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Iconic Commercial Architecture: Examining the Role of Landmarks in Cityscapes

RMJM Architecture

Estimated reading time: 5 min Designing in an urban landscape is an opportunity for architects to create exemplary projects, and as such, iconic commercial architecture stands as both a symbol of creativity and an extension.

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ICON to work with DARPA on a framework for lunar architecture

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The construction technology company ICON has been chosen by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) among 14 partners to build a framework for lunar architecture. Aside from ICON’s focus on construction, the group also contains specialists across power, communications, and mobility.

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The struggle between green design and architectural history hangs over the renovation of one Bangkok icon

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A Bangkok landmark known as the “robot building” has been stripped of its identity, heritage campaigners have said, as they called for the city’s distinctive architecture to preserved. [.] Campaigners have urged the bank to find a way to improve energy efficiency while maintaining the facade’s unique design.

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Marina Tabassum is named the 2022 Lisbon Triennale Millennium Lifetime Achievement Award winner

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Groundbreaking Bangladeshi architect and 2021 Soane Medalist Marina Tabassum has garnered another important accolade after being named the Millennium Lifetime Achievement Award winner at the upcoming Lisbon Architecture Triennale , which kicks off in the Portuguese capital on September 22nd.

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Kevin Lippert, influential Princeton Architectural Press founder, has passed away aged 63

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The architecture and publishing worlds have lost an icon after news broke yesterday about the passing of legendary Princeton Architectural Press founder Kevin Lippert on March 29th following a long battle with cancer. Lippert founded the Press while still a student at the Princeton University School of Architecture in 1981.

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Toronto's Eaton Centre to undergo $77 million revitalization led by Zeidler Architecture

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Canadian commercial real estate company Cadillac Fairview (CF) has announced a $77 million revitalization of the CF Toronto Eaton Centre. The project will see a $60 million refurbishment of its iconic galleria skylight roof. The refurbishment will be led by eponymous firm Zeidler Architecture Inc.

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"Summers" office building by Architecturestudio

Archinect

The complex is protected by the waves of a bioclimatic façade, an icon of contemporary and contextual architecture. It supplements a mixed urban fabric that is changing fast, made up of housing blocks and, more recently, tertiary and commercial activities.

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