Archinect

MARCH 15, 2022

A collapsing floor injured two workers Monday at a midtown office building where falling exterior work killed a prominent architect in 2019. It is not clear at this time whether or not workers on the site were unionized or not. The accident at 729 Seventh Avenue happened just before 10 a.m.

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Archinect

AUGUST 16, 2023

The Stories at City Modern is part of a four-block development by Bedrock that consists of four renovated Victorian homes and 19 new structures—a mix of townhomes and midrise apartment buildings comprising 400 individual dwellings. The Stories’ design is a modern reinvention of a stacked flat.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Argentinian architect Malvina Zayat has completed a white home for herself and her family that is lifted above a sloped site and enters into "an intimate dialogue with the sky and clouds". The residence sits within a native forest in the town of Salsipuedes, which lies about 30 kilometers from the city of Córdoba.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Architecture firm Alterstudio has completed a tower-like house in Texas that rises up from a steep, wooded site that was long overlooked "as a possible home site". The site had long been overlooked as feasible for home construction. The team cut away portions of the boxy exterior to create balconies, which vary in size.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Mexican architecture studio Productora has restored a concrete industrial complex in Mexico City into a series of studios including its own office. Now, the most significant aspects of the renovation have been the cleared courtyards and added buildings, as well as expressive walkways and a new freight elevator that towers above the site.

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Archinect

APRIL 19, 2022

From 1891 to 1993 the Columbia Congregational Church called this site home, drawing in residents to an entirely undeveloped Rainier Valley. At that time, land was often given to churches, because the City understood they could be a useful tool in creating communities and economy.

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Archinect

JUNE 24, 2022

Fire Station 14, sited in the growing northwest quadrant of Salt Lake City, is a 17,200 square foot dual-company facility. Firefighter amenities include an exercise room, a second-floor exterior roof deck, a theater / day room and a full-service, commercial-quality kitchen.

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Deezen

MARCH 24, 2023

Architecture studio LBR&A has designed a residence that "breaks the imposed paradigms of construction" in a Mexico City neighbourhood where development has reportedly taken its toll on the landscape. The CH73 House is located in the Bosques de las Lomas neighbourhood and occupies a long, slender site that slopes down toward a ravine.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Dezeen School Shows: a project examining the street furniture in Manhattan 's Chinatown district is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at City College of New York. It is a small-scale development model that can be repeated, enabling residents to engage in the city-making process."

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Deezen

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Courtyards , walkways, and staircases delineate the volumes of this home in Mexico City designed by local studio PPAA. The area is an established residential enclave that lies west of the Bosque de Chapultepec, one of the city's main parks. PPAA designed the house in Mexico City. Facades are board-formed concrete.

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Deezen

AUGUST 8, 2023

Local studio Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados has completed a wooden A-Frame house with underground bedrooms in a forested area outside Mexico City. The A-Frame structure consists of pre-fabricated elements brought to the site. The post PPAA submerges bedrooms underneath A-Frame house near Mexico City appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

Glazed brick and charred cypress wrap the exterior of a partly sunken North Carolina home designed by architecture firm In Situ Studio. Like other parts of the city, the area is experiencing a lot of new development and building renovations. The site formerly held a run-down, 1940s dwelling that was owned by the clients.

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Deezen

MAY 20, 2024

Local architecture studio DF Arquitectos has wrapped an expansive clubhouse for a football team in volcanic stone in the shadow of a rocky cliff in Mexico City. Nearly 75 per cent of the four-storey facade is xitle, a volcanic stone quarried from the excavation site that allows the building to fit naturally into its immediate context.

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Archinect

JUNE 30, 2023

Snøhetta has revealed photos of its just-completed Orionis planetarium and observatory design in the northern French city of Douai. A landscaped garden path connection to the existing museum completes the exterior program while promoting biodiversity and linking various outdoor spaces together into one accessible whole.

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Deezen

JULY 13, 2023

Located about nine kilometres from the city's historic centre, the embassy complex sits on a sloping, 9.4-acre hectare) site and encompasses a main office building , support structures, a garage, a gym and a sports court. Among the natural hazards in Guatemala City are earthquakes and tropical storms.

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Archinect

JULY 19, 2022

acre site in Milwaukee ’s Haymarket neighborhood. It is on track to be the largest cultural project to date in the city. Image courtesy Ennead Architects The building's material palette will primarily comprise concrete and glass, with an exterior texture that mirrors the ancient sea stacks present in the state park.

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Dwell

MAY 13, 2024

The site itself was very interesting, because it felt expansive from one end, but actually quite intimate and enclosed by nature at the other." Before: Exterior After: Exterior The design firm Sherwood Kypreos preserved and repaired the home’s original brise-soleil. a Woodburning Stove? a Woodburning Stove?

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The Spaces

MARCH 25, 2024

Others may embark on a full circle of the country’s ‘ring-road’ via the eastern fjords and the cultural northern city of Akureyri or even brace themselves with snowshoes and specialist wheels for a tour of the fabled, uninhabited highlands of the interior. ‘The spirit is all Icelandic,’ says Hoop.

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Deezen

AUGUST 2, 2023

Local architecture studio Romero de la Mora has created an expansive concrete and wood holiday home with a protected courtyard in Tepeji del Río, just outside Mexico City. Interiors are neutral throughout A continuation of ceiling beams past the sliding glass walls of the kitchen dissolves the transition between the interior and exterior.

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e-architect

JULY 29, 2023

Casa Salmar, Puebla City Real Estate, Mexico home, Mexican residential building, Architecture photos Casa Salmar in Puebla City 30 July 2023 Arquitectos: mxtad Location: Puebla City, Mexico Photos by Amy Bello Casa Salmar, Mexico Casa Salmar is situated on a rectangular lot within a closed residential development in the city of Puebla.

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2022

Scandinavian firm CF Møller Architects has completed a house where all the exterior surfaces match, thanks to a combination of dark red bricks and tiles. Located in Risskov, in the north of Danish city Aarhus, Villa E is a home for a couple with four children and a dog. The exterior combines matching tiles and bricks.

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Deezen

JULY 17, 2023

Local architect Fernanda Ahumada and studio FR-EE have completed The National Biodiversity Pavilion in Mexico City with a facade of moving aluminium panels that responds to light and wind. Fernanda Ahumada + FREE architects have completed the National Biodiversity Pavilion located in Mexico City.

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Archinect

MARCH 11, 2022

Two years into the project, they construct the city in short and mobile sprints. The New York City group is a spinoff of a larger consortium called Build the Earth , which has recently completed digital versions of other important sites across the Tri-State Area. Image via Reddit User GeoffHenderson.)

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Archinect

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Architectural Team (TAT) has completed a mixed-use tower in Boston featuring the city’s first sky lobby. The Raffles Boston Hotel & Residences features a 400-foot curved glass form and is described by the team as a “sophisticated new skyline statement within a challenging and historic context.”

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Habitus Living

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Cabin House was designed as a tranquil retreat, something immediately sensed by the home’s orientation towards the landscape and its compact placement on the southern side of the site. The clients wanted a weekend home, within the humdrum of the city, that invoked feelings of relaxation and rejuvenation.

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Archinect

MARCH 31, 2022

The site was once the home of the Atlantic Steel Mill foundry, which inspired the exterior steel-frame expression and wooden gantries serving as balconies serving individual office tenants. T3 is adjacent to Foundry Park, a public city park whose central icon is the former Foundry smokestack.

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Deezen

AUGUST 1, 2022

Supertall skyscrapers, which are defined as those that exceed 300 metres in height, are currently being planned that would become the tallest buildings in cities including Miami, Toronto and Austin. Below are six proposed skyscrapers planned for construction in cities outside of New York. Image is by Related Midwest.

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Architonic

DECEMBER 5, 2021

From 1891 to 1993 the Columbia Congregational Church called this site home, drawing in residents to an entirely undeveloped Rainier Valley. At that time, land was often given to churches, because the City understood it could be a useful tool in creating communities and economy.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

A series of bridges, walkways and exterior staircases connect the various parts of this community centre in one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods in Mexico City by Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura. Its iteration of the PILARES program is located in the Presidentes de México neighbourhood, in the south of the city.

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Architizer

JANUARY 26, 2023

The exterior is clad in a rain screen of weathered steel that recalls the site’s steel mill history, with an exposed mass timber interior. Tom Daly: Historically, Chicago’s Southeast Side has been burdened with the effects of industrialization and left with remnants of steel production in the region of the city.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Located within the historic city of Quzhou, 258.6 miles (400 kilometers) southwest of Shanghai, the stadium's exterior is said to "reflect the mountain ridge within distant view of the site while its landscape evokes those of planets imagined by vi.

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Architizer

JULY 13, 2023

Both cities have a long history dating back to the 1860s, thanks to the growth of agriculture and the lumber industry. Over time, the Twin Cities gained their moniker from sharing diverse political, cultural and educational institutions. In turn, new architecture continues to be built, highlighting each city’s design culture.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 21, 2022

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has been named winner of the competition to design the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre. Jinghe New City is growing as a science and technology hub north of Xi’an in China’s Shaanxi province. Image © Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA). Image © Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA).

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Jinghe New City is growing as a science and technology hub north of Xi’an in China’s Shaanxi province. Supported by new scientific research institutes and driven by environmental considerations, the city is becoming a centre for developing industries focussing on new energy and materials, artificial intelligence and aerospace.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

The cantilevering volumes are supported by two-storey steel trusses For the empty parcel, the team sought to "maximise the buildable floor area for the small corner site by capitalizing on the air rights of the neighbouring building". The photography is by Albert Vecerka of ESTO (exteriors) and United Management (interiors).

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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. An existing building on site was partially demolished, with only the facade remaining intact.

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e-architect

JUNE 5, 2023

Renovation: Changes in Architectural and Spatial Functions LI City Study is located in the Tianmu Lake Resort in Liyang City. At the same time, the architects removed the exterior walls, exposing the original beams and columns frame.

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