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JANUARY 28, 2022

Ten people were injured Friday morning when a bridge that carries Forbes Avenue over Frick Park in Pittsburgh collapsed, officials said, with six vehicles including a Port Authority bus left stranded in the twisted mess of a bridge that had been listed in poor condition for the past decade. President Biden is visiting the city today in a pre-planned visit to Carnegie Mellon University ’s Mill 19 research hub, where, ironically, he is expected to deliver a speech on the dire need for infras

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the bridge incorporates a pavilion that takes shape as a complex, undulating continuous surface with illusionistic perforations. The post BAU sculpts this pedestrian bridge as a ‘floating garden’ over shanghai’s yuandang lake appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Holocaust Museum LA's proposed $45-million expansion has taken a small, but important procedural step forward. Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks issued a notice of exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act for the proposed Jona Goldrich Campus, which would expand upon the museum's existing subterranean building in Pan Pacific Park.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Stacked volumes and space-saving floor plans feature in this roundup of 10 tiny houses around the world, from an Australian mobile cabin on wheels to a micro home in Tokyo with a pair of funnelled roofs. Top: photo is by Studio Edwards. Above: photo is by Kai Nakamura. House Tokyo, Japan, by Unemori Architects. Japanese studio Unemori Architects built this corrugated steel-clad house comprising several stacked boxes on a 26-square-metre plot of land in densely populated Tokyo.

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A new industry study conducted by Architizer on behalf of Chaos Enscape surveyed 2,139 design professionals to understand the state of architectural visualization and what to expect in the near future. We asked: How are visualizations produced in your firm? What impact does real-time rendering have? What approach are you taking toward the rise of AI?

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JANUARY 28, 2022

The winners have been announced for the 18th Champagne Chair contest, organized by Design Within Reach in collaboration with Champagne Pommery. The annual competition invites entrants to create miniature chairs using only the foil, label, cage, and cork from no more than two champagne bottles. Entrants may choose to replicate an iconic, recognizable chair design , or conceive an original idea.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

An aging financial relic in London’s Canary Wharf is about to become the capital city’s next high-profile retrofit project thanks to a new plan from WilkinsonEyre. Architects’ Journal UK is reporting that the firm will lead a massive retrofit of the 21-year-old structure after the financial house has apparently opted away from its original demolition plans.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

CAKE’s latest bike, the ösa AP, features a workbench and tow truck on two wheels built to hail heavy and bulky loads. The post CAKE unveils ösa, an off-grid, anti-poaching, solar-powered electric motorbike appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

A diverse consortium of architects has been announced for a massive new development called Cultural Terrace on the site of the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in Irvine, California led by IBI Group and MVRDV. The firms will be joined by landscape architects Agency Artifact and the local women-run studio MAAM , with engineers from Buro Happold and Ryder Levitt Bucknell serving in a consulting role.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Los Angeles talent and sports behemoth Creative Artists Agency (CAA) has announced that it will be decamping from its current Century City offices at 2000 Avenue of the Stars to [.]. Read More. The post The CAA will move to a new Johnson Fain-designed tower in Century City appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

On the heels of [the] horrific Bronx fire that killed 17 people, including eight children, Senator Charles Schumer and Congressman Ritchie Torres on Tuesday unveiled a "4-point federal fire safety package" that includes addressing sprinklers, self-closing doors, heaters and federal investigation powers. The pair of lawmakers had recently joined together to push the federal government to include the Cross Bronx Expressway into the infrastructure bill.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

This week on Dezeen , perforated bricks that provide nesting space for bees became a planning requirement for new buildings in Brighton , England. The aim of the initiative is to improve biodiversity in cities and turn them into safe havens for wild and solitary bee species that are facing extinction. The bricks have proven controversial among scientists, with some raising concerns that they could attract mites and spread diseases while others see them as "an unequivocal good thing".

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Following the announcement of the winning entries in the 2021 Architecture Drawing Prize in November, in which student submissions won first place across all three categories, the competition’s overall winner has finally been unveiled. For “Fluid Strata — Flood-responsive landscape performance,” Dafni Filippa, a Master’s Landscape Architecture student at The Bartlett School of Architecture , took home the top prize.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

The popular direct-to-consumer brand just launched a dreamy new suite of easy-to-assemble furnishings. Burrow just announced a brand new line of direct-to-consumer bedroom furniture—including a bed frame, a dresser, a nightstand, and two types of mattresses. The collection builds upon the company’s signature living room collection, which has become a popular option for many first-time homeowners and recent movers due to its easy-to-assemble, modular design.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Historically, E-18 area was a shoal zone and has been a wharf decades ago. Recently it is featured by clusters of high-rise residential buildings and skyscrapers. Based on the historical, present, and planning of Shanghai, we made a series of researches of stratification, overlapping, and juxtaposing, including road network, water system, greeneries, historical changes, urban texture, and the feelings of materials.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

The weathered materials of Ho Chi Minh City’s historic architecture inspired the mossy green exterior of ?en ?a? Quang Trung. KSOUL Studio designed the Vietnamese coffee shop, rooting it in the colours and materials of a bygone era. The studio says the space creates ‘the atmosphere from both old and modern Saigon’. ?en ?a?’s patinated green exterior continues inside the cafe, where it joins a colour and materials palette of burnt yellow, brickwork, rattan chairs and steel furniture.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Chinese studio Domani Architectural Concepts has completed a real-estate complex in Foshan, Guangdong province, featuring a facade of lattice brickwork overlooking two large circular pools intended to create a "sense of ceremony". Called the Times I-City or TIC after its developer Times China , the complex was conceived as a "Global Maker Town" containing public showrooms, sales areas and offices alongside a public lounge, bar and children's area.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Using prefabricated concrete panels, Italian studio ELASTICOFarm was able to embed hidden messages on the facade of S-LAB at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Turin, Italy. Deviating from [.]. Read More. The post ELASTICOFarm included a hidden message in a concrete-paneled facade appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Berlin 's centre could become the largest car-free urban area in the world following a campaign supported by 50,000 citizens. Campaign group Berlin Autofrei has proposed a law to limit private car use within the Ringbahn train line in the German capital, an area of 34 square miles. The city government will now formally consider the petition, with a decision due to be announced in February.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Skeletons of Rome ’s ancient monuments formed the ethereal backdrop to Kim Jones’s Spring 2022 Haute Couture Collection for Fendi, with the city’s famous arches and doric columns, taking on a sci-fi glow, courtesy of Bureau Betak. Architectural elements representing every era of the Eternal City’s evolution were translated into 3D wire blocks and suspended from the ceiling to create a reimagined cityscape.

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PORTL M enables people to show up in their three-dimensional form on the other side of the globe. The post this hologram-in-a-box offers a portal to the metaverse appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Milan-based Reveria Studio has renovated the interiors of an elegant villa at a Lake Como hotel to echo the cinematic but welcoming nature of traditional Italian houses. The studio updated the interiors of Villa della Quercia, which is a standalone villa within the Mandarin Oriental Lake Como resort hotel in Italy. Villa della Quercia overlooks Lake Como.

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Sustainability begins with a conversation, and acquiring customer buy-in is entirely dependent on how the conversation is framed. Clients may not see sustainability as a priority out of fear of operational costs and quality. While these are legitimate concerns, it is our responsibility as architects to listen and foster a collaborative culture that answers client issues while also reducing our carbon footprint.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

set in las palmas, the onda atlántica footbridge sports a distinct V-shaped profile that seems to warp effortlessly over public spaces and city traffic. The post a 283-meter long footbridge warps and curves above city traffic in spain appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Architecture firm Populous has unveiled the National Speed Skating Oval, also known as the Ice Ribbon, the only new building created for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Boasting a facade formed of 22 giant, illuminated ribbons, the 12,000-seat arena is expected to become a focal point of the games, which start next week. Its 400-metre race track will be the venue for all speed skating events.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

the project features a meditative courtyard and natural, rough accents that bring visitors closer to nature and past-century lifestyles. The post imbued with warm tones, this restaurant and store hub in china reflects ‘antique’ living appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

British athletes will wear kits in the colours of the Union Jack, designed by sportswear brand Adidas in collaboration with Parley for the Ocean , at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. The uniform, which comes in red, white, blue and navy colours is insulated with environmental organisation Parley for the Ocean 's recycled marine plastic. It is comprised of four "key" pieces for Olympic athletes, including a puffer jacket, a pair of women's trainers, leggings and a lighter jacket for layering.

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