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CannonDesign completes new Western Michigan University student center inspired by Indigenous design elements

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CannonDesign has completed a new student center at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Photo credit: Laura Peters Photo credit: Laura Peters The building’s 163,000-square-foot plan was designed to create “interstitial opportunities” for students to informally engage with each other. Across the sc.

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AISC/ACSA announce eleven 2023 Steel Design Student Competition winners

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The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) have just announced eleven winners for their 2023 Steel Design Student Competition. Category II was open, offering students the opportunity to select a site and building program using steel as the primary material."

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Steven Holl Architects reveals design for UPenn's new Student Performing Arts Center

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Steven Holl Architects has unveiled renderings for their design of a new Student Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadephia. “It is a great joy and honor to work on a performing arts center for the students of this historic university on such an important site,” Holl stated.

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CTBUH unveils winners for 2022 Student Tall Building Design Competition

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The CTBUH has unveiled the winning entries for the 2022 International Student Tall Building Design Competition, which saw five winners chosen from 59 entries. The competition called for entries that depicted multi-story buildings sited within the United States that “maximize the use and expression of mass timber.”

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A group of UCSB students pitches a thorough alternative to Munger Hall

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In an amazing rebuke of their university’s purblind pursuit of the Munger Hall megadormitory project last week, students at the University of California, Santa Barbara staged a public forum in order to showcase research-based alternatives to the development and long-term strategic plan. Miranda in the LA Times.

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Vestiges of industry inform hotel complex on former factory site in Bordeaux

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A 36-metre-tall concrete silo has been converted into a dramatic hotel lobby at Bacalan Block – the transformation of a former factory site in Bordeaux into a mixed-use development by Colboc Sachet Architects. And to the east, the Whoo student accommodation and hostel is housed in a minimal concrete block with a sawtooth roof.

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student proposal carves baths in greek island’s volcanic landscape to repurpose mining sites

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the project explores the relationship between production infrastructure and leisure programs to reclaim the mining sites and utilize Giali’s geothermal energy. The post student proposal carves baths in greek island’s volcanic landscape to repurpose mining sites appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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