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Six steel structure designs take home top honors at the 2024 IDEAS² Awards

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The results of this year’s Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel (IDEAS²) Awards have been shared by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) as part of the competition’s 64th edition. A total of six projects were honored by the 2024 edition. “In previous years, the jury h.

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Hapi Homes donates 10 “foldable” residential structures in Odesa

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A new gift facilitated by the Ukrainian Red Cross has installed 10 new “foldable” modular home designs from Hapi Homes, LLC. The company says: “The prefabricated homes are prebuilt and folded by Hapi Homes and assembled on-site. The homes will be located on a 2.4-acre

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Timber structure defines compact bio-based home in the Netherlands

Deezen

Built as a prototype for the studio's Sprout concept, the Netherlands home was designed to feature as many bio-based materials as possible, including a wooden frame structure and hemp insulation. The post Timber structure defines compact bio-based home in the Netherlands appeared first on Dezeen.

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Tomás de Iruarrizaga bridges concrete forms with wooden structure for Chile holiday home

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Local architect Tomás de Iruarrizaga has designed Casa Granic, a holiday home located on a hillside by Riñihue Lake in Chile that is meant for "year-round living". Iruarrizaga designed the 500-square-metre house with a timber-clad upper level that bridges two rectangular concrete structures. The photography is by Cristóbal Palma.

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The Exposed Wood Ceiling Of This Home Shows Off Its Structure

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Eva Hinds Arquitectura has shared photos of a modern home they have completed in La Libertad, El Salvador, that has exposed structural elements.

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A new LA Times map shows 6,000 structures in need of seismic retrofit across Los Angeles

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The LA Times recently debuted a useful map of seismic retrofit projects in major sections of the city months after official updates to the building code were enacted to address risks posed to soft-story and non-ductile concrete structures before 2033.

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4 Modular Wooden Homes: Tiny House, Cabin, Extension, and Dwelling

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Image © Jim Stephenson A few years ago, the architects at Studio Bark , in collaboration with Structure Workshop and Cut and Construct , began to develop the idea of a circular kit of parts designed so that anyone with reasonable DIY skills could build their own structure. Read more »

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