Archinect

MARCH 21, 2023

Labeled by Fast Company as “Goldilocks” zones, the sweet spot for office buildings with the potential to become residential are ones that are mid-rise, built pre-WWII, with at least two sides facing open areas or streets near, but not within, a city’s financial core. There’s even the potential to make use of larger,

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Deezen

JUNE 19, 2022

Architecture studio Taller Héctor Barroso has fully revamped the decades-old DDH House in Mexico City for a family of five, including new facades clad in dark brown stucco that looks black. The DDH House sits on an irregularly shaped lot in the Lomas de Chapultepec neighbourhood in Mexico City. Structural engineering: Ricardo Camacho.

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Bustler

MAY 20, 2024

CTBUH’s CEO Javier Quintana de Uña said the submissions "showcase the wide spectrum of architectural innovations, construction techniques and urban visions transforming tall-building design internationally, as well as the evolving role of livable density in shaping our cities and skylines." "As

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Deezen

AUGUST 28, 2022

The homes are designed to offer qualities that typically wouldn't be affordable in inner-city apartments, such as high ceilings, large windows and access to outdoor space. It combines a raw concrete structure with curved steel details and rainbow-coloured sunshades. Structural engineer: Adams Engineering Engineer.

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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2022

o de Buen and Luis Young have used a green metallic frame to form the structure of an airy apartment built atop an existing building in Mexico City. ngel neighbourhood, a sought-after area in the south of the city. The structure itself defines the architectural program," said the architects. Furniture: Taller Nacional.

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Deezen

JULY 18, 2023

Architecture practice Studio V has unveiled The Green House apartment block in Long Island City , USA, which was informed by the neighbourhood's history of terracotta production.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

New York firm RKTB Architects has completed One Sullivan Place, a mixed-income apartment building that rises 12 storeys and cantilevers in two directions over the rooftop of an adjacent structure. Appearing as two distinct buildings, the structure has a front facade along Sullivan Place and a front facade along Washington Avenue.

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aasarchitecture

JANUARY 22, 2023

Car-free + urban This building makes an important contribution to the future of a living and ecological city and also to the future of retailing – this is an urban IKEA with excellent connections to the public transport system and an inviting roof terrace – a good neighbour. Source by querkraft.

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e-architect

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Kigali Green City Project Rwanda, East Africa Business Investment, Urbanisation, Architect. Kigali Green City Project in Rwanda. FBW Group Appointed To Transformational African ‘green City’ Development in Rwanda. Kigali Green City Project in Rwanda, East Africa. 24 November 2022. Images by FCBS.

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2024

The largest airport in the city, it is located on a piece of land that juts out into Boston Harbor. AECOM and Luis Vidal + Architects have created a terminal for Boston Logan International Airport A massive red roof slopes over the south facade of the terminal, where it was interspersed with windows to create views of the city.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Mexican architecture studio Cimet Arquitectos has remodelled and reinforced an 18-storey-tall structure in Mexico City after it was damaged by a series of earthquakes. Cimet Arquitectos restored an earthquake-damaged office tower in Mexico City. The structure had been unoccupied for years.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Local architects Zeller & Moye used an abandoned lot in Mexico City to create a multifamily property called La Ribera with eight townhouses organised around a lush courtyard. La Ribera is a multifamily property in Mexico City. Structural engineering: Ricardo Camacho. MEP engineering: Dimarq Construcción.

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Architonic

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Verkehrstechnik AG, „Berliner Verbau“, Celler Grundbau GmbH demolation: Wimmelbücker Abbruch GmbH steel construction: Lausitzer Stahlbau Ruhland GmbH, Stahl- und Anlagenbau Schädlich GmbH Facing the city - The “New… architecture: slapa oberholz pszczulny | sop architekten. interior & design: slapa oberholz pszczulny | sop architekten.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2022

Local studio Mesh Architectures has completed Timber House, a condominium in Brooklyn that developer The Brooklyn Home Company claims is "the largest mass timber building in New York City.". It is also the first condominium project in the city to be built using mass timber, the developer said. The photography is by Travis Mark. .

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Deezen

AUGUST 15, 2022

Mexican architecture studio Team 730 has completed a pavilion within Mexico City 's Chapultepec Zoo that offers new exhibition spaces and refurbishes an existing welcome building. Team 730 modernised the entrance to a zoo in Mexico City. The intervention includes new structures built on top and around an existing stone building.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The tower will be clad in red concrete The tower will be located in the Culture Hub area on the Albanian capital Tirana's New Boulevard, which forms part of a new masterplan for the city that is a collaboration between the city's private and public sectors. It is set to be one of the first realised buildings in the scheme.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Architect Eric Owen Moss describes the design and engineering approach to constructing the (W)rapper office building in Los Angeles in this exclusive film produced by Dezeen in collaboration with MATT Construction. The (W)rapper expresses how it's made, the structural engineering behind it and how the building performs.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It has a timber structure According to Atelier WOA, this design acts as "an invitation to enter". Other library projects recently featured on Dezeen include Indian practice Studio Hinge's renovation of a library in Mumbai and Snøhetta's Beijing City Library with tree-like columns. The photography is by ​Salem Mostefaoui.

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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

MAY 6, 2024

As a challenge, we thought we could focus more on the gaps between buildings in the city centre and open up the daylight from the windows and balconies more boldly in multiple directions towards the surrounding gaps." We feel that the light grey colour of the interior softens the shades of natural light better than white," Shinya Kojima said.

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Habitus Living

OCTOBER 15, 2023

We stand on the quiet suburban street chatting while a car passes, its engine momentarily defeating the laughter of children playing nearby. The clients wanted a weekend home, within the humdrum of the city, that invoked feelings of relaxation and rejuvenation. I’m greeted by Shalini Chandrashekar and G.S. Project manager – S.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

We wanted to build a place open to people, full of greenery, with its own structure and order," Basan added. The columbarium comprises six chambers organised around an open-air chapel "We tried not to refer to symbolism or look for metaphors ," BDR Architekci co-founder Konrad Basan told Dezeen. "We

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

Located near a grove of mature pine trees, the neighbouring buildings are in the southeast corner of the 215-acre (87-hectare) Bowdoin College campus in the city of Brunswick. Today, the private college has about 1,900 students from around the world. The studio collaborated with Consigli Construction Co, which is based in the eastern US.

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Architizer

JANUARY 16, 2023

But on closer inspection, both are defined by structure and repetition, and whether simple or ornamented, they are shaped by their context. When García-Germán Arquitectos set out to design Desert City , the team wanted to celebrate xerophytic plants and a growing culture of interests and events around them.

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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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The Architect's Newsletter

DECEMBER 30, 2022

A tireless advocate for New York City preservation. A structural engineer who shaped Indian modernism. [.]. A Canadian architect who helped save Old Montreal. A founding father of Long Island modernism. The post Remembering the architects, designers, and writers we lost in 2022 appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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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

MARCH 27, 2024

The temporary restaurant was designed by Pearce+ Each year, the food festival commissions the construction of a temporary structure that responds to its environment and incorporates sustainable reuse. "[The Festival goers entered through a smaller vaulted lobby tunnel at the centre of the plan. Would they do it on a frozen river?

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The Architect's Newsletter

JULY 29, 2022

Brought to you by: Architect Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners Location New York, New York Completion Date Winter 2022 Architect of Record SLCE Architects Structural Engineer Gace NYC Facade Engineer [.].

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Brandon Donnelly

JULY 26, 2023

I had an interesting meeting today talking about the structural approach behind this OMA-designed project in Brooklyn (pictured above). I have always found structural engineering fascinating. Structures, along with physics, were some of my favorite classes from high school all the way to grad school.

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Bustler

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania has announced the appointment of their 2023–2024 McHarg Fellow in the Department of Landscape Architecture and the elevation of three other postdoctoral researchers within the Department of Architecture and Department of City and Regional Planning.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2023

American architect Eric Owen Moss has completed the (W)rapper office tower in Los Angeles , which was named for a structural support system that covers the facade. Moss, who runs an eponymous studio in LA and has been planning the tower for decades, recently completed the 235-foot (72 metres) structure in Los Angeles.

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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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Deezen

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Aiming to set an example of adaptive reuse in the city, the Shenzhen Women and Children's Centre contains a library , auditorium , children's theatre , therapy rooms and staff offices. Approximately 24,000 cubic metres of concrete was saved and reused from the original structure and small additions were made to simplify the floor plans.

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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 11, 2023

Located in the city of Reutlingen, Texoversum forms part of the Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences campus expansion and contains offices, workshops, a university store, collaboration areas and a CNC robot workspace. As the production is bespoke, no production waste or material off-cuts were produced, according to Menges.

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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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