture (Yale CEA) has recommended drastic reductions in the industry’s use of certain construction materials as it faces the environmental headwinds of sector-wide change.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A new prototype demonstration of different burgeoning smart building technologies is coming to the campus of Toronto Metropolitan University as part of a cross-institutional effort that will result in the construction of a new 3,229-square-foot Smart Campus Integration and Testing Hub (SCITHub) designed by WZMH Architects.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 3, 2024

Image © Dave Burk Four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, its effects are still felt in the construction and real estate sectors in the United States. As architects design for the future of work , the real estate market faces divided perspectives on whether to invest in the country's growing inventory of vacant office buildings.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Today, we are witnessing several projects and approaches in architecture that explore alternatives to energy-intensive building systems, materials , and technologies commonly used in today's construction. Additionally, these elements strengthen the building's identity by connecting it to the surrounding landscape. Read more »

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Ferris says the strength of Arizona's water law is that it links building decisions with water decisions. Lawmakers are now trying to put a halt to the build-to-rent exemption in the face of a population influx and despite developer’s lobbying. No other Western state requires cities to look a hundred years into the future.

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Archinect

MAY 29, 2023

What is the current relationship between humans, robotics, and construction? What is its future? This article is part of the Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence series.

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Archinect

JULY 5, 2023

Much has changed since workers building the 66-story, 850-foot-tall Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan posed for “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” in 1932, but it remains construction’s most iconic photograph. The photo also symbolizes the ongoing fight for continued worker protection.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Image Cortesia de Journeyman International Throughout history, architecture has always been associated with the elite and the wealthiest echelons of society, who commissioned sumptuous buildings to satisfy their aesthetic and functional needs. Architecture was, and often still is, a symbol of power and prestige. Read more »

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Image © Valerie Bennett Timber has been a popular source of construction material for thousands of years. Although these practices are fairly absent in contemporary building techniques, new technological innovations expand the prospects of timber construction in architecture. Wood Chip Barn Project, 2016. Read more »

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Archinect

JANUARY 17, 2023

The American Institute of Architects has published a forecast for nonresidential construction spending for 2023 and 2024, in which it projects positive though modest growth. The AIA Consensus Construction Forecast was computed as an average of nine separate forecasts for nonresidential construction made by industry groups.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 30, 2023

A variety of subjects are covered with honesty and humor: some episodes are interviews, while others are tips for fellow designers, reviews of buildings and other projects, or casual explorations of everyday life and design. The two cover the processes, the role of the architect throughout, controlling project costs, and more. Read more »

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Archinect

JANUARY 16, 2024

MVRDV has come out on top of an international competition to deliver a pair of new buildings as part of the forthcoming Tianfu Software Park development in Chengdu , China. The scheme calls for the construction of two towers defined by a cascading vertical garden concept.

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Archinect

MAY 27, 2022

Called the Center for Community Life, the new public building will form part of a community facility hub for the districts of San Andreu and Nou Barris set to be built in the coming years. A new multi-use complex made nearly entirely of wood has been introduced to Barcelona ’s Trinitat Vella district.

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BD+C

MARCH 22, 2023

Onsite prefabrication for healthcare construction: It's more than a process, it's a partnership 0 dbarista Wed, 03/22/2023 - 10:32 Project + Process Innovation Prefabrication can help project teams navigate an uncertain market. One answer to consider is onsite prefabrication (or industrialized construction). AND WHY DO IT?

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Archinect

MARCH 22, 2024

The two-phase project will deliver accommodations for 4,000 students by 2029, led by the new 2,140-bed San Benito complex that will be completed in time for Fall 2027 after a two-year construction. This led to the controversial self-design proposal for a mostly windowless 3,500-bed dorm building.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Wanting to raise their two children there, Betsy, a midwife, and her husband, Andrew, who runs his design-build firm Croft (which makes carbon-sequestering prefab panels), located a site on the hill to create a new home for their family. Andrew relied on his architecture education and carpentry background to build it largely himself, by hand.

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MAY 14, 2023

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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Archinect

MAY 23, 2023

Toyo Ito has shared a video update at the conclusion of his firm’s monumental academic building project, titled "Gaia," for the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. The completed mass timber design is now reportedly the largest of its kind in Asia, topping out at six stories and a total of 468,000 square feet.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Architecture and construction go hand-in-hand. Designing and building profoundly shape how we live; the two disciplines are also tied to processes of imagination and bringing ideas to life — uniquely human endeavors. If such a thing exists, what exactly is human-free construction? Check out the full schedule !

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