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Breaking Down Architectural Techniques With USC School of Architecture’s Foundational Graduate Studio

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This foundational studio focused on giving students with no previous architecture backgrounds an opportunity to gain "experience to foundational design concepts, disciplinary knowledge, and techniques for thinking about and developing fundamental architectural principles."

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Mizzi Studio Designs 9 Royal Parks Kiosks Using Sustainable Materials and Traditional Craft Techniques

Architizer

Their design responds to the Grade I-listed landscape, with sustainable materials and traditional craft techniques creating simple, functional forms. Architizer: What inspired the initial concept for your design? Were any parts of the project dramatically altered from conception to construction, and if so, why? © Mizzi Studio.

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Sagrada Familia shows stone "can return to being used as a structural material"

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His team was invited by La Sagrada Familia Foundation to help speed up the construction and reduce the weight of one of its many colossal elements – the tower of the Virgin Mary – all "while remaining true to Gaudi's vision". "The All the quarrying, shaping and assembly of stone can be done by electric machines powered by renewables."

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Ten key examples of Tashkent's Soviet modernist architecture

Deezen

Created as part of the wider Tashkent Modernism XX/XXI research and preservation project led by the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation, the conference aimed to draw attention to the city's modernist architectural heritage and discuss its future.

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The Sponge Evangelist

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Photo © Turenscape, courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation. In awarding the second biennial Oberlander Prize to the Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu, FASLA, the Cultural Landscape Foundation and its 2023 jury sent an unmistakable signal about the future of the field. His village had been destroyed, paved over with concrete.

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Ten inventive toilet designs that rethink the conventional loo

Deezen

Following the news that designer Archie Read has developed a toilet that uses a conveyor belt rather than water to dispose of waste, here is a roundup of 10 innovative loos including a prototype that combusts excrement into ashes and a lavatory for Mars. Many respond to the fact that the World Health Organization estimates around 2.8

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Iceland Aurora Station by CAA Architects

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Inspired by the unique geographical location and natural environment, the design concept of “ice and Fire” is adopted to create a two-way link between architecture and natural ecology and achieve harmonious coexistence between human and nature. Image © CAA Architects. Image © CAA Architects.