Shades of Grey

JANUARY 30, 2023

The fourth book was never completed, but during the pandemic I decided to recreate some of the sketches using digital methods, mostly SketchBook Pro which used to belong to Autodesk and is still my favourite drawing app for the Samsung Note. More sketches from 1986 when I was a curriculum developer in Zimbabwe. Does it even matter?

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ArchDaily

JULY 13, 2023

Creativity, collaboration, problem-solving, and previous site analysis guide the creation of functional and aesthetically pleasing designs. It concludes with a construction and post-occupancy evaluation. As the most impactful part of the process, the concept design stage is where the shape of a project comes together.

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Deezen

JULY 12, 2022

To mark 10 years of the sculptural space at Roca, the site itself has now become an exhibition space for objects from the ZHD portfolio, featuring furniture and other home accessories as well as fashion, jewellery, carpets and lighting. Read: Zaha Hadid Design and Odlo launch activewear collection for women.

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Architizer

JANUARY 30, 2023

One would be forgiven for assuming that the University of Michigan student set out to explore the aesthetic possibilities of digital sketching, 3D modeling and the various uses of other graphic software. During covid, when our mobility was primarily restricted, I started exploring digital sketching.

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ArchDaily

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

They have generated a more productive and efficient workflow on-site or on the go, covering different aspects of the field with versatility and variety. Smartphones and tablets have become so powerful that has abruptly changed the concept of workshops since the introduction of apps into the architecture industry.

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Sketching Architect Management Concept 267

Life of an Architect

APRIL 6, 2014

Home / Graphics / Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Bob Borson — April 7, 2014 — 70 Comments Architectural sketching is becoming a thing of the past – at least that’s how it seems to me most days.

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30X40 Design Workshop

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Sketch with me in this video as I design custom details for the Outpost project. And, quite often, if I'm stuck on a design brief, I’ll zoom in and begin sketching a detail. Starting informally with a sketch allows me to be free and fast with ideas and it leads me to other threads I hadn't anticipated.

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Archinect

MARCH 7, 2022

The two sites will be split between the former location of London’s Design Museum at Shad Thames, which was acquired by ZHF in 2013, and the studio’s longtime Clerkenwell home in Bowling Green Lane, which it vacated last year citing concerns over workspace limitations during COVID.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Completed in 2014, Gehry’s landmark building is undoubtedly an architectural icon, but manages to retain a reference for both its site in the heart of Paris’s beloved park and for the city as a whole. When I walked the site for the first time, I cried imagining the history of the Jardin de Climitation.

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Sketching Architecture Client Clients 135

Life of an Architect

MAY 5, 2024

Note: If you are reading this via email, click here to access the on-site audio player] Today we are going to be talking about “drawing stuff”, and if you are wondering what that really means, you are in the right place because that’s what Andrew and I are going to try and figure out. I make drawings.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Home / Heard around the architectural studio / heard around the architectural studio #010 I can’t find any sketch paper. It is a sketching paper but most importantly, it’s a tracing or better term, refining paper that allows you to work something out by layering tracing paper over it. What do you need it for?

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It has a simple and straightforward interface, which allows architects to effortlessly turn a sketch into a fully realized design. Specifically used for concept design, Codesign offers tools such as rapid sketching, interactive 3D modeling as well as data-driven design — all through an iPad screen.

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Lines on Paper

MARCH 27, 2024

Today I arrive at work early, looking forward to draw up the site layout. Fiona had suggested swapping the condo and terrace units location on site. The condominiums are located along the river, where it is safer from creatures crawling on to the site from the river. The ground floor of the condo is mostly for car parking.

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The Spaces

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Legend has it that Michelangelo hid in this secret vault in 1530 while hiding from Pope Clement VII, using its walls as a sketch pad to while away the hours. Some argue they appear to be provisional sketches for future works, including limbs of statues found in the New Sacristy.

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Deezen

MAY 18, 2023

On display are sketches, drawings and models of the architect's buildings Curated by Centre Pompidou deputy director Frédéric Migayrou, the exhibition aims to showcase examples of Foster's innovation and technology, his approach to sustainability and his ideas for the future of the built environment.

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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 14, 2024

For example, architects will exhaustively study the subject site, investigating its history, topography, regulatory framework, and cultural context. The process of design involves brainstorming, sketching, and experimenting with different ideas. Defining the problem often involves extensive research.

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Lines on Paper

DECEMBER 22, 2023

I quickly put together some sketches and pass to PH 'I draw, you talk later'. Simple sketches to describe the down-sizing of an earlier 3-storey scheme. It also looks as though we might have an opportunity to execute the earlier scheme on a different site.

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Deezen

MARCH 14, 2023

Balbek Bureau created a Ukrainian home in Antartica Balbek Bureau was commissioned by Ukraine's National Antarctic Research Center to reimagine a defunct fuel tank in a prominent position on the site, which is one of the first things the 4,000 tourists visiting each year see.

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30X40 Design Workshop

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The digital tools of architecture practice are always changing, but I think most architects will tell you that analog tools - sketching and model making - are an unchanged part of their design process. The sketch is purposefully open-ended and left open to multiple readings. Concept Sketch. Click to Watch the Full Video.

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Sketching Building Utilities Concept 52

Lines on Paper

JULY 12, 2023

I thought we had a very young engineer on site judging from his poor understanding of technical and contractual issues, only to discover that he has been working for 9 years. a detail which everyone standing around looking understood except for him ).

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Community Architect Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The proposed buildings could be placed anywhere in the world; what about this site in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor has shaped the buildings? In all, UDAAP members once again told MCB and lead architect Gensler that revisions were needed to their highly debated plan to redo the city's iconic Inner Harbor site. What will people do there?

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Sketching Design Masterplanning Concept 87

Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Brazilian architecture studio DB Arquitetos has completed a holiday home surrounded by a wooden screen in a forested site outside of São Paulo , Brazil. The five-level house is delicately stacked along a steep slope in a densely vegetated site.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The complex site orientation thus brings full meaning to the atrium, a hole in the middle not only aesthetic but functional through the addition of evening light to the middle of the volume. "An Bedrooms, bathrooms, and storage spaces are nestled into the back of the building and thus the landscape with views into the depths of the forest.

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Dwell

MARCH 12, 2024

This spring, the Palm Springs Art Museum will become the structure’s permanent site. An exterior sketch of the Aluminaire House by Kocher and Frey in 1931. But in the decades since it was constructed, the prototype house has had a rough run, facing multiple relocations and periods of disrepair. Architects Albert Frey and A.

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Housing Sketching Estimating Art 96

aasarchitecture

AUGUST 31, 2022

The new high quality housing project in Magasinparken offers innovative apartments sheltered in a new green neighborhood in Ski Vest, Norway, On the site of a former military camp. Through the conscious use of qualitative and location-oriented architecture, the project reinforces and develop the inherent identity of the site.

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Sketching Residential Client Clients 52

The Spaces

MARCH 30, 2022

It’s part of Balenciaga’s Raw Architecture concept, which sees retail spaces stripped back to the extreme, designed to be closer to construction sites and abandoned spaces. London’s sketch says goodbye to pink with new interiors by India Mahdavi and Yinka Shonibare. There’s even artificial dirt scattered beneath the shelving.

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ArchiDiaries

MARCH 29, 2022

Should be able to make working details, sould be keen to learn via on site. Skills Required: AutoCAD 2D, Sketch Up, Lumion/ similar rendering software. Job Description: The candidate should have a fair understanding of architectural design. Minimum Qualification: Bachelor’s / Diploma in architecture.

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Architizer

JANUARY 23, 2024

Ideation and concept design, for example, vary significantly compared to drawing technical details or conducting site analysis. Architects can also upload their own image, for example an initial sketch or render, and modify it through additional prompts. Nevertheless, their applications are not limited to text-based imagery.

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Architecture Sketching Design Concept 89

Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

Sketch Design Studio has completed a rural residence in north India that combines a highly ordered facade with a rustic stone interior. Located near the Aravalli mountains in Rajasthan, the two-storey Stone House is built from stone blocks sourced from local demolition sites.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Schuler An early sketch illustrates the designers’ blended, permaculture-inspired approach to the site. Superbloom’s Diane Lipovsky, ASLA, and Stacy Passmore, ASLA, on-site at the Windler homestead, which they are redesigning as a demonstration of dryland farming. By Timothy A. Courtesy Superbloom. Photo by Claire Roeth.

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Space Sketching Restoration Site 89

Deezen

MAY 29, 2023

Chinese practice Wang Chong Studio used rustic stone walls and a sloping roof to help this art museum blend into its rocky site in China's Henan Province. Named Taihang Xinyu Art Museum, the museum is built around an old warehouse on the site, which backs onto Taihang Mountain and sits alongside the Cangxi River.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 16, 2022

The East Dareen Beach Neighborhood Park site in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, is a serious place: Bounded by a missile silo to the north, its double shore of coast and island form results from a dredge-ravaged coastline—and it is a major part of the city’s treated sewage effluent (TSE) program. By Jessica Bridger. Image courtesy Michael Blier, FASLA.

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Sketching Landscape Client Clients 83

Landscape Architecture Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

SCHULER A concept plan sketch of the Cosmic Saltillo site in East Austin, Texas. Old concrete slabs were jackhammered out of the buildings and stored on-site until they could be reused. In the landscape for a new taqueria, Ten Eyck Landscape Architects preserves a slice of Austin’s history. BY TIMOTHY A.

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IT Real Estate Landscape Sketching 82

Landscape Architecture Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2022

The design team divided the sloping site with locally sourced red sandstone gabion walls, and seeds collected from plants disturbed by the building’s construction were planted when the dust settled. Design Workshop. General Design Award of Excellence. Image courtesy Design Workshop, Inc.

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Nature Sketching Restoration Landscape 100

Architizer

JUNE 15, 2022

Spaces version 2 comes complete with improved editing tools, increased 2D viewing options, new sun studies, new sketching capabilities and additional workflow integration options. The sketchbook encompasses new technologies, such as the Apple pencil, and allows designers to test their ideas out by sketching and note-taking.

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Space Sketching Architect Design 71

Dwell

JUNE 16, 2022

Gesner’s hands-on, observational approach was a constant throughout his career—he would spend endless hours on-site studying the wind, land, sun, and surroundings, developing a deep affinity for nature that lies at the heart of his work. Harry Gesner designed the famous Wave House in Malibu in 1957.

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Modern Architect Sketching Inspiration 132

Architizer

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For site planning and analysis, AR can be employed on-site to overlay digital information onto the physical environment. This helps architects and construction teams visualize how a proposed structure will fit into the existing landscape, assess potential challenges, and make informed decisions about site planning. Learn more.

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