Archinect

MARCH 17, 2022

Helsinki's harborfront area redevelopment is one critical step closer to naming its designer. The Finnish capital has today announced four consortium finalists that will vie for the opportunity to totally transform and revitalize its important South Harbor area into a new cultural hub. The competition was launched in May of last year, asking architects and those in the CRE industry to submit plans that included a new Architecture and Design Museum.

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MARCH 15, 2022

The new shed replaced a dilapidated construction from the 1950s, housing a tractor, garden tools and a workshop. The post Johan Sundberg arkitektur complete modest timber shed in Scania, Sweden appeared first on Åvontuura.

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MARCH 18, 2022

London studio Nimtim Architects has redefined the interior of a 1920s house in Southwark using multifunctional partitions that are built from plywood joinery and feature a repeating arch motif. The renovation, named Curve Appeal, was carried out by Nimtim Architects to modernise the semi-detached house near Peckham Rye park and create practical, playful living spaces for the family who owns it.

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designboom

MARCH 18, 2022

the communities by DignityMoves aim to provide hundreds of dignified, private rooms for people sleeping in tents, encampments and on the streets of california. The post these tiny home villages in california aim to address homelessness appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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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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Archinect

MARCH 17, 2022

Historically, Ireland's architects have punched above their weight on the world stage. Be it the White House in Washington D.C., innovative World Expo pavilions in New York, or Stirling Prize-winning buildings in the United Kingdom by Dublin-based Pritzker laureates, we explore how the island's architectural history and attitudes have informed what has today been dubbed the "golden age" of Irish architecture.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2022

A pair of internal courtyards filled with plants bring daylight and greenery into the living spaces of this home designed by Apollo Architects & Associates for a site in central Tokyo. The clients for the Timeless residence, a couple who had lived at the property in Tokyo's Minamiaoyama district for many years, wanted to redevelop the site after their children moved out.

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MARCH 18, 2022

designed by turner architects, the new rear façade is articulated by three classic and perfectly proportioned romanesque arches. The post pastel colored arches complete this italian influenced extension in london appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

MARCH 16, 2022

The urban environment of Seoul is about to get quite a bit visually louder as UNStudio has returned to the South Korean capital with a new headquarters for the expanding K-Pop label YG Entertainment. The building is meant to encapsulate “the industrious spirit of this production house’s business and the music industry as a whole.” Photo © Rohspace, courtesy UNStudio Photo © Rohspace, courtesy UNStudio Its sleek interior is a play on the ‘black in black’ co

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Architizer

MARCH 16, 2022

Emma Walshaw is the founder of First In Architecture and Detail Library. She has written a number of books aiming to facilitate a better understanding of construction and detailing. First In Architecture is a website providing resources and guides for architects and students. . For many people, work is their life. They spend 40+ hours a week at the office and this time can be some of the most rewarding or most frustrating depending on how well your office space is set up.

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MARCH 15, 2022

Burkinabè architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has won this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize , becoming the first African architect to win the award. Born in Gando, Burkina Faso , he is the first African and the first Black architect to win the prestigious prize, which has been awarded annually since 1979. Kéré was recognised for his body of work that "empowers and transforms communities through the process of architecture".

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designboom

MARCH 18, 2022

the material utilizes non-edible rice that would otherwise be thrown away. The post RICEWAVE ™ is an eco-friendly resin material made from upcycled, non-edible rice appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

MARCH 16, 2022

Bjarke Ingels Group has unveiled its design for a neuroscience center in Aarhus , Denmark. Described by the studio as “the first of its kind in the world,” the 19,000 square meter (200,000 square foot) facility will be used by Aarhus University Hospital to study and treat physical and mental brain diseases. Image courtesy of BIG Spread across six levels, the center’s floor plan “folds” around a collection of atria echoing the folds of the cerebral cortex, creating a

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The Architect's Newsletter

MARCH 15, 2022

Diébédo Francis Kéré, an architect whose playful ephemeral commissions have graced Kensington Gardens and the Coachella Valley and whose low-cost, technically innovative permanent structures have had an outsized impact in [.]. Read More. The post Francis Kéré is the 2022 Pritzker Prize laureate appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2022

A greenhouse-cum-dining room and a miniature forest in a skyscraper are among the verdant hotel interiors featured in our latest lookbook. Whether tiny succulents or fully-grown trees, plants can help connect an interior to its surroundings, provide an oasis of calm away from city life, or act as living space-dividers to break up an open-plan interior.

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designboom

MARCH 17, 2022

the building's exterior combines glass and aluminum panels with a perforated pattern. The post K-pop headquarters by UNStudio take shape as an ‘urban speaker’ in seoul appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

MARCH 15, 2022

Diébédo Francis Kéré has been awarded the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize , widely considered one of the industry's highest honors. “Francis Kéré has found brilliant, inspiring and game-changing ways to answer these questions over the last decades," said the jury citation for the award. "His cultural sensitivity not only delivers social and environmental justice, but guides his entire process, in the awareness that it is the path towards the legit

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The Architect's Newsletter

MARCH 16, 2022

Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space By Fred Scharmen Verso Books, 2021 MSRP $27 As the world spins deeper into the third year of a global [.]. Read More. The post If <em>Space Settlements</em> explained how to live in space, <em>Space Forces</em> explains the why appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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MARCH 13, 2022

Klopf Architecture has reconfigured a San Francisco home to create an open-concept living space that faces onto the backyard. After spending a few years in a spec house and eager to improve their living arrangement, the owners of this San Francisco residence looked to local studio Klopf Architecture to see if they could renovate their current home. "The clients were able to see beyond the dated materials and finishes," said the studio, and from there they decided to update the entire house.

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designboom

MARCH 16, 2022

Our team has created 25 fully functional invisibility shields, now we need your support to finish turning science fiction into reality and make them available for everyone. The post from fiction to reality: this shield is designed to make you invisible appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

MARCH 16, 2022

The musical fabric of Los Angeles is about to get a significant boost from one of its most famous creative backers after Frank Gehry ’s updated plans for the Colburn School were made public for the first time in a live-streamed ceremony at its downtown campus earlier today. Renderings reveal a 100,000-square-foot expansion of the school’s existing facilities into what will be called the Colburn Center, a dynamic new set of interlocking performance venues and public spaces that will c

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The Spaces

MARCH 14, 2022

Located on a former industrial site in Basel , this new housing complex envisions a more sustainable, adaptable form of co-living that can expand with the community. Stereo Architektur designed the apartment block to reimagine urban living, and reposition housing as ‘a basic need and not as an object of speculation’. Wohnhaus Abakus comprises individual homes arranged around a shared courtyard, each of which can be adjusted in size depending on residents’ needs – for example, adding a bedr

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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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MARCH 14, 2022

Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled its design for a hotel room surrounded by hundreds of birdhouses for the Treehotel in Sweden. Titled Biosphere, the birdhouse-wrapped hotel room will become the eighth room at the hotel, which is located in a remote forest in Swedish Lapland. BIG has designed a hotel room clad in 350 birdhouses. The architecture studio hope that the 350 birdhouses surrounding the room will inspire visitors to install birdhouses at their own homes.

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designboom

MARCH 16, 2022

frank gehry's colburn center in LA will be a 'hall for all,' giving artists and students a place to shine. The post frank gehry designs new center for young performing artists at LA’s colburn school appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

MARCH 17, 2022

Humans have led nomadic lifestyles for thousands of years. We settle in one place, move to another–some of us never even settle at all. Our lives fluctuate, but save for the odd floating office or experimental walking house, our buildings remain anchored in place. Once they’re built, they only have two potential futures: demolish, or reuse.

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The Spaces

MARCH 17, 2022

Mickey Muennig was nicknamed ‘the man who built Big Sur’, having spent over 40 years pioneering organic architecture in the scenic California enclave before his death in 2021, aged 86. Now his own, experimental, long-term residence, The Glass House, is offered for sale via Sotheby’s International, and it embodies many of his radical ideas. The Glass House is located on Partington Ridge and is part of a 30-acre estate Muennig acquired in the 1970s.

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