Archinect

JANUARY 25, 2024

Designed by New York City-based JSDnA in partnership with Architect of Record Josh Payne, the project embraces the unique qualities of this secluded 5.23 The project began in 2016 when JSDnA founder Frank W Chen stumbled upon the vacant lot and was captivated by the beauty and serenity of the site and its surroundings.

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SW Oregon Architect

MARCH 3, 2024

I participated this past Thursday in the kickoff meeting for the City of Eugene’s Urban Growth Strategies project. The goal of the project is to identify the essential tools, actions, policies, and land required over the next two decades to support housing and living wage jobs in our community.

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ArchDaily

JANUARY 11, 2024

“They sent teams of architecture students, historians, and photographers to document all kinds of projects,” he says. “We After graduation, he worked for several years as an architect in New York City before transitioning full-time to photography. That experience instilled a deep appreciation for industrial architecture.”

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Archinect

JANUARY 26, 2022

The project changed the conversation about the city and fueled a vision of molding the area into an arts and entertainment destination. Simply referred to as “The Calatrava” by locals, the game-changing project has made the Milwaukee Art Museum a must-see for residents and tourists alike.

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Archinect

JANUARY 26, 2022

The project changed the conversation about the city and fueled a vision of molding the area into an arts and entertainment destination. Simply referred to as “The Calatrava” by locals, the game-changing project has made the Milwaukee Art Museum a must-see for residents and tourists alike.

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SW Oregon Architect

MARCH 5, 2023

I’m derelict in posting this announcement regarding the opportunity to provide online feedback as the City is closing the comment period today (Sunday, March 5). Regardless, I thought I could do my part to spread word about the project, which has been in the works since 2019.

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SW Oregon Architect

JULY 16, 2023

Whether these qualify the period as a “golden age” for the profession is my own subjective judgement, but I know the magnitude of those advancements and the sociocultural circumstances in which they arose allowed me to flourish. It is often associated with a time of extraordinary accomplishments, advancements, and overall well-being.

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SW Oregon Architect

MAY 19, 2024

I’m no housing affordability expert, but I am deeply concerned about how inaccessible the local housing market has become in recent years. As baby boomers, my wife and I enjoy the good fortune of having purchased our home when costs were reasonable (back in the 1980s). As I mentioned above, this is now occurring here in Oregon.

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Archinect

MAY 2, 2023

It has been the subject of controversy since that time, owing to its scale and derivation from the city council tender approvals process. To that score, Botta says his approach to design has evolved to be a sort of commentary on the "confrontation between times [.]

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SW Oregon Architect

MARCH 17, 2024

The building must be extant so you or I can visit it in person. Each building’s name will begin with a particular letter of the alphabet, and I must select one (and only one) for each of the twenty-six letters. So adaptive reuse is part of the dealership’s history, and as I will address next, will be part of its future as well.

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Portland Architecture

DECEMBER 12, 2022

While at Allied, Daniel worked on celebrated projects like the Corvallis Museum. A recent Seattle house was featured in a New York Times article called " A Modern Home That Looks Toward the Sky and the Water." I studied architecture at the University of Oregon, Columbia University, and eventually Harvard’s GSD.

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SW Oregon Architect

JULY 2, 2023

The City of Eugene finally has its new city hall, formally closing on the purchase of the former Eugene Water & Electric Board headquarters last week. For far too many years, I’ve chronicled the almost tragically comic and protracted course taken to provide the seat of our city government with a new home.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The New York Times recently spoke to Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli about his work as the Vice President of Capital Projects for NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art. “I think that oftentimes those two things get divorced. You’re either focused on what a thing looks like or how a thing performs.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The Prospect Park Alliance and Mayor Bill de Blasio are announcing today that the city will allocate $40 million in the city budget to Prospect Park. The project plans for the creation of a sensory garden and rustic arbor, a nature play area, and a landscaped amphitheater and small community building.

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Deezen

MARCH 6, 2024

Allan & Geraldine Rosenberg Residences is a social-housing block in New York designed by Daniel Libeskind Libeskind, whose eponymous studio completed a social housing project in New York last year , believes that creating better quality low-cost housing is one of the most urgent issues facing the world today. It taught me a lot." "The

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Deezen

MAY 24, 2024

The one-on-one conversation between Yansong and Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft was held to celebrate the opening of the project, named Train Station in the Forest. I wanted to make the whole experience more cultural, more contextual," said Yansong. I want to bring freedom to the urban space," said Yansong.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I work for a man who is not a licensed architect. A few years ago I moved to another city to open a branch office for the same firm. Has anyone else ever encountered a situation like this?

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Brandon Donnelly

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This morning I toured 1151 Queen East (here in Toronto). I’m sure it will be well-loved once people start moving in this year. At the same time, it’s hard not to see small and beautiful infill projects like this and wonder, “why do we make it so difficult to build this kind of new housing?

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Archinect

APRIL 12, 2022

At first glance, it checks all the boxes of a futuristic and head-turning project that lures the attention of both architects and the general public. Since it appeared on the streets of Chuo City, Tokyo in 1972, I can only imagine how many times this structure has been photographed and lauded at by visitors and passersby.

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Deezen

MARCH 8, 2024

Annalie Riches's studio designed the Stirling Prize-winning Goldsmith Street project. Photo by Agnese Sanvito "I really hate the word 'social' housing," she told Dezeen. I think of it just as housing. I wouldn't design it any differently whether it was private – to me, it's housing." The word implies there's a problem."

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Dwell

APRIL 12, 2024

Small Change aims to allow anyone—not just developers—to invest in projects across the country. For real estate, this meant that anyone, with any income or net worth, could invest in eligible commercial or housing projects and receive returns on the project’s success; developers can raise up to $50 million from crowdfunded sources.

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

I think we've changed our idea of what progress is itself. For the first time in my life, I would say there's a certain loss of confidence in the absolute notion of progress," he said. We've done a sort of social cleansing on cities like London, Paris, Zurich. Everybody has to live on the outside. We've been part of that."

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SW Oregon Architect

OCTOBER 29, 2023

I have always loved architecture. As a child, I discovered the work of Frank Lloyd Wright , and became utterly fascinated by the shapes, colors, and functions of all buildings. I spent countless hours drawing futuristic projects and planning entire cities teeming with skyscrapers. I was amazed by their courage.

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A Better Built Environment

MAY 7, 2024

Recap of A Better Built Environment I started writing this newsletter back in 2020 during the pandemic shutdown. It gave me a platform to explore and share ideas about cities, urbanism, transportation, and design - hence the name A Better Built Environment. This post is a personal story. Definitely too many moves.

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SW Oregon Architect

APRIL 2, 2023

Every now and then when perusing my Twitter feed or otherwise surfing the web, I stumble upon something truly remarkable. Such was the case earlier this week when I discovered the photography of Chris Hytha ( @Hythacg ). Chris is a young designer and visual artist based in the city of Philadelphia.

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Deezen

MAY 20, 2024

Suzuki 's sound project was commissioned to coincide with the Art of Noise exhibition – a multi-sensory tribute to how design has shaped music consumption over the past 100 years – at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SMOMA). "The I am particularly proud of the inclusive nature of the piece.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

UK housing secretary Michael Gove is backing the creation of a new "School of Place" ; the city of San Francisco has adopted a placemaking ordinance called "Places for People" ; Edinburgh Council has invited the public to participate in a "placemaking consultation". I have a confession to make: I have no idea what "placemaking" is.

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Dwell

APRIL 18, 2024

million in an off-market sale for the midcentury house in Brentwood, which marked one of Ellwood’s earliest projects. It marked one of his earliest projects. In a retweet of the above, X user @caitiedelaney added , "Maybe I’m different but I would have a hard time sleeping soundly if I spent $12.5

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Deezen

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Mexican architect Javier Guzmán Cervantes has collected urban waste materials including cinderblocks and rebar to create a series of furniture for a show in Mexico City. Household Constructions is on view at Utïl in Mexico City from 8 November to January 2024. The photography is by Javier Guzman.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing news that architecture studio BIG has completed its first supertall skyscraper in New York City and debating a minimalist pink house in Mexico by César Béjar Studio. Just what the city needs: more unused office space during record-low occupancy rates," wrote BillH11103.

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Dwell

JANUARY 24, 2024

But when Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the project would receive a whopping $16 million of state and local funding to bring it to fruition, architect Dong-Ping Wong —who conceived of the floating urban amenity—voiced his concerns on Instagram. I had left my job in the beginning of 2008 and then the recession hit.

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Dwell

APRIL 1, 2024

After the major craft retailer’s recent bankruptcy filing, I hurried to the store’s nearest location to assess the vibes—and the DIY bargains. I bravely volunteered. Depending on the time of day, the drive is anywhere between 30 and 50 minutes. In the early 2000s, the Jo(-)ann (Fabrics)(!)

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Dwell

APRIL 23, 2024

Welcome to The Trend Times , a column that explores design fads in the age of doomscrolling. There are tools like that are more professional, but if you already play The Sims and you’re like, where am I going to put my couch? Over the past 20-plus years, it’s become one of the best-selling games of all time. (

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Dwell

MAY 7, 2024

Quite apart from the social problems and functional issues that have plagued the city’s 20th-century housing projects, the buildings themselves have not exactly been a hit with the architectural public. I applied, and here we are, almost 12 years later. Most of the public housing developments in the city are at least that old.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Heatherwick, whose numerous high-profile projects include Little Island in New York and Google's headquarters in London and Silicon Valley, made the comments in a three-part series on BBC Radio 4 called Building Soul with Thomas Heatherwick. "I Why do the modern buildings that have colonised our towns and cities look so dull?"

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Brandon Donnelly

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Here are the first batch of comments from Urban Toronto : It also happens to be one block west of our Junction House project, so I definitely would have been annoyed if somebody proposed something ugly here. biased, but I think the Junction has some of the best new mid-rise buildings in the city. I think so.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Hailing from Normandy in northern France, Godefroy opened his eponymous studio in Mexico City in 2011 and has since become known for his distinctive Brutalist -style buildings that are often punctuated by geometric openings and passageways. I'm in between, so I don't have to belong anymore." And it started to make sense to me.

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