Deezen

AUGUST 28, 2022

Austin Maynard Architects has completed Terrace House, a self-funded apartment building in Melbourne which is low-cost, eco-conscious and has enough room for young families. Located on a narrow infill site in Brunswick, Terrace House is a six storey "ethical housing" building containing 16 apartments and three ground-level shop units.

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aasarchitecture

JANUARY 17, 2024

After won an international design competition to transform the 243,768 sqm historic military airbase site into a contemporary mixed-use project, now 10 Design continues construction. The development involves three interconnecting buildings, incorporating a shopping mall, retail, cultural and office spaces along with a boutique hotel.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Set on a prominent 4,784-square-foot triangular corner in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle, this five-story, 18,573-square-foot building will accommodate 19 apartments and 4 commercial units, including a cafe. The site slopes steeply—a 14-foot-drop—to the southeast and to downtown Seattle. Each unit is expressed.

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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. In the case of The Canyon, the ground floor is topped by two floors of offices, in turn capped by 283 apartments.

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Deezen

MARCH 25, 2024

Dutch studio MVRDV has revealed a series of residential high-rises arranged around courtyards in Shenzhen 's Qianhai bay, which will form part of a smart city development by technology company Tencent. MVRDV designed Tencent 5 as a social and green development that provides housing to employees working in the city.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2024

British architecture practice Studio Bark has worked with students from the University of East London to devise a roof-supporting column with otherwise unusable timber at a site within ancient English woodland. So we then questioned, can we use this timber, which is very much not the sort of stuff you buy on the shelf."

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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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Architizer

JANUARY 26, 2023

The design serves as an example for a progressive future of building in the City of Chicago, a city known for design innovation. The center was the first wastewater wetland system in the city, and the first mass timber building for the Chicago Park District. miles from the site.

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e-architect

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The site slopes steeply—a 14-foot-drop—to the southeast and to downtown Seattle. The portions of the volumes that extend over the sidewalk are transformed into code-conforming bay windows, preserving the volume while meeting site development requirements. The building is a study of contrasts. Each unit is expressed.

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Matt Fajkus Architecture

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

After the schematic design phase has been completed and a viable project budget has been developed, it is time to design the building’s structural system, layer in mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems, and refine the design of functional spaces.

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2024

California studio AO Architects has put forward plans for a supertall skyscraper as part of a development in Oklahoma City that, if completed, will be the second-tallest building in the United States. The skyscraper will be part of a development called the Boardwalk at Bricktown in downtown Oklahoma City.

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Deezen

MAY 4, 2024

Loader Monteith and Studio SJM won a competition to design it with their proposal to "embrace the students and the landscape" with a low-slung, L-shaped building that hugs the site's trees. The Harmeny Learning Hub comprises two buildings set atop a paved patio.

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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. Owner/Developer: Jen Muzia.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Top image: a photomontage shows it in the existing setting The shape and layout of the 17,500-square-metre building will form green terraces for several apartments on each floor. It is set to be one of the first realised buildings in the scheme. Above: the tower will be built in Tirana.

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

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Matt Fajkus Architecture

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

When starting a remodel or new construction project, an important early step is developing your budget to set realistic expectations and avoid surprises midway through the design process. Of course, each project is unique and complex sites or functional requirements can add additional costs to these elements.

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Brandon Donnelly

OCTOBER 29, 2022

There is a growing trend in Toronto right now where people want to build on top of existing buildings. Generally speaking, this is something that an owner and/or developer might want to do when you have an older building and there is now “unused” density on the site.

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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 6, 2024

The elevated site provides sweeping views of the undulating terrain and the distant ocean. SAOTA has completed a residence on an elevated site in Los Angeles The project was designed by Cape Town-based SAOTA , alongside US architect and developer David Maman and the Belgian interior designer Dieter Vander Velpen.

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e-architect

JANUARY 7, 2022

British Library Boston Spa, West Yorkshire Storage Building Development, UK Property News. Planned improvements will transform the Library’s site at Boston Spa into a modern and sustainable home for the UK’s growing national collection. British Library Boston Spa, West Yorkshire building. • 7 January 2022.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This emblematic site is a well-known hub of arts and culture, hosting thousands of free shows over the years," said Lemay , an architecture studio headquartered in Montreal. Lemay renovated the site to honour its history Despite being a beloved destination, the theatre fell into disrepair and was shuttered in 2014.

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aasarchitecture

MAY 16, 2023

The Amsterdam government has initiated the Innovation Partnership School Buildings program to build nine to thirty “highquality, flexible and sustainable” schools in ten years. All the components are precisely made in the factory under a digitally controlled process to ensure fast assembly and disassembly by an electric crane on site.

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2024

On the opposite side, where the gates are, the face of the structure is mostly glass. The standing-seam metal roof was painted in Boston Red, a shade of prismatic paint custom-developed for the project at Monopol Color Lab in Switzerland. MEP engineering, special systems, asset management: Arora Engineers, Inc.

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Dwell

APRIL 20, 2023

ROAR Architects turned a confined site into a light-filled social space with a vaulted ceiling inspired by ship-building techniques. The owners of this property were operating on a tight budget and needed more space but the site was extremely constrained. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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. Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) tools and processes enhanced teamwork, delivered value, and inspired innovation.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

It also presented an opportunity for the firm to demonstrate one of their beliefs about urban renewal – that well-designed architecture can catalyse change and have a positive impact on a community.Occupying a corner site on St. Dubbeldam’s studio occupies the top floor of the building. Text description provided by the architects.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Maggie's Royal Free features curving walls The curved building is London's fourth Maggie's Centre , joining designs by Steven Holl Architects , Ab Rogers Design and RSHP that hope to provide cancer care in a more calming and homely environment than a traditional hospital. Timber panels clad the exterior Reaching 11.4

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aasarchitecture

MAY 8, 2024

Møller Architects has advised the NHS Trust in the planning and phasing of the surrounding residential development and urban design around the hospital, including the conversion of the former golf course into a new public park. Source by C.F. Møller Architects. Photo © Mark Hadden Location: Wandsworth, London, UK Architect: C.F.

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e-architect

AUGUST 24, 2023

Photo Credit: Hufton + Crow and MICA From the outset, the aim was to design an environmentally sustainable building that would enhance the public realm in an area of the city centre so rich in history but which had suffered a significant drop in footfall in recent years.

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Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

Timber flooring and furniture feature on the interior The cabin was constructed as a self-build project undertaken by Markos, along with help from prefabrication specialists at BlokBuild and Price & Myers. Additionally, a wind turbine and solar panels are installed on the site to provide energy for the off-grid structure.

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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

JUNE 26, 2023

MVDRV has unveiled The Canyon in San Francisco The building is largely residential, comprising 283 housing units – with nearly a third set aside for "middle-income families" – and two floors of offices above the ground floor. The plan is for all of the buildings to host different aspects of the development's utilities.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The area around the site is defined by two main urban principles: traces of the original mediaeval small-scale structure can be found in the city structure, as well as the rational, representative scale of the imperial capital. Image © David Chipperfield Architects. Image © David Chipperfield Architects.

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BD+C

AUGUST 17, 2023

University Buildings Mixed-Use Retail Centers Shopping Centers Designers Adaptive Reuse In a very short period of time, our economy has changed. Best Practices: Work with What You Have Any architect can look at a dilapidated site and suggest tearing it down and starting from scratch. Develop a strong branding strategy.

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Dwell

MAY 3, 2023

From the northwestern side of the site is a wedge of bio-corridor stretching along the Dalejský Brook. Urban space surrounds the site on the south and east sides. It is a chaotic and random development, often adversely affecting the value of the projected terrain.

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