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Deconstruction by Design: How Architects Are Redefining Practice Through Material Reuse

Architizer

Participants were encouraged to explore construction techniques using recycled materials, buying into the farm’s sustainable ethos, and demonstrating the potential of urban waste as a building material. RÉCO relies solely on donations from businesses and individuals, some of whom may receive a charitable receipt.

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Why aren't more architects using stone as a building material?

Deezen

Experts say the process of quarrying stone is one reason why there aren't more structural stone buildings. Through this, she claims it will "increase trust" in the building material. We cannot build traditionally like we did 70 years ago on site, with wet trades, mortars and so on," said Bidaud. "We

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Flow Bar & Lab?Reappearance of Commercial Landscape by Jingle Design

Archinect

Jingle Design always build the commercial space from the perspective of director, revitalizing the space by breaking the limitation of creative art and visual art. Eliminating the past design and perception boundaries, the designers create new and innovative design in this project.

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Building tall with timber "does not make sense" say experts

Deezen

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. A global race to build taller timber is now underway. This also limits the amount of useable space."

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New York Institute of Technology spotlights seven fabrication and robotics projects

Deezen

Bio Receptive Panel by Meraj Nasir and Jacob Sam "This project explores the concept of bioreceptivity, an ecological term that describes the ability of living organisms to colonise and occupy a man-made building material. The Muqarnas in this case is treated as a deconstructed component that manifests in three different forms.

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Deconstructivist architecture "challenges the very values of harmony, unity and stability"

Deezen

While for most of the 20th century, the experimental, the innovative and the new had driven architectural culture forwards, by the late 1970s postmodernism had it pushing in many different directions: back as well as forwards, maybe sideways too – or even just staying still. Guggenheim Bilbao is a distinctive deconstructivist building.

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AM-arqstudio

ArchiDiaries

In addition to developing current projects, he was responsible for forming teams in BIM (Building Information Modeling) methodology. It arises due to work developed since 2016 and the search for innovative responses to modern architecture in Portugal. Practice Ideology.