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. For their part, UNESCO says they are “mobilizing [.]

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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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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. The nearly 255,686-square-foot structure is located inside the National Assembly complex, the home of South Korea’s national legislature.

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Deezen

MARCH 9, 2023

A stadium by Zaha Hadid Architects and housing by Adjaye Associates feature in this roundup of upcoming wooden buildings , curated as part of our Timber Revolution series. Also featured on the list are towers, university buildings and an airport terminal, illustrating mass timber 's potential for use in a variety of architectural projects.

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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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Deezen

MAY 14, 2024

acres, Williamsburg Wharf will encompass residential, commercial, retail, and outdoor space and be located on "the last waterfront site in South Williamsburg" with each tower reaching 22 storeys. The project shall regenerate the last waterfront site of South Williamsburg."

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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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Deezen

MAY 10, 2024

Chilean studio Hebra Arquitectos has completed an elevated home with steel pilotis and a V-shaped roof, aiming to create a building that "floats in the middle of the forest". Concrete and black-painted steel were used for the structural system. Exterior walls consist of cypress wood screens and large stretches of glass.

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Archinect

JANUARY 5, 2023

The temporary metal structures are required to support the construction platform for the 350,000-square-foot wing as it bridges over Wilshire Boulevard from west to east, where it replaces William Pereira’s pavilions and other buildings that were demolished to make way for the futuristic-looking consolidated exhibition spaces.

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Architizer

JUNE 2, 2022

Despite technical complications involved in construction, inclined sites can invoke inspiring new architectural possibilities that just aren’t possible on flat sites. Floating buildings can be constructed on slopes either by using a taller foundation or supports. Villa Vals by SeARCH , Vals, Switzerland.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Ken Steffes argued that "the beauty of this site is that it is untouched by man. These structures will only destroy nature and everything that lives around it." Dutch studio OMA designed a faceted corrugated metal theatre building adjoining a regular concrete-clad structure. It's straight out of Dune. What do you think?

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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

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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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

British architecture practice Studio Bark has worked with students from the University of East London to devise a roof-supporting column with otherwise unusable timber at a site within ancient English woodland. It was very dead." "We We were there in midsummer. That posed the question of what to do with the felled trees.

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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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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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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

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. What was really important was this idea of palimpsest and embracing what was on the site without becoming slavish to history."

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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.

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Archinect

MAY 26, 2023

The annual contest, now in its sixth edition, sought “iconic and unique designers for a high-rise structure,” with this year featuring the “added twist” of requiring a skyscraper that was primarily constructed out of timber.

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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

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

MAY 16, 2024

Preparatory site work will begin in August for the new building, which replaces former gymnasium structures with a facility for research and education at a capacity of 6,000 people. Included in its program are over 700 individual workspaces, a central library, seminar rooms, and sports halls.

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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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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

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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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

JANUARY 31, 2024

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a mirrored cafe pavilion and courtyard at the site of The Old War Office in Whitehall, London. Unashamedly contemporary" pavilion designed for Old War Office site in London "A modern addition to an ancient classic" Readers were divided. Hideous or beautiful? asked commenter Rd.

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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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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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Archinect

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Serena Williams Building -- a workplace for 2,750 occupants at more than 1 million square feet -- is the largest structure at Nike World Headquarters. We led the design of all aspects of this complex building and program, including core and shell, interior design and furniture selection, and branding integration.

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Dwell

APRIL 26, 2024

Through a rich understanding of site, context, and considered siting, intriguing and inviting interstitial spaces have been created that harbor life in the form of landscaped courtyards and spaces for congregation. The building touches the earth lightly. The building touches the earth lightly. Have one to share?

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Archinect

JUNE 7, 2022

The eight-storey building at 550-558 Spencer Street in West Melbourne will cost $40m and has been designed by the architecture firm Kennon on behalf of Dr Bella Freeman. The first-of-its-kind structure for Australia will be covered by 1,182 solar panels with the equivalent thickness of a conventional glass façade.

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Archinect

MAY 25, 2023

Famous historic sites, low-income apartments and Twitter's headquarters all appear on a previously unpublished draft list of 3,407 concrete buildings in San Francisco that may be at high risk of collapse in a major earthquake, according to a copy of a city government document obtained by NBC News through a public records request.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

SIPs (Structural Insulated Panels) are self-supporting panels composed of a rigid foam core that is located between two structural coverings, usually OSB boards. Courtesy of abarca+palma. Read more ».

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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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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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