Deezen

MARCH 5, 2024

American developer Related Midwest has resumed construction on the 400 Lake Shore skyscraper in Chicago on a site that has experienced more than a decade's worth of revisions and delays. The original plan for the structure would have made it the tallest building in the world at the time, if completed.

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JUNE 20, 2023

Dubai-based developer Damac acquired the property, site of one of the deadliest structural failures in U.S. history, in 2022 for $120 million.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Urbanize LA has details on the promising development, which, when completed, will be one of the largest Black-owned enterprises in the city. Image: HKS Construction on the scheme, which is located on a four-parcel site at 6767 Sunset Boulevard, is now expected to begin in 2024 and wrap up by 2027.

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Deezen

MAY 14, 2024

Local studio Brandon Haw Architecture has created a masterplan for a development along the Brooklyn waterfront which will include five mixed-use towers created by design studios CookFox Architects , Rockwell Group and more. The project shall regenerate the last waterfront site of South Williamsburg."

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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2024

British architecture practice Studio Bark has worked with students from the University of East London to devise a roof-supporting column with otherwise unusable timber at a site within ancient English woodland. So we then questioned, can we use this timber, which is very much not the sort of stuff you buy on the shelf."

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Archinect

JULY 20, 2022

A recent project designed and built by Swedish architect Konstantin Ikonomidis located within a UNESCO World Heritage site in Greenland celebrates Inuit cultural heritage and traditional knowledge of the environment. It was developed in cooperation with UNESCO, the Qeqqata Municipality, and the Sisimiut Museum.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It would be crazy to do all of that research and development and not scale it.” ” New Land Enterprises (the developers behind Korb + Associates ' record-setting Ascent tower design) managing director Tim Gokhman sat down recently to discuss the bellwether project with the Urban Land Institute (ULI).

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Archinect

AUGUST 11, 2022

“Given the dire shortage of affordable housing in London and the valuable real estate occupied by the Trellick, it is almost certain that someone will build on the site in the future. Many fear the build would only attract more developers to the surrounding neighborhood, spoiling the character of the site.”

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

Funding has been secured and construction may begin in September on the Legends Tower in Oklahoma City, which is planned to be the tallest in USA , says developer Scot Matteson. Construction may begin in early autumn Matteson said that preparations on the site could begin as early as June. "We It's the right place at the right time."

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Deezen

OCTOBER 2, 2023

PAU has placed a glass office building with the shell of a historic sugar refinery The structure is the centrepiece of the redevelopment of the Domino Sugar Refinery site, developed by Two Trees Management with a master plan by SHoP Architects and Field Operations. The site was bought by Two Trees Management in 2012.

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Archinect

JUNE 15, 2022

Construction of Studio Gang ’s planned Parcel F contribution to the Mission Rock development is officially underway in San Francisco, filling in the final puzzle piece of a 28-acre mixed-use scheme led by Tishman Speyer and the local Major League Baseball affiliate San Francisco Giants.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Bright red curving forms and cubic volumes form Haus 2+, a mixed-use building that architecture studio Office ParkScheerbarth has added to a compact riverside site in Berlin. The post Office ParkScheerbarth adds bright red-timber building to compact Berlin site appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Jan Bitter.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Harnessing stone as a structural material can make architecture more enjoyable to both build and inhabit argues Tristram Carfrae, an Arup engineer working on the Sagrada Familia , in this Stone Age 2.0 The main benefit of structural stone is that it is a plentiful, natural, low carbon and beautiful material," said Carfrae. "It

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

series, we've collected 10 recently completed and upcoming buildings that show the potential of structural stone as a modern construction material. The sand-coloured stone was extracted only 20 minutes from the rural site. It forms phase one of a two-phase development by the studio. To conclude our Stone Age 2.0

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Scottish studio Fraser/Livingstone has completed a mass-timber tenement-style housing development in Edinburgh named Simon Square. Comprising six flats, the housing block replaces an old builder's yard on a site closely bordered by 19th-century stone tenements, in Edinburgh's Southside.

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Archinect

JUNE 21, 2022

” Image © ArchExist Image © Zhu Yumeng Two of the structures were constructed using the international passive house standard as well. It is promoted to include some 4000 new housing units distributed through a program of 6 blocks and 12 buildings equaling a massive total construction area of 473,300 square meters (about 5.1-million-square-feet).

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Deezen

MARCH 9, 2023

Read on for 11 upcoming buildings with mass-timber structures: Image by Negativ Eco Park, UK, by Zaha Hadid Architects Set to become the world's first timber football stadium, Eco Park by Zaha Hadid Architects will be built in England as the home of Forest Green Rovers football club.

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Deezen

JANUARY 31, 2024

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a mirrored cafe pavilion and courtyard at the site of The Old War Office in Whitehall, London. Unashamedly contemporary" pavilion designed for Old War Office site in London "A modern addition to an ancient classic" Readers were divided. Commenters were largely unimpressed.

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ArchDaily

MAY 5, 2024

© Marc Goodwin | Expo 2020 Modular construction is a process in which a building is constructed away from its actual site, within controlled factory settings, using identical materials, and adhering to a set of codes and regulations.

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Archinect

APRIL 2, 2024

The 918-foot, 49-story tower is the first of two that will eventually form the heart of a mixed-use corporate campus known as The Springs on a central site in the Yangpu district for developer Tishman Speyer.

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Archinect

JANUARY 31, 2024

billion mixed-use Manhattan West development in New York City. The four-year construction effort yielded a total two million square feet of new office space that was built above active railroad tracks in what the firm describes as an "extraordinary" advancement of the methods used in urban design, structural engineering, and architecture.

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Archinect

APRIL 5, 2024

Construction has already commenced for the $250 million development, which will be delivered at 200,000 square feet in advance of two other “incubator” and residential structures that will follow at a later date on the four-acre site.

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Hotel Designs

MAY 4, 2023

Situated within Saudi Arabia’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site and opening by Q4 2023, The Chedi Hegra will offer 35 bespoke guestrooms, each with its own distinct connection to the Hegra landscape, a breath-taking testimony of human expression within the natural environment.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The new structure, occupying a 14-hectare site, will become part of a new urban development along Qianhai Bay. © Büro Ole Scheeren Büro Ole Scheeren has won the international competition for the design of Tencent ’s new global headquarters in Shenzhen , China.

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designboom

AUGUST 9, 2022

the project fills the site with a continuous horizontal wooden structure built around traditional shops, notable restaurants, and galleries dating back to 1920. The post herzog & de meuron weaves mixed-use timber development into existing austin street front appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

MAY 5, 2024

Rooted in market dynamics, these structures often materialize solely on the foundation of the owner's trust in the developer, leaving architects with a limited role in these ongoing developments. "5+1 5+1 Residence" exemplified this trend.

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Archinect

MAY 3, 2024

Rafael Viñoly Architects ' debut work in Canada has been announced as a two-million-square-foot mixed-use development in Midtown Toronto. A public plaza area will engage the site further with its civic context with a new amphitheater, retail spaces, and a children’s play area.

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Archinect

JANUARY 2, 2024

Oklahoma City could soon be home to the country’s second-tallest structure if plans for a new 1,750-foot skyscraper designed by the California practice Architects Orange (AO) are approved along with a larger $1 billion entertainment district proposal from developer Scot Matteson.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Airside has received a LEED Platinum certificate and is the first private development in Hong Kong to receive five of the highest green building certifications, according to Snøhetta. Other recent projects by Snøhetta include an extension for the Norwegian-American museum in Iowa and an elliptical planetarium in France.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Developed in collaboration with the artist collective SuttonBeresCuller, Mini Mart City Park is a "community-focused pocket park and cultural center" meant to be a gathering place for the community in and around the Georgetown neighbourhood in Seattle. Remediation systems were added to the foundation to "clean the residual contaminants".

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Satish Jassal Architects designed Haringey Brick Bungalow The 110-square-metre site and narrow passageway was "like building through a straw", dictating many design and construction decisions. Two green roofs top the building, characterised by their asymmetrical pyramid shapes topped with rooflights. The photography is by Richard Chivers.

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MARCH 6, 2023

The 16-story-tall structure—one of the tallest in Greektown, a vibrant historic neighborhood near downtown The post LIFTbuild’s novel floor-lifting technology turns construction sites into fabrication factories appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Archinect

MAY 3, 2023

In its site placement and silhouette, the structure evokes the passage of a ship through the harbor. The building’s ground floor is made transparent by a glass curtain wall that showcases two site-specific works by Richard Wentworth and Olafur Eliasson while offering visitors a panoramic view of the ongoing $1.8

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Archinect

APRIL 5, 2024

Responding to the theme of ‘Rethinking Home — Adapt and Reuse,’ entrants were asked to create new homes using recycled materials and/or retrofitting existing structures. The contest is aimed at designing solutions to help address the UK's housing shortage within the context of climate change.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But at One Broadgate, the steel beams that once framed the London headquarters of inter-dealer broker TP Icap Plc will instead be salvaged from the site and recycled by developer Fabrix.

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ArchDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Image © Jim Stephenson A few years ago, the architects at Studio Bark , in collaboration with Structure Workshop and Cut and Construct , began to develop the idea of a circular kit of parts designed so that anyone with reasonable DIY skills could build their own structure.

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Deezen

APRIL 20, 2023

Dutch architecture studio Mecanoo has unveiled its design for Amstel Design District, a development in Amsterdam that will include housing , public outdoor spaces and a museum. Mecanoo designed "green retreats" for the project "It's an open structure system," the studio told Dezeen. "We The images are by Mecanoo.

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