Archinect

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The finish line for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art may still be out on the horizon, but the exterior of the $1-billion project from Star Wars and Indiana Jones creator George Lucas is starting to take shape. We’re building an institution, a 200-plus-year proposition," Director Sandra Jackson-Dumont had said previously.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A new prototype demonstration of different burgeoning smart building technologies is coming to the campus of Toronto Metropolitan University as part of a cross-institutional effort that will result in the construction of a new 3,229-square-foot Smart Campus Integration and Testing Hub (SCITHub) designed by WZMH Architects.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 2, 2023

British architecture studio Stanton Williams has designed a 35,000-square-metre academic building for the University College London, located in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The studio described the building's material palette as industrial, chosen to evoke the site's industrial history.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Courtesy of Brick Industry Association Brick is a traditional building material that enhances durability, versatility, and the aesthetic appeal of building design. In various colors, sizes, and textures, thin brick can be applied to diverse surfaces, such as walls and facades, without additional structures.

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DesignRulz

JANUARY 31, 2024

Exterior cladding is more than a cosmetic upgrade for your home. Here are the benefits of external cladding : Enhanced Protection Exterior cladding is much more than an aesthetic enhancement for your home. Cladding acts as an extra barrier, enhancing the building’s resilience and longevity. It offers many benefits.

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Archinect

APRIL 16, 2024

Housed under an expressive timber canopy, the 237,000-square-foot building will serve as an experience center for the car brand Volvo, designed around “Scandinavian values of freedom of movement, access to nature, and openness and inclusion.” Anchoring the structure is a 485,000-square-foot exhibition space.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

US studio CLB Architects has created a retreat in rural Wyoming that has three wood-clad structures, with a creek running underneath the primary residence. Located on a 35-acre (14-hectare) property near the town of Wilson, the home was envisioned as a series of "tectonic structures" set within a diverse ecosystem.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion 0 qpurcell Thu, 09/28/2023 - 10:37 Office Buildings IMEG's Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney, share seven key focuses for structural engineers when planning office-to-residential conversions. faces a housing deficit of 3.8 million units.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Secrets of a structural engineer 0 dbarista Fri, 09/08/2023 - 11:54 Engineers Walter P Moore's Scott Martin, PE, LEED AP, DBIA, offers tips and takeaways for young—and veteran—structural engineers in the AEC industry. Below is a summary of the presentation “Secrets of a Structural Engineer” that I gave to the students.

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Architizer

JUNE 17, 2022

These buildings feel light and in motion. Below are just a few examples of origami-inspired structures that can offer some out-of-the-box inspiration. In addition to being an aesthetic element, the origami-like screen also acts as a sun shade on the building’s southern and western façades.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Local architecture studio Practice for Architecture and Urbanism has installed a glass office building with a vaulted roof inside the shell of the 19th-century Domino Sugar Refinery on the waterfront in Brooklyn. There was no building to adapt.

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Deezen

JUNE 19, 2022

The team decided to strip the three-storey building down to its structural elements and completely revamp the facades and interior layout. For the exterior walls, the team used concrete blocks, which were then covered with dark brown stucco that, when dry, appears black. Structural engineering: Ricardo Camacho.

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Architizer

APRIL 17, 2023

Steel is a rather overlooked material when it comes to building facades. Most commonly used for structural purposes, its function is often limited to framing systems and building foundations. What happens when we bring steel to the forefront of a building’s design? Consequently, C.F.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Danish architecture studio BIG has completed the EPIQ tower in Ecuador , which consists of L-shaped stacked blocks that curve as they meet at the structure's centre. Each section has curved edges that wrap inwards where the two volumes meet, creating an opening that serves as the entrance to the building.

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Deezen

JULY 6, 2023

The world's largest spherical structure has been unveiled in Las Vegas Described as "living architecture", the MSG Sphere is designed by the architecture studio Populous for the company behind New York's Madison Square Garden (MSG). The post World's largest spherical structure unveiled in Las Vegas appeared first on Dezeen.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While it had typical post-hurricane storm debris, downed trees and several flooded streets, a number of homes and buildings appeared largely intact and many showed only minimal damage to their exteriors. Previously on Archinect: The building industry is preventing resiliency efforts in areas increasingly affected by deadly st.

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2024

The 18,040 square foot (1,676 square metre) administrative building is part of a larger 199,000 square foot (18,460 square metre) industrial complex for Biofarma , which produces feed for animals including poultry, swine and cattle. Large windows extend along its side.

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Deezen

JANUARY 19, 2022

This drone video captures the exterior of 1,000 Trees , a shopping centre in China that Thomas Heatherwick 's studio designed to resemble a greenery-covered mountain. Recently opened in Shanghai, the building is covered with 1,000 structural columns that Heatherwick Studio has turned into planters for over 1,000 trees and 250,000 plants.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

New York firm RKTB Architects has completed One Sullivan Place, a mixed-income apartment building that rises 12 storeys and cantilevers in two directions over the rooftop of an adjacent structure. The building is located in the Crown Heights neighbourhood, near Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

A crematorium clad in ribbed concrete and a geometric university bell tower feature in this roundup of 10 brutalist buildings photographed by Simon Phipps for his Brutal Wales book. I'm interested in the sculptural qualities of each building and the ways in which light and shade articulate them," he continued.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Its facade is interspersed with many skinny windows The seven-storey structure has a ground-level podium clad in green-painted concrete interspersed with steel gates.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The old building, a two-storey annexe, workshop and warehouse built by the carpenter father of the current owner, was also renovated as part of the project. Instead, the studio "planned a new independent structure outside the existing structure," Unemori Architects team member Keita Komori told Dezeen.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

LACMA ’s Unframed blog recently profiled the work of contractor Clark Construction to build the concrete structure for the Peter Zumthor -designed $750 million new David Geffen Galleries extension. The building has no columns!," Chris Bell, the project executive for Clark Construction, shared with Unframed.

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Deezen

MARCH 14, 2024

Dutch studio Powerhouse Company has created the Marga Klompé Building at Tilburg University, the Netherlands , is "the first college building in Europe to be entirely constructed from solid wood". Situated on a forested university campus in Tilburg , the cuboid building has a mass timber structure and facades clad in Portuguese stone.

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Deezen

MARCH 19, 2024

CannonDesign has created a student centre for a Michigan university "The primary concept of the building was to celebrate place, with a focus on elements and symbols that are universal to all people – and especially important to the Western community," Brett Lawrence, Cannon Design project manager, told Dezeen.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Bright red curving forms and cubic volumes form Haus 2+, a mixed-use building that architecture studio Office ParkScheerbarth has added to a compact riverside site in Berlin. To both harmonise and contrast, we created a timber building with a monochrome aesthetic and a clear sculptural quality," she told Dezeen.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Envisioned as a home that embraces the outdoors, the residence is composed of four structures housing the home’s separate functions. While one structure houses the kitchen, dining and living areas, a second houses the primary suite, creating a private escape. Only six trees were removed to build all four structures.

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Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2024

The ADU is part of a family estate During the design process, they looked to farm structures that dot Sonoma Valley, many of which are dilapidated and have "their own strange elegance", the team said. Exterior walls are wrapped in Alaskan yellow cedar with a weathered finish.

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Deezen

JULY 21, 2022

Architecture studio SPF Architects has completed a sports facility in Los Angeles consisting of two separate buildings that were built using pre-engineered metal structures in order to not disrupt activity at the site. SPF Architects designed atheletic buildings for the Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Complex.

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Archinect

MARCH 6, 2024

The sixteen-story tower broke ground in late 2021 and represents MAD’s first residential rental building in the United States, expected to contain 187 units. A rooftop pool, spa, and garden areas complete the 216-foot-tall structure. The opening will contain a network of footpaths and planting.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Another nine stories were added above the existing structure. The building will house some 3,000 employees of the tech giant, who said in a blog post that its design is responsive to a research-driven office strategy and supports a new workplace model that’s meant to foster greater collaboration, creativity, and growth.

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Deezen

JULY 8, 2022

Sustainably-sourced timber has been used for the structure, cladding and interior of this mews home in Highgate, London , designed by local architect Russell Jones. The entire exterior is clad with Siberian larch. metre garage width, proximity of adjoining structures and required setbacks," explained Russell Jones.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The project has several buildings with different scales. Its most prominent structure is a large rectangular building that houses 3000 dwellings, along with a spacious interior square similar to a Roman forum and exterior windows inspired by the mosaics found in Islamic architecture.

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2022

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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Deezen

JULY 13, 2022

Designed for a young family with two children, the dwelling sits on a narrow plot bordered by residential buildings and roads in the city's Aichi Prefecture. Tokyo-based Nori Architects responded with a compact two-storey home characterised by its exposed timber structure and simple interior and exterior finishes.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

The vertical, white-wood cladding and standing-seam metal roof reference regional agrarian buildings, but with contemporary refinement. The exterior is covered in white wood cladding "Accordingly, the light monochromatic home helps to emphasize and appreciate the natural colours of the site and its surroundings," the studio said.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Rendering courtesy of Moare A pink-colored aggregate was added to pre-cast panels on the pavilion’s exterior, referencing the marble materials used in the facades of the Joslyn’s other existing structures from 1931 and 1994. This trio of buildings welcomes the public via a new entrance made at Da.

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