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Zaha Hadid Foundation announces new leadership and museum effort

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The long-awaited inaugural phase of what will eventually serve as the future home of London’s Zaha Hadid Foundation (ZHF) is now set to go after the organization announced a new museum and research center initiative slated for two locations in the adopted hometown of its late namesake. Furthermore, the foundation announced the appoi.

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Architectural Sketches | Life of an Architect

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Home / Architects / Architectural Sketches Architectural Sketches Bob Borson — September 26, 2013 — 22 Comments Architects sketch as part of the process when doing their job … at least I do. This is a sketch from project that I am currently working on – the KHouse Modern.

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Largest-ever Norman Foster retrospective opens at Centre Pompidou in Paris

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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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The Circuitous Journey of an Early Prototype for U.S. Affordable Housing

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This spring, the Palm Springs Art Museum will become the structure’s permanent site. An exterior sketch of the Aluminaire House by Kocher and Frey in 1931. Library, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation The August 1931 issue of Popular Mechanics featured a cutaway drawing of the Aluminaire House. Architects Albert Frey and A.

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Pier and Beam Foundations - KHouse Progress | Life of an Architect

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Home / Construction / Pier and Beam Foundations – KHouse Progress Pier and Beam Foundations – KHouse Progress Bob Borson — June 12, 2014 — 73 Comments On the residential part of our practice, we do a lot of pier and beam foundations. Here is a typical wall section through a pier and beam foundation.

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Reports that Christo and Jeanne-Claude's final project is set to be built "misleading"

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The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation has denied reports that the duo's Mastaba project is set to be realised in the UAE as it still doesn't have government authorisation. One of Christo's sketches for The Mastaba, which the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation is still hoping to build. Photo is by André Grossmann.

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The Sponge Evangelist

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By Stephen Zacks An old industrial site in 2020, before the construction of Benjakitti Forest Park in Bangkok. Photo © Turenscape, courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation. Kongjian Yu, FASLA, sketches the concept for Chinatown Park in Boston in 2003. Photo © Turenscape, courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation.