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Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log House opens at The Glass House with the help of Cooper Union architecture students

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A product of this semester’s Building Technology course, Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log House honors the 75th anniversary of one of America’s foremost examples of modernism with a special nine-month run that began this week, April 15th, and will run until December 15th. Students from The Irwin S. by 13.5-.

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Renewed modernist Esplanade Place Ville Marie opens in Montreal

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A comprehensive overhaul of Montreal’s Esplanade Place Ville Marie by Sid Lee Architecture and Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes (MSDL) is now complete, marking the end of a $200 million revitalization project that’s brought much-needed civic life back to a busy section of the city’s downtown commercial core.

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Urban Land Institute recognizes six new developments with 2023 ULI Global Awards for Excellence

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Projects in three regions were selected out of a group of 23 winners from the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Jurors representing a cross-section of expertise in the design and development trades evaluated each project's overall excellence, market success, innovation, and sustainability credentials, as their main criterion.

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Dattner debuts a record-setting new 26-story passive house high-rise in the Bronx

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Located in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx, it has 277 total units with a host of on-site community services and is considered the largest passive house building in North America.

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In Latin America, Modernism Began at Home

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Latin America is known for iconic midcentury architecture, from Luis Barragán’s Mexico City houses to Lina Bo Bardi’s glass-walled Casa de Vidro in São Paulo. Unlike some museums that have recently broadened their scope—and presumably their audiences—to include Latin America, the region has been on MoMA’s radar from the start.

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Barbican's Unravel exhibition explores the subversive power of textiles

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Feminist artist Judy Chicago's Birth Project depicts birth as a mystical and confrontational process The exhibition is structured into six thematic sections. The final, most expansive section of the exhibition is titled Ancestral Threads, which encompasses works created to inspire a sense of optimism and reconnect with ancestral practices.

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The NYT asks: In a housing crisis, is building ‘bland’ better than the alternative?

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Related on Archinect: 'Gentrification gray' is the latest design trend sweeping San Francisco's once colorful rowhouses In a postscript with the Times’ Insider section, Kodé added: “I think one of the surprising things that came out of this story for me was finding out the number of people who defend these building types.