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Architectural Details: SOM’s Latest Air Force Academy Addition

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Five decades after the masterplan and cadet chapel design, SOM returned to the campus to design a home for the newly created Center for Character & Leadership Development (CCLD) in the National Historic Landmark District, which was completed in 2016. The space is clad in maple and provides a warmth to these levels.

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MVRDV to transform Herman Hertzberger’s Centraal Beheer building

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Commissioned by Certitudo Capital, the transformation is part of a larger area vision for the three-hectare site near the city’s train station, with MVRDV’s design prioritising heritage preservation, greening, and innovation and introducing approximately 650-800 homes. Image © MVRDV.

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MVRDV to transform Herman Hertzberger’s Centraal Beheer building – an icon of structuralism – into a new residential district

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Commissioned by Certitudo Capital, the transformation is part of a larger area vision for the three-hectare site near the city’s train station, with MVRDV’s design prioritising heritage preservation, greening, and innovation and introducing approximately 650-800 homes. . Sources & Credits.

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Edith and Peter O’Donnell Jr. Athenæum by Morphosis

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Designed by global architecture and design firm Morphosis, the project includes three new buildings—the second location for the Crow Museum of Asian Art, a performance hall, and a planned museum for the traditional arts of the Americas—in addition to a parking structure, all surrounding a central plaza that serves as the heart of the masterplan.

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Eurasian Prize 2021 competition news

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portfolio «Innovative construction engineering techniques: IGZ Campus Falkenberg». Reference: The Eurasian Prize is a globally targeted initiative to identify and encourage talented architects and designers, as well as promoting innovative projects, products and practices that change the world. 14.00 – 15.30 Speaker: Jürgen Mayer H.,

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Gwangju Main Library, S. Korea

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A linear zone, the cultural path that extends from the riverside on the West to the residential zone on the East is integrated in our masterplan’ s five basic elements in sequence: the elevated square, the library, the main plaza, the factory building, and the green area. use of such symbolism to illustrate truth or a moral, 3.