aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Building on a site that is at high risk of and requires extensive ground improvements, how might we create a substructure that is naturally isolated from earthquake loads, floods, and rising sea levels? Is it possible to have a building with no foundation?

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Building Diagram Masterplanning Structural Engineering 64

Deezen

MAY 18, 2023

The exhibition, which according to the Norman Foster Foundation is the largest-ever retrospective display of Foster's work, features around 130 of the architect's projects including the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Headquarters , Hong Kong International Airport and Apple Park.

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Sketching Foundation Masterplanning Sustainability 126

e-architect

APRIL 5, 2023

With its recognisable circular plan, the design aims to position the campus as a world-leading site for the development of AI technologies. The masterplan design was developed for a consortium led by the municipality of Heilbronn and the Dieter Schwarz Foundation. Circumscribing the campus buildings is a 1.2-kilometre-long

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Innovation Masterplanning Foundation Consulting 48

Deezen

JULY 26, 2023

By looking at the topic of future practice, students explore how issues such as future cities, rapid urbanisation, changing societal and family structures and patterns of working, new materials, and accelerating digitalisation necessitate a new kind of architectural professional, equipping them to address such challenges.

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Students Project Architecture Masterplanning 95

Architizer

MARCH 2, 2022

Known for its use of structure and materials, the practice’s portfolio spans a wide spectrum of projects from civic infrastructure to temporary installations, from concept to execution and across diverse geographies. Informed by tradition, the practice explores new modes of construction for which the foundations have long been laid.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Valle San Nicolás is a new residential development on the outskirts of Valle de Bravo in the State of Mexico, inserted on a 370-hectare privileged site, where its urban and architectural design were projected with the aim of protecting the existing nature. A concrete foundation works as a dock. © Sordo Madaleno. © Sordo Madaleno.

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aasarchitecture

JANUARY 20, 2023

Sited on the edge of Consett at a gateway to the County Durham countryside, the hospital will be ideally located to deliver modern healthcare services to the growing local community. The proposed site is located just 1.8 A primary entrance at the front of the building provides access to the inpatient ward and outpatient departments.

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Architecture Masterplanning Civil Engineering Site 52

Deezen

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The material's properties mean that its inventors envision it being used as a coating to improve objects' durability and, in the long term, as a structural material. May – MIT engineers build load-bearing structures using tree forks instead of steel joints. Read more about the plastic that is stronger than steel ›.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 21, 2023

The building is part of a larger masterplan for the so-called Espoon Keskus, one of five major urban centres in Espoo, creating a diverse neighbourhood with new residential buildings, commercial facilities, public transportation, and green urban spaces. The load-bearing structure consists of mass timber with a span of 6×6 meters.

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Building Masterplanning Architecture Commercial 52

Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

"The film captures millions of people on the construction site, in coordinated action to decolonise the atmosphere in our last great act of planetary transformation," said Young. Similar masterplans were simultaneously adopted in the colonial masterplans for places including Libya and Somalia.

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Project Architecture Masterplanning Government 105

aasarchitecture

JULY 27, 2023

Developer Vanhout purchased the former OLV Collegium, a 19th century building in the center of Zottegem, Belgium, to design a masterplan for a new residential project and a public underground parking area. Environmental qualities were enhanced by making the site more open and green.

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Architect Masterplanning Residential Commercial 52

e-architect

AUGUST 2, 2023

At that time, the twin tower foundations had already been set, and the podium was partially constructed. When I first approached the site, I realized right away that the design was not aligned with the developer’s vision or my own,” recalls Li Min Ching, President and Founder of LMCA Design.

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Architizer

JUNE 29, 2023

Not only does the masterplan reduce the risk to the site posed by heavy rains, the elements are finely balanced, creating a thriving inter-dependent ecosystem, where flora, insects, invertebrates and aquatic life support one another. Burned wood promotes mycelium growth around the foundations, connecting structure to wood wide web.

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Sustainability Architecture Restoration Residential 86

e-architect

JANUARY 12, 2023

The proposed landscape-led masterplan offers a unique riverside character, inspired by the history and heritage of Wandsworth, with high quality public realm for all. The site is in the centre of Wandsworth, just five minutes from Wandsworth Town station, and is well connected by road and on the cycle superhighway.

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Masterplanning Site Industrial Development 52

e-architect

JANUARY 7, 2022

Identified in the early 2010s as a key regeneration opportunity by West Dunbartonshire Council; Scottish Canals, the custodian of the canal assets, worked with the local community and local authority to develop an award-winning masterplan for regeneration in the area. photo © Peter Sandground. photo © Keith Hunter. photo © Keith Hunter.

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Architizer

JANUARY 13, 2022

This complex masterplan included 6,500 housing units with basic amenities like a toilet, water and electricity and the possibility of an extension in the future. Work on site began with 60 houses that displayed all the possible variations that could be made in the future.

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Architecture Inspiration Consulting Education 98

e-architect

JANUARY 3, 2022

Led by Shohei Shigematsu, OMA will design the ReefLine’s masterplan as well as a distinct sculpture within it, collaborating with a team of expert marine biologists, researchers, architects and costal engineers. The ReefLine will provide a critical habitat for endangered reef organisms, promoting biodiversity and enhancing coastal resilience.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 17, 2022

GOA undertook the masterplan and design of the whole project, where Jianli Art Center acts as the gateway of the old main street, the core of the whole project. Affected by the low-lying and sandy geographical condition, local people use to build high foundations and dig moats by houses to collect soil.

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ArchiDiaries

MARCH 10, 2023

Such a capacity to distill and perform meditated design operations is a dimension of sustainability that has not been obvious in recent years: sustainability as pertinence, not only eliminates the superfluous but is also the first step to creating structures able to last, physically and culturally. ” It is the fruition of cultural diversity.”

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Architecture Restoration Masterplanning Contemporary 74

e-architect

JANUARY 19, 2023

The new house replaces a Victorian farmhouse and outbuildings, on a site that has been an important place of settlement for many centuries. Here the team decided to engage confidently with the landscape and the history of the site, adding to its history by completing the enclosure of the walled garden.

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Housing Roofing Site Technique 52

Hotel Designs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The hotel, which shelters interior design by Peter Marino, is a complex engineering challenge, with ‘top down’ construction facilitating super-structure and sub-structure works in parallel. This has been demonstrated through Pexton’s work leading the team on The Peninsula London.

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Architect Masterplanning Industrial Development 99

e-architect

MARCH 7, 2023

His built works, spanning over four decades, are expansive in typology and geography, including over one hundred works ranging from civic, cultural and academic buildings to residences and urban masterplanning throughout Asia, Europe and North America. A ramp from this level creates a direct pathway to a park just north of the site.

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Deezen

JUNE 16, 2022

The urban and architectural strategies foreground the public realm and community through the design of a theatre and theatrical journeys that juxtapose the new built with site-specific features of interest. Inflatable, agar-based bioplastic membranes are secured within a timber sub-structure. Student: Suha Faisal Valiyaveettil.

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Technology Technology Project Students 93

Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

The complex problem's structure enabled design and policy interventions to be understood in terms of their wider and cumulative ripple effect towards equitable zero carbon futures." This moss grows in areas saturated with water and acid soil, which is why a bogland is implemented on the site.

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Students Architecture Student Project Architecture 104

e-architect

DECEMBER 18, 2021

I only met him once, at the Architecture Foundation in London with my boss Eva Jiricna (ex-Richard Rogers), but his influence was already pervasive on my thinking before starting at architecture school in 1989. site photograph © AW. East Darling Harbour Masterplan , Sydney, Australia. 1 Hyde Park , Knightsbridge, west London.

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Architect Architecture Masterplanning Urban Development 52

Architizer

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The result is an oeuvre of sensitive, site-responsive architecture that synergize form and function with landscape, resulting in highly meaningful and resilient places. Exemplified in the Komera Leadership Center, which swept at the 11th Annual A+Awards, this firm is one to keep a close eye on.

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Firms Architecture Design Residential 93

e-architect

JUNE 6, 2023

The Bidi Bidi Music & Arts Centre building Currently under construction in Bidi Bidi refugee settlement in northern Uganda, the structure will take the form of a sheltered, semi-open-air amphitheatre that can double as a performance venue or community gathering space.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Owing to Meinhard von Gerkan’s active involvement, the practice has completed over 170 projects in China, including the conversion and extension of the Chinese National Museum in Beijing, and the masterplan for Nanhui New City near Shanghai. Von Gerkan was co-founder of the gmp Foundation and of the Academy for Architectural Culture (aac).

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Architect Foundation Contract Building 84

e-architect

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Integrating the HARIVENASA – Oat Factory, a large cereal processing factory into the site posed an additional challenge to the already complex design task. Joint Research Centre for the European Commission , EXPO ´92 Sevilla site, Isla de la Cartuja, Seville, southwestern Spain. Gomila Mixed-Use Masterplan, Mallorca.

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Building Architecture Mining Foundation 52

Architizer

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

From functionalism and neoplasticism to structuralism and deconstructivism, to the “international” character of the contemporary global context, designers from the Netherlands have been realizing daringly dynamic constructions for over a century. The Dutch have long been at the vanguard of architectural discourse.

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Architizer

APRIL 14, 2022

Unlike many cities, San Francisco’s most iconic structure is not a building but a bridge. At the same time, they have responded to the growth of wealth and business by designing campuses, offices, masterplans and the like. Headquartered in San Francisco, ARG has offices in Los Angeles, California and Portland, Oregon.

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Architecture Firm Firms Architecture Client 98

Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

Right: Public Farm 1, a 2008 installation on the grounds of Long Island City’s MoMA PS1 by Amale Andraos’s firm, WORKac; the museum described the installation as “a living structure made from inexpensive and sustainable materials recyclable after its use at PS1”; images via MoMA PS1 and Archinect. Amale Andraos.

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Architecture Firms Inspiration Education 101

aasarchitecture

AUGUST 11, 2023

The 33-acre campus, located in the semi-rural coastal hills of the San Francisco Peninsula, features a thriving coastal live oak woodland ecosystem, a variety of dispersed structures and dramatic views of San Francisco Bay.

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Architect Students Education Restoration 52

e-architect

JANUARY 3, 2022

V-A-C Foundation creates a social and cultural experience revolved around visual arts, performing arts, music but also science and sustainability. The project’s site is part of a very active district on the island now named “Red October” clearly intended for young generations. Client: The V-A-C Foundation. 15 000 m² Parking.

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Housing Masterplanning Foundation Education 71

e-architect

APRIL 3, 2023

The school, convent and chapel are situated cheek by jowl on an extremely tight site, which presented both physical constraints and logistical challenges to the project. The masterplan included the restacking of the school, with early years located at the lower level, rising to Year 6/Key Stage 2 on the upper floors.

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Community Architect Daily

MARCH 17, 2021

The Middle Branch, long a forgotten stepchild in Baltimore known for a giant casino garage, an animal shelter and Nick's Fish-House and numerous derelict industrial sites, has been the target of ideas and plans since at least 1990. It all went up in smoke when Turner couldn't secure enough funding to even hold on to the cleared site.

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e-architect

AUGUST 25, 2023

It is wrapped in larch timber and arranged linearly along the sloping site to minimise profile and maximise space. acre site, which follows the contours of the hillside at a gentle step. These terraces sit within a thoughtfully curated garden, inspired by a masterplan by Harris Bugg Studio.

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