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APRIL 10, 2024

Bloomberg is reporting on a tip they received recently about NEOM’ s The Line centerpiece as it advances on the first phase of construction in Saudi Arabia’s northwest highlands. kilometers and house 300,000 residents by the end of the decade. The figures cited are a drastic reduction from the 1.5

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Studio Libeskind has shared photos of its recently completed senior housing project on Long Island. Declaring “Senior housing isn’t just about accommodation; it’s about people.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Reinventing Cities, C40’s global design competition for urban design professionals, has launched with a group of 15 new participating communities for its fourth edition. A total of 29 projects were selected for the cohort, which this year comes with an added call for collaboration with the private sector.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It wasn’t a visual spectacle, but it was handsome and dignified, standing out with its prefab metal facade not just in a neighborhood of empty lots, aging apartment blocks and derelict rail tracks but also against a backdrop of dreary, bare-bones affordable housing developments all across the city.

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APRIL 13, 2023

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has shared news of the passing of Wright’s grandson Eric Lloyd Wright last month at the age of 93. designed homes and religious projects in California, Pennsylvania, the American Midwest and Finland. The Ennis House. Wright, who was the only child of Frank Lloyd Wright Jr., Photo: Mary E.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

The developers behind the proposed MSG Sphere in London have withdrawn plans for the project. In a letter to the UK government’s Planning Inspectorate, developers Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSG) said that the scheme had become “merely a political football between rival parties.”

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APRIL 24, 2024

The winners of this year’s Urban Land Institute (ULI) Hines Student Competition have been announced as a team from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Snøhetta has shared photos revealing the construction status of their Shanghai Grand Opera House design ahead of its expected opening in 2025. What’s most noticeable is the formation of the structure’s distinctive fan-shaped roof, which frames the Opera House’s spiraling form.

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MARCH 28, 2024

Pennsylvania’s Longwood Gardens has released an update of an overhaul of its horticultural campus by WEISS/MANFREDI which will open in November 2024. ” West Conservatory. The conservatory contains gardens, pools, and fountains designed by Reed Hilderbrand. Aerial view of construction. Image credit: Bancroft.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Housed in a former horse stable dating back to the 1920s, the scheme will house artists as part of the Edward F. The project will also see a 1,400-square-foot cottage rebuilt as a residence for the property’s caretaker. TenBerke has unveiled its design for an artist residence in Montauk, New York. Albee Foundation.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Fifteen residential designs from around the world have made the shortlist for the Architectural Review 's latest AR House awards competition.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

According to the Sun-Times , Related Midwest is pushing for a “massive financing package” from the Illinois General Assembly to fund the project by the end of spring. The team’s current digs on the Southside would be transformed into a soccer stadium with another 1,300-unit housing component.

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APRIL 23, 2024

Henning Larsen has announced a new cultural project in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia. The Danish firm's plans for the new Jeddah Opera House entail a 1,500-seat opera, 750-seat theater, and 150-seat Rehearsal Hall to be constructed at a site that forms the new Opera Quarter and is included as part of the larger Jeddah Central master plan.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Following last week’s visit to New York City-based Murdock Solon Architects , we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Santa Monica this week to explore the work of KoningEizenberg. Over on Archinect Jobs , the firm is currently hiring for a Communications Coordinator to join their Santa Monica studio.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Students at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) recently collaborated with the state’s local AARP on a design-research project that was meant to demonstrate the potential of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) to lawmakers currently looking at alternatives to boost housing production and care for an aging population.

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MARCH 23, 2024

New York City’s first dedicated soccer stadium is becoming closer to a reality. As reported by Gothamist , the City Council is expected to approve the final phase of an ambitious project to revitalize the long-neglected Willets Point neighborhood in Queens through a mixed-use redevelopment.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Plans have been unveiled for the reportedly “world’s largest urban construction project in wood” in the Swedish capital. Named Stockholm Wood City, and designed by Henning Larsen and White Arkitekter , the scheme will extend over 2.7 million square feet across several buildings.

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JULY 12, 2022

It’s that time of year again for the annual slate of RIBA Awards, beginning with today’s announcement of the House of the Year competition longlist. In total, 20 projects made the cut for the first round of new homes that will eventually be boiled down to shortlisted nominees and presented via the.

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MAY 11, 2023

HOK ’s plans for a new mixed-used development and soccer stadium in Willets Points, Queens, have been released following the project’s announcement last month. The overall project also ties in with Mayor Eric Adams' comments about his administration’s intentions to create a “City of Yes.”

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Tadao Ando, the house features a concrete exterior in keeping with the acclaimed architect’s streamlined brutalist ethos. In the couple of dozen months that Ye has owned the property, the music performer and designer removed the home’s interiors, leaving it essentially gutted.

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APRIL 15, 2024

Rendering courtesy HOK At a cost of $780 million, HOK will deliver a two-tiered, 25,000-seat design (the city’s first purpose-built soccer stadium ) built using local materials and featuring green design strategies like PV panels and stormwater retention. Rendering courtesy HOK Construction of the Willets Point Re.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Jerome Markson, the 2022 RAIC Gold Medalist and modern social housing pioneer whose influence was felt widely across Canada, died in Toronto on Saturday, November 18, The Globe and Mail reported. Marie (1962), and Alexandra Park Public Housing (1965), among others. He was 94 years old.

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JULY 21, 2022

Only three projects made the cut for the competition’s third edition, providing a total of 133 units of housing across two regions (RIBA South and RIBA London). One project, Henley Halebrown ’s Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road, was also named to the 2022 Stirling Prize shortlist this morning.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

RIBA has announced its shortlist for the House of the Year 2023 competition, highlighting six transformative residential projects that are equally unique and responsive to the building and design industry’s need for change.

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JUNE 20, 2022

Led by Brad Wales, a clinical assistant professor at the university’s Department of Architecture, the initiative forms part of a design-build program within the school called the Small Built Works Project. Tilt House render. Passive Solar House render. The program has been focused on affordable housing sinc.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

125th Street off-campus Harlem housing project for Columbia University in collaboration with CetraRuddy. Once complete, the 34-story dorm is set to host 142 apartments for graduate students and faculty with another 5,000-square-foot McDonald’s retail location included at the ground level.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

The building’s future as housing began to take shape this week when the Brodsky Organization, a residential developer, bought a stake in the 22-story, triangular-shaped tower on Fifth Avenue. The project will take about three years to complete once plans finally clear the lengthy approval process.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Courtesy of Ellie Harding | RIBA The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the winners of the 2023 President’s Medals, highlighting the best student architecture projects worldwide. Overall, the winning projects demonstrate a strong focus on "how architecture can address the needs of people and their communities."

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JANUARY 10, 2024

The client’s main goal was to establish unique accommodation, connected to their existing activities center, for active guests to experience and explore the local nature. One of the main challenges is that most of the site is two to four meters under the projected flood zone levels after factoring in future climate change.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

TenBerke has finished work on its two-hall dormitory project for Brown University. The Brook Street Residence Halls project is part of the university’s plan to expand its on-campus housing offerings and was completed using a hybrid steel and cross-laminated timber structure.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has announced the completion of a recent restoration project that’s meant to breathe new life into their historic Lever House design in Manhattan. Costs for the project were around $100 million. Costs for the project were around $100 million.

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MAY 31, 2023

in Coney Island, this project stands as the city's largest district geothermal ground-source heat pump project to date. The system aims to decrease the building’s energy consumption by over 60% compared to structures equipped with standard HVAC systems. Located at 1515 Surf Ave.

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JULY 13, 2023

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has kicked off its annual awards programming with the announcement of the shortlisted projects for the 2023 Neave Brown Award for Housing. billion in funds (wo.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

The LA Metro Board of Directors has given their final go-ahead for a controversial gondola project in Los Angeles that would offer an alternative transportation route from downtown Union Station to Dodger Stadium to baseball fans by the start of the 2028 Summer Olympics.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Multistudio has broken ground on a noteworthy new four-residence supportive housing project in Lawrence, Kansas, which they say is evocative of their goal of pushing the limits of what’s possible within their community and the industry as a whole. Further donations to the project.

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JUNE 21, 2022

Embarking on a new project type for the first time in the history of the practice, Ma Yansong’s MAD Architects recently unveiled photos for a social housing scheme located near Beijing’s central business district called Baiziwan. million-square-feet). million-square-feet).

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The intervention is created to house and display the Bayeux Tapestry, an embroidered cloth measuring 70 meters in length and depicting the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 and culminating in the Battle of Hastings. The almost 1000 years-old artifact is also included in UNESCO ’s “Memory of the World” list.

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