Design Thoughts Architects

JANUARY 19, 2022

10 Best Criteria to Know the Estimation of Your Dream House. Before you start building your house, you should estimate some important elements like affordability, land availability, legal formalities, location, house construction cost, and time till you put the final brick in the wall. CARPET AREA + WALL AREA = BUILT UP AREA.

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2022

The system combines generative design and robotic fabrication to allow tree forks – the pieces of wood where a trunk or branch splits into two – to be used as the Y-shaped nodes that connect straight building elements. MIT's Digital Structures group has built a demo structure using tree forks as joints.

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Dwell

JANUARY 16, 2024

Though increasingly rare due to urban planning, in recent years, some of the surviving structures are being reimagined. Within Japan’s megacities, there remain a dwindling number of early-20th-century buildings from a time when Western influences contributed to shifting tastes away from traditionalism and toward something a little…kitschier.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The controversial bridge is estimated to cost approximately $5 billion and take around seven years to build. The structure is also designed to withstand 180-mile-per-hour winds and up to 7.1-magnitude The long-delayed project would stretch more than 10,800 feet if completed. magnitude earthquakes.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

Design studio HGA has completed a pair of educational facilities , Mills Hall and Gibbons Center, that are among the first "commercially scaled mass-timber buildings" in the state of Maine. Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The catastrophic events have devastated countless heritage structures, archaeological areas and religious sites, many still active places of worship, across an area so vast that it encompasses ten Turkish provinces and impacts more than 13 million people. The World Bank estimates the total physical damage in Turkey to be approximately $34.2

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Architizer

MAY 8, 2024

The allure of hosting the Olympic Games often sparks a fervent desire to erect iconic and grandiose structures, showcasing human achievement and architectural prowess. The original design called for a striking wave-like roof structure of 35,000 square feet but was reduced by a third, to 11,200 square feet to meet budget constraints.

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Archinect

AUGUST 18, 2023

New York City officials announced plans on Thursday to ease the conversion of office buildings to housing and to open manufacturing areas south of Times Square to new residential development, as part of a broader push to reinvent the struggling business district in Midtown Manhattan and address the city’s housing crisis.

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Archinect

AUGUST 9, 2023

The money will contribute to the project’s estimated $70 million price tag. The structure’s undulating roof results in a series of peaks and valleys that combine to form a star-shaped courtyard in the middle of the museum. The 50,000-square-foot museum takes on a handcrafted design, utilizing materials such as heavy timber.

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Archinect

JANUARY 30, 2023

Plans call for the construction of three buildings featuring approximately 840,000 square feet of offices, educational, cultural, and commercial space. While the project would roughly double the size of the existing 1970s structures at Restoration Plaza, the property's namesake open space would be retained by building up, rather than out.

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Architecture Ideas

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It’s an exciting journey to build your own house, serving as a reflection of you. From planning to on-site construction, a lot goes behind building a house. Let’s understand every phase of the construction with a step-by-step guide on how to build a house. Let’s see how to build your own house. What is my Budget?

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The new pavilion will consist of two buildings, framing an entrance to the river greenway, each featuring public restrooms. The new structures will support a shade canopy displaying public art. Total estimated costs for the design is $5.1 Other components include picnic tables, bike racks, and a drinking fountain.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Climate change is making it harder to prioritise retrofitting buildings to withstand earthquakes, architect John Lesak tells Dezeen in this interview for our Designing for Disaster series. Lesak, a principal at California architecture studio Page and Turnbull , has spent decades making older buildings more resilient to seismic activity.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

There are no estimates available yet as to the number of structures either collapsed or damaged across the region, but a minimum of 3,400 lives have been lost as a result of the quake and a wave of very powerful aftershocks as concerns grow about both governments' ability to organize civil response efforts in the most impacted regions.

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Archinect

APRIL 15, 2022

Onni Group, the Canadian real estate development firm which has emerged as one of the most prolific builders in Downtown Los Angeles, has broken ground on the neighborhood's first high-rise building since the onset of the global pandemic.

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The Architecture Designs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

If you are undertaking a new construction project, renovating a home extensively, or carrying out other construction works, you may need to hire a civil engineer, structural engineer, or both. Type of Structure. Failure or Collapse of a Building. source: pinterest.com. Louis with extensive research handling such projects.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2023

As our Timber Revolution series comes to an end, we round up the 10 significant buildings that have pushed the use of mass-timber. Even despite the extensive freightage, university researchers said that the 10-storey building's environmental impact was still smaller than if it had been constructed using concrete.

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Santa Cruz Architect

AUGUST 24, 2022

CTBUH certifies Ascent as World’s Tallest Mass Timber Building. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has officially declared the recently-opened Ascent tower by Korb + Associates Architects the world’s tallest timber-concrete hybrid building. building codes. building codes.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Mr. Kelly is one of a growing number of local officials who are calling for a network of elevated buildings and platforms along the Northwest coast that could provide an escape for thousands of people who might otherwise be doomed in the event of a tsunami.

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Deezen

JULY 22, 2022

Canadian studio Icon Architects has released its design for a 31-storey tower in Toronto that, if completed, will be the tallest mass-timber structure in North America. The structure has been proposed for downtown Toronto, near the University of Toronto. The building will leave the heritage buildings at streetlevel.

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Archinect

JUNE 14, 2022

The Line, as the car-free linear city that will form the backbone of Neom is known, could cost up to $200 billion to build, the prince said last year, though that was before the plan changed to include gigantic horizontal buildings.

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The Arch Insider

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Planning to build your career as an architect? If one is choosing architecture as a career, one would essentially be responsible for planning, designing, and overseeing the construction of a building. It is the responsibility of an architect to make the lives of building occupants easier and more comfortable.

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The Arch Insider

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Planning to build your career as an architect? If one is choosing architecture as a career, one would essentially be responsible for planning, designing, and overseeing the construction of a building. It is the responsibility of an architect to make the lives of building occupants easier and more comfortable.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

German architecture firm Henn and the Technical University of Dresden have completed the world's first building made of carbon concrete – a form of concrete reinforced with carbon fibre instead of steel. Components and structures can be designed thinner, with material savings of 50 per cent or more.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Dubbed Alpine House, the lodge is the fruit of an idea that owner Larry Lantero came up with during the pandemic: to build a house in Colorado made entirely of wood killed by bark beetles. The two structures that comprise the home are connected by a breezeway and a Nordic sauna. That’s when he found out about beetle kill pine.

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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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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2022

The structure is notable for being entirely made from coconut-palm wood – a material that despite being naturally abundant in the area is rarely used for housing, RED Arquitectos founder Susana López González told Dezeen. The use of these materials and the avoidance of paint and ceramics helped to reduce the building's carbon footprint.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

With the right shapes, he argues, we could create high-rise buildings with far less concrete and, in many cases, almost no steel reinforcements whatsoever. And like the Gothic cathedrals he loves, these structures would stand for centuries, persisting through hurricanes, earthquakes and floods. Photo by J. Kurt Schmidt.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

The Texas Capitol Complex was designed by Page Southerland Page Phase 1 – which is estimated as a $600 million investment – opened in 2022. Pedestrian pathways provide connections Sunset red granite and glazed curtain walls will comprise the office buildings in Phase 2, which is slated to open at the end of 2026.

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Deezen

MARCH 27, 2024

Read: Sagrada Familia shows stone "can return to being used as a structural material" In recent years, the speed of construction has increased with a team from engineering firm Arup invited to help speed up the construction and reduce the weight of one of its many colossal elements.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The city of Philadelphia is prepared to release a report detailing a months-long community engagement effort officials say will inform the fate of the Roundhouse, the unusual concrete building that served as police headquarters for more than six decades. A final decision on its fate is expected sometime within the calendar year.

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Architizer

AUGUST 26, 2022

The Health Sciences Innovation Building (HSIB) provides space for integrated, interprofessional medical and healthcare education, training and research. Martin Associates – Structural Engineer – KGM Architectural Lighting – Lighting – CO Architects – Design Architect & Architect of Record. Year: 2019.

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SW Oregon Architect

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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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Deezen

APRIL 16, 2024

Ross Barney Architects has created a deep-space technology research centre in Ohio The building forms part of a master plan for the NASA site, which has also been designed by Ross Barney Architects. The copper in the concrete allows for the building to act like a Faraday cage, completely isolating it from outside radio interference.

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e-architect

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

De Castillia 23 Milan Tall Building, Unipol Group Property in Isola district, Italian Architecture Redevelopment Photos. De Castillia 23 Milan Building. The CTBUH – Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in Chicago, honours De Castillia 23 with the Award of Excellence 2022. 25 November 2022. Design: Progetto CRM.

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RMJM Architecture

JANUARY 25, 2023

Estimated reading time: 3 min Wood. One of the oldest materials used by man, having served as an important construction material for thousands of years to build shelters, houses, boats and many other structures. The post Materials In Review: Wood appeared first on RMJM.

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BD+C

MAY 11, 2023

Let's build toward a circular economy 0 qpurcell Thu, 05/11/2023 - 09:34 Sustainability Eric Corey Freed, Director of Sustainability, CannonDesign, discusses the values of well-designed, regenerative buildings. A sustainable relationship to a building, community and planet should be the floor, not the ceiling.

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