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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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

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

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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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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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 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

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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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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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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Habitus Living

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The clients wanted a weekend home, within the humdrum of the city, that invoked feelings of relaxation and rejuvenation. Mohammed Asif Builder – SS Constructions Structural Engineer – Sigma Structural Landscape – Venkatesh C.H The brief was very straightforward,” Chandrashekar recalls. Kune Yatheesh, Intern – Ayesha A.K.

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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

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. "The

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Médiathèques exist in most French towns and cities. Photo © James Morris The Carré d’Art is articulated as a nine-storey structure, half of which is cut into the ground, keeping the building’s profile low in sympathy with the scale of the surrounding buildings. Less common is the inclusion of a gallery for painting and sculpture.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Located in an industrial area on the outskirts of the city of Kristiansand, Lumber 4 comprises a ground floor with commercial spaces and five floors of office space above. Over time, the paint under the shadow will weather, leading to a changing facade with lighter and darker curved sections," it added.

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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

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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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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e-architect

JUNE 11, 2023

The building is covered by brick walls with a concrete structure. The building is covered by brick walls with a concrete structure. The perforated brick wall structure rotates at a 45-degree angle to create a buffer layer that reduces the impact of sunlight and creates moving shadows.

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Deezen

MAY 7, 2024

In collaboration with structural engineer Michel Virlogeux and the construction group Webuild , the proposed design will feature primary support pillars "well away from the navigation channel used by large vessels". It is unconfirmed if the design will be taken up by the city.

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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

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 The photography is by Jakub Certowicz.

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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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Dwell

JANUARY 2, 2024

Rather than add an addition to the original structure, their plan was a complementary new companion house: a ruggedly modern home capable of coexisting in balance with the existing house, offering the potential for dual occupancy or future use of either building. Have one to share? Post it here.

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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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e-architect

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Notably, the structural design of the home was elevated to the same category as a school or hospital so that it could function as a refuge for this family. A clear shift in the volume that delineates the public and private spaces along this axis was integrated into the home as an acknowledgment of this force of nature.

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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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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Chengdu, hailed as the land of abundance, has a civilization history of 4,500 years and a city construction history of 2,300 years. At the platform of the exhibition hall, you can take a look at the creative group projects on the east side and the natural landscape of Yanqi Wetland. LTD Client: Tianfu Investment Group Co.,

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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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