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BIG-designed National Juneteenth Museum receives $1 million grant

Archinect

Bank of America has awarded a $1 million grant towards the development of the National Juneteenth Museum, designed by BIG. The money will contribute to the project’s estimated $70 million price tag. The 50,000-square-foot museum takes on a handcrafted design, utilizing materials such as heavy timber.

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Architecture is Awesome: #32 Every Building is a Prototype

SW Oregon Architect

Using a scale model, a form of prototyping, to test design concepts (my photo) This is another in my series of posts inspired by 1000 Awesome Things , the Webby Award-winning blog written by Neil Pasricha. Each new building stands alone as a culmination of ideas, adaptation, and continuous improvement at the time of its design.

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News: 8 events to visit at this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial

Bustler

The latest theme, "This is a Rehearsal," features a program curated by the eight-member local collective Floating Museum. Be sure to follow our 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennal news tag. The work of Institute for Computational Design and Construction founders Achim Menges and Jan Knippers is highlighted.

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100 mill for a new archives?

Architecture Here and There

The committee seeking a new home for the Rhode Island State Archives left wiggle room on whether to erect a new building for that purpose across Smith Street from the State House. Limiting the project to an archives rather than expanding it to include a museum of history would make the task much easier. Jack Reed sits.

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The Latest from MoMA: Emerging Ecologies

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Like many people with a lot of books, I keep track of my library with an app/website, tagging books with keywords to better filter and find them. So who is most important in Emerging Ecologies ? No contest it's R. It's not all hero worship, in other words.

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CAFA Qingdao Campus by CAA architects

aasarchitecture

It is also an important measure for the college to expand its own operation space and develop a campus with future design disciplines as the core and the ocean cutting-edge science and technology as the characteristics. Taking this as the design context, CAA has made a unique response based on the relationship between the site and the ocean.

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Obituary: Saying Goodbye to Kisho Kurokawa’s Metabolist Icon

Architizer

Browse the Architizer Jobs Board and apply for architecture and design positions at some of the world's best firms. He dreamed of creating a building with a synergy to human life: a structure that would evolve and grow as we did, as our cities did and as our technology did. Click here to sign up for our Jobs Newsletter.

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