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Renaissance Commons // MWA Architects

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Project Status: Built. Renaissance Commons is a transit oriented, vibrant, affordable housing development in North Portland along N. More economical materials and systems, like sloped roofs and fiber cement siding, were used in creative ways throughout the project. Renaissance Commons Gallery. Year: 2020.

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Bockus Payne renovates 1970s skyscraper in Oklahoma City

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The interior was informed by "all things Oklahoma" Behind the central reception desk, the wood was arranged in a diagonal slatted pattern to directly reference stalks of wheat "waving in the wind", a common site on the farmlands of Oklahoma. Other projects in Oklahoma City include a colourful restaurant with "eccentric" detailing.

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“Emerging Ecologies” at MoMA Celebrates the Utopian Side of Environmental Design

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Like Girolamo Savonarola, who burned Renaissance masterpieces to protest sexual immorality, Just Stop Oil carries a grim and uncompromising sermon. Painting by Ludwig von Langenmantel, 1879, via Wikimedia Commons. Photo by Raunaq Gupta via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 Image via Wikimedia Commons. People want joy.

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Architects part of historic "social cleansing" of cities, says David Chipperfield at Design Doha 

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The architect spoke of a project he had completed through his research agency Fundación RIA where, after five years of community consultation, they had built a new public seating area on a former car park on the waterfront of Spanish town Portos de Galicia. "In No, here a halt came, and then international style came, then all these boxes."

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"Architecture is a hollowed-out profession with architects seemingly less vital than ever"

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Both Plato and Aristotle use the term "to architect" as a verb to describe a form of civic and intellectual leadership that applied great knowledge in practical ways for the common good. However, even the most artistic of Renaissance architects had a grasp of engineering and of how the main materials they designed with were worked.

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New Science Campus in Milan by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati

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The design, developed by CRA in collaboration with architect Italo Rota, revolves around a network of green courtyards, a series of uninterrupted walking paths (“common ground”) at different heights, and five brick buildings. Image © CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati. It also features a large central square with an adjacent lake. The “Campus 2.0”

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AI and the Renaissance of Parametric Design

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Isiwal/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 AT One example is the AI SpaceFactory’s MARSHA habitat project , which was generated using generative adversarial networks (GANs). The post AI and the Renaissance of Parametric Design appeared first on Journal. AT, Barcelona Frank Gehrys Peix , CC BY-SA 3.0

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