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Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: O

SW Oregon Architect

It has provided eligible individuals ever since with the opportunity to live independently, but in an environment that provides support activities such as cleaning, cooking, and transportation. Popular at the time of its construction, the lift slab technique has since fallen from favor.

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

Architizer

Breaking Ground: Creative Approaches to Construction Waste Diagram illustrating the winning entry for an architecture competition held by Hackney City Farm, showcasing the repurposing of sash windows. Projects like RÉCO demonstrate how organizations can lead ecological initiatives, reducing waste and preserving the environment.

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Studio Bark devises structural use for waste timber in English woodlands

Deezen

Named Spindles, the project, which borrowed techniques from local chair making traditions, involved using small pieces of shaped wood to make a roof-supporting column. This is "an old technique", said Thorns, but one that opens up a lot of opportunities to use smaller trees. That posed the question of what to do with the felled trees.

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Mapping Your Firm’s Strategy: Visual Business Frameworks for Architects and Designers

Architizer

Visual business models can be a powerful tool for creative professionals, like architects, who often prefer to communicate through drawings and diagrams. By translating your strategic thinking into diagrams, canvases, and maps, you can achieve clarity and alignment around the optimal business model for your architecture practice.

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Ten architecture projects by students at UCLA

Deezen

The building itself serves as a visual diagram, showcasing the transformation of products from standardised to personalised and serves as a transformative intervention embodying the ideals of a circular economy." "Compact manufacturing and retail areas coexist alongside repair and maintenance facilities, as well as recycling centres.

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It’s Gen-AI, Baby!

Ronen Bekerman

As generative AI models advance, they can create increasingly realistic simulations of various aspects of our reality, such as images, sounds, and even 3D environments. Some of the most popular generative AI techniques include Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), and Transformers.

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"Hip hop has always had to be sustainable" says Atlanta hip-hop architecture exhibition curator

Deezen

Similarly, hip-hop architecture takes the disused aspects of the urban environment and reuses them. First exhibited at the 2015 Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Shanty Mega-Structures is another of Jeyifous' utopian/dystopian visions for urban environments, this one for Lagos, Nigeria.". "It