SW Oregon Architect

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Construction site tours help them understand why coordination, communication and teamwork are so important, why mastering fundamental building technology principles is critical, and why even relatively modest jobs are more complex than they may seem at first blush. The value inherent in the practical insights gained strongly favor them.

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Archinect

JULY 18, 2024

A group of eight important Black modernist sites across the country has been selected for a round of grants worth a total of $1.2 million by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. They were part of the Conserving Black Modernism program that is being directed by the Trust's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

UNESCO has verified nearly 30 dozen damaged cultural sites across Ukraine in a new survey meant to shed light on the extent to which the cost of war has left an impact on the nation’s spiritual landscape and intellectual heritage over the past two full years. UNESCO officials compiled their tally from a number of on-the-ground sources.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Several Unesco World Heritage sites have been severely damaged by the recent earthquake in Morocco. [.] As the death toll climbs, so too will revelations of damaged heritage sites, as Morocco’s fragile patrimony—especially in less accessible rural areas—bears the brunt of the earthquake alongside the nation.

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SW Oregon Architect

MAY 5, 2024

Inside the Clubhouse entrance at The Ponds (all photos by me) AIA Eugene and the Willamette Valley Chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute jointly hosted a construction site tour of The Ponds on Alexander this past Thursday. acre site that borders the picturesque Delta Ponds wetlands area. Interior of the 3-bedroom unit.

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Archinect

JANUARY 3, 2024

Site preparations are underway in Los Angeles in advance of the 50-month construction phase that will bring the Foster + Partners -designed One Beverly Hills residential towers to a plot adjacent to the Beverly Hilton and other area hospitality icons. acre site that includes another 8.5-acre acre site that includes another 8.5-acre

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A total of 42 new sites were added at the ongoing special session held in Riyadh this month. Three Ukrainian sites, including the 11th-century Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv , were also added last week at the start of the 15-day meeting.

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Archinect

APRIL 12, 2024

His site-specific piece Purple Hibiscus, named in reference to the 2003 novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is installed on the facade of the Barbican’s central Lakeside Terrace. It references the site's past history as the epicenter of the "rag trade" in Central London before World War II.

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ArchDaily

MAY 21, 2024

Completed in 2023 in , Portugal. Images by do mal o menos. This project evokes the transformative power of architecture which, through a new design, can decisively alter the life and use of a house, even.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 1, 2023

A team at the University of British Columbia has developed “smart construction robots ” for performing basic tasks on construction sites, such as lifting and moving objects. AI-equipped cranes and forklifts use the information to move construction materials, such as beams and columns, around the site without a human operator.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The site is located in Ramagrama, a municipality within the Parasi district in western Nepal. Today, the site presents itself as a green mound. The aim has been to conserve this site in accordance with the standards set by UNESCO for World Heritage Sites. Stefano Boeri Architetti has, thus, been entrusted wit.

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Archinect

JANUARY 3, 2024

Site preparations are underway in West Hollywood in advance of the 50-month construction phase that will bring the Foster + Partners -designed One Beverly Hills residential towers to a plot adjacent to the Beverly Hilton and other area hospitality icons. acre site that includes another 8.5-acre acre site that includes another 8.5-acre

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Described by the firm as a “cluster of interwoven buildings and public spaces that meld with the existing topography,” the scheme includes a significant level of greenery to integrate with its mountainside site.

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Archinect

JUNE 2, 2023

Conservators in Istanbul are racing to safeguard scores of at-risk heritage sites in the wake of Turkey’s deadliest earthquake in modern history, bracing for the probability of an even greater disaster in a city straddling an active faultline.

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Archinect

APRIL 29, 2022

In response to the recent surprise demolition of Marcel Breuer’s Geller I house on Long Island, modernist conservation group Docomomo US has released its first-ever list of the 11 most threatened modern sites in the United States.

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Bustler

AUGUST 21, 2024

Difficult site parameters that came to define some of the UK’s best modern and contemporary architecture are being presented in the new RIBA exhibition ‘Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds’ this fall and winter in London. Read the full post on Bustler

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Archinect

JANUARY 26, 2023

The historic center of the Ukrainian port city of Odesa and sites in Yemen and Lebanon were added to the World Heritage List Wednesday by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). All three sites were simultaneously added to UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A new digital recreation of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine has been released in time for the 23rd anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks in Lower Manhattan.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

MASS Design Group has opened a new Gun Violence Memorial Project in the city of Boston that will amplify individual stories of our ongoing collective tragedy nationwide. The firm says the project "aspires to be a catalyst for change and a testament to the resilience of communities affected by gun violence."

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

MASS Design Group has opened a new Gun Violence Memorial Project in the city of Boston that will amplify individual stories of our ongoing collective tragedy nationwide. The firm says the project "aspires to be a catalyst for change and a testament to the resilience of communities affected by gun violence."

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen has completed a multi-functional art centre in Beijing , referencing the shape of a granary that once occupied the site. The roof design was informed by a granary that once stood on the site The centre is comprised of three buildings defined by their swooping roof structures.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) has just announced an expanded slate of participants for this year’s Open House Chicago event, which takes place from October 13th to the 15th at various sites scattered across the Windy City.

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Deezen

AUGUST 20, 2024

Mexican architect Iñaki Echeverria has completed work on the Lake Texcoco Ecological Park The project covers 14,030 hectares of land, making it one of the largest urban parks in the world, and is protected by federal decree as an ecological site. Ecological restoration is not only about aesthetics it's about subsistence."

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Archinect

APRIL 6, 2023

by 2031 fuelled by AI-driven solutions and services, both on-site and remote. According to the report, the implementation of artificial intelligence in the construction sector will be driven by a desire to improve worker safety on building sites and lessen health risks in the construction industry.

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Avontuura

JUNE 28, 2023

The post PAD studio complete Barn & Office on coastal site in rural Hampshire appeared first on Åvontuura. The Barn is a modern contemporary family home, located within a tranquil coastal setting in rural Hampshire.

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Archinect

AUGUST 16, 2023

The second largest waterfall in the United States by volume, the site has been obscured by infrastructure for over a century, with Snøhetta’s plan centered on making the area more publicly accessible. Snøhetta has unveiled a master plan to revitalize Willamette Falls in Oregon City.

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Avontuura

JUNE 28, 2024

The residence adapts to the natural topography of the site by absorbing the slope and having minimal excavation. The post Copas is a residence that adapts to the natural topography of the site appeared first on Åvontuura.

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Archinect

JULY 10, 2023

Mayor Karen Bass on Thursday signed into law an ordinance updating the city's zoning code to exempt all affordable units from the time-consuming Site Plan Review process that often delays final approval of much-needed housing projects.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 11, 2023

101 Auditorium will fall on a proposal that best expresses and reflects the group’s reclamatory mission while “[prioritizing] community, equity, and collective healing in the design of the space” above all other considerations of site and material. The chance at redesigning what was once the Ku Klux Klan Klavern No.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The catastrophic events have devastated countless heritage structures, archaeological areas and religious sites, many still active places of worship, across an area so vast that it encompasses ten Turkish provinces and impacts more than 13 million people. The city centre of Antakya [.] has been almost completely flattened.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The competition is a part of the Paris business district initiative to become the world's first post-carbon business neighborhood, launching “Empreintes,” aiming to revolutionize five urban sites at the district’s periphery. Read more »

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Archinect

JUNE 8, 2022

The UN’s official cultural body UNESCO has issued a new report documenting damage to an alarming amount of historic sites, monuments, and structures since the beginning of the Russian Federation’s criminal invasion of Ukraine began in late February.

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ArchDaily

MAY 23, 2023

The most desirable location —given site access and a range of mature oaks— would have left the building sitting slightly out of grade. And, if he had chosen the most obvious building orientation (long and narrow with broad elevations facing north and south), part of it would jut out of the ground and some crucial trees would be lost.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 21, 2024

Completed in 2022 in Portugal. Images by do mal o menos. Paço de Arcos is a coastal parish of Oeiras, at the river mouth of the Tagus, which observes the river's connection to the ocean. In the 19th.

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Archinect

JUNE 24, 2022

Plans for an expanded presence at the site, which includes a sculpture installation by George Segal, the bar, and Christopher Park, have been floated around since it was officially declared a national monument by President Obama in 2016.

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Archinect

JUNE 28, 2023

And for women, being vastly outnumbered on every construction site means more pressure to accept lower pay and mistreatment. [C]onstruction is a risky job, and even more so for undocumented immigrants, who often work under informal verbal agreements.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JULY 18, 2024

A court case against the Des Moines Art Center to protect one of Mary Miss’s major pieces, Greenwood Pond: Double Site, bears out how severely this blind spot could affect the legacy of an important sculptor who uses terrain as her material. That lack of cognizance matches the decade of neglect Double Site suffered after 2015.

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