Archinect

MARCH 4, 2024

Today is World Engineering Day , and to celebrate it, Archinect has curated a few outstanding bridge projects we’ve included in our recent news coverage to highlight critical pieces of infrastructure at an important time for civil and structural engineering in the Americas and abroad.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

Studio Bark developed the Shingles project to find structural uses for otherwise unusable bits of timber Spindles began when the studio was hired to build a family home on a wooded site in Buckinghamshire in the southeast of England. "We We were there in midsummer.

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BD+C

JUNE 5, 2023

How to properly assess structural wind damage 0 dbarista Mon, 06/05/2023 - 16:17 Engineers Properly assessing wind damage can identify vulnerabilities in a building's design or construction, which could lead to future damage or loss, writes Matt Wagner, SE, Principal and Managing Director with Walter P Moore.

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Bustler

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The UK’s Institution of Structural Engineers has announced the winners of the Structural Awards 2022, which seeks to celebrate the role of structural engineers in sustainability, social impact, innovation, and ingenuity. Ten projects were honored, comprising two Supreme Award winners and eight shortlisted works.

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Archinect

JANUARY 31, 2024

The four-year construction effort yielded a total two million square feet of new office space that was built above active railroad tracks in what the firm describes as an "extraordinary" advancement of the methods used in urban design, structural engineering, and architecture.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Top: Aurore Baulier is calling on architects to use structural stone. series, which is exploring the material's potential to be a modern construction material. She advocates for the use of structural stone as part Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN), where she coordinates the Natural Materials Group.

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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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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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Dwell

MARCH 28, 2024

Assuming the role of contractor, Julie Park works through trials and tribulations to construct a Blue Sky house with a complex metal roof. Homeowner Julie Park ordered the home’s components from the prefab company Blue Sky Building Systems, and she hired architect Andrew Goodwin to assist with structural engineering and permits.

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Peruvian architects Roman Bauer Arquitectos and ESArquitectura teamed up to design a cultural institution in Lima that includes a renovation and a new building with vernacular methods and pink accents. The IFEA headquarters comprises two structures in a narrow, rectangular infill property.

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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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Archinect

MARCH 27, 2023

WoodWorks has announced the winners of the 2023 Wood Design Awards, an annual showcase of the industry’s most inspiring applications of mass timber and wood in building designs across the United States. Investing in a more sustainable future deserves to be recognized.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JULY 22, 2022

Brought to you by: Architect KieranTimberlake Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia Completion Date May 2020 Structural and Facade Engineer Thornton Tomasetti Structural Engineer (Construction Phase) Keast & Hood Landscape Architect West 8 [.].

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Deezen

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A web of glass and carbon fibres envelops Texoversum, a university building for textiles that architecture studios Allmannwappner and Menges Scheffler Architekten have created in Germany. During manufacturing, a lattice of white glass fibres is generated, onto which the black carbon fibres are placed where they are structurally needed." "In

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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 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

AUGUST 26, 2022

A team of students and researchers has shown how, with the help of robots , it's possible to build an intricate pavilion using only small pieces of timber. Custom algorithms were used to calculate the optimal arrangement for the timber 2x4s, removing the need for any larger beams within the structure.

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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. The structural system is mostly wood with an occasional steel beam. The other, which is set at an angle, holds a bedroom and bathroom.

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The Architect's Newsletter

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Brought to you by: Architect SGA Architecture Location Nashville, Tennessee Completion Date August, 2020 Architect of Record Centric Architecture Client Vanderbilt University Construction Manager Messer Structural Engineer Structural Design Group [.].

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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. Its surface uses warm, iridescent hues to blend into its natural environment.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Promotion: French engineering school École des Ponts ParisTech offers a master's degree that gives students and practitioners a comprehensive knowledge of parametric architecture, robotics and digital manufacturing. Launched in 2016, the Digital Building Design master's degree is 16 months long and is taught in English.

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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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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

Nestled beside the surrounding woodland, the cabin is wrapped by an external skin or 'monocoque' – similar to an eggshell – that draws on structural systems used within the aerospace and automotive industries. The structure draws aerospace and automative construction techniques Measuring 3.3-metres-wide, metres-wide, 3.5-metres-tall

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Architonic

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Verkehrstechnik AG, „Berliner Verbau“, Celler Grundbau GmbH demolation: Wimmelbücker Abbruch GmbH steel construction: Lausitzer Stahlbau Ruhland GmbH, Stahl- und Anlagenbau Schädlich GmbH Facing the city - The “New… architecture: slapa oberholz pszczulny | sop architekten. interior & design: slapa oberholz pszczulny | sop architekten.

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Bustler

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Moss Structural Engineers and the Toronto Metropolitan University announce the winners of its now-returned, in-person, annual TimberFever student design-build competition. He added, "I wanted to give students the opportunity to work with tools, learn about wood, and introduce collaboration between engineers and architects."

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SW Oregon Architect

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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.

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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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aasarchitecture

APRIL 2, 2024

The building splices together museum functions around an unused courtyard, and though the dome function is tall, the addition is sensitive to the vaulted hall and lower buildings defining the courtyard today. The roof mediates between the tall dome and the low facades of the one-story building, spanning 26x48m across the dome.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Large wooden beams frame the interiors of L'échappée, a multimedia library in France designed by local practice Atelier WOA as an alternative to "institutional and cold" public buildings. It has a timber structure According to Atelier WOA, this design acts as "an invitation to enter".

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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?

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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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Deezen

MARCH 29, 2023

As part of our Timber Revolution series, Dezeen asked mass-timber experts about the ongoing race to build ever-taller wooden buildings. For most buildings, tall timber does not make sense," said Arup fellow Andrew Lawrence. Timber's natural home is low-rise construction," he told Dezeen.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Scalloped sections of green-painted timber clad the facade of Lumber 4, a mixed-use building in Norway designed by local consulting agency Oslotre to demonstrate the capabilities of timber construction. Over time, the paint under the shadow will weather, leading to a changing facade with lighter and darker curved sections," it added.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 16, 2023

US studio Anacapa Architecture has transformed an early 1900s, stucco -clad building that was formerly closed off to the public into a welcoming hotel filled with compact rooms and handcrafted decor. The building has served various uses over time. The building's terracotta tile roof was retained, as well.

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Deezen

MAY 6, 2024

The nine-storey building occupies a site measuring just 83.5 square metres, which has buildings on either side. Hotel Rakuragu is located in central Tokyo "Planning windows and balconies on one side of a building for minimum lighting is typical," Kooo Architects co-founder Ayaka Kojima told Dezeen. The result is a unique shape."

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