Archinect

JANUARY 3, 2024

Site preparations are underway in Los Angeles in advance of the 50-month construction phase that will bring the Foster + Partners -designed One Beverly Hills residential towers to a plot adjacent to the Beverly Hilton and other area hospitality icons. acre site that includes another 8.5-acre acre site that includes another 8.5-acre

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Archinect

APRIL 11, 2022

Fifteen years ago, a world renowned architect planned to bring the Spire to Chicago a giant luxury condo building with sky high prices. Construction is set to start later this year at 400 Lake Shore Drive after more than a decade as an empty plot. Now, a new project may actually come to life there.

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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

MARCH 15, 2022

A collapsing floor injured two workers Monday at a midtown office building where falling exterior work killed a prominent architect in 2019. It is not clear at this time whether or not workers on the site were unionized or not. The accident at 729 Seventh Avenue happened just before 10 a.m.

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Archinect

JANUARY 3, 2024

Site preparations are underway in West Hollywood in advance of the 50-month construction phase that will bring the Foster + Partners -designed One Beverly Hills residential towers to a plot adjacent to the Beverly Hilton and other area hospitality icons. acre site that includes another 8.5-acre acre site that includes another 8.5-acre

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Image © Helene Binet As cities grow and evolve, the question of preserving, rehabilitating, or adapting historic sites arises. The intervention in such buildings requires a delicate balance between honoring their heritage and meeting contemporary demands.

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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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Archinect

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In a landmark initiative, the Biden-Harris Administration has released the draft National Definition for a Zero Emissions Building , setting a transformative standard for the construction sector.

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Archinect

MAY 30, 2023

Construction has begun in Warsaw on a new complex for the Polish History Museum and Polish Army Museum, designed by the Warsaw-based architectural design studio WXCA. Image credit: WXCA Three structures are to be built on the site: the headquarters of the Polish History Museum, and two buildings for the Polish Army Museum.

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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. Work below-grade is expected to begin in Q1 of 2024 and run through Q2 2025.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The catastrophic events have devastated countless heritage structures, archaeological areas and religious sites, many still active places of worship, across an area so vast that it encompasses ten Turkish provinces and impacts more than 13 million people. The city centre of Antakya [.] has been almost completely flattened.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A team led by MVRDV has begun construction on a leisure and cultural district in Shanghai on the site of a disused cement factory.

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ArchDaily

APRIL 9, 2024

ADU / Mighty Buildings. Image © Paul Vu As construction materials costs increase , builders and developers are seeking alternatives to traditional home construction methods to address housing shortages. In response, an expanding construction technology field is the 3D printing sector. Read more »

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Archinect

MAY 16, 2022

While the proposed 685-foot tower at the Hudson's site gets the most attention, the office building next door will be an active space with many places for the public to visit. Bedrock unveiled a look inside the 220-foot office building, with office, event, and dining space. The office space will span 400,000 square feet.

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Brandon Donnelly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Thursday mornings have become my construction site time. I walk the site with the team. Here is photo of the downtown skyline from Junction House this morning (there was a bit of fog): I know this goes without saying, but I think it is crucial to walk one’s sites. You need to build relationships.

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Archinect

APRIL 14, 2023

A new report from the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) has shown an alarming increase in construction worker fatalities in the city for 2022. The DOB says an increase in building activity citywide is at least partially to blame. A total of 9 fatal accidents were the result of falls, which injured another 200 workers.

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The Architect's Newsletter

MARCH 6, 2023

The Exchange building will be a regular mixed-use building when it is completed later this year.

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Architecture Ideas

MAY 4, 2023

There’s a lot to know about choosing the right equipment for your construction site. Learn why it’s important to have the necessary equipment and what to consider when choosing the right equipment for your construction site. These are the most common types of heavy machinery required for construction sites.

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Archinect

JUNE 22, 2022

The construction will take place holistically at once. And there is all the landscaping work that will commence once the construction is further along. People will begin to see the construction coming out of the ground beginning in the summer. Except for our athletic facility, whose timeline is little bit later.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

per 100,000 construction workers in New York state died on the job, a 9% increase from 11.1 The Committee also found that one-quarter of all workplace fatalities across New York state took place on construction sites, a repeat of the figure contained in the Deadly Skyline Report for 2020. In 2021, 12.1 Overall, an average of 53.6

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Deezen

MARCH 14, 2024

The extensive foundation work taking place at The Line site in northwestern Saudi Arabia has been released by Neom at property fair MIPIM. Shared by The Line chief operating officer Giles Pendleton on LinkedIn , the video – titled February progress report – shows construction continuing on the mega city.

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Archinect

JANUARY 5, 2023

The ongoing makeover of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has reached an important step as Urbanize LA is reporting that construction falsework is now in place for the $750 million new David Geffen Galleries by Peter Zumthor. The rest of the falsework should be installed by the end of January.

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2024

New photographs reveal the sinuous glass facade of The Henderson office building by Zaha Hadid Architects as it takes shape in Hong Kong 's Central Business District. We had the ambition to create a special piece of architecture that would be noticed and make waves around the world."

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Architecture firm Alterstudio has completed a tower-like house in Texas that rises up from a steep, wooded site that was long overlooked "as a possible home site". The site had long been overlooked as feasible for home construction. Alterstudio saw potential and let the constraints guide the home's design.

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BD+C

MARCH 14, 2023

Meet Spot: A robot that’s being tested to keep construction sites clean 0 qpurcell Tue, 03/14/2023 - 07:57 AEC Tech What if we could increase consistency and efficiency with housekeeping by automating this process with a robot? They were looking for novel use cases with Spot on construction projects. Introducing: Spot.

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The Architecture Designs

JANUARY 19, 2023

Owning a business in the construction industry can be a profitable way to make money. Projects get finished on time when your construction business is more productive, and you will avoid cost overruns. It’s essential to have the proper equipment, and since construction equipment gets heavy use, it needs to be high quality.

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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.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A landmark era of high-profile additions and architectural changes to the historic Brooklyn waterfront has ushered in a new chapter with today’s official public unveiling of the PAU -designed The Refinery at Domino office component at the 11-acre former Domino Sugar Factory site in Williamsburg.

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Dwell

MARCH 21, 2023

Hé Architectuur redesigned an industrial building with plaster made of dirt, straw insulation sourced from hay bales, and plenty of exposed timber. The notions of subtlety, simplicity, repetition, and flexibility were central in this project to create an easily adaptable, low-tech building. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Archinect

JUNE 15, 2022

Factory-produced homes can produce up to 45% less carbon than traditional methods of residential construction, according to new research by academics from the University of Cambridge and Edinburgh Napier University. Both were completed in 2020.

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Archinect

MAY 26, 2023

The annual contest, now in its sixth edition, sought “iconic and unique designers for a high-rise structure,” with this year featuring the “added twist” of requiring a skyscraper that was primarily constructed out of timber.

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Archinect

MARCH 21, 2022

Construction has begun on the largest cruise terminal in North America. Image courtesy of Arquitectonica The $350 million, 492,000-square-foot scheme adopts a long, thin footprint in response to site constraints, while a flowing form allows for embarking and debarking functions to be overlapped across four levels.

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Archinect

MAY 25, 2023

Construction of MVRDV ’s Matrix ONE project, a laboratory and office building in the heart of Amsterdam Science Park, has been completed. Image: MVRDV / © Daria Scagliola As the main hub at the Center, Matrix ONE aims to be a guiding example to the other buildings at the Amsterdam Science Park.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Construction work in New York — city and statewide — remains the most deadly profession in the country. In addition, nearly 80% of worker deaths were on non-union job sites. A total of 41 laborers died on the job in New York state in 2020, a decrease from 2019.

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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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