Archinect

JANUARY 24, 2022

A new landmark on the European cultural scene is now on view in Hungary. Sou Fujimoto ’s House of Music has now officially opened in the country’s capital city after almost six years of construction. The 97,000-square-foot performance venue is the centerpiece of the Liget Budapest Project , a €1 billion ($1.13 billion) development billed to be one of the biggest in recent European history that includes the music hall, new national art gallery , cultural building, and landscaped

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JANUARY 31, 2022

German-Chinese architecture practice Büro Ziyu Zhuang has completed a church in Qingdao , China, featuring walls and a tower made from dozens of spaced-out aluminium ribs. Büro Ziyu Zhuang designed the Chamber Church as part of Chinese property developer Sunac 's Aduo Town project in the Qingdao Zangma Mountain Tourism Resort. The church stands out against a mountainous backdrop.

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JANUARY 30, 2022

'I'm letting myself be guided by the movement of the fiber itself, all at once shaping matter into an architecture of the body in movement,' hoegy shares. The post ‘rattan is definitely alive’ – aurelie hoegy on using movement as an artistic medium appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JANUARY 26, 2022

Docomomo US has shared the news that Geller House I, a widely celebrated and vastly influential early residential project of Marcel Breuer in Lawrence, New York, is gone. It was [.]. Read More. The post Marcel Breuer’s Geller House I demolished on Long Island without warning appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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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 26, 2022

Nature is the greatest architect, and its influence is felt keenly in contemporary design. Sometimes, organic silhouettes and biophilic ideas are translated directly from nature to the built world by architects, while others take ‘looser’ inspiration when crafting their designs. As children, we turn trees into clubhouses and play imaginary games beneath their branches; we climb them, build from them and fashion them into new structures.

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Archinect

JANUARY 13, 2022

An update to one of the most significant projects in a spate of recent high-profile Canadian luxury residential developments as Heatherwick Studio has unveiled its upgraded designs for the 1700 Alberni towers complex. The revised proposal follows community feedback taken from Vancouver’s Shape Your City public web forum. Marked by its intricate latticework and gentle lines, the towers make up a distinctive silhouette contrasted against the city’s rezoned West End skyline.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2022

The buzzing ambience of Chengdu 's Kuanzhai Alley has set the tone for this cafe by BLUE Architecture Studio , which is centred on a water-filled courtyard for people-watching. Kuanzhai Alley is the collective name for three parallel roads running through downtown Chengdu, encompassing Kuan Alley, Zhai Alley and Jing Alley. The % Arabica cafe is set in Chengdu's Kuanzhai Alley district.

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designboom

JANUARY 29, 2022

the design highlights the contrast between the public and private realm, as well as between tradition and contemporaneity. The post residential complex in spain puts contemporary twist on traditional andalusian architecture appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JANUARY 14, 2022

Ricardo Bofill, the Spanish architect whose monumental factory conversions and starkly colored housing blocks served as inspiration (and sometimes as literal backdrops) for countless films, games, and television shows, has [.]. Read More. The post Postmodern Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill passes away at 82 appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) with Château La Coste are pleased to present the completion of Richard Rogers’ final work begun before his retirement from practice in June 2020. Château La Coste, a 500-acre area of outstanding natural beauty is an internationally renowned destination for art and architecture. Set in Château La Coste’s vineyard, the Richard Rogers Drawing Gallery is a 120m2 gallery space that cantilevers off a hillside amongst trees above a historic Roman track, overlookin

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Dwell

JANUARY 21, 2022

Moliving’s luxe cabins will complete Hurley House, a lakeside retreat set to open this summer in upstate New York. In a bid to capture the attention of city dwellers looking for a quick country escape, Hurley House, which will supplant the now-defunct Twin Lakes Resort in the Hudson Valley, is installing a series of Scandi-inspired prefabs meant to give guests the feel of a private retreat.

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Archinect

JANUARY 6, 2022

The Datong Art Museum has opened to the public in northern China , having recently been completed by Foster + Partners. The firm describes the new museum as a “landscaped terrain with a series of interconnected pyramids emerging from below the earth.” Image by Yang Chaoying for Foster + Partners The scheme’s four interconnected roof pyramids increase in height and fan outwards towards the four corners of the surrounding plaza.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2022

Our latest lookbook features ten home interiors with snug sunken lounges and conversation pits, proving that the retro architectural feature is making its comeback. Peaking in popularity in the mid-twentieth century, conversation pits are lounge areas embedded within the floor of a larger room to create intimate spaces for people to gather. Accessed by a small set of steps, they are traditionally lined with custom built-in sofas.

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designboom

JANUARY 28, 2022

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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The Architect's Newsletter

JANUARY 11, 2022

Last night, the oldest and chapter of the American Institute of Architects, AIA New York (AIANY), announced the winners of the 2022 AIANY Design Awards. Numbering 25 in total spread [.]. Read More. The post Meet the winners of the 2022 AIANY Design Awards appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Architonic

JANUARY 12, 2022

Datong Art Museum – an important new cultural destination in China – has opened to the public with a special exhibition featuring oil paintings by local artists. One of four major buildings within Datong New City’s cultural plaza, it is set to become a new hub for creative industries in the region. The building’s sculptural form has been conceived as a landscaped terrain with a series of interconnected pyramids emerging from below the earth – the gallery spaces are sunken below ground and surrou

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Architectural Record

JANUARY 31, 2022

Architect Guido Pietropoli resurrects Carlo Scarpa’s revered Brion Memorial in Italy’s Veneto.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Officials in Venice are finally caving to local demands to author significant changes to Santiago Calatrava’s Ponta della Costituzione bridge following years of protest and a rash of recent injuries. The New York Times is reporting that glass from the pedestrian bridge is going to be removed and replaced with more trachyte stone that will avert any possible future spills which have befallen users thanks to the 94-meter-long structure’s slippery surface.

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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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designboom

JANUARY 24, 2022

the easyhome huanggang vertical forest city complex by stefano boeri architetti is a new type of vertical forest combining open and closed balconies. The post stefano boeri completes first vertical forest in china appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JANUARY 14, 2022

On the Florida peninsula’s central west coast, just across the bay from Tampa, is the city of St. Petersburg, a recurring New York Times pick for best places to visit [.]. Read More. The post Local talents come together to create a world-class Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Speaker: Pedro Clarke – Principal Architect at A+ Architecture, In Loco Program Director

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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Dwell

JANUARY 3, 2022

Look to the spaces our followers loved most for the design trends to watch in the year ahead. From careful renovations that preserve original details and reuse existing materials to interiors that incorporate clever circular openings to frame natural surrounds, these homes garnered the most "double-taps" from our Instagram followers in 2021. Take a look through the most popular posts we shared last year to get a sense of which design trends might stick around in the months to come.

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Architectural Record

JANUARY 31, 2022

Kennedy & Violich bring a new vision to the Hayden library at MIT.

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Archinect

JANUARY 24, 2022

Lloyd's of London (SOLYD.UL) is considering whether to remain in its flagship City of London headquarters and may make a decision this year, the commercial insurance market said on Tuesday. The news comes just over a month after the death of its Pritzker-winning architect in London at the age of 88. A Lloyd’s spokesperson pointed to the shifts in workplace culture brought on by the Coronavirus as significant factors behind the potential change.

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JANUARY 27, 2022

An early 20th-century mansion in the centre of Querétaro, Mexico , has been turned into a boutique hotel by architecture studios Anonimous and JAHS. The Tá Hotel de Diseño , or Tá Design Hotel, encompasses 11 rooms within a neocolonial villa that formerly belonged to Doña Carmen Septien de Soto – a local philanthropist and creative figure. The Tá Hotel de Diseño is located beside the Jardín Guerrero UNESCO heritage site.

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