Deezen

MARCH 25, 2024

Dutch studio MVRDV has revealed a series of residential high-rises arranged around courtyards in Shenzhen 's Qianhai bay, which will form part of a smart city development by technology company Tencent. MVRDV designed Tencent 5 as a social and green development that provides housing to employees working in the city.

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2023

Continuing our Timber Revolution series, we look at the Tamedia Office Building by Shigeru Ban – Switzerland's first seven-storey mass-timber structure that was barely legal at the time of its completion in 2013. People realised that a seven-storey timber office in the city is now allowed," he continued.

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Architonic

JULY 17, 2023

<p class="p1">PosadMaxwan, an urban design firm from The Hague, The Netherlands, has designed the unique main entrance to the underground bicycle parking area located beneath the city of Zwolle’s train station square. Cyclists are guided down the ramps by a sloping green garden with plants that change with the seasons.</p>

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2024

California studio AO Architects has put forward plans for a supertall skyscraper as part of a development in Oklahoma City that, if completed, will be the second-tallest building in the United States. The skyscraper will be part of a development called the Boardwalk at Bricktown in downtown Oklahoma City.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Nonprofit New York City Economic Development Corporation has launched New York City Mass Timber Studio, an assistance program for the development of mass-timber construction within New York City. Mass timber encompasses a variety of engineered wood that can be used as a structural building material.

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Architizer

MARCH 28, 2024

The Crystal Palace , constructed for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, stands as a groundbreaking precursor to modern pavilions, pioneering the concept of lightweight, prefabricated structures. The post Ephemeral Structures, Enduring Ideas: Why Architectural Pavilions Still Matter appeared first on Journal.

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Deezen

MARCH 3, 2023

Originally announced in 2020, the team has completed a garden shed, greenhouse and community space in the New York City borough of Queens that was made partly from a model created for a luxury condominium in Tribeca. The mockup forms one of the walls of the new structure "The project involves many leaps of faith," the team told Dezeen.

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Archinect

JANUARY 31, 2024

billion mixed-use Manhattan West development in New York City. The four-year construction effort yielded a total two million square feet of new office space that was built above active railroad tracks in what the firm describes as an "extraordinary" advancement of the methods used in urban design, structural engineering, and architecture.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Architects Petre Tej and Marek Blank collaborated with engineer Jan Mourek to create this minimalist bridge across the River Vltava in Prague , which is intended to resemble marble. Štvanice Footbridge stretches across River Vltava in Prague "Holešovice and Karlín are two completely different parts of the city," Petr Tej told Dezeen.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2024

Particularly, dealing with the challenges of climate change, cultural integration, circular development and population growth while preserving and evolving cities' identities. This calls for new skills, competencies and capacities mixed in a systemic vision attitude. Are you a creative, talented, passionate mind?

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The Architect's Newsletter

AUGUST 5, 2022

Brought to you by: Architect Mario Cucinella Architects Location Milan, Italy Completion Date January, 2022 Structural Engineer Ballardini Studio di Ingegnaria Service Engineer Deerns Italia Contractor Itinera Facades Aza Aghito [.].

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Urban Farming Office in Ho Chih Minh City, Vietnam, seeks to return green space to the city using the building’s facade as a structure for vertical urban farming. Image © Hiroyuki Oki Increasing in both size and number, cities worldwide are experiencing accelerated growth.

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The structure was initially designed by Charles Correa and engineer Mahenda Raj in the 1960s. A testament to “the progressive ideals and experimental spirit that characterized India’s post-independence period,” t his iconic modernist structure has hosted ample cultural events for the city.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Bridge structures that span buildings high up in mid-air are now a common trick for architects to show off in skyscraper projects. DJI Sky City, China, by Foster + Partners , 2022. Find out more about DJI Sky City ›. At the Raffles City complex in Chongqing , The Crystal skybridge connects four 250-metre-tall skyscrapers.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Local architecture studio Erre Q Erre has created the Environmental Culture Center, a stone-clad pavilion and garden that replaces a parking lot in Bosque de Chapultepec, a large park in the centre of Mexico City. Inside, a stone floor and stone seating is framed by the semi-circular structure. The photography is by Margarita Gorbea.

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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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SW Oregon Architect

MARCH 31, 2024

The City of Eugene mailed a multi-page brochure regarding the Franklin Boulevard Transformation project to neighbors this past February. The elephant in the room (or perhaps rather, not in the room) is what he perceives as another example of the City’s failure to prioritize visionary thinking in its planning processes.

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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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Archinect

JANUARY 18, 2024

The basic goal was to restore the internal water level and navigability of city of Győr - the city of waters - and to improve the image of the city.

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Archinect

AUGUST 30, 2023

Following last week’s look at an opening for a Junior Architectural Engineer at Cover , we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an opportunity on Archinect Jobs for a Program Production Fellow at MoMA PS1.

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Architizer

JUNE 30, 2022

© Architectural Engineering Consultants. The contemporary tower is designed as a finely detailed structure that blends sustainability with natural and cultural references. The contemporary tower is designed as a finely detailed structure that blends sustainability with natural and cultural references.

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Archinect

MAY 8, 2023

Japanese architecture and engineering firm Mitsubishi Jisho Design has unveiled details of a sustainable teahouse project at the upcoming Venice Architecture Biennale , which takes place from May 20th to November 26th in what is now its 18th edition. According to its designers, the scheme is meant as a place of “renewed connection.”

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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

AUGUST 2, 2023

Local studios Inaba Williams Architecture and Kyle May Architect have created a cafe in New Jersey oriented around massive structural columns and bright, colourful elements. Called Lackawanna Café, the project occupies the ground floor and mezzanine of a mid-rise apartment building in Jersey City designed by Fogarty Finger Architecture.

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Bustler

AUGUST 28, 2023

The American Institute of Steel Construction ’s AISC Education Foundation has announced a total of $211,000 worth of scholarships to 48 architecture, engineering, and construction management students across the country for the 2023–24 academic year. We’ve also awarded the inaugural Steven J.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

A skyscraper in the central Chinese city of Changsha was seriously damaged after a fire engulfed the 42-storey building. Thirty-six fire engines and 280 firefighters from 17 stations were sent to the blaze, according to the Hunan Fire Department. The fire in the China Telecom building was reported at 3.48pm.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Appointed in 2017 to expand the resort, ZHA designed Studio City Phase Two with new leisure, entertainment and hospitality facilities including one of Asia’s largest indoor water parks and extensive meeting spaces. Comprising two hotel towers with 900 rooms and suites, 21,000 sq. m of shopping and dining, as well as 2,300 sq.

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Architizer

JANUARY 5, 2023

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Archinect

MARCH 13, 2023

How did this engineering blunder ever come to pass? One Seaport (aka “161 Maiden Lane”) is now the subject of a contentious lawsuit between Fortis and the project’s construction engineer Pizzarotti. Construction has since stalled out as various solutions are proffered.

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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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Archinect

JUNE 6, 2023

The meaning of “Mountain & Sea” comes from its position, keeping away from the hustle and bustle of the city and appearing vividly on the mountain, as well as from its location at the north end of the Dianchi Lake system, with excellent landscape resources, and the city, water and mountains are all included in the sight.

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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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Dwell

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Joseph Irwin Miller, the chairman of local engine company Cummins, was unimpressed with the public buildings throughout the city. As Chris Marcinkoski of PORT puts it, each installation can be considered an "instrument of engagement"—an addendum to the city written by the community.

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Archinect

JUNE 22, 2022

Like many highway projects around the world, it has been engineered to span great distances and stand strong—feats that have become so normal they’re expected as the status quo. Called the Randselva Bridge, the structure stretches 2,080 feet and stands 180 feet above ground at its highest point.

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Deezen

MARCH 23, 2022

The largest public housing building in Hamilton, a city southwest of Toronto on Lake Ontario, the tower was in a state of disrepair and selected for renovation by the Canadian National Housing Strategy's Repair and Renewal Fund. The structure is now certified under the Passivhaus EnerPHit category, particular to retrofitted buildings.

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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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