Building and Interiors

APRIL 17, 2022

As a result, urban planners, architects, and contractors are looking for alternatives that are lightweight and allow buildings to rise taller while saving structural costs. They are one of the largest interior contractors in New Delhi, offering a wide range of services under one roof. About AJMS Engineers Private Limited.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Experts say the process of quarrying stone is one reason why there aren't more structural stone buildings. She explained that the proximity of a quarry to the construction site is important if the material is to be used sustainably. Through this, she claims it will "increase trust" in the building material.

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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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BD+C

MARCH 19, 2024

3 reasons to consider green products for your next building project rcassidy Tue, 03/19/2024 - 14:13 Casey Smyth Building Enclosure Systems Green Building Products Moisture Protection Moisture Control/Building Envelope In recent years, there has been a sharp focus on creating a more sustainable building industry.

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BD+C

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Engineered Wood Sprouts Solutions for Supermarket Chain 1 kcichowicz Wed, 10/18/2023 - 13:31 Switching from a steel roof system to an engineered wood one helped a Sprouts Farmers Market design team solve supply chain challenges and lower the location’s carbon footprint. Engineer Mo Kateeb, principal of A.V.

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Deezen

JUNE 22, 2022

Promotion: architectural manufacturer Kawneer offers aluminium facade systems that are designed to minimise environmental impact, helping buildings to achieve sustainable certification. A key aspect of Kawneer's sustainability strategy relates to material use. "Our

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Deezen

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Snøhetta created an 8,000 square feet (743 square metres) building for the museum, as well as adjoining outdoor spaces that connect the museum's Heritage Park to the street. "As The project includes the addition of a gallery and office building, as well as the further development of the museum's outdoor greenspace.

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e-architect

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The 23-storey mixed-use building, MVRDV’s first completed project on the west coast of the United States, is part of a masterplan that creates the wholly new neighbourhood “Mission Rock” overlooking San Francisco Bay. MVRDV’s residential complex The Canyon on San Francisco’s waterfront is complete.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

The studio renovated the Grade-II listed building – the only factory designed by the architect – into a "premium workspace" for property developer Dorrington. It will be occupied by wallpaper company Sanderson Design Group , which originally commissioned the building as an extension to its main factory more than a century ago.

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aasarchitecture

MARCH 13, 2024

Marga Klompé Building, designed by Powerhouse Company, is the first college building in Europe to be entirely constructed from solid wood. The building accommodates a foyer, 1 auditorium, 13 lecture halls, and self-study spaces for approximately 1,000 students.

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2024

Local architecture studio Ædifica has created a residential apartment building outside Montreal with an interior courtyard and a metal-mesh second skin on the facade. Called Cité Angus II, the structure is part of Technopôle Angus, an urban revitalization project that its developers say is a "full-scale sustainable development".

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Deezen

AUGUST 12, 2022

Polycarbonate walls and a row of tall window boxes bring diffused sunlight into the Iowa City Public Works building by US firm Neumann Monson Architects. The low-lying building is located just south of Iowa City's downtown district, near a recreational area and a future housing development. Contractor: Merit Construction.

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Architizer

AUGUST 11, 2022

It was important to prove that sustainable architecture can have a modern aesthetic. Although there are already many examples of this, often people think that sustainability requires a building to make use of “green clichés” which don’t really contribute to the buildings performance. Sustainability is everything.

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e-architect

JUNE 27, 2023

photo : Lincoln Barbour To house this diverse group of building occupants—the PSU Graduate School of Education, the OHSU|PSU School of Public Health, the PCC Dental Programs, and the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability—the Vanport Building is a seven-story, 175,000 GSF structure on a dense urban site in downtown Portland.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

It includes two new high-rise office buildings that measure over one million square feet (92,903 square metres), a central utility plant for efficient cooling and a five-storey, below-grade structure with over 3,000 square feet (280 square metres) of parking space.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Dutch architecture firm Powerhouse Company has used cross-laminated timber to construct an off-grid office building that floats on water. Floating Office Rotterdam is a three-storey building floating in Rotterdam's Rijnhaven. The building is constructed on a pontoon of 15 "concrete barges". Photo is by Sebastian van Damme.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Google has opened a building serving its North American operations in New York City that is housed in a 1930s rail terminal restored and adapted by architecture studios CookFox Architects and Gensler. The building's original rail beds were left exposed on the facade and then covered in plantings, creating a linear overhang at its entrance.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Ballard Food Bank in Seattle Building, Washington Community Facility, Wilcox Construction Inc. Ballard Food Bank, Seattle Building Design. To provide a permanent and secure base for their operations and to address the increased needs within the community, the Food Bank set out to build a new home. Civil Engineer: KPFF.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 8, 2024

The hospital consists of two distinct buildings and compromises new-build mental health facilities, provides a range of adult inpatient wards along with adult and children’s outpatient services, Recovery College, teaching facilities and support services. Source by C.F. Møller Architects.

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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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aasarchitecture

MARCH 28, 2023

With a collective commitment to enhance the city of Portland through sustainable and responsible development, four significant Portland institutions join together at the Vanport Building to share workplace resources.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Laherrère centre Pau building, Southwest France HQ architecture, Zaragoza district project photos, French office design Laherrère centre in Pau 22 September 2023 Location: Zaragoza district, Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwest France.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

Roughly rectangular in plan, the house sits on a gently sloping site and was built atop the footprint of a former building. Sustainability was a guiding concern for the team. To reduce energy usage, the team added exterior shading devices to windows and integrated operable windows to facilitate cross ventilation.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 2, 2023

British architecture studio Stanton Williams has designed a 35,000-square-metre academic building for the University College London, located in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The studio described the building's material palette as industrial, chosen to evoke the site's industrial history.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2023

Czech studio Mjölk Architekti has created a mass-timber building with a gabled solar-panelled roof for the headquarters of timber and forest management company Kloboucká lesní in the Czech Republic. But the studio also wanted to underline the possibilities of timber buildings.

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SW Oregon Architect

MAY 21, 2023

This includes having a solid understanding of architectural design principles, building codes, regulations, construction techniques, and industry standards. This requires making informed decisions during the design process, considering such factors as client requirements, budget limitations, sustainability, and safety.

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Deezen

MAY 29, 2023

The studios opened up the 9,995-square-metre building by turning one of its street-facing spaces, which had been used as a wig shop, into a cafe with street access. Our project breathes new potential into Malmö Hippodromen and equips the building for another century of life." The seating is arranged in a horseshoe shape.

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BD+C

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Dissatisfied with the one-dimensional nature of defining energy efficiency as it relates to commercial buildings, international engineering firm Buro Happold developed a metric that links energy use to economic performance.

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Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2023

LA studio Kevin Daly Architecture has created a headquarters for a Houston foundation that has a latticed canopy suspended over a white building that was created using steel and cross-laminated timber. MEP engineer: CMTA. Structural engineer: ARUP. Civil engineer: BGE. Sustainability: Transsolar.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

International studio Snøhetta has completed Beijing City Library in China , a glass-lined building filled with towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills. According to the Snøhetta, it is one of three new major cultural buildings in Tongzhou that are hoped to transform the district into "a lively arts and cultural destination".

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BD+C

JULY 25, 2014

Portland, OR – The Green Building Initiative® (GBI) has announced a wave of Green Globes certific read more. Architects Energy-Efficient Design Sustainable Design and Construction Building Owner Sustainable Development Contractors Designers Engineers Facility Managers Retail Centers Lighting'

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Project Status: Built Year: 2021 Size: 10,000 sqft – 25,000 sqft Nicol Building, Sprott School of Business – is a new academic building at Carleton University in Ottawa inspired by the school’s values of creativity, connection, and innovation. Architizer: What inspired the initial concept for your design?

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The project is formed of five interconnected glazed buildings in a stepped arrangement, with the lowest volumes located next to the Kai Tak river. It also features landscaped spaces Inside, the lower buildings house 60,000 square metres of retail space, while the tower holds 100,000 square metres of office space.

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BD+C

MARCH 2, 2023

The next steps for a sustainable, decarbonized future 0 qpurcell Thu, 03/02/2023 - 13:03 Sustainability For building owners and developers, the push to net zero energy and carbon neutrality is no longer an academic discussion. Government regulators are increasingly requiring that buildings perform more efficiently.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Read: Terroir revamps 1960s Tasmanian office "using no new resources at all" "The arrangement of spaces within the workspace is intentionally informal, creating a contrast with the building's rigid rectilinear column grid," explained Edwards. Much of this comes from the use of denim. The photography is by Peter Bennetts.

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Community Architect

JUNE 10, 2021

President Obama How buildings contribute carbon emissions My last article here dealt with the roles of buildings in CO2 emissions and climate change in general. Because buildings contribute more than a third of global emissions, architects must design buildings to be less polluting, to be carbon neutral or even carbon absorbent.

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Deezen

JANUARY 24, 2022

American firm Frederick Fisher and Partners has completed a trio of hilltop buildings for a California school that was partly destroyed by a wildfire. The project is a trio of hilltop buildings. The buildings are interspersed with walkways and gardens. Photos top and above by Logan Hall. Photos top and above by Logan Hall.

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