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Deconstruction by Design: How Architects Are Redefining Practice Through Material Reuse

Architizer

Built on principles of sustainability, innovation, solidarity, and excellence, RÉCO emerges as a transformative force in the construction industry, playing a crucial role in minimizing construction waste, safeguarding built heritage, and safeguarding the environment. The judging process for Architizer's 12th Annual A+Awards is now away.

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V&A Dundee exhibition "busts some important myths" about Tartan

Deezen

These rules of the grid are also there to be deconstructed and disrupted, offering unlimited possibilities." I think one of the biggest misunderstandings of tartan is that it has stood still, being one of the most documented and regulated textiles in the world," she said. The Scottish Register of Tartans now has over 11,000 entries.

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University of Southern California presents 10 architecture student projects

Deezen

"USC Architecture is a dynamic platform for educating and inspiring 'citizen architects' to analyse problems and create design solutions that both respond to the challenges of our time and embrace the promise of a better built environment. What if buildings are just as much characters in the built environment as the people who occupy them?

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8 Ways Architects Served Up Spectacular Hospitality Spaces in 2022

Architizer

The most exceptional projects have eloquent answers to the multifaceted challenges posed by hospitality environments. In this way, the boundary between the commercial and organic environment is made porous. The art of the architect is in tempering this emotional spatial experience with the staid infrastructure of business and profit.

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More Virtuous Circles

Landscape Architecture Magazine

This cultivates a creative environment within the firm that encourages innovation, but shifts in the materials economy have helped to push these ideas into more mainstream design/bid/build project structures and larger urban projects. Wagon has an unconventional methodology that facilitates experimentation with materials.

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How Adaptive Reuse Can Help Solve the Affordability Crisis

Dwell

In the war of words, policies and proposals aimed at solving America’s ongoing housing crisis, much of the fighting has centered around the all-important Development Question: whether new construction alone can bring down prices, or whether aggressive regulation is needed to control costs. The 37th Street School apartments in Milwaukee, WI.

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Providence lost, regained II

Architecture Here and There

This train of thought originally came to me from Nikos Salingaros, a mathematician and architectural theorist based at the University of Texas and the author of Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction: The Triumph of Nihilism and other books.