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Renzo Piano Building Workshop puts the finishing touches on 600 W. 125th residential tower for Columbia University

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Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) is progressing towards the completion of its new 600 W. Thornton Tomasetti is in charge of delivering the building’s facade system. 125th Street off-campus Harlem housing project for Columbia University in collaboration with CetraRuddy. The construction has been engineered to meet LEED v4.0

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space perspective finishes building largest travel capsule ‘excelsior’ for flights out of earth

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now that building the spaceflight capsule excelsior has concluded, space perspective is preparing to take it out of earth for test flights, in time for commercial space travel in 2025.

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This 3D printed social housing apartment building aims to become Europe's first of its kind

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German company PERI 3D Construction is collaborating with construction printer manufacturer COBOD on what the team describes as the “first 3D printed social housing apartment building in Germany and Europe.” ” The three-floor building will contain six apartment units ranging from 670 to 890 square feet.

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BetteAnti-Slip Sense finishes by Bette

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This iteration of the BetteAnti-Slip Sense finish builds upon the benefits of the original treatment launched in 2022 , retaining its water-activated technology and applying it to a greater range of sanitaryware. The post BetteAnti-Slip Sense finishes by Bette appeared first on Dezeen.

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Exterior finishes of Gehry's Warner Bros. Second Century expansion nearly complete

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Just north of the SR-134 Freeway in Burbank, vertical construction is all but finished for the Warner Bros. Second Century expansion, and exterior finishes are climbing the hulking concrete buildings. Now, as seen through new photos, the exterior finishes of the Warner Bros.

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Exploring the Passive Architectural Strategies in Renzo Piano’s Iconic Buildings

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This is often made explicit in his sketches, as an initial concern, and clearly comes through in the finished works. The Whitney Museum of American Art at Gansevoort. Image © Nic Lehoux It's no exaggeration to say that Renzo Piano is one of the most unanimously respected architects in the world of architecture. Read more »

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Schemata Architects embraces rough material finishes for gallery in Seoul

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The rough finishes of an existing concrete and brick structure are contrasted by white exhibition spaces at Arario Gallery in Seoul , completed by Japanese studio Schemata Architects. The gallery is located at the rear of the Space Group Building, a modernist icon in South Korea that houses the Arario Museum.

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