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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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Kith releases New Balance trainer informed by Frank Lloyd Wright sketches

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Kith founder Ronnie Fieg has teamed up with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to release a New Balance sneaker that was informed by Wright 's utopian Broadacre City sketches. Called New Balance Made in USA 998 – Broadacre City, the shoe is a celebration of American architect Wright's sketches.

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How Landscape Architects are Taking on Embodied Carbon

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Sketch of Bonnet Springs Park / Sasaki. And the conversations happening are laying the foundation for a shift away from using these materials. Image © Sasaki “ Landscape architects have started conversations about embodied carbon. The grey parts are concrete , steel , and other manufactured products in projects.

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Building Foundations: Cofounder Matthias Hollwich Discusses Architizer’s Roots

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In this four-part series, we ask each of Architizer’s founders to reflect on foundational philosophies and to share stories about the early days of the platform. It all started with sketching out ideas, including visualizations that were semi-erotic! What is your favorite memory of the early days of Architizer?

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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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Almanach exhibition explores new ways to build a strong future

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The Almanach exhibition, which is the inaugural research project led by the foundation 's director Anne-Claire Duprat, centres on production and processes that can be used to develop creative practices.

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Frank Gehry creates architecture-informed handbags for Louis Vuitton

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The Capucines MM Fish bag was informed by a fish-shaped lighting feature that Gehry created for the Foundation Louis Vuitton in 2014. Alongside this, the white crocodile leather Capucines Mini Drawn Fish bag has a sketch of a fish by Gehry embroidered on it.