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Deconstruction by Design: How Architects Are Redefining Practice Through Material Reuse

Architizer

Breaking Ground: Creative Approaches to Construction Waste Diagram illustrating the winning entry for an architecture competition held by Hackney City Farm, showcasing the repurposing of sash windows. Another example is the architecture competition held by Hackney City Farm , an environmental charity based in East London.

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algebraist coffee Star World Store by STILL YOUNG

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algebraist coffee, an avant-garde coffee chain brand, opened two new stores in Star World and Super Wenheyou, and collaborated with STILL YOUNG again to create a contemporary community space featuring the brand style and city spirit. A homage to the site, the design grasps the context and fabric of the city.

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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access by David Gissen, published by University of Minnesota Press. A House Deconstructed by Office of (Un)Certainty Research (Mark Jarzombek + Vikramaditya Prakash), published by Actar Publishers. Rather it should be: How does architecture describe the world?"

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University of Southern California presents 10 architecture student projects

Deezen

Deeply rooted in the city of Los Angeles, USA, and also intensely connected to global concerns, USC architects and scholars work shoulder to shoulder with our surrounding communities. The modern city treats stormwater as a nuisance, as something to be drained away and out of sight even though water scarcity has become such a prominent issue.

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Bernard Tschumi is the deconstructivist architect with big ideas

Deezen

From a National Library surrounded by an athletics track to a series of giant inhabited bridges criss-crossing the city of Lausanne in his signature shade of red, Tschumi has always revelled in unexpected contrasts of programme and function – even if many of these ideas were never built. He published the theoretical Do It Yourself City.

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Rereading the Nineties

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

In my decade working as an architect in Chicago, from 1997, after graduating from architecture school, to 2006, when I left for grad school in New York City, I made many, many — many — trips to Prairie Avenue Bookshop, spending too much money there but always feeling when I walked out the door that I could have easily spent much, much more.

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Architectural Tricks of the Trade | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Graphic Standards - Part 2 Deconstruction versus. First thing I learned to do on my very first “job” at an architectural firm Mark Mc Swain Most “City” folding formats are based on whether the P&D/Engineering Office file cabinets are Letter versus Legal sized format. mattwardman Folding an 8.75