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Birdproof glass technology is getting better – but it's popularity still hasn't taken off

Archinect

Architects have known how to prevent their buildings from becoming bird killers for more than a decade: Patterned glass, exterior screens and turning the lights off at night can all significantly reduce bird deaths. But those standards clash with the big glass and big views that clients associate with big money.

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Bundang Doosan by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF)

Archinect

Comprising two towers connected by a 100-meter tall skybridge, the headquarters building forms a new landmark near the main tollgate to and from Seoul. The tower's rational form contains office, auditorium, and tenant amenity space, including the Doosan History Museum and a café that opens up to the landscaped roof terrace.

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Birdproof glass technology is getting better — but its popularity still hasn't taken off

Archinect

Architects have known how to prevent their buildings from becoming bird killers for more than a decade: Patterned glass, exterior screens and turning the lights off at night can all significantly reduce bird deaths. But those standards clash with the big glass and big views that clients associate with big money.

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SOM completes restoration of Lever House, a midcentury Manhattan office icon

Archinect

The scope of their work entailed the creation of a new lobby, ground-level public plaza, installation of an entirely new modernized building system, and 15,000-square-foot Lever Club hospitality suite in addition to redesigned interior spaces from Marmol Radziner. Costs for the project were around $100 million.

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In Amsterdam, a new residential development draws on canyons, forests, and beaches

Archinect

Titled Jonas and situated on the artificial island of Ijburg, the building is centered around a “concentration of special places” inspired by rocks, islands, forests, beaches, and canyons.

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Timeless lines framing the landscape

Habitus Living

Their brief was simple: to provide a contemporary and timeless four-bedroom home which champions the landscape, one that is as equally well suited to entertaining as their day-to-day rituals,” says Ed Davis, principal at Davis Architects. The post Timeless lines framing the landscape appeared first on Habitusliving.com.

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White-metal fins form abstract exterior of Büro Ziyu Zhuang's Chamber Church

Deezen

The architects claimed that the building combines a religious experience with secular attitude, explaining that the church "aims to create a spatial container that both respects the past and looks towards the future.". A manmade lake surrounds the building. A manmade lake that surrounds the building provides privacy on all sides.

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