The Architect's Newsletter

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Brought to you by: Architect SGA Architecture Location Nashville, Tennessee Completion Date August, 2020 Architect of Record Centric Architecture Client Vanderbilt University Construction Manager Messer Structural Engineer Structural Design Group [.].

Glass 115

Glass Inspiration Structural Engineering Building 115

Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

dMFK Architects renovated Voysey House The team aimed to revive the structure's original character reversing a series of renovations over the past 100 years following its conversion into offices after a fire in 1928. The photography is by Jack Hobhouse.

Restoration 124

Restoration Art IT Architect 124

Dwell

MAY 3, 2023

The clients had worked with another architect on a first floor addition and realized for the cost of the building, they were adding potentially unused space for a very high cost. The clients came to me wondering if they could achieve the bare minimum for their family, which would then allow for the quality items within those spaces.

Civil Engineering 128

Civil Engineering Consulting Structural Engineering Engineering 128

Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Throughout, a largely muted colour palette of white punctuated by deep greens and blues was adopted to provide a "calm backdrop" to the client's possessions and artworks. The extension features a window seat overlooking the rear courtyard Oliver Leech Architects was founded in 2016. The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

Home 120

Home Architect Structural Engineering Windows 120

BD+C

JANUARY 18, 2024

Walter P Moore promotes former 40 Under 40 winner Kelly Roberts 0 qpurcell Thu, 01/18/2024 - 09:30 Engineers In addition to her role as a Principal, Roberts is a distinguished leader in structural design with an extensive portfolio encompassing diverse projects such as educational and healthcare facilities to commercial and healthcare structures.

Structural Engineering 52

Structural Engineering Engineering Engineering Client 52

Deezen

JANUARY 21, 2024

The chapel has an exposed concrete structure "The simple chapel volume, set in the vast nature, is constructed as a lifted box, signifying a separation from the secular world," explained Eunsok. "It Equipment engineer: Jusung Eng. Mechanical engineer: Jusung Eng. Electrical engineer: Hangil Eng.

Engineering 127

Engineering Engineering Glass Windows 127

Dwell

APRIL 2, 2024

A new tw0-story structure on the rear lane contains the bike and garden storage, laundry area, bathroom, and a studio space. The roof to the living space is densely planted and its concrete structure provides enough depth for the plants to thrive. Post it here.

Landscape 81

Landscape Roofing Architect Structural Engineering 81

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. As structural engineers, we are more able to influence embodied carbon, so that is the focus for us.".

Structural Engineering 105

Structural Engineering Project Civil Engineering Engineering 105

Dwell

MAY 15, 2024

Blue Sky Building Systems makes steel structures to your specifications, whether for a suburban dwelling or Joshua Tree retreat. The main structure of the home was constructed within a four-day period. Welcome to Prefab Profiles , an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses.

Home 103

Home Building Structural Engineering Structure 103

Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

Nestled beside the surrounding woodland, the cabin is wrapped by an external skin or 'monocoque' – similar to an eggshell – that draws on structural systems used within the aerospace and automotive industries. The structure draws aerospace and automative construction techniques Measuring 3.3-metres-wide, metres-wide, 3.5-metres-tall

Technique 123

Technique Structural Engineering Structure Construction 123

Architizer

APRIL 13, 2022

Architizer chatted with Xin Yuan, Director at XinY Structural Consultants to learn more about this project. This non-building structure consists of the rigid double curved roof and vertical columns. This non-building structure consists of the rigid double curved roof and vertical columns. © XinY Structural Consultants.

Consulting 98

Consulting Structure Mining Roofing 98

Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The client named the house Casa que Da (House that Gives) to reference the act of "giving" in a culinary context. Large sliding doors line the living area The integration of the nixtamal was inspired by the client's culinary experience and created a pattern of sunlight and shadow. Rogelio Rojas Castro Structural engineering: Ing.

Housing 142

Housing Mining Client Clients 142

Dwell

APRIL 21, 2023

The homeowners created the structures using stones collected on-site to connect their rural residence to the land. The clients erected and filled the gabion walls themselves. To support the client's busy lives as farmers and parents the space needed to feel calm, light-filled, and uplifting. Have one to share? Post it here.

Roofing 131

Roofing Client Clients Structural Engineering 131

aasarchitecture

APRIL 22, 2024

The square shape of the gallery, covered with an exposed concrete structure, resonates with the orthogonal geometry of the original project, offering a large exhibition space that can be subdivided. Working within the material and conceptual constraints of a building requires discipline and restraint.

Consulting 105

Consulting Engineering Engineering Structural Engineering 105

Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

PAT teamed up with fellow Italian architect Ferdinando Fagnola on the project, which involved renovating a 2oth-century "white house" and adding a series of elevated, pavilion-like structures. The white house, built in the Swahili style of nearby city Lamu, was the starting point for the design.

Home 133

Home Renovation Structural Engineering Regulation 133

Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Field Architecture has created a house in Sonoma Valley with copper-clad roofs Dry in the summers with heavy rainfall in the winter, the area's geography informed the design, as did the client's desire to co-inhabit the land with the region's plants and animals. "We

Civil Engineering 144

Civil Engineering Housing Architecture Engineering 144

Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Inspired by the client's Larry Poons paintings, the bricks are choreographed to convey movement. Custom architecture offers the client a total experience of their own behavior – manifested in architectural solutions." The box-shaped homes are in a Tudor revival style and feature a centre hallway plan.

Housing 128

Housing Engineering Engineering Structural Engineering 128

Deezen

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The structure was built using a mass-timber frame fabricated in Minnesota, while locally sourced brick and concrete were used throughout the rest of building. The building's third floor contains offices and a digital workspace.

Civil Engineering 130

Civil Engineering Contractor Engineering Engineering 130

Deezen

MAY 8, 2024

While the daylight is welcome, it needed to be carefully managed in order to protect the client's art collection from harmful UV rays. As the client chose the location of the site for the beauty of its natural environment, maintaining and supporting this environment became a driving factor in the design," the team said.

Housing 128

Housing Architecture Roofing Site 128

Deezen

APRIL 26, 2023

Called Maxon Studio, the project comprises a two-storey weathering-steel structure constructed as an office for the client's branding agency in Carnation, Washington. The client, Lou Maxon, was also the general contractor on the project and worked with Olson Kundig Architects to allow for the studio to move back and forth on the rails.

Client 145

Client Clients Contractor Structural Engineering 145

Deezen

OCTOBER 17, 2023

"Using steel as the load-bearing truss-like-carcass minimised the building size – important for transporting modules – helped achieve a cantilevered structure, resulted in a system of modules for quick assembly on site, and could be done by the client, a metal manufacturer, in-house," Timofejev explained. "At

Structural Engineering 140

Structural Engineering Site Client Clients 140

Dwell

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The idea was to take the existing house and give it new life—one that met the needs and aesthetics of our designer clients. The idea was to take the existing house and give it new life—one that met the needs and aesthetics of our designer clients. The client described it as living inside a tree.

Windows 141

Windows Interior Housing Client 141

Dwell

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Project Details: Location: Brooklyn, New York Designer: TBo / @ tbo_architecture Footprint: 2,260 square feet Architect of Record: Enthink Engineering Builder: Prestigne Renovation Group Inc. Delivering light into the house was a paramount concern for the clients.

Zoning 110

Zoning Engineering Engineering Structural Engineering 110

Deezen

APRIL 5, 2024

Called Cité Angus II, the structure is part of Technopôle Angus, an urban revitalization project that its developers say is a "full-scale sustainable development". Local architecture studio Ædifica has created a residential apartment building outside Montreal with an interior courtyard and a metal-mesh second skin on the facade.

Housing 111

Housing Residential Exterior Remodeling 111

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Helsinki-based JKMM Architects used glulam and black spruce cladding to relate the Chappe Art House to surrounding timber structures in the coastal town of Tammisaari, Finland. It has a glued laminated (glulam) timber structure and was clad in black-stained spruce as a nod to the nearby timber buildings.

Art 128

Art Architect Foundation Engineering 128

Architizer

MAY 11, 2022

Atherton pavilions – The two pavilions nestled in this verdant landscape were a response to the clients’ vision for a deeper engagement with their lovely yard. ″ spacing of the vertical and horizontal slats set the basis for all structural and finish alignments. How have your clients responded to the finished project?

Site 98

Site Modern Civil Engineering Architecture 98

Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

Partly because the client was a Japanese brewer who mainly makes sake, we also incorporated 'Japanese-ness' into the design." According to the team, it was informed by the Engawa, an element of Japanese architecture that resembles a veranda or porch that runs along the perimeter of a structure.

Civil Engineering 128

Civil Engineering Engineering Engineering Windows 128

Deezen

APRIL 7, 2022

Local firm In Situ Studio was charged with designing a contemporary residence for a couple – the husband is an electrical engineer, and the wife is a German and history teacher. The site formerly held a run-down, 1940s dwelling that was owned by the clients. It was really a blast working with the clients on these parts of the house.".

Site 144

Site Housing Structural Engineering Client 144

aasarchitecture

MAY 8, 2024

Møller Architects Project Manager: Appleyard & Trew Engineering: MEP Engineering: Arup Structural Engineering: Walsh Fire Engineering: Trenton Fire Cost management services: Gardiner Theobald Planning Consultant: Montagu Evans Catering Consultant: Sterling Foodservice Consultancy Contractor: Sir Robert McAlpine Sustainability: BREEAM Excellent (..)

Architect 59

Architect Consulting Engineering Engineering 59

Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Along with curling exterior walls that span the length of the houses's perimeter, they were created using a technique in which concrete is poured slowly into fabric formwork supported by a plywood rib structure. The team covered the structure with berms, which rise out of the flat landscape of the surrounding agricultural fields.

Housing 132

Housing Technique Exterior Consulting 132

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

Housing 140

Housing Architect Civil Engineering Engineering 140

Deezen

MAY 4, 2024

To the north, the classrooms, meditation spaces and two art workshops are housed in the main timber-framed, larch-clad structure that will silver over time to "camouflage" with the trees. The Harmeny Learning Hub comprises two buildings set atop a paved patio. The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

Education 92

Education Students Structural Engineering Landscape 92

e-architect

JULY 13, 2023

After discovering a series of these abandoned, subterranean bunkers on their land, the client commissioned the architects to convert one into a functioning holiday letting. The brief was to celebrate the enormous historical significance of the structure whilst ensuring a habitable and commercially viable space for the client.

Home 83

Home Client Clients Structural Engineering 83

Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Modu has created a "self-cooling" exterior for an office building in Houston The Promenade building is a 15,000-square-foot (1,400 square metre) centre which will host wellness and health clients throughout several offices. Each tenant will be provided with both an interior and exterior space.

Exterior 124

Exterior Building Civil Engineering Engineering 124

Deezen

OCTOBER 18, 2022

London studio Crawshaw Architects has transformed a former cow shed in Dorset into a library and office , organised around a wooden, barrel-vaulted arcade that references the client's collection of books on classical Palladian architecture. This plan references classical architectural forms, which are the focus of many of the client's books.

Architect 105

Architect Structural Engineering Client Clients 105

aasarchitecture

JUNE 15, 2023

Photo © Koichi Torimura By necessity, the detached building housing a two-car garage and guest room is situated on the east side, where the elevation gap is smallest, but the client requested that the main house weave around the difficult site conditions.

Architect 105

Architect Structural Engineering Client Clients 105

Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2023

Vancouver-based studio BattersbyHowat Architects has completed a parallelogram-shaped, mountainside home clad in standing seam metal that includes a detached sauna structure in Whistler , British Columbia. The photography is by Ema Peter.

Structural Engineering 115

Structural Engineering Home Engineering Engineering 115