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. Three simple, bow-shaped structures were placed to its southeast to house students. Kresge College is a part of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Dezeen included other projects that seek to mitigate heat in this round-up , including reflective paint and water-filled windows The photography is by Leonid Furmansky and Naho Kubota Project credits: Architect: Modu Project team: Phu Hoang, Rachely Rotem, Tom Sterling, Brenda Lim Developer: Anh Gip Climate engineering firm: TransSolar Local architect: (..)

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Deezen

AUGUST 8, 2023

The building has quickly become one of, if not the most, visible structures on the Brooklyn skyline. Last year, SHoP principal Greg Pasquarelli told Dezeen in an exclusive interview that the structure, because of its special zoning, "would be kind of like the Empire State Building of Brooklyn." "We

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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2022

Hanif Kara is co-founder of civil engineering firm AKT II. Also awarded on the New Years Honours list was structural engineer Kara, the co-founder of structural and civil engineering firm AKT II. She was awarded the London Design Medal in 2017.

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Working with local studio NORR Architects and Engineers , Renzo Piano Building Workshop ( RPBW ) designed the structure for downtown Toronto, where it will house many of the city's criminal courtrooms. On the south side of the structure, a large architectural "mast" was affixed to the side of the building.

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Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2022

Engineering firm Buro Happold has become the latest signatory to the SE 2050 Commitment Program, which unites structural engineering firms behind the common goal to slash embodied carbon emissions from their projects by 2050. There has been, to date, a focus on operational carbon," he told Dezeen. "As

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Deezen

MARCH 17, 2023

The original building was designed in a modernist style by the Boston office of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott – the firm started in 1870s by noted American architect Henry Hobson Richardson. The building's formerly opaque stone walls were carefully and selectively removed to allow light in," the firm said.

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Dwell

JANUARY 11, 2023

Photo by Leonardo Finotti Designed by Uruguayan architecture firm Mapa, the house is supported by 30 pilotis. Photo by Leonardo Finotti Erica is the owner and founder of the interior design studio Solsken, and Eduardo is a civil engineer and the vice president of Data IQ.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Promotion: French engineering school École des Ponts ParisTech offers a master's degree that gives students and practitioners a comprehensive knowledge of parametric architecture, robotics and digital manufacturing. Launched in 2016, the Digital Building Design master's degree is 16 months long and is taught in English.

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aasarchitecture

AUGUST 25, 2022

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of its founding and contribute to the community, Japanese civil engineering firm Qilu Construction recently invested around 250 million yen (approximately HK $ 14.5 Sakyukaikan, a souvenir shop near the Cafe. The feature is that the building is surrounded by wooden shutters.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Elliott Architects demolished the main house and relocated the other two structures to start the design with a clean slate. The client was not beholden to the prevailing style of houses in the area, most of which are traditional, vernacular, New England wood-framed structures," the studio said. "He Lighting design: Peter Knuppel.

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Deezen

MAY 11, 2022

These teams are highly specialized in extreme conditions that include rappelling down buildings, navigating collapsed structures, and even deploying for underwater rescue operations. The concrete building is fronted with terracotta tiles that recall the red colour typically used for fire engines. The photography is by Tom Harris.

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2023

When new owners purchased the property in 2016, they engaged us to make additions to the site that respected the natural character of the sparsely populated island," the firm said. The main house sits within this meadow, overlooking a shallow bay. The rectangular building holds a main living area and two bedrooms.

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Deezen

JUNE 9, 2023

Grimshaw and Architekton designed a research facility in Arizona Designed by global firm Grimshaw Architects and local studio Architekton , the building – formally known as the Rob and Melani Walton Center for Planetary Health – is the latest addition to a science-and-research district on the desert campus.

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Deezen

AUGUST 12, 2022

Polycarbonate walls and a row of tall window boxes bring diffused sunlight into the Iowa City Public Works building by US firm Neumann Monson Architects. The structure is made of concrete and metal, and perimeter walls consist of precast concrete panels. "It The structure houses equipment for local utilities departments.

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Architizer

MAY 11, 2022

The distinctly modern forms contrast with the organic surrounds they occupy but the materiality and scale of the structures make them ‘of the landscape’… like they fit right in. ″ spacing of the vertical and horizontal slats set the basis for all structural and finish alignments. © Feldman Architecture.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Los Angeles-based Morphosis , which was founded by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, designed the structure to have a "gradient of architectural intensity, from complex forms at the museum's entry to rectilinear and flexible forms within the galleries". Structural engineer: John A. Civil engineer: KPFF.

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 19, 2023

NEAC Margraten was originally designed by American landscape architect Michael Rapuano, sculptor Joseph Kiselewski, and architecture firm Coolidge, Sheply, Bulfinch and Abbott, in collaboration with local architect Alphons Boosten of Maastricht.

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Deezen

APRIL 18, 2022

White siding and a curvy aluminium screen make up the exterior of a residential building in Los Angeles designed by American firm Brooks + Scarpa. Local firm Brooks + Scarpa designed the project to serve as "a model for more compact, responsible urban living". "The Structural engineer: John Martin Associates.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Local architecture firm La Base Studio has renovated a glass and concrete home, wrapping it in a delicate privacy and shading screen on a lush site in Buenos Aires , Argentina. The home was first constructed in the mid-1970s by a civil engineer, and La Base Studio demolished part of it for its current iteration.

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Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2022

Architecture firm SOM has completed its headquarters for Shenzhen 's Rural Commercial Bank, a steel-wrapped office building with an exterior that resembles an exoskeleton and features natural ventilation. The building's exterior diagrid provides structural support while reducing solar heat gain.

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Deezen

APRIL 10, 2022

It adjoins a concrete structure built in 1962 to supply power to the northeastern part of San Francisco. For the constrained site, local firm TEF Design conceived a two-storey addition that totals 12,200 square feet (1,133 square metres). Civil engineering: BFK Engineers. MEP engineering: MHC Engineers.

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2023

Several years ago, the library embarked on a renovation project in order to update the ageing facility and improve its structural systems, particularly in regard to seismic resilience. Civil engineer: Westech Engineering. Structural engineer: KPFF. Mechanical and plumbing engineer: PAE. Lighting: O-.

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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2023

Local architecture firm In Situ Studio wrapped an art museum visitor centre in Raleigh, North Carolina with darkened steel and cantilevered a roof with an aperture over its patio. In Situ Studio designed the 1,158-square foot (108-square metre) welcome building for the large park that surrounds the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA).

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Deezen

JUNE 8, 2022

To design the residence, local firm CLB took inspiration from Swiss mountain chalets and the vernacular architecture of the American Mountain West. Civil engineer: Nelson Engineering (Dave Dufault). Structural engineer: KL+A (Rachel Harper). Mechanical engineer: Melvin Engineering (John Melvin).

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2022

Architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has created a North Hollywood apartment building that prioritises social areas over private space and includes units for low-income tenants. The firm noted that 11 NOHO follows the tradition of courtyard apartment buildings in Southern California. Structural engineer: Labib Funk Engineering.

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e-architect

MAY 31, 2023

This project celebrates simplicity in form and structure, focusing on forming a relationship between architecture and the natural world in order to support therapeutic treatment. The extensive use of wood—as both a structural and finishing element is present throughout the building—and is a central feature of the design.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2022

An angular concrete building and an underground reservoir form a stormwater treatment plant in Toronto by Canadian firm GH3 that is meant to "signal a new and distinctive city precinct". . Local firm GH3 was charged with designing a utilitarian building that would make an "urban, landscape and architectural statement".

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Deezen

AUGUST 21, 2023

A Cold War-era building designed to withstand nuclear blasts is among the structures that have been renovated by Elkus Manfredi Architects at the newly established Children's National Research & Innovation Campus. The 12-acre (4.8-hectare)

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Deezen

JANUARY 24, 2022

American firm Frederick Fisher and Partners has completed a trio of hilltop buildings for a California school that was partly destroyed by a wildfire. In this aspect, all structures are organised around an identity that emphasises the scenic surroundings as the primary active element," the studio said. Photo by Tim Street-Porter.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2022

British architecture firm Adjaye Associates has designed a collection of pigmented-concrete pavilions in Winter Park, Florida , to house a library and an events centre. The three structures were constructed using pigmented concrete. Civil engineer and landscape architect: Land Design. hectares) Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2022

Local firm Marlon Blackwell Architects designed five structures for the school. Local firm Marlon Blackwell Architects designed five structures for the school and oversaw the restoration and relocation of Thaden's historic childhood home, which was moved from a site in Bentonville to the school campus.

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Deezen

APRIL 19, 2022

American firm CookFox Architects has completed a pair of tall, connected buildings with gridded facades for a Williamsburg site that once held an iconic sugar factory. The towers opened in 2019 but the firm has just now released photographs. Structural engineering: Rosenwasser Grossman, Consulting Engineers.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Large windows open the various rooms to the forest-like landscape The ADU sits atop an embedded garage and is topped by an urban roof garden with a sinuous aluminium sunshade structure. The pool deck and roof garden together create a 'middle ground' suspended between the streets at the site’s top and bottom," the team explained.

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Deezen

JULY 26, 2023

EskewDumezRipple and CambridgeSeven led the project The museum's current home first opened in the early 1990s, with a design by local studio Eskew Dumez Ripple (EDR) and several collaborating firms. The photography is by CambridgeSeven and EskewDumezRipple.

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e-architect

JUNE 1, 2023

The Clive Apartments in Victoria, BC – Building Information Design: Cascadia Architects – [link] Project size: 1511 sqm Completion date: 2014 Building levels: 3 Structural Engineer & Building Envelope: RJC Engineers Mechanical Engineer: Avalon Mechanical Consultants Ltd.

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e-architect

JULY 11, 2023

5 architects – New York, NY Structural Engineer: BBM Structural Engineers, Inc. Longwood, FL Civil Engineer: Parker Mychenberg & Associates, Inc. Gale Lemerand Student Center Location: Daytona Beach, FL Client: Daytona State College Architect: ikon.5 5 architects ikon.5

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