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Eames Institute unveils new Eames Archives space in the Bay Area

Archinect

The new location helps the Institute engage with the collection, which had until now been warehoused at the Eames Office global headquarters in Venice, California. The new Eames Archives will now be housed and exhibited in a gallery space located in Richmond, California, about 15 minutes north of Oakland. Ray & Charles Eames.

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Ben Edwards, Kerstin Thompson and Jonas Pettersson are Dezeen Awards 2024 judges

Deezen

In 2011 Edwards won the Australian National Interior Design Excellence Award for projects including the Arnsdorf store and Lightbox House. Other projects by Studio Edwards include House 28 , a micro-hotel made from shipping containers and a zero-waste workspace in Melbourne made from recycled and off-the-shelf materials.

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"The best tool for empowering people is through affordable housing," says architect Victor Body-Lawson

Deezen

Architects should see themselves as the representatives of the community in the building process and not simply as an agent of developers, argues low-cost housing specialist Victor Body-Lawson in this interview. The Erbograph Apartments is a mixed-use project with low-income senior housing on West 146th Street in Harlem, New York.

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Ellsworth testifies for NYC

Architecture Here and There

The ESD is told to “to develop rental housing that is affordable to persons of low income” and to seek out urban places where there is an “unavailability of private capital.” The White House is over 200 years old. If we apply that reasoning to the rest of the city, all of Manhattan would be demolished and rebuilt every ten years.

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Nine of John Outram's most "rich, tactile and colourful" buildings

Deezen

Along with several private houses, Outram also designed buildings at Cambridge University in the UK and Rice University in the USA in his bold signature style. Outram's first commission of any size was this warehousing near Heathrow Airport. The New House, Wadhurst, East Sussex, UK (1985).

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It Won't Be Over Soon: How Will COVID Change the World?

Community Architect

This likely will have not only have devastating impacts on entire branches of our economy from hotels, to airlines, restaurants and cultural venues such as theaters, concert halls, movie houses and museums but also affect how people shop (retail), how they move (transit) and where they work, possibly even where they want to live.

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The Legend of the "Invention Garage"

Dwell

Garages offer promise: the promise of belongings to fill them, houses big enough to support them, and suburban utopias filled with cozy cul-de-sacs where semi-idle afternoons are spent futzing around with whatever project needs doing while a radio plays the baseball game in the background. Garages are also beacons of confident design.