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SOM shares photos of new Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge

Archinect

DECEMBER 28, 2023

DOT Volpe National Transportation Systems Center project in Cambridge, Massachusetts following the building’s formal public inauguration in September. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) have shared photos of their new U.S.

Transportation

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LOLA Landscape Architects tapped as designers for mixed-use Hartree development in Cambridge

Archinect

JULY 19, 2023

Rotterdam -based LOLA Landscape Architects has been selected by developers Landsec U+I and TOWN to design the new 48-hectare Hartree development, a mixed-use neighborhood in Cambridge , United Kingdom. The Hartree site in Cambridge. Hartree is owned by water company Anglian Water and the Cambridge City Council.

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Cambridge researchers develop AI model to help retrofit and decarbonize housing

Archinect

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have unveiled a “first-of-its-kind AI model” that can help policymakers identify and prioritize houses for retrofitting and other decarbonizing measures.

Development

Development Developer Housing Sustainability

A Cambridge University research paper explores the challenges faced by architectural design practitioners in embracing inclusive design

Archinect

JANUARY 5, 2024

New research produced by the University of Cambridge has identified key strategies to better effect a widespread implementation of inclusive design beyond its current status as a nascent set of concepts that have yet to be fully adopted by practitioners in almost every sector.

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Cambridge's Ingrid Schroder is named the next director of the Architectural Association

Archinect

MAY 19, 2022

Schroder will remain in her current role as director of the University of Cambridge ’s M.Phil in Architecture and Urban Design (MAUD) program until officially stepping into the AA post in late August. Schroder comes to the position with over 20 years of experience teaching at Cambridge.

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Níall McLaughlin Architects design new library at Magdalene College in Cambridge

Avontuura

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The post Níall McLaughlin Architects design new library at Magdalene College in Cambridge appeared first on Åvontuura. A regular grid of brick chimneys supports the floors and bookstacks and carries warm air up to ventilate the building.

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Witherford Watson Mann Architects adds timber River Wing extension to Cambridge college

Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

British architecture studio Witherford Watson Mann has inserted an oak -framed structure into a narrow site within the Grade I-listed Clare College at Cambridge University. The post Witherford Watson Mann Architects adds timber River Wing extension to Cambridge college appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Philip Vile.

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SOM puts Department of Transportation "on display" at Cambridge building

Deezen

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Completed last year, the James A Volpe National Transportation Center brings all of the US Department of Transportation's (DOT) operations under one roof in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The post SOM puts Department of Transportation "on display" at Cambridge building appeared first on Dezeen.

Transportation

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Two installations by Daily tous les jours in Cambridge, Ontario’s Gaslight District turn greetings and movements into artistic melodies

The Architect's Newsletter

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Hello, Hola, and Bonjour: Two new interactive artworks welcome visitors to the Gaslight District in Cambridge, Ontario.

Installation

Installation Art Design

JamesPlumb fuses bulrush and hemp elements at Cambridge Aesop store

Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2023

London design studio JamesPlumb blended handwoven bulrush shelves with earthy hemp accents to create the interiors for this Aesop store in Cambridge , which takes cues from the nearby River Cam. This Cambridge branch is not the first Aesop store designed by JamesPlumb. Hemp and bulrush form shelving and other cabinetry.

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Windows Information Cities Landscape

Feilden Fowles completes timber-framed dining hall at University of Cambridge

Deezen

MAY 23, 2022

London architecture studio Feilden Fowles has completed a timber-framed dining hall at the University of Cambridge 's Homerton College with a faience-tiled volume set above a pigmented-concrete colonnade. The post Feilden Fowles completes timber-framed dining hall at University of Cambridge appeared first on Dezeen.

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Work/Life Balance? This Architect Couple’s Cambridge Home Doesn’t See a Need to Strike One

Dwell

JANUARY 12, 2024

Architects and Harvard professors Sarah Whiting and Ron Witte turned a commercial space in Cambridge, Massachusetts, into a live/work space with an office, kitchen, and dining area on the first floor. It creates a thrilling atmosphere, they say, where new ideas are always circulating. It’s corny, but we think it matters."

Home

Home Architect Commercial Students

Competitions: Devonshire Gardens Pavilion Design Competition, Cambridge, UK

Bustler

MARCH 11, 2024

Registration Deadline: Mar 22, 2024; Submission Deadline Mar 22, 2024 The competition seeks to identify an innovative architectural practice to design a public pavilion for the Devonshire Gardens development in Cambridge. This project is to design a new pavilion at the heart of a new mixed development in Cambridge.

Design

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Jestico + Whiles wraps Cambridge University building in perforated aluminium

Deezen

MAY 13, 2022

Architecture office Jestico + Whiles has completed an aluminium-clad educational facility at the University of Cambridge , England, featuring brightly coloured staircases and built-in furniture. The post Jestico + Whiles wraps Cambridge University building in perforated aluminium appeared first on Dezeen.

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SOM's new Schwarzman College of Computing opens at MIT

Archinect

MAY 1, 2024

Schwarzman College of Computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been completed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The new home for the recently established MIT Stephen A.

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Core Site in North East Cambridge

e-architect

APRIL 19, 2023

Core Site in North East Cambridge building design, English masterplan architecture photos Core Site in North East Cambridge News 19 April 2023 Team announced to design new urban quarter in Cambridge Design: Kjellander Sjöberg Architects, Bell Phillips, Haworth Tompkins and 5th Studio, with Feilden Fowles, Nooma Studio and Alison Brooks Architects.

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Site Masterplanning Sustainability Education

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios creates Passivhaus student housing crescents in Cambridge

Deezen

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Architecture practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has created a series of crescent-shaped student housing blocks with a CLT structure for King's College at the University of Cambridge. The post Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios creates Passivhaus student housing crescents in Cambridge appeared first on Dezeen.

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Níall McLaughlin Architects wins the 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize for Magdalene College Library in Cambridge

The Architect's Newsletter

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The post Níall McLaughlin Architects wins the 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize for Magdalene College Library in Cambridge appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Glasgow extends Avenues programme to Sauchiehall and Cambridge Streets

Urban Realm

JUNE 7, 2023

The Airdrie-based firm will undertake a series of public realm improvements to Sauchiehall and Cambridge Street, threading into an expanding network of pedestrian-friendly active travel routes across the city centre. Glasgow City Council has awarded a £5.6m Stretching from Rose Street to.

Civil Engineering

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Atomizing the Free Plan Installation / Alsar Atelier

ArchDaily

DECEMBER 28, 2023

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New architecture and design competitions: Women in Architecture and Construction, Coastal Residential Design, Architecture Graduation Projects, and Devonshire Gardens Pavilion

Archinect

MARCH 16, 2024

For this week's curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we are highlighting four briefs seeking innovative public pavilion designs for a mixed-use development in Cambridge, UK, exceptional coastal residential designs in Southern California, women who have contributed to architecture and construction throughout the Middle (..)

Residential

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Your next job could be designing federal government buildings at SOM

Archinect

APRIL 10, 2024

Related on Archinect: SOM shares photos of new Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge. ” Among the responsibilities for the role will be contributing technical innovations to aid the design process, reviewing applicable codes, and tracking metrics such as energy, water, and carbon use in projects.

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Government Transportation Building Innovation

John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

ArchDaily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Completed in 2023 in Cambridge, United States. Images by Dave Burk. The John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center was founded in 1970 to advance transportation innovation for the public good, and its new.

Transportation

Transportation Innovation IT Building

House Prices in Cambridge Expected to Rise in Next Five Years

The Architecture Designs

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Cambridge is one of the cities in the UK. In the next five years, the average house prices in the East of England, Cambridge included, is expected to grow by 10.4%. In the next five years, the average house prices in the East of England, Cambridge included, is expected to grow by 10.4%. The figures above may seem to be high.

Housing

Housing Cities Home Residential

Practical Geometry at Mud University, Cambridge, NY, March 3-4

Jane Griswold Radocchia

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I'm giving a class on Practical Geometry at Mud University , in Cambridge, NY, on March 3-4, 2023. Announcement! Here is their website: [link] Just in time for mud season! Come learn about practical geometry at Mud University. FREE and FUN! With a fabulous instructor: me. Anyone who's curious is welcome, no math or drawing skill needed.

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Feilden Fowles completes striking new faience-tiled dining hall at Homerton College

Avontuura

MAY 27, 2022

Feilden Fowles has completed a striking new faience-tiled dining hall at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. The post Feilden Fowles completes striking new faience-tiled dining hall at Homerton College appeared first on Åvontuura.

Architecture

Looking at the potential for adaptive reuse in the St. Louis market with HOK’s Eli Hoisington

Archinect

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Louis has joined Dallas in competing with established hubs like Boston-Cambridge and Pittsburgh for a larger share of the market for both. As he described, the method is also an increasingly preferred solution for the biotech and life sciences industries. trillion, respectively, USD by the end of this decade.

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Innovation Industrial Building Project

In an Ontario plaza, interactive pavements play music ‘as if by magic’

Archinect

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Montreal -based studio Daily tous les jours has completed a public space design in Cambridge, Ontario , Canada. Titled 'River Lines,' the project saw the creation of an interactive stage in an urban plaza for big impromptu musical ensembles.

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Site Nature Housing Space

Architect and Theorist Anthony Vidler Dies Aged 82

ArchDaily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

His passion for architecture, nurtured in Essex, England, led him to earn both an undergraduate and a master's degree in architecture at the University of Cambridge. Vidler had a distinguished career at the prestigious institution, where he served as the inaugural director of the Doctoral Program in History and Theory.

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Architect Education Technology Technology

MIT Museum exhibits original works by Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki, Bernard Tschumi, and other postmodernists this spring

The Architect's Newsletter

APRIL 9, 2024

Starting April 12, a bevy of original drawings by canonical postmodern architects will be on view at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Modern

Modern Architect Architecture

Feilden Fowles completes dining hall wrapped in green faience tiles at University of Cambridge

World Architecture Community

JULY 1, 2022

London-based architecture practice Feilden Fowles has designed a dining hall wrapped in green faience tiles at the University of Cambridge&a #architecture #design #arch. 01.07.2022

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Archinect Jobs' latest featured employers are MIT, Eigelberger, DXA, Once–Future Office, and MGA

Archinect

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This week's curated employer highlight features four architecture and design firms, alongside one university with current job openings in Cambridge , Aspen , New York City/Brooklyn , and Philadelphia. For even more positions, visit the Archinect job board and browse our active community of job seekers , firms , and schools.

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Beloved architectural historian, scholar, and academic Anthony Vidler passes away at 82

Archinect

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Born in England, Vidler studied at the University of Cambridge and Delft University of Technology before coming to the United States to teach as Princeton's William R. Chair of Architecture. It was there, in 1965, that he became the SoA’s first-ever History and Theory Ph.D.

Architecture

Architecture Education Students Technology

Harvard GSD details Gund Hall renovations

Archinect

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Harvard’s Graduate School of Design has unveiled plans for a slate of renovations that will culminate next year and are aimed at improving the user experience for students and faculty at 51-year-old Gund Hall in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Renovation Remodeling Students Glass

Five architecture students receive the 2023 RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarship

Archinect

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

” This year's recipients are: Henry Aldridge — University of Cambridge Maciej Aleksander Adaszewski — The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London Jeanette Aves — Oxford Brookes University Rowdah Charbak — Manchester School of Architecture Alfie Hollington.

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Deborah Berke Partners unveils completed adaptive reuse project for Harvard Law School

Archinect

MARCH 7, 2023

Meant to “holistically” meet the demands posed by modern legal education, the project remade the original 1957 Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbott design into a “porous, open connector” located at the heart of HLS’ Cambridge campus.

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Project Foundation Education Exterior

New study finds that modular construction produces 45% less carbon than traditional methods

Archinect

JUNE 15, 2022

Factory-produced homes can produce up to 45% less carbon than traditional methods of residential construction, according to new research by academics from the University of Cambridge and Edinburgh Napier University.

Construction

Construction Construction Transportation Students

Inversive Enclosure Installation / Alsar Atelier + Oscar Zamora + Karim Saleh Studio (KSS) + Pietro Mendonca

ArchDaily

AUGUST 15, 2023

© Rolando Girodengo architects: Alsar Atelier architects: Karim Saleh Studio (KSS) architects: Oscar Zamora architects: Pietro Mendonca Location: Massachusetts Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138, Estados Unidos Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Rolando Girodengo Photographs: Dhruv Mehta Photographs: Alejandro Saldarriaga Photographs: Area: 53.0

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Growing Islands: A new exhibition on display at the MIT Museum floats an optimistic future concept for the Maldives coastline

Archinect

AUGUST 10, 2023

A new project focused on landform development in the Maldives from the Self-Assembly Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Invena is now on view at the MIT Museum in Cambridge.

Concept

Concept Technology Technology Development

SOM equips Volpe Transportation Center with streamlined aluminum fins

The Architect's Newsletter

JANUARY 26, 2024

Brought to you by: Architect: SOM Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Completion Date:2023 View More Project Info SOM has conceived a new home for the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center The post SOM equips Volpe Transportation Center with streamlined aluminum fins appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

Transportation

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Homerton College Dining Hall / Feilden Fowles

ArchDaily

MAY 24, 2022

architects: Feilden Fowles Location: Homerton College, Hills Rd, Cambridge CB2 8PH, United Kingdom Project Year: 2022 Photographs: David Grandorge Photographs: Jim Stephenson Area: 1665.0 © David Grandorge. Read more ».

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Architype transforms old telephone exchange into Entopia workspace

Deezen

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A 1930s telephone exchange in Cambridge , UK, has been retrofitted and converted into a "joyful and welcoming" office building by architecture studios Architype and Eve Waldron Design. While providing a staff base for CISL, these facilities also accommodate The Canopy – a workspace hub aimed at eco-entrepreneurs and small businesses.

Sustainability

Sustainability Interior Roofing Windows

RIBA announces 2022 President's Medal student winners

Archinect

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The Bronze Medal was awarded to Part 1 student Mary Holmes of the University of Cambridge for her work titled ‘Out of the Closet, Into the Garden,’ which “proposes the queering and retrofitting of two rows of terraced houses in the heart of a suburb in Harlow.

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Get Lectured: Harvard University, Fall '23

Archinect

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Our Get Lectured tour of public programming continues today with a stop by Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a look at the Fall events and lectures happening at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Events

Events Design

SOM shares photos of new Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge

LOLA Landscape Architects tapped as designers for mixed-use Hartree development in Cambridge

Trending Sources

Cambridge researchers develop AI model to help retrofit and decarbonize housing

A Cambridge University research paper explores the challenges faced by architectural design practitioners in embracing inclusive design

Cambridge's Ingrid Schroder is named the next director of the Architectural Association

Níall McLaughlin Architects design new library at Magdalene College in Cambridge

Witherford Watson Mann Architects adds timber River Wing extension to Cambridge college

SOM puts Department of Transportation "on display" at Cambridge building

Two installations by Daily tous les jours in Cambridge, Ontario’s Gaslight District turn greetings and movements into artistic melodies

JamesPlumb fuses bulrush and hemp elements at Cambridge Aesop store

Feilden Fowles completes timber-framed dining hall at University of Cambridge

Work/Life Balance? This Architect Couple’s Cambridge Home Doesn’t See a Need to Strike One

Competitions: Devonshire Gardens Pavilion Design Competition, Cambridge, UK

Jestico + Whiles wraps Cambridge University building in perforated aluminium

SOM's new Schwarzman College of Computing opens at MIT

Core Site in North East Cambridge

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios creates Passivhaus student housing crescents in Cambridge

Níall McLaughlin Architects wins the 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize for Magdalene College Library in Cambridge

Glasgow extends Avenues programme to Sauchiehall and Cambridge Streets

Atomizing the Free Plan Installation / Alsar Atelier

New architecture and design competitions: Women in Architecture and Construction, Coastal Residential Design, Architecture Graduation Projects, and Devonshire Gardens Pavilion

Your next job could be designing federal government buildings at SOM

John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

House Prices in Cambridge Expected to Rise in Next Five Years

Practical Geometry at Mud University, Cambridge, NY, March 3-4

Feilden Fowles completes striking new faience-tiled dining hall at Homerton College

Looking at the potential for adaptive reuse in the St. Louis market with HOK’s Eli Hoisington

In an Ontario plaza, interactive pavements play music ‘as if by magic’

Architect and Theorist Anthony Vidler Dies Aged 82

MIT Museum exhibits original works by Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki, Bernard Tschumi, and other postmodernists this spring

Feilden Fowles completes dining hall wrapped in green faience tiles at University of Cambridge

Archinect Jobs' latest featured employers are MIT, Eigelberger, DXA, Once–Future Office, and MGA

Beloved architectural historian, scholar, and academic Anthony Vidler passes away at 82

Harvard GSD details Gund Hall renovations

Five architecture students receive the 2023 RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarship

Deborah Berke Partners unveils completed adaptive reuse project for Harvard Law School

New study finds that modular construction produces 45% less carbon than traditional methods

Inversive Enclosure Installation / Alsar Atelier + Oscar Zamora + Karim Saleh Studio (KSS) + Pietro Mendonca

Growing Islands: A new exhibition on display at the MIT Museum floats an optimistic future concept for the Maldives coastline

SOM equips Volpe Transportation Center with streamlined aluminum fins

Homerton College Dining Hall / Feilden Fowles

Architype transforms old telephone exchange into Entopia workspace

RIBA announces 2022 President's Medal student winners

Get Lectured: Harvard University, Fall '23

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