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SOM and Princeton University create self-balancing arch for Venice Architecture Biennale

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Architecture studio SOM has worked with Princeton University 's Form Finding Lab for its contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale – a self-balancing brick arch that was built using augmented reality. More recently, the firm has completed a block-long timber truss bridge connected to Manhattan's High Line.

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Parks of the 21st Century

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Alex Pisha is a landscape and architectural designer for cultural, academic, and civic projects. A last chapter, "future," looks ahead to four in-progress projects, including Freshkills Park in Staten Island. Many of the projects are in North America, with almost as many in China and the rest in Europe.

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GBBN expands historic Pennsylvania residence with metal-clad education facility

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US architecture studio GBBN preserved and expanded a 19th-century home in Erie, Pennsylvania into an educational facility with a glass bridge connection and metal-clad, barn-like structure. A glass bridge is included in the design. The structure features two conceptual elements: the barn and the bridge.

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Creative Writing

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Shaped like one-half of an hourglass, Dealey Plaza features several small art deco colonnades and fountains but is dominated by three wide roadways, which converge at the west end of the plaza before diving under a raised railroad bridge. Visitors regularly dart into traffic on Elm Street to pay their respects or take photos.

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British student's wearable CNC machine gives makers "superhuman" abilities

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Aiming to bridge the worlds of human and robotic construction , product design engineer Jasper Mallinson has created a wearable CNC machine that he believes could one day be used on worksites to help realise parametric designs. Photography by Sandy Steele-Perkins.

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News: World Architecture Festival announces first-ever Architectural Book of the Year Award winners

Bustler

It was particularly praised for bridging the gap between a general and specialist audience, as well as for the clarity of its design and success of its ‘collage-like’ structure, with four distinct sections – history / interviews with residents / photography / plans – working well together to provide a broad perspective on the scheme.

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The Long Game

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Gathered at the base of the dike one morning last spring was a group of engineers and researchers, milling about under a cloud-swept sky as they waited for Monica Chasten, a project manager for the U.S. By way of refocusing, Chasten proclaimed, “The primary mission of this project is to clear the channel.”.