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The Beirut Port Renewal Competition shortlists 40 student projects

Archinect

The participating teams are tasked to envision an important redesign of Lebanon's chief economic engine following the tragic 2020 explosion that took 218 lives and caused an estimated $15 billion in structural damage. Taking this lineage as its charge, the student-designed entries evince a sense of hope for the ailing capital.

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RISD students create floating mycelium pods to cleanse waterways

Deezen

A team of Rhode Island School of Design students and researchers have created tesselated, floating planting beds made of a mycelium biomaterial to cleanse waterways of pollutants and restore wetland habitat. A team of RISD students have created floating beds out of mycelium. They're like the decomposers of the natural world."

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UC Berkeley Dwinelle Annex Renovation for the Disabled Students’ Program by Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects

aasarchitecture

The Dwinelle Annex Renovation for the Disabled Students’ Program will transform a beloved, modest building located in the University of California Berkeley campus’s classical core. A revitalized entry plaza welcomes students in and is an outdoor extension of the reception lobby.

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Student Performing Arts Center by Steven Holl Architects

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The University of Pennsylvania announces Steven Holl Architects’ design for a new $75 million, 37,300-square-foot Student Performing Arts Center. It is a great joy and honor to work on a performing arts center for the students of this historic university on such an important site,” Steven Holl remarks.

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Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios creates Passivhaus student housing crescents in Cambridge

Deezen

Architecture practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has created a series of crescent-shaped student housing blocks with a CLT structure for King's College at the University of Cambridge. The CLT structure was chosen for its lightweight property, airtightness of the structural envelope and the material's low embodied carbon.

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Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: P

SW Oregon Architect

Prince Lucien Campbell Hall It was clear to me during my years as a student at the University of Oregon in the early 1980s that few among the campus community regarded Prince Lucien Campbell Hall with affection. This was the era of escalating student demonstrations during the Vietnam War, so perhaps the bombing was related to those protests.

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HGA creates two mass-timber buildings for Bowdoin College in Maine

Deezen

Today, the private college has about 1,900 students from around the world. The structures have mass-timber structures and brick facades The new buildings – officially called Barry Mills Hall and the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies – were designed by American studio HGA , which served as both architect and structural engineer.

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