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MARCH 30, 2025

Zaishui Art Museum / junya ishigami + associates. Image Stanley Fung Integrating natural elements into architectural design has long been a fundamental pursuit in creating comfortable, sustainable environments that enhance both individual well-being and the relationship between buildings and their surrounding context. In areas with vast landscapes , incorporating natural elements is essential for seamlessly connecting architecture with its site.

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MARCH 31, 2025

IKEA is working on plans for a linear store that would depart from the Swedish home-furnishings retailer's usual labyrinthine layout, Dezeen can reveal. Planned for an unconfirmed site, the proposed outlet will stretch to almost two kilometres in length to accommodate all the necessary showrooms and warehouse space. An architectural rendering obtained by Dezeen shows a long, narrow volume in IKEA's signature blue and yellow colours.

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Archinect

APRIL 2, 2025

The first layers of soil are down as construction is now ramping up the pace on what will be the world’s largest wildlife crossing above the 101 Freeway in the Santa Monica Mountains/Agoura Hills. The $92 million project named for Wallis Annenberg spans 200 feet into the Los Angeles neighborhood of Simi Hills. It was devised to protect the local population of mountain lions from further disruptions to their habitat and allow for other important activities (mating and hunting) that will hel

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MARCH 30, 2025

Bird's eye view of the PeaceHealth University District campus from the east looking west. Alder Street is in the foreground, 13th Avenue bounds the south side of the campus, 11th Avenue is on the north side, and Patterson Street is on the west. (Google Maps) PeaceHealth's recent announcement to sell, lease, or redevelop its University District campus presents a significant opportunity for Eugene.

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ArchDaily

APRIL 3, 2025

Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed. Image Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, via Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0 The intersection of architecture and medicine profoundly shaped modernist design, where transparency, light , and air became essential tools in the pursuit of health. Emerging from the tuberculosis crisis of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the sanatorium evolved beyond a medical facility into a testing ground for architectural innovation.

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Archinect

APRIL 3, 2025

On March 14th, Severance aired episode nine of its second season on Apple+. The science fiction dystopian thriller series follows employees of Lumon Industries, a mysterious corporation where select workers undergo a procedure called “severance,” which surgically divides their work and personal memories. The story centers on Mark Scout (Adam Scott), a grieving man who begins to question the true nature of the company and the ethical implications of the severance procedure.

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APRIL 4, 2025

the building addresses the evolving needs of women in religious, educational, and social domains through a forward-thinking spatial language. The post DS+R completes al-mujadilah, the world’s first contemporary mosque for women in doha appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 31, 2025

The Nordic Pavilion (Giardini, Venice). Image ke E:son Lindman architects: Sverre Fehn Location: Viale Trento Project Year: 1962 Photographs: ke E:son Lindman Photographs: Courtesy of Nasjonalmuseet Digital Archive As a result of the ideas competition organized by the governments of Sweden , Finland , and Norway in 1958, Sverre Fehn's Nordic Pavilion won first prize, becoming one of the most significant works of his career and one of the most outstanding Scandinavian architectural achievements

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Deezen

APRIL 1, 2025

Leading UK architects and designers including David Chipperfield, Jasper Morrison and Amanda Levete have opposed government plans to allow artificial intelligence companies to train their models on copyrighted work without consent. A letter signed by 38 big names in the industry accuses technology secretary Peter Kyle of "running roughshod over one of our most productive and precious sectors".

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Speaker: Dylan Secrest

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Archinect

MARCH 30, 2025

“Cheaper buildings are not good for the planet and they’re not good for our health, and actually we need to spend a little bit more – but only a little bit – and I think the next few years are about really proving that we can make buildings radically more human for only a little bit more money.” "There is a misunderstanding in construction.

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designboom

APRIL 3, 2025

Also Architects designs for Urban Nomad Art Museum in china As part of the R-Day Music Festival in Chengmai, Hainan, Also Architects developed a series of modular art installations for the Urban Nomad Art Museum. The project was designed to align with the museum’s concept of ‘borderless curation’ while ensuring ease of assembly, disassembly, […] The post also architects crafts modular umbrella-like installations made of bamboo and tensed fabric appeared first on designboo

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ArchDaily

MARCH 30, 2025

Courtesy of Gintaras Balytis The Lithuanian Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale presents Archi / Tree / tecture , a project by the National Architects Association. Curated by architect Gintaras Balytis, the exhibition invites architects, students, communities, and visitors to reflect on the deep connections between architecture and urban nature.

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Deezen

MARCH 29, 2025

New York studio Parts and Labor Design has overhauled a diner in Albany, updating nostalgic design tropes from the archetype to create a contemporary interpretation. Owned and operated by the Pilarnos family since 2010, the Capital City Diner just off the New York State Thruway was ready for a refresh. Capital City Diner updates classic diner elements through plays on colour and materials Parts and Labor Design was tasked with breathing new life into this "community favourite" and creating a mor

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APRIL 2, 2025

The longlist for this year’s Davidson Prize has been announced for the competition’s fifth edition, which is organized around the theme of 'Streets Ahead.' This year’s brief asked designers to consider issues latent within the UK government’s five-year, 1.5 million new homes target. A mix of sites in different settings—from post-industrial Tyneside to the barren Isle of Wight—were considered by the select group of 16 multidisciplinary teams.

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designboom

APRIL 2, 2025

somewhere between a backyard fort and a modernist miniature, the 'kid cabin' is a grounded treehouse in thailand. The post imaginary objects builds child-sized, treehouse-inspired ‘kid cabin’ in thailand appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 31, 2025

Meeting House Square, Temple Bar. Image Courtesy of Sean Harrington Architects The veteran Irish architecture critic Shane O'Toole once remarked that when traveling in Europe in the 1970s, "The universal comment was <is there modern architecture in Ireland?> Now, in less than 50 years, we've gone to a Pritzker Prize and two RIBA Royal Gold Medallists in five years.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2025

New York 's Metropolitan Transport Authority has released a redesigned map of its subway system, which maintains the colours of the prior one while "simplifying" it. The redesigned map was unveiled on 2 April and will act as a wayfinding tool for the 3.6 million daily users of the city's subway system. It features clean, geometric shapes that represent landmasses, transected by thick graphic lines rendered in the well-known colours that mark each line.

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APRIL 1, 2025

In a bold and unexpected move, the LA 2028 Olympic Committee has announced plans to temporarily convert the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall into a state-of-the-art skateboarding mega ramp. Designed by architect Frank Gehry and completed in 2003, the stainless-steel-clad concert hall is known for its flowing, sculptural forms which, according to Olympic organizers, are “basically already half pipe-adjacent.

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The Architect's Newsletter

APRIL 3, 2025

Visitors encounter community spaces enlivened with colorful artwork from murals to a covered events plaza before even entering Portland, Oregons renovated and expanded Midland Library by Colloqate and Bora Architecture The post Portlands Midland Library, renovated by Colloqate and Bora, abounds with artwork and gathering spaces appeared first on The Architects Newspaper.

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ArchDaily

APRIL 1, 2025

Syam Sreesylam Following two exciting weeks of nominations, ArchDaily's readers have evaluated over 500 projects and selected 15 finalists for the Building of the Year Award China. Architects and enthusiasts participated in the nomination process, choosing projects that exemplify what it means to push architecture forward. These finalists are the buildings that have inspired ArchDaily readers the most, which also reveal the growing trend of Chinese architecture.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2025

Swedish architecture studio Campus has completed a clifftop home in Vrmd overlooking the Stockholm archipelago, designed using a palette of exposed concrete , timber, steel and stone. Named House Djur, the home replaces an old building which once stood on the site, the scale and footprint of which the new building was required to match. Responding to both these planning requirements and the client's desire for a minimalist concrete home , Stockholm-based Campus created a simple, low-slung volume

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Archinect

APRIL 4, 2025

The City of New York and Queens Public Library have reached a settlement in a federal case surrounding accessibility issues at the Hunters Point Library. The city sued the library, as well as designers Steven Holl Architects , over claims that the library failed to comply with the American Disabilities Act. “The design and construction of the Hunters Point Library Branch of the Queens Borough Public Library blatantly violated the ADA’s requirement that individuals with disabilities h

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designboom

APRIL 4, 2025

this volume captures the monolithic charm and quiet endurance of modernist and brutalist architecture across ten cities. The post ‘eastern blocks II’ captures post-war concrete suburbs across former eastern bloc cities appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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ArchDaily

APRIL 3, 2025

Completed in 2023 in Brazil. Images by Edgard Csar. Casa Pirenpolis& was conceived as a delicate harmony between architecture and the surrounding natural landscape. The concrete slab, which.

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Deezen

APRIL 1, 2025

New York City has passed several bills aimed at reducing the nearly 400 miles of scaffolding sheds covering buildings in the city, some of which have been installed for more than five years. Under mayor Eric Adams Get Sheds Down plan announced in 2023, the bills passed by New York City Council initiate a redesign of the scaffolding structures and limit the duration of their installation from one year to three months, among other reforms.

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