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Construction Site Tour

SW Oregon Architect

As the design team’s project manager, I led the tour, helping to explain what is now coming together very quickly. For emerging design professionals, the opportunity to visit projects under construction—particularly those they were involved with during the design phase—is of immeasurable benefit.

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Site Tour: The Ponds on Alexander

SW Oregon Architect

Inside the Clubhouse entrance at The Ponds (all photos by me) AIA Eugene and the Willamette Valley Chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute jointly hosted a construction site tour of The Ponds on Alexander this past Thursday. acre site that borders the picturesque Delta Ponds wetlands area. Clubhouse exterior view.

Site 162
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Design Challenge: Balancing Site Impact With Sun and Shade

ArchDaily

© François Lévy When François Lévy was asked to design a country home on a substantial piece of land, he immediately faced an issue: locating the building in a spot which required as little re-grading as possible while being able to reap the benefits of solar energy.

Site 224
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Four design teams shortlisted for former KKK site reclamation project in Texas

Archinect

101 Auditorium will fall on a proposal that best expresses and reflects the group’s reclamatory mission while “[prioritizing] community, equity, and collective healing in the design of the space” above all other considerations of site and material. The chance at redesigning what was once the Ku Klux Klan Klavern No.

Site 249
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Site preparations begin for Norman Foster’s One Beverly Hills

Archinect

Site preparations are underway in Los Angeles in advance of the 50-month construction phase that will bring the Foster + Partners -designed One Beverly Hills residential towers to a plot adjacent to the Beverly Hilton and other area hospitality icons. acre site that includes another 8.5-acre acre site that includes another 8.5-acre

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Abin Design Studio creates local business school in India that weaves the site into the architecture

Avontuura

The post Abin Design Studio creates local business school in India that weaves the site into the architecture appeared first on Åvontuura. Micro initiatives are turned into enduring assets by an unconventional take on traditional practices in the Bandhan School of Business.

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OMA's competition-winning campus for Seoul’s Hongik University digs into its site

Archinect

OMA has won a competition to design a new campus for Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea. Described by the firm as a “cluster of interwoven buildings and public spaces that meld with the existing topography,” the scheme includes a significant level of greenery to integrate with its mountainside site.

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