Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2023

British architect Norman Foster explains his studio 's approach towards sustainability and his views on concrete, timber, aviation and Architects Declare in this exclusive interview. Foster said the studio, which is the UK's largest, aims to create buildings that are both sustainable and improve people's lives.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As the architectural profession grapples with its historical complicity in the climate crisis, designers and users alike are transforming expectations for what buildings are and can do. More recently, the firm has published a Sustainability Manifesto and introduced a Sustainability Team to collaborate throughout the design process.

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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

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. The terminal becomes the iconic front door to the entire airport campus.

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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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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. A pilot school in Amsterdam has been developed in collaboration with Studio A Kwadraat.

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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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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

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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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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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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

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. MEP engineer: Modus.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2022

British Library Boston Spa, West Yorkshire Storage Building Development, UK Property News. Getting the green light: sustainable British Library redevelopment granted planning permission by Leeds City Council. British Library Boston Spa, West Yorkshire building. • British Library Boston Spa, West Yorkshire. 7 January 2022.

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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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Deezen

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

A group of students from Arizona State University has completed an outdoor classroom pavilion as part of a design-build studio programme. The project was completed in the spring 2021 semester, as part of Arizona State University's (ASU) larger initiative to build outdoor classrooms to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

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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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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Clair West at the edge of Corso Italia, the under-utilized building was in decline and disrepair from more than a decade of neglect before the studio began the process of transformation. Dubbeldam’s studio occupies the top floor of the building. Text description provided by the architects. © Dubbeldam Architecture + Design.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The idea started in May 1988, born of a conversation between Feist and fellow professor and structural engineer Bo Adamson of Lund University, Sweden. In this way, a building that adopts Passivhaus principles remains at a completely comfortable temperature every day and night, no matter the season outside.

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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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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 7, 2023

O’Connor Building for Engineering and Science is now open. News & World Report and the O’Connor Building will only elevate this standing. “We looked beyond the boundaries of the building to transform a core location on this important, historic campus,” said SOM Design Principal Javier Arizmendi.

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2022

Located at the Changhua Coastal Industrial Park near Taichung, the building will be covered in angled photovoltaics and used to store and maintain sustainable energy equipment. The southern side of the building, which faces the sun during the middle of the day, will have a large surface area that slopes gently downwards.

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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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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. These volumes initially follow the curved street lines up to the eaves height of the surrounding buildings.

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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. It has cross-laminated timber structural elements. MEP engineer: CMTA. Structural engineer: ARUP.

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e-architect

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

FBW Group Appointed To Transformational African ‘green City’ Development in Rwanda. Leading East African planning, design, architecture and engineering firm FBW Group has been appointed to the international team tasked with delivering the trailblazing Kigali Green City project in the Rwandan capital. 24 November 2022. Images by FCBS.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed two buildings on the Manhattanville campus of Columbia University 's School of Business in New York City. The two buildings – Henry R Kravis Hall and David Geffen Hall – were designed in collaboration with FXCollaborative for Manhattanville, a 17-acre (6.9-hectare)

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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

MAY 25, 2023

Comprising a loosely-stacked series of individual homes, the design is open and porous, allowing light and air to permeate the entire building and creating plenty of open and green spaces for residents of all ages to enjoy and share. The design of the building targets LEED-Platinum certification.

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aasarchitecture

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Nanjing K.Wah G72 is expected to be one of the most expansive mixed-use developments in the Chinese city. UNStudio was commissioned by the developer K.Wah Group to create a human-centric destination where sustainability and culture play a key role in the daily lives of locals and visitors alike.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 1, 2023

The City of Vilnius has issued the building permit for Business Stadium Central designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. Flexible office spaces located within the central floors of each of the towers are designed with maximum adaptability to extend the life-cycle of the development.

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Deezen

MARCH 27, 2024

The temporary restaurant was designed by Pearce+ Each year, the food festival commissions the construction of a temporary structure that responds to its environment and incorporates sustainable reuse. "[The It was stretched over the framework. RAW:almond was a huge leap – would people embrace the winter and eat outdoors?

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A museum in Dubai dedicated to the future, which has been dubbed "the most beautiful building in the world" by the emirate's ruler, has officially opened its doors. The distinctive form led Dubai ruler and UAE vice president Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to state that the museum is "the most beautiful building in the world".

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Deezen

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The colourful facade fades to white towards the top of the tower The bright green, pink, yellow and orange facade fades to white towards the upper levels of the building, where a hotel with 201 rooms is located. Originally used for car parking, the studio transformed the terrace into a public space with a food court.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2022

Working with certified Passivhaus designer Conker Conservation , the studio created Library House to meet the Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB) standard. The AECB Building Standard is aimed at those wishing to create high-performance buildings using widely available technology," Macdonald Wright explained.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The revamp of the 354,000-square-metre station is MAD 's first station and the studio hopes it will "redefine transportation infrastructure buildings in China". The glass facade and skylights allow natural light into the building, while allowing a clear view of the reconstruction of the old station front from inside the building.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 27, 2023

Mākena Golf and Beach Club is a Discovery Land Company member community located on the southern tip of Maui, developed through a vision of sustainability. The club is conceived as a garden courtyard building, a type that has proven to be well adapted to tropical climates, as natural ventilation allows a building to breathe.

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