Deezen

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

US architecture practice StudioSC teamed up with Colombian studio Base Taller to design a triangular concrete commercial office building in Medellín, Colombia. Known as Indie Lab, the 69,632-square foot (6,469-square metre) complex is situated on a steeply sloped site next to a nature preserve outside the city of Medellín.

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Archinect

MARCH 19, 2024

Chinese state-owned construction contractor will build China’s largest soccer park in Guangzhou on the site where struggling Chinese property developer China Evergrande Group was supposed to build its soccer stadium. The site was originally meant for a 100,000-seat stadium designed by Gensler.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Image © Helene Binet As cities grow and evolve, the question of preserving, rehabilitating, or adapting historic sites arises. The intervention in such buildings requires a delicate balance between honoring their heritage and meeting contemporary demands.

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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 city centre of Antakya [.] has been almost completely flattened.

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Bustler

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Described by the firm as a “cluster of interwoven buildings and public spaces that meld with the existing topography,” the scheme includes a significant level of greenery to integrate with its mountainside site. OMA has won a competition to design a new campus for Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea.

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Archinect

JUNE 21, 2023

South Korean firm Haeahn Architecture , alongside New York-based H Architecture , has shared a video and photographs of their National Assembly Communication Building project in Seoul , South Korea. To meet the needs of multiple user groups, the architects say the building’s design prioritizes flexibility and expandability.

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Deezen

MARCH 5, 2024

American developer Related Midwest has resumed construction on the 400 Lake Shore skyscraper in Chicago on a site that has experienced more than a decade's worth of revisions and delays. Images show workers filling the giant foundation hole that has been left at the site alongside the Chicago River on Lake Michigan for nearly twenty years.

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Architizer

JUNE 19, 2023

That is, moving away from the more human elements involved in their manufacture resulted in products that were standardized and more universally available, rendering their former manufacturing sites obsolete. Now, often decades after they were abandoned, some of these buildings are being given a second life.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Ken Steffes argued that "the beauty of this site is that it is untouched by man. Dutch studio OMA designed a faceted corrugated metal theatre building adjoining a regular concrete-clad structure. The cladding materials were chosen to reference the site's industrial history. "No It's straight out of Dune. What do you think?

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ArchDaily

JANUARY 1, 2024

Image © Fabian Dejtiar There are reasons to visit the city of Mendoza : it serves as both the gateway to Argentine wine tourism and a diverse collection of historically and architecturally significant buildings. Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Architecture of the University of Mendoza.

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Archinect

MARCH 12, 2024

Preliminary details from the ongoing National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) investigation into the deadly 2021 collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Florida were shared recently, revealing evidence that supports theories about the precise source of its structural failure and other prevailing factors.

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2024

New photographs reveal the sinuous glass facade of The Henderson office building by Zaha Hadid Architects as it takes shape in Hong Kong 's Central Business District. We had the ambition to create a special piece of architecture that would be noticed and make waves around the world."

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Archinect

MARCH 13, 2024

On Monday morning, several Chicago news outlets reported that the Bears want to form a public-private partnership with the park district to build a stadium and renovate part of Chicago’s lakefront museum campus to add more public space. For now, the Bears' new Soldier Field proposal is expected to cost $2 billion.

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Deezen

JANUARY 25, 2024

UK architecture studio DaeWha Kang Design has designed a pavilion and courtyard for The OWO hotel at the site of the former Old War Office in Whitehall, London. The pavilion is located in front of the 1906 Grade II*-listed building, designed by architect William Young, that was once used by the British government's military departments.

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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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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Organized by the Center for Architecture in collaboration with a host of partners, Archtober is returning its popular Building of the Day initiative, which offers unique opportunities to explore nearly 30 outstanding buildings and sites through tours led by architects and other design professionals.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Habitable Form has created a timber-clad house on Kiawah Island in South Carolina The site conditions drove the design by architecture studio Habitable Form , which has an office nearby, on Johns Island. The dwelling is located on Kiawah Island, a barrier island near Charleston , and is tucked within a grove of mature oak trees.

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Brandon Donnelly

JANUARY 8, 2024

But what does it take to actually build a house like this in an urban fabric as dense as Seoul’s? So what they ended up having to do was build a 100-meter concrete conveying pipe (~328 feet) and staging somewhere else. The building footprint is 51.53 x 12.3m), narrow street (~4m), and panoramic views (of Seoul).

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Archinect

JANUARY 16, 2024

Factory office spaces are typically under the heavy influence of the factory itself and become a part the factory, in the case of prefabricated buildings, they sit adjacent to other spaces, often lacking a distinct identity. Positioning the office building near the site's entrance further amplifies its significance.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Argentinian architect Malvina Zayat has completed a white home for herself and her family that is lifted above a sloped site and enters into "an intimate dialogue with the sky and clouds". The building is elevated and rendered in white, helping "establish an intimate dialogue with the sky and clouds".

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Emblematic of a new tertiary world, the Wonder Building revisits the traditional codes of office buildings in a powerful and innovative architectural gesture, offering an exceptional quality of life at work. Dynamic and vibrant, its architecture revisits the traditional codes of office buildings.

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Archinect

JUNE 7, 2022

This site, where an old building is being transformed into a charter school, has just distinguished itself from the 40,000 other major construction projects in New York City by having its third worker fatality in less than three years. But despite the pattern of deaths, the consequences have been negligible.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts has wrapped its inaugural design-build camp, the 2022 Bethel Woods Art and Architecture Festival.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Architecture firm Alterstudio has completed a tower-like house in Texas that rises up from a steep, wooded site that was long overlooked "as a possible home site". The site had long been overlooked as feasible for home construction. The opportunity came with challenges. Facades are clad in grey-hued, interlocking metal panels.

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2023

Separate brightly coloured classroom buildings make up this preschool in Gujarat state, India , which was designed by local practice Shreesh Design Studio. The steel structures also allowed for quick assembly on site and the 66,061-square-foot project was completed in four months. The photography and video are by Smit Mehta.

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Archinect

APRIL 11, 2022

Fifteen years ago, a world renowned architect planned to bring the Spire to Chicago a giant luxury condo building with sky high prices. The site was originally reserved for the Chicago Spire , a 2,000-foot tall, twisted tower designed by Santiago Calatrava. Now, a new project may actually come to life there.

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Archinect

MARCH 15, 2022

A collapsing floor injured two workers Monday at a midtown office building where falling exterior work killed a prominent architect in 2019. It is not clear at this time whether or not workers on the site were unionized or not. It is not clear at this time whether or not workers on the site were unionized or not.

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JUNE 4, 2023

Also known as the “Green Mosque” due to the brilliant color of its tiled and painted dome, the intricately decorated building dates to the 16th century. If it were more accessible, the Green Mosque would attract many visitors. After the U.S.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Project Details: Location: Washington, United States Architect: GO'C / @ go_c_studio Footprint: 1,700 square feet Builder: Sparrow Woodworks Structural Engineer: SSF Engineers Civil Engineer: J Welch Engineering Envelope Consultant: RDH Building Science Inc. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

It sits at the edge of a nature preserve on Punta Cometa, or Comet Point, a peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean and was once the site of an Aztec fort. Two stone towers juxtapose the site's horizontal elements The architects also needed to consider how the landscape evolves throughout the year.

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Deezen

APRIL 12, 2024

A skyscraper designed by New York studio SHoP Architects at Detroit' s Hudson's Detroit development has topped out, making it the second tallest building in the city. It will hold residences and a hotel, with the adjacent building holding retail and offices. It reached its full height this week.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

Under the artistic direction of Floating Museum, a collective of artists , designers, poets, and educators focused on building connections between art, community, architecture, infrastructure, and public institutions, CAB 5 will be presented at multiple sites throughout the city.

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Archinect

JUNE 22, 2022

The project will bring hundreds of affordable homes and community amenities to the former site of the Spofford Juvenile Detention Center in the Bronx’s Hunts Point neighborhood. It is the site where Adams was held at 15 years old. The development includes a cultural arts center with a state-of-the-art black.

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Archinect

MARCH 17, 2022

Our lives fluctuate, but save for the odd floating office or experimental walking house, our buildings remain anchored in place. A new building in London, however, offers an interesting alternative: demount and move elsewhere. The modules were prefabricated off-site and assembled on-site over five months.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. Our clients knew many hilly sites from growing up in the area and their time in Greece. We focused on the hill, the seasons, the distant view, and the intimate life of the site."

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Archinect

MAY 25, 2023

Construction of MVRDV ’s Matrix ONE project, a laboratory and office building in the heart of Amsterdam Science Park, has been completed. Image: MVRDV / © Daria Scagliola As the main hub at the Center, Matrix ONE aims to be a guiding example to the other buildings at the Amsterdam Science Park.

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Archinect

MAY 26, 2023

The competition did not set a defined site and instead called on participants to select any hypothetical site measuring 426ft x 262ft (130m x 80m), which could be accessed by roads on two sides. Take a look at the winning schemes: First Prize: Space Gradients by Yanyan Zhang (United States)

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