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SAL floating public building by SOUR

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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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Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: O

SW Oregon Architect

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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Innovation Partnership School Buildings by OMA

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The Amsterdam government has initiated the Innovation Partnership School Buildings program to build nine to thirty “highquality, flexible and sustainable” schools in ten years. The biobased walls – made with carbon absorbing raw materials – are lighter and require less energy for transportation.

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Studio Bark devises structural use for waste timber in English woodlands

Deezen

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 The spindle shape — fatter in the middle, thinner in the ends — is also useful. "If

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Nanjing K.Wah G72 by UNStudio

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Its dynamic programming of high-rise office towers, commercial and cultural functions, two serviced apartment buildings, a headquarter tower and a luxury hotel forms an urban silhouette that rises from the central waterfront area to either side of the complex.

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This New Zealand Holiday Home Is as Cozy as a Cocoon

Dwell

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners.

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A Wood Canopy With Netting Fills Out a Glass-Wrapped New York Apartment

Dwell

Like inhabitable diagrams, these installations can be read as two fragments of a 3D-gridded matrix—the timber framework expressing x-, y-, and z- lines of interconnecting spatial relations." Post it here.

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