Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Google has opened a building serving its North American operations in New York City that is housed in a 1930s rail terminal restored and adapted by architecture studios CookFox Architects and Gensler. CookFox Architects sliced through the historic building to expose aspects of its structure on the facade "The rail beds within St.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

The Texas Capitol Complex – designed for the Texas Facilities Commission – spans approximately 150 acres across 40 city blocks around the Texas State Capitol. We hope this project will enhance urban spaces in the city, contributing to the State of Texas' and Austin's unique, vibrant identity."

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

International studio Snøhetta has completed Beijing City Library in China , a glass-lined building filled with towering tree-like columns and rooms disguised as hills. Beijing City Library also incorporates spaces for performances and book restoration. It has been completed by Snøhetta in collaboration with local studio ECADI.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Dutch street artist Frankey has linked the upper floors of two Amsterdam buildings with a structure designed to look like one of the city's historic canal bridges. It took three years to bring the project to life, with help from a team of engineers and construction experts. The photography is by Kees Hummel.

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Architonic

OCTOBER 27, 2022

architecture: slapa oberholz pszczulny | sop architekten. interior & design: slapa oberholz pszczulny | sop architekten.

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Deezen

APRIL 1, 2024

Additionally, the team added a 24-kilowatt Tesla solar roof array that powers the home, bringing it to a net-zero energy structure. Due to local historic preservation guidelines, the team only renovated 50 per cent of the existing house.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang has expanded a California college through the addition of mass-timber structures that were informed by how fungi grow in the wild. Four buildings were designed to complement the existing structures – California modern-style buildings with stucco walls and splashes of colour – and the woodland environment.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2023

It consists of three visually distinct elements In total, the building contains 19,500 square metres of office space with a lobby occupying the ground floor and a large meeting space called the City Room located at the top of the tower. "On On the top floor 'city room' the arcs reappear as expressed steel," added Cortese.

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Dwell

JUNE 15, 2022

Each of its three structures—a residence, artist’s studio, and bath house—features a catchment with a reservoir system that purifies harvested rainwater. All three of the structures share a tectonic vocabulary of volcanic-rock clad foundations and vegetated roofs."

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Pasadena-based studio Hopson Rodstrom Design ( H/RD ), designed the structure to "embrace" the higher-scale zoning that exists along thoroughfares in areas of the city generally filled with low-lying structures. It also acts as a "chimney" meant to keep the whole structure cool, according to the studio.

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2024

Called Cité Angus II, the structure is part of Technopôle Angus, an urban revitalization project that its developers say is a "full-scale sustainable development". Local architecture studio Ædifica has created a residential apartment building outside Montreal with an interior courtyard and a metal-mesh second skin on the facade.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It is known for its visitor's center and for the Steve Jobs Theater , both of which feature pavilion-like structures with glass walls and thin cantilevered roofing. Zeller & Moye has offices in Berlin and Mexico City. The studio has created works at a number of scales, including earthquake-resistant housing in Mexico City.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Chief Executive Officer Clive Nichol says the example proves it’s possible to “apply the circular economy to structural elements of buildings.” ” Fabrix has purchased 139 tons of steel from the contractor behind the demolition of One Broadgate and plans to use it on other projects in London.

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Deezen

APRIL 14, 2024

The structure's horizontal form was informed by the vernacular architecture of the surrounding farmland. It was created to host the owner's visiting family HGX Design is New York City-based studio founded in 2020 by Hal Goldstein with a focus on corporate, commercial and residential projects that "inspire human connection and fulfilment".

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Situated on Maluan Mountain, the centre by Line+ Studio was wrapped by glass openings – "maximizing transparency" to offer expansive views of the landscape, nearby seaport and Shenzhen city. Steel structure subcontractor: Shenzhen Special Zone Construction Steel Structure Co.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2023

Architecture studio SDA has completed the Floating House, a concrete-framed home on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City that is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding. This house focuses on the active outdoor life in Vietnam, with a new frame and structural design to realise it," it continued.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The 7,000-square foot (650-square metre) brick building is the new home of the Detroit Public Theatre , expanding the performing arts organization's operations in the city's Midtown neighbourhood. Our goal was to design a space that is true to Detroit without being stale or trapped by its own history."

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Bustler

MARCH 6, 2024

Event Date: Mar 12, 2024; Event City: New York, NY, US Can we build tall buildings out of wood? Michelle Roelofs is an Associate Principal and Structural Engineer in Arup’s New York office. Her expertise in mass timber dates back a decade to the early days of Mass Timber construction on the team for 475 W 18th St.,

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

PAT teamed up with fellow Italian architect Ferdinando Fagnola on the project, which involved renovating a 2oth-century "white house" and adding a series of elevated, pavilion-like structures. The white house, built in the Swahili style of nearby city Lamu, was the starting point for the design.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Soaring trees hug the sloped lot, allowing the home to serve as a serene, private city oasis. Location : 4347 Tosca Road, Woodland Hills, California Price : $1,400,000 Architect : George Letts Year Built : 1966 Footprint : 1,878 square feet (four bedrooms, two baths) Lot Size : 0.23

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

A terrace features on the third floor Gehry Partners' design also responds to the structure's proximity to the busy highway. Punched windows are based on art deco-style Hollywood buildings The other side of the structure is more geared towards pedestrians, with landscaped spaces by OJB Landscape Architecture directly outside of the building.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

They stand like imposing palaces in Chinese city centres surrounded by wide main roads, viaducts, and vast empty squares," said Ma. Read: MAD unveils Train Station in the Forest in Jiaxing "We should rethink and redefine the spatial patterns of such transportation infrastructure buildings in China," he continued.

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aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

MVRDV, as part of a team named North Creek Collective, has presented a series of proposals for the City of Vancouver, to adapt waterfront buildings, landscape and infrastructure to accommodate to rising sea levels. What if cities learned to work with water, rather than against it? Sea level rise is a global challenge. Image © MVRDV.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Local studio GO'C drew on the aesthetics of a 1930s gas station to create Mini Mart City Park, a community arts centre in Seattle that aims to show the potential of remediated brownsites. Inside the structure, the restored wooden rafters were left exposed and pivoting windows were included to help expand the space.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 3, 2024

Photo © Bruce Damonte This project demonstrates the city’s and non-profit partner’s commitment to creating a community based on social, financial, and environmental resilience, equity, sustainability, and integration.

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Deezen

AUGUST 7, 2023

The team selected red brick for all of the facades to draw on Cincinnati's masonry vernacular and to highlight both the commonalities and differences between the structures. Depending on the unit, tenants enjoy views of the city skyline, civic events, the mural, or the rolling hills beyond the downtown basin."

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Architecture studio Sheppard Robson has remodelled the New Century Hall music venue in Manchester , restoring, rationalising and "opening up" the Grade-II listed structure. New Century Hall now houses a 1,000-seat venue alongside a food hall and spaces for Access Creative College.

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Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2023

Kevin Daly Architecture (KDA) worked with Mexico City-based studio Productora to complete the 31,718-square-foot (2,946 metre) project in Spotts Park, northwest of Downtown Houston, for local institution Houston Endowment. The structure features a latticed canopy that was designed to reference the surrounding oak groves.

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Deezen

APRIL 26, 2023

Owned by the New York City Department of Parks, it broke ground in 2017 but wasn't completed until 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and bureaucratic delays. Overhead, the exposed structural beams and mechanical services were painted blue, as was the acoustical plaster, to form a sky where fabric ducts hang as clouds.

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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Designed in 1974 by the artist’s husband, architect Albert Lanier, the Noe Valley residence features fresh finishes and an expanded plan that takes advantage of city views. Redwood surfaces and structural elements complete the warm interior landscape, from the sloping roof beams to partition walls and built-in shelves." "The

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aasarchitecture

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Intended to provide visitors with an overview of the many destinations dispersed throughout the 440-acre property in the heart of Louisiana’s capital city, the 28,625-square-foot facility will also detail the rich history of the Burden family and the Burden property, one of the largest donations ever made to LSU and the surrounding community.

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Deezen

APRIL 6, 2023

Located on Limerick's main high street in the Georgian Quarter, the International Rugby Experience was built as an attraction that celebrates the game of rugby as part of a rejuvenation of the city centre. The concept was for the ceiling vaults to be pigmented concrete as a structural form supporting the floors above.

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Deezen

JANUARY 13, 2022

Originally built as a metal foundry in 1902, the 12,700-square-foot (1,180-square-metre) structure had been partitioned several times over the years, creating cramped rooms with little natural light. Last year, New York City updated its building codes to allow for mass-timber buildings of up to six storeys.

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Deezen

JANUARY 13, 2023

American studio ZGF Architects has adapted a historic Ford Motor Company factory in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania into a biomedical research laboratory by renovating existing structures and creating a cantilevered terracotta-clad addition. General contractor: Turner Construction. MEP engineers + lighting: Affiliated Engineers, Inc.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Located at number 1819 Pico Boulevard, one of the most important streets in the Californian city of Santa Monica, is a building of 48 homes designed by the architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa. For the city at large, the courtyard is an urbane housing type that fits well into neighborhoods. 4850 sqm), 49 units (0.57 acres) 86du/acre.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Located in the foothills of east Tainan , the market for Tainan City Government Agriculture Bureau was designed by MVRDV as a food supply hub as well as a space for people to gather and socialise. The eastern corner of the structure has terraces filled with colourful planting that descend to the ground to provide stepped access to the roof.

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Deezen

AUGUST 19, 2023

Cape Town -based architect Chris van Niekerk has completed Mountain House, a minimalist retreat in the rugged landscape of South Africa's southernmost city. In using limited materials with recognisable qualities of the earth, the challenge was to achieve an alchemy where finish and structure are one and the same," added Van Niekerk.

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