Deezen

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Ken Steffes argued that "the beauty of this site is that it is untouched by man. The cladding materials were chosen to reference the site's industrial history. "No Readers raced to the comment section to debate the latest Neom news. These structures will only destroy nature and everything that lives around it."

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Architizer

JUNE 19, 2023

That is, moving away from the more human elements involved in their manufacture resulted in products that were standardized and more universally available, rendering their former manufacturing sites obsolete. The glory days of the factory date back to the early 20th century, when it was erected as a massive brick production site.

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Archinect

JULY 21, 2022

Yemen’s largest city Sana'a may even supplant Franis Kéré's home country as the world’s leading rammed earth capital, with a host of stunning, UNESCO-protected sites scattered around its Old City area. It is the architecture of the future," says Damluji.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

The University of Chicago John W Boyer Center was designed by Studio Gang in accordance with the French sustainability law requiring new public buildings to be built from at least 50 per cent wood or other natural materials. It will be built from at least 50 per cent natural materials in line with the French sustainability law.

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Deezen

JUNE 22, 2023

It occupies a site on the waterfront in Charleston, where many enslaved Africans first reached the United States before being sold into forced labour throughout the country. Without this building, this sacred site would have remained unknown and the stories of our ancestors untold." The columns were clad in oyster-shell tabby. "As

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2024

The first was replaced with a mixed development with a net loss of social housing, the latter is still a building site. You can see the results of this numbers game, played all around the world in the mid-20th century, in the dun brick towers of the New York City Housing Authority or the prefabricated blocks of suburban Warsaw or Prague.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a gabled roof , along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland. The structures share a timber-and-metal material palette designed to create a "common language", the studio said.

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Deezen

JANUARY 25, 2024

UK architecture studio DaeWha Kang Design has designed a pavilion and courtyard for The OWO hotel at the site of the former Old War Office in Whitehall, London. When selecting materials for the project, practicality and longevity were central to the studio's approach.

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Deezen

MAY 14, 2024

acres, Williamsburg Wharf will encompass residential, commercial, retail, and outdoor space and be located on "the last waterfront site in South Williamsburg" with each tower reaching 22 storeys. The project shall regenerate the last waterfront site of South Williamsburg."

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

On a secluded wooded site, the new structure grounds itself to the earth with its approach to material and form. The site offers unique access to the sky and light for this heavily wooded part of the Kitsap Peninsula. Cedar milled on site was used to create the entry door, entry benches, and east privacy fence.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A staggered arrangement of windows and patterned sections of brickwork form the facade of 19 Waterloo Street, a house that Australian studio SJB has added to a small site in Sydney. Externally the house is playful and textured – riffing the motives and materiality of the suburb that surrounds it," SJB explained. "A

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Deezen

MAY 27, 2022

The furniture will be made from materials such as plywood and wooden beams that were used during the construction of the building, which was designed by Danish studio Cobe , and would otherwise have been burned. Waste materials and leftover materials were used to construct the furniture. Photo is courtesy of Louise Hederström.

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Deezen

APRIL 25, 2024

to create a low-carbon materials charter for these spaces that includes lighting and street furniture. Putting this sustainable design agenda into practice, the street lighting was designed to be manufactured using decommissioned lampposts and components sourced from building sites. Concepto and Studio 5.5

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Deezen

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Materials from a dismantled warehouse were used to build this courtyard house named Dailly, which local studio Mamout has nestled between two buildings in Belgium. Dailly is arranged around two courtyards and features colourful spaces filled with reclaimed materials. The concept is therefore to have a low, long house lit by patios."

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Architizer

MAY 6, 2024

Shipley and Bates accomplished this feat through site-responsive design that blurs the line between interior and exterior. This site has a huge number of challenges on it,” Bates noted bluntly. “As As soon as we walked on the site, we could tell there were wetlands. So how does one build in a place like this? How can we do this?

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The LAO cooperative of architecture and manufacturing is based there. This project is a special project in our hearts: it is a place of conviviality in addition to being our workplace; and its architecture seeks to reflect this. Self-built, the volume houses upstairs: a kitchen / dining room / meeting room for plenary sessions.

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Deezen

JULY 17, 2023

Named Reset Materials , the exhibition at the Copenhagen-based gallery contains a showcase of architectural fragments made from 10 different low-carbon materials, including earth, biocement, mycelium, silicon and straw. The aim, according to Muhr, was not to champion individual materials, but to show how they might be used together.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 19, 2022

He told Milwaukee native Alby Gallun that the selection of the materials was driven perhaps unsurprisingly by aesthetics and marketing considerations, but that its ability to reduce on-site labor costs and the speed of the construction timeline were also deciding factors along with its proven sustainability and performance metrics.

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Dwell

MAY 17, 2024

People can have a livable space in a much shorter timeframe, and there’s minimal disturbance to a site. The site works such as footings and underground services are excluded from the price, as are delivery and crane installation. Part of the appeal of the Passive Studio is that we build it in a controlled environment.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The timber office in Norway was designed as a demountable "materials bank" Oslotre designed a 5x5 metre timber grid structure for the building, which is entirely steel-free, both to lower its embodied carbon and to allow all of its components to be easily reused. The photography is by Einar Aslaksen and Dmitry Tkachenko.

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Archinect

JANUARY 27, 2023

More than 5,500 tons of fire-damaged material was removed from the site, and a thorough evaluation of the building was undertaken. At the time of the blaze, the Mackintosh Building had been undergoing extensive restoration due to an earlier fire that damaged the site in 2014.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The sustainability of structural stone is dependent on how and where it is quarried and its reputation as an infinite material is misleading, warns Slovak-British architect Natalia Petkova in this Stone Age 2.0 series, which is investigating the potential of the material as a viable, low-carbon, modern structural material.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Italian studio Stefano Boeri Architetti has unveiled its masterplan for a meditation centre and landscaped gardens at the Ramagrama stupa, a Buddhist pilgrimage site in Nepal. The heart of the masterplan is the Peace Meadow The site is located in Ramagrama, a municipality on the banks of the Jharahi River in western Nepal.

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Deezen

JUNE 15, 2023

It sits at the edge of a nature preserve on Punta Cometa, or Comet Point, a peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean and was once the site of an Aztec fort. Two stone towers juxtapose the site's horizontal elements The architects also needed to consider how the landscape evolves throughout the year.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Promotion: US material sample brand Material Bank is launching its services in Europe, which will offer European architects and designers "the most sustainable way to search and sample materials". According to Material Bank, this enables designers to save time rather than ordering samples from different websites.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 19, 2023

When you think of a building – whatever scale or project type, the items that go to create that building are most frequently associated with the materials that are selected that define the appearance of the building. Continue reading Ep 121: Material Selection at Life of an Architect. The "Why" jump to 12:51 Why choose the material?

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Deezen

OCTOBER 31, 2023

These include making use of local materials with tactile qualities and ensuring a building is formed of interconnected spaces that are tailored to children's activities. All materials were used as sparingly as possible, they were obtained close to the site and all assembly and construction happened directly on the plot.

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Archinect

JANUARY 25, 2022

Plans for the new district include offices and housing accommodation for up to 60,000 people run entirely on renewable energy and made from recycled materials. The former industrial site was also famously home to Milan Expo 2015 , which drew some 22 million visitors during its six-month run and has since been partially dismantled.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Harnessing stone as a structural material can make architecture more enjoyable to both build and inhabit argues Tristram Carfrae, an Arup engineer working on the Sagrada Familia , in this Stone Age 2.0 Stone has become a luxury cladding material, whether used as a rainscreen, or as floor tiling," Carfrae told Dezeen. "We

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Argentinian architect Malvina Zayat has completed a white home for herself and her family that is lifted above a sloped site and enters into "an intimate dialogue with the sky and clouds". The residence sits within a native forest in the town of Salsipuedes, which lies about 30 kilometers from the city of Córdoba.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

US architecture studio Schaum/Shieh has embedded a Virginia house with irregularly shaped volumes into the contours of a steep site. Our clients knew many hilly sites from growing up in the area and their time in Greece. We focused on the hill, the seasons, the distant view, and the intimate life of the site."

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Deezen

APRIL 15, 2024

Jean Benoît Vétillard Architecture has created a house and artist's studio in Paris Maison Nana is accessed by a paved garden, which Jean Benoît Vétillard Architecture has placed across half of the site. The post Exposed materials and colourful accents define Maison Nana in Paris appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 7, 2023

The site is surrounded by water and forests, creating a secluded rural environment on the island that's located across the Yangtze River estuary from the vast metropolitan area. The rooms are decorated with neutral tones and natural materials Planning codes limited the height of the eaves.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Spanish architect Juan Gurrea Rumeu used a palette of warm, textural materials and carefully positioned voids to create atmospheric living spaces inside this house he designed for himself and his wife in Barcelona. The position and scale of openings frames views and curates intimacy and light."

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

Arario Gallery sits alongside the grey-brick Space Group Building Alongside this building is a glazed extension from the 1990s by architect Jang Se-yang, a student of Swoo-geun, as well as a traditional South Korean home, or hanok, which was relocated to the site when it reopened in 2014. The photography is by Yongjoon Choi.

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Deezen

AUGUST 16, 2023

Satish Jassal Architects designed Haringey Brick Bungalow The 110-square-metre site and narrow passageway was "like building through a straw", dictating many design and construction decisions. The materials have been selected to complement each other and to weather gracefully together over time."

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

SCHULER A concept plan sketch of the Cosmic Saltillo site in East Austin, Texas. But there was a lot of care taken to save this material and reuse it.” Old concrete slabs were jackhammered out of the buildings and stored on-site until they could be reused. BY TIMOTHY A. Courtesy Ten Eyck Landscape Architects. Some of it has.”

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