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Snøhetta creates library to emulate feeling of "sitting under a tree"

Deezen

The columns are intended to emulate trees The heart of Beijing City Library is Valley, a 16-metre-tall atrium filled with a series of hill-like mounds that are lined with tiered seating, stairs and bookshelves. A winding walkway runs through its centre. Beijing City Library also incorporates spaces for performances and book restoration.

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Architecture is Awesome #26: Details

SW Oregon Architect

This is another in my series of posts inspired by 1000 Awesome Things , the Webby Award-winning blog written by Neil Pasricha. The series is my meditation on the awesome reasons why I was and continue to be attracted to the art of architecture. Good details marry form and function in harmony.

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Home Grown

Landscape Architecture Magazine

A mid-Atlantic design/build firm is converting homeowners into native plant advocates, one lawn at a time. The plants were native, as they are in all of Refugia’s projects. Refugia, a firm focused on residential landscapes in the Philadelphia region, is building a greenway of native gardens. Photo by Kayla Fell for Refugia.

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The Power of Diversity with Parva Markiw

Young Architect

Parva Markiw is an architect and a speaker at the Young Architect Conference Series. She wanted to go on to study architecture, but it became clear that doing so in her native country was untenable because of religious persecution, so she and her family immigrated to the US. . Parva’s favorite resource, product, or gadget.

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"Timber is being abused" says architect Hermann Kaufmann

Deezen

Sloppiness and misinformation are threatening to prevent large-scale wood construction from reaching its full potential, argues Hermann Kaufmann – the "grandfather of mass timber " – in this interview as part of our Timber Revolution series. Now is a really dangerous time for wood as a resource," the Austrian architect told Dezeen.

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Ten landscape architecture projects by students at Clemson University

Deezen

Dezeen School Shows: a museum in Egypt designed to conserve native plant life is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Clemson University in South Carolina , USA. The goal of this project is to honour native ecosystems, cultures and communities while bringing pride and revenue to the city of Yangzhou, China."

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The Lab in the Backyard

Landscape Architecture Magazine

It’s a model USC’s landscape architecture program hopes to replicate across Los Angeles’s varied landscape, with the aim of turning the university’s resources into a force multiplier for grassroots projects. There’s a fear of maintenance,” Jenny Jones, ASLA, a partner at Terremoto, says. Image courtesy USC Architecture.