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Economic Pressures and Labor Challenges: How 2023 Shaped Architecture and Construction Industries

Archinect

The architecture industry was impacted this year by market volatility, rising interest rates, and evolving labor dynamics. This signaled a cautious approach by firm owners and clients alike amidst tightening credit conditions and rising interest rates.

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Oliver Wainwright on RIBA's '100 Women: Architects in Practice,' a new primer for industry-wide change

Archinect

In an industry where the gender pay gap has widened in recent years, where all-male panels at conferences are not unusual, and where macho culture still prevails on building sites, a book like this, sadly, still has a place. the clients who say they just can’t find women with the right experience. We’re not there yet.

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Will the AEC industry keep up with America’s demand for new data centers?

Archinect

Data centers will increasingly be built farther from some of the traditional locations and will move closer to the clients they serve, according to research by Gartner, an I.T. And as major players in the data industry strive to become greener in the next decade, the pressure is on. consultancy.

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"We cannot design just to please our clients anymore" says Yasmeen Lari

Deezen

Architects must stop waiting for commissions from wealthy clients and prioritise designing for the planet, says RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner Yasmeen Lari in this exclusive interview. Architects have a very important role to play and we cannot design just to please our clients anymore or just to please ourselves."

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Stacks of timber inform "inspirational" industrial units by dRMM

Deezen

London studio dRMM has completed WorkStack, a top-heavy stack of industrial units in Greenwich that is constructed from cross-laminated timber. It also gives a powerful message that light industrial can mean socially and environmentally inspirational," he told Dezeen. The building has a CLT structure.

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Where modular housing meets digital client processes, new job opportunities emerge for architects

Archinect

In a 2021 feature titled For Affordable Housing, The Revolution Will Be Modularized , we explored one architect’s vision for an industrial-scale solution to the affordable housing crisis; one which centered on shipping-container-sized modules configured as various combinations of housing options.

Client 257
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Rug Republic | A post-industrial expression of exposed steel façade, designed as a reaction to the building’s industrial setting by Architecture Discipline

Archinect

’ Emerging from this thought, the design of the Rug Republic headquarters in Okhla, in the heart of New Delhi is a reaction to its industrial setting: an indictment of what we have brought our cities to.