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Begegnungshaus Jagersbrunn | Terrabiota

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They proposed to create a bold and modern replacement building in wood to complement the tranquil main house. Next to the renovated main building of the Tabalugahaus (former youth hostel Jägersbrunn), which was financed by the Peter Maffay Foundation in 2010, was an old, dilapidated summer house.

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Michael Heizer completes monumental City sculpture in Nevada desert

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"City is intentionally reminiscent of many ancient ceremonial constructions through its complexity and size, but its form is suggestive of the central hub or nucleus of a modern city," said the Triple Aught Foundation , a non-profit that was created to fund the project in 1988 and is now in charge of its preservation.

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American architects select the country's 10 most influential buildings

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A distillation of modernism , the design is singular in purpose – a living room – with a limited materials palette: glass, brick, steel. The reason the Frey House II is so important to me is that it upended the concept of mid-century modern designs as a stylistic endeavor – designs that were devoid of a relationship to the landscape.

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David Baker Architects accelerates housing for homeless in San Francisco with modular construction

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The 63,000-square foot (5,850 metre) project – called Tahanan, the Tagalog word for "coming home" – was completed in November 2021 through a financing prototype that aimed to accelerate the timeline and reduce the cost of permanent supportive housing. Custom rainscreen: BOK Modern. Modules make up the social housing in San Francisco.

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Jinling East Road Area Urban regeneration project by Benoy

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The aim has been to give the old town area a new vitality, new structure, new industries and a new appearance to better serve modern urban needs. Benoy has expounded this ‘urban forest’ theme, in which modern man survives and cohabitates, on three levels: mixed character, sticky space, and three-dimensional networks. Image © Benoy.

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Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi and Gregg Pasquarelli named Dezeen Awards 2023 judges

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Their practice has received the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award , New York's American Institute of Architects (AIA) Gold Medal , and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. It is also part of the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.

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News: Harvard GSD reveals four 2023 Wheelwright Prize finalists

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Abascal studied architecture at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, the Technische Universität in Berlin, and at the Vastu Shilpa Foundation in Ahmedabad, under Balkrishna Doshi. She is also a 2022 Graham Foundation Grantee. Cheng received commendations from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) President!s

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