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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Dwell

MARCH 21, 2023

Hé Architectuur redesigned an industrial building with plaster made of dirt, straw insulation sourced from hay bales, and plenty of exposed timber. The notions of subtlety, simplicity, repetition, and flexibility were central in this project to create an easily adaptable, low-tech building. Have one to share? Post it here.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 30, 2023

Image © xvan72/AdobeStock As one takes a visual tour through the city, one might spot structures that break the rhythm of finished architectural products. These are buildings encased in grids of metal or wooden sections, sometimes wrapped in colored nets, that communicate a moment of construction, repair, renovation, or demolition.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The building inserts Niemeyer's curves into São Paulo's dense verticality, creating a distinctive rhythm that becomes a landmark for all who encounter it. Image: © Maíra Acayaba The landscape of downtown São Paulo would not be the same without the presence of Copan.

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ArchDaily

APRIL 9, 2024

These blocks are available in a variety of dimensions and textures, ranging from traditional smooth surfaces to fluted or rough finishes. The dimensions vary, from the classic 8x8x16 inches (approximately 19x19x39 cm) intended for structural use, to a size of 8x3.5x39 inches (approximately 19x9x39 cm) for partitioning walls.

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Deezen

JUNE 10, 2024

Taiwanese studio Divooe Zein Architects has transformed a series of disused industrial structures outside Taipei into a secluded retreat surrounded by mountains and forest. In the tea rooms, a metal and glass bar and shelves overlook tables finished in rough wood, and a curving metal form hugs an area of floor-level seating with a low table.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The project comprises a clinic and two apartment units Fronted by a sculptural facade, the 750-metre-square building is punctured by irregular circular and rectangular openings on the upper floor, while operable windows line the ground floor. One of the facades looks like a toy face with a winking eye," the studio said.

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Deezen

APRIL 22, 2024

The structure will serve as an educational building for the University of Kansas ( KU ) School of Architecture & Design in Lawrence, Kansas. It will have an all wood structure It will have chamfered edges on all of the corners, creating entrance canopies on the ground floor and terraces up top.

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Archinect

MARCH 13, 2024

A new home design that stands as North America’s first three-story 3D printed structure has been completed in Canada using a special printer from the Danish construction technology firm COBOD. The 4,500-square-foot townhouse also includes the world's first 3D printed basement.

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Deezen

MARCH 31, 2024

Studio Roam has finished a brick home in Australia with "oozy mortar" "With the demolition of the existing cottage, the lot was reconfigured with a life-long masterplan in mind," explained the studio. At the front of the eastern portion of the site, the garage is housed in a lightweight metal structure clad with translucent panels.

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Deezen

MAY 28, 2024

Italian studio Archisbang has transformed a farmhouse outside Turin into a guesthouse , inserting rooms with polycarbonate windows and doors into its existing brick structure. The contemporary intervention must radically stand out but at the same time dialogue with the existing building," said Minutolo.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

From monolithic concrete pillars to ornately decorated columns, this lookbook collates ten living room interiors that embrace existing structural columns. Columns are sometimes placed at irregular intervals, especially in older buildings, and consequently the interior design scheme must be adapted to fit around them.

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Deezen

AUGUST 5, 2022

An exposed steel structure and perforated copper cladding bring an industrial feel to The Dyson Building at Gresham's School in Norfolk, designed by architecture studio WilkinsonEyre. The Dyson Building at Gresham's School was created by WilkinsonEyre. Perforated copper clads the exterior of the building.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2024

The building is situated in Seattle 's Fremont neighbourhood, known for its bohemian character. Robert Hutchinson Architecture has converted a 1950s Seattle building into an event space The venue's name stems from the owner's love of automobiles, along with its location along a street called Stone Way.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates is set to create a sculptural block of buildings that will serve as retail locations for the Miami Design District. Mirai to be completed by 2025 The team plans on breaking ground on Mirai in 2024, with plans to finish it by 2025.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Harnessing stone as a structural material can make architecture more enjoyable to both build and inhabit argues Tristram Carfrae, an Arup engineer working on the Sagrada Familia , in this Stone Age 2.0 The main benefit of structural stone is that it is a plentiful, natural, low carbon and beautiful material," said Carfrae. "It

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Deezen

OCTOBER 18, 2023

From factories and warehouses to shop fronts and underpasses, Hicks explores the structures that make up the post-industrial landscape of the West Midlands region known as the Black Country. Letterforms have the ability to locate a building in a certain time period". The vivid colours in the images are all as they appear.

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Dwell

JANUARY 2, 2024

Rather than add an addition to the original structure, their plan was a complementary new companion house: a ruggedly modern home capable of coexisting in balance with the existing house, offering the potential for dual occupancy or future use of either building. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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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Deezen

MAY 17, 2024

Arkansas has claimed its first bikeable structure – a ramped office building in Bentonville designed by Michel Rojkind, Callaghan Horiuchi and Marlon Blackwell Architects. There is also a concrete parking garage The paved concrete pathway ramps approximately 1,900 feet (580 metres) back and forth across the building's eastern facade.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Man-made structures will eventually be worn and weathered, losing their original form and texture after decades and centuries. Would combining the additive nature of plants with spatial designs result in structures that develop and renew themselves over years, rather than breaking and collapsing?

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Archinect

MARCH 26, 2024

The 129,000-square-foot building connects the city center to the UNESCO -listed Canal du Midi and the Périole neighborhood and will be realized adjacent to the existing Gare Matabiau, which was first built in 1905. The local studio A+ Architecture is also contributing to the project.

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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

MAY 1, 2024

Image credit: Dave Burk © SOM The structure's design was limited by an existing railroad track running along the site’s north axis, creating the need for a 44-foot bridge that connects to either volume across three levels.

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Archinect

JANUARY 21, 2022

A voluntary group of builders associated with Build the Earth Northeast USA is building the city and other parts of the Capital Region into the game. The Albany build is being overseen by a splinter called Build the Earth Northeast USA. Project managers say they have st.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2024

Students from London's Architectural Association have used timber battens and foraged waste wood to build a demountable forest pavilion called Field Station. The post Architectural Association students use foraged wood to build "open-air laboratory" appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

MARCH 22, 2022

"This project took a space in a mid-19th century building that's been a textile mill, a Campbell's soup factory, and finally a condo complex," said La Firme , a local studio whose name means simply The Firm. La Firme left structural arches and brickwork exposed. Contemporary elements contrast with the centuries-old building.

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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

JUNE 3, 2024

The "anonymous" metal buildings found in rural Taiwan were a visual reference for Double Roof House, which local practice Studio Tngtetshiu has created in Tainan. To contrast the solidity of the church, the studio used a steel-framed structure and panels of corrugated metal for the home, referencing agricultural buildings nearby.

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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 interior is finished with white walls and wooden flooring The bedrooms balance privacy and view through minimalist punched windows, a contemporary reinterpretation of classic farmhouse windows.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 2, 2022

An ornate wooden structure dating back to the Qing dynasty has been encased in a copper-clad shell to create The Relic Shelter, a teahouse in Fuzhou, China, by Neri&Hu. For this ancient building aspiring to be reborn as a modern tea house, the team adopted architectural strategies that could enhance its new function," it continued.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Stone has the potential to become a go-to, low-carbon structural material, but barriers around quarrying and a lack of awareness must be overcome to make this a reality, experts tell Dezeen in this Stone Age 2.0 The structural use of stone is not new," said Blasi.

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Deezen

MARCH 16, 2022

Historic structures including a silo building and an old factory have been incorporated into the University of the Arts Helsinki's new home, which was designed by local architecture studio JKMM. Connected by a modernist silo building at their centre, the Theatre Academy occupies a soap factory.

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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

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 9, 2022

Designed for a family local to the area, the three-storey 100JOA home occupies a tight row-house site, with a small walled garden at its rear surrounded by neighbouring buildings. The post Vallribera Arquitectes contrasts heavy and light finishes at compact home in Barcelona appeared first on Dezeen.

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