Deezen

APRIL 23, 2024

Nestled beside the surrounding woodland, the cabin is wrapped by an external skin or 'monocoque' – similar to an eggshell – that draws on structural systems used within the aerospace and automotive industries. The structure draws aerospace and automative construction techniques Measuring 3.3-metres-wide, metres-wide, 3.5-metres-tall

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

Construction is progressing on a mass-timber academic building with a stone facade designed by architecture firm Studio Gang for the University of Chicago campus in Paris. It aims to prioritise low-carbon bio-based materials such as wood , hemp and straw over other construction materials like concrete and steel.

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Deezen

MAY 2, 2024

Architecture studio Elding Oscarson has extended the National Swedish Museum of Technology with Wisdome Stockholm, a timber building topped by a curving roof that bulges over a dome inside. Topping the rectangular building is an asymmetrical roof that bulges and curves over the visualisation dome inside.

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Deezen

APRIL 7, 2024

Students from London's Architectural Association have used timber battens and foraged waste wood to build a demountable forest pavilion called Field Station. The students constructed Field Station as part of the Architectural Association's Design + Make Programme, which also saw the construction of Sawmill Shelter in 2017.

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Deezen

APRIL 22, 2024

The structure will serve as an educational building for the University of Kansas ( KU ) School of Architecture & Design in Lawrence, Kansas. The Makers' KUbe is conceived as a showcase in timber tectonics, traditional joinery, robotic manufacturing and sustainable materials."

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2024

Named Tor Alva , or White Tower, the building will become the world's "tallest 3D-printed structure" once complete in Mulegns later this year, according to Hansmeyer and Dillenburger. ETH Zurich has commenced the 3D printing process and so far created eight out of 32 structural columns. This saves mass and material."

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Deezen

APRIL 30, 2024

Designed by Holloway Li and manufactured by collaborator UMA , these bespoke tables nod to 1970s furniture design and feature a structural foam core encased by a thin layer of fibreglass, chosen for its lightweight materiality.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The sustainability of structural stone is dependent on how and where it is quarried and its reputation as an infinite material is misleading, warns Slovak-British architect Natalia Petkova in this Stone Age 2.0 series, which is investigating the potential of the material as a viable, low-carbon, modern structural material.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Stone Collective is aiming to weaken concrete and steel's hold on the architecture industry. The steel and concrete industries are dominating because they are well organised and lobbying. I was talking to some architects and engineers recently who said they were only taught about concrete and steel at university." "We

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Deezen

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Norwegian consulting agency Oslotre has completed HasleTre, an office building with a timber structure that was designed to be easily disassembled and reused in the future. Full-height windows open up the ground floor to the planting and patio surrounding the building, while large windows illuminate the upper storey offices.

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2024

An official report into the collapse of a 10-year-old mass-timber bridge in Norway in August 2022 has criticised the structure's design and construction. These framework conditions, combined with the choice of material and a strong focus on aesthetics, contributed to the structure not being robust."

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Deezen

APRIL 17, 2024

metres) structure was built within the site of Johnson 's historic house. Shigeru Ban created the Paper Log House at the Glass House Built in 1949, the house in New Canaan, Connecticut, was designed by Johnson as his own home and is considered one of the most significant buildings of the 21st century. foot by 13.5 meters by 4.1

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Santa Cruz Architect

MAY 4, 2024

Mjøstårnet is the tallest mass timber building in Europe. Photo by Voll Arkitekter + Rikardo Foto Mass timber construction has revolutionized the architectural landscape, offering a sustainable and innovative alternative to traditional building materials. The Top 20 Tallest Mass Timber Buildings in the World 1.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

British studio Moxon Architects has repurposed a small cluster of 19th-century farm buildings in Aberdeenshire, Scotland , into a guesthouse , glasshouse and private artist's studio. Remnant stone walls became a backdrop for a glazed extension which was framed with structural timber and a steel portal enclosure.

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Deezen

MARCH 14, 2024

Architecture practice Studio Guma has overhauled an old farmhouse in Normandy, retaining its stone and timber structure to "evoke the rural history" of the site. A paved patio is accessed through sliding glass doors Studio Guma has preserved the farmhouse's existing structure and complemented it with subtle contrasts in concrete and steel.

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Deezen

APRIL 15, 2024

A green-steel structure and walls of exposed blockwork and plywood feature inside this house and artist's studio in Paris by local practice Jean Benoît Vétillard Architecture. Here, a living, dining and kitchen space is wrapped by exposed blockwork walls and framed by slender steel columns in a pale shade of green.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Stone has the potential to become a go-to, low-carbon structural material, but barriers around quarrying and a lack of awareness must be overcome to make this a reality, experts tell Dezeen in this Stone Age 2.0 The structural use of stone is not new," said Blasi.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 22, 2024

Six cubic volumes dominate the appearance of the building facing Englischer Garten Park, where the use of corten steel, then a relatively unknown material, became the hallmark and image of the museum. Working within the material and conceptual constraints of a building requires discipline and restraint.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

ACAN Natural Materials Group co-ordinator Aurore Baulier calls on architects to embrace stone 's natural qualities and reintroduce the material into their toolkits in this Stone Age 2.0 A beam can actually be stone instead of steel, minimising its carbon footprint."

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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2024

Providing a new home for the International Institute for Geo-Information Sciences (ITC), the building was designed to be a "sustainable symbol" for the campus. It repurposes an abandoned 1970s structure to house bright interiors organised around courtyard gardens.

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth assessment report on climate change is an urgent call to action for the building industry. To mitigate the worst effects of climate change, we must make buildings less carbon intensive. The building industry accounts for approximately 39% of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Harnessing stone as a structural material can make architecture more enjoyable to both build and inhabit argues Tristram Carfrae, an Arup engineer working on the Sagrada Familia , in this Stone Age 2.0 Stone has become a luxury cladding material, whether used as a rainscreen, or as floor tiling," Carfrae told Dezeen. "We

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A gabled extension adjoins to the former ruin The 171-square-metre house is formed of two gabled structures situated perpendicular to one another, connected by a glass corridor. Meanwhile, with in the second building is a separate living room, with large windows punctured into the volume framing views of the surrounding landscape.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2023

American architect Eric Owen Moss has completed the (W)rapper office tower in Los Angeles , which was named for a structural support system that covers the facade. Moss, who runs an eponymous studio in LA and has been planning the tower for decades, recently completed the 235-foot (72 metres) structure in Los Angeles.

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Architizer

APRIL 17, 2023

Steel is a rather overlooked material when it comes to building facades. Most commonly used for structural purposes, its function is often limited to framing systems and building foundations. What happens when we bring steel to the forefront of a building’s design?

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

British architecture studio Allies and Morrison has completed a university building for London College of Fashion at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London. It has a concrete structure Spread across 17 floors, the 40,000-square-metre building by Allies and Morrison is designed to operate as a "vertical campus".

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

While its rotor blades and generator hub are made of conventional materials, the tower is made of laminated veneer lumber (LVL), a type of engineered wood made of thin veneer strips glued together and often used for beams and load-bearing building structures.

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Deezen

APRIL 14, 2023

Aron Himmelfarb, founder of design studio Auver, has created a tasting room with a glulam structure wrapped in Corten steel , which adjoins a craft brewery in Hudson Valley , New York. The building has a glulam structure with a series of crisscrossing beams that support the V-shaped butterfly roof.

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Deezen

APRIL 16, 2024

The China Merchants Bank Headquarters by British architecture studio Foster + Partners has topped out in Shenzhen , with progress on a decorative ribbed steel and glass facade. The building's wide curved windows offer spectacular views of Shenzhen Bay," he said.

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Deezen

APRIL 5, 2024

Local architecture studio Ædifica has created a residential apartment building outside Montreal with an interior courtyard and a metal-mesh second skin on the facade. Called Cité Angus II, the structure is part of Technopôle Angus, an urban revitalization project that its developers say is a "full-scale sustainable development".

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Deezen

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Local studio Heryco has completed a renovation of a pink apartment building with arches influenced by the form of aqueducts in the city of Querétaro, México. The 5,920-square foot (550-square metre) building was completed in 1994 two blocks from the city's iconic Querétaro Aqueduct.

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Deezen

MARCH 27, 2023

GXN looks at circular and low-carbon design, behavioural design – including the social aspect of buildings – and technologies that can help the industry transition to a more sustainable future. We've always been very interested in materials and material technology," Lind told Dezeen. Above: Lasse Lind is a partner at GXN.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 2, 2023

British architecture studio Stanton Williams has designed a 35,000-square-metre academic building for the University College London, located in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The studio described the building's material palette as industrial, chosen to evoke the site's industrial history.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The project comprises a clinic and two apartment units Fronted by a sculptural facade, the 750-metre-square building is punctured by irregular circular and rectangular openings on the upper floor, while operable windows line the ground floor. One of the facades looks like a toy face with a winking eye," the studio said.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Danish architecture studio 3XN has revealed the stepped circular Forskaren building, which is set to open later this year in Stockholm 's Hagastaden district. Forskaren by 3XN will open in August 2024 The studio describes the building as "a hub for innovation."

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Deezen

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Design studio D415 has used standard construction materials such as plasterboard and steel profiles in unexpected ways to create a concept store in Bratislava , spotlighting young fashion designers from Slovakia and neighbouring Czechia.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The four-storey building is perched on a hillside above Lake Maggiore Built on a sloping plot in Ascona, the four-storey building's rectilinear form features a glazed front facade punctuated by a steel framework. A pair of bronze-clad columns set into a flight of granite steps frame the front door.

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