Archinect

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Workers at the firm informed management on Tuesday of their intention to ballot for what could become the first ever strike by private-sector architecture workers in the UK. Workers at London-based Atomik Architecture are preparing to ballot for strike action, following a dispute over pay and conditions at the firm.

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Archinect

AUGUST 30, 2022

He says that during the pandemic and now the war, he has missed meeting visiting foreigners, some of whom were his most inquisitive tour participants. “What will our descendants know of the 20th century in Ukraine if we demolished it all? “What will they think? ” he said. That we did nothing?”

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Deezen

MARCH 15, 2024

Moderated by DDF editorial director Jelena Trkulja, the panel looked at ways that design and architecture were having both a positive and negative impact on lifestyles, culture and the environment. I think we've changed our idea of what progress is itself. I have witnessed this in my 30-plus years of career," he said. "At

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

Given the high highs and low lows of his homes, we wondered what it would cost to make one of them from scratch in 2024, with slight adjustments to avoid these common problems. So instead we sought out the next best thing: Frank Lloyd Wright homeowners and curators who would share what their restoration processes entailed.

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Dwell

APRIL 23, 2024

Sims is obviously an extreme user of the game, but she says that, in her experience, Simmers who love building frequently use the app to help them design their IRL spaces. It’s helpful when you’re trying to picture what it’s going to be like in real life." What sort of things do I need to buy? Where do I want to live?

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Dwell

APRIL 15, 2024

The couple retained the peaked ceilings in the main space, while reorganizing the rooms to open up what was once a galley kitchen to the living and dining areas. Photo by Jeff Wohlgemuth Designers and founders of WHLF Studio, Cándida and Jeff, who were living in Venice before, fell in love with the family- and kid-friendly community.

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Brandon Donnelly

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Now let’s consider how many people we could actually fit within the existing boundaries of the city (city proper not the metro area) if we were to simply match the average population densities of some other global cities around the world. I am not suggesting that this is exactly what should be done.

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Dwell

MARCH 1, 2024

Though he says he’s not "outdoorsy," per se, he was drawn to trailer life after going on camping trips with his family as a kid and picking up his first trailer, a teardrop , when he was just 14. Trailer people are like a family," he says. s Dumbest Neighborhood Bobby Berk Explains His Next Move

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Dwell

JANUARY 30, 2024

When Beth Malloy learned her son and daughter-in-law were preparing to have a child and move from their one-bedroom apartment on Chicago’s Near North Side to a home on the city’s edge, she realized she had to make a bold move to remain close to her son’s family and preserve the lifestyle she cherished. "I

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Deezen

MARCH 19, 2024

What's fascinating about the book, for the design aspect of it, is that it doesn't give you all the answers," Vermette told Dezeen. While Herbert gave detailed descriptions of the conditions of each planet, he wasn't as descriptive when it came to what specific locations looked like, leaving plenty of room for imagination.

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Deezen

APRIL 24, 2024

IGArchitects slots skinny 2700 house into narrow plot in Japan "Doing more with less is always commendable" Several readers were impressed with how the design utilised the space available. What do you make of the news? Most commenters were not impressed. Named 2700, the 2.7-metre-wide

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Trio of abandoned Los Angeles skyscrapers covered in graffiti "The graffiti rather improves the aesthetics" Commenters were largely in favour of the graffiti covering the towers. What do you make of the graffiti? However, Butnotreally was underwhelmed, writing "not much to say other than 'meh'".

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Deezen

APRIL 10, 2024

"The only thing missing is Paris Hilton wearing a feather boa and a chihuahua apathetically saying 'that's hot'," they joked. Other readers were even less generous in their assessments. All this money and look what it leads to – shame," they added. What do you think? Commenters were largely impressed by the design.

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Dwell

JANUARY 15, 2024

"The geometry always appears different, but it"s unified through the hallways," says architect Ignacio Urquiza. Phoot by Onnis Luque "The houses are built around the rocks," says Casa B homeowner Santiago Ortiz Monasterio. "We Urquiza adjusted to what was there, and we tried to preserve it as much as we could." We love it.

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Dwell

APRIL 12, 2024

At the time, they were living in a heritage home on a large block in the same leafy suburb of Brisbane. "We What was always in the back of my mind was a quote I’d heard by Carl Elefante, an architect, who said that the greenest building is the one that already exists," Carmen says. "It

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Dwell

MARCH 1, 2024

I saw a lot of subpar work," he says. The quality was poor, prices were not being properly communicated to clients, and there was a general disconnect between those clients and their builders." Renovating vintage trailers is not cheap—it’s like restoring a vintage car, and then building a house in it," he says. "I

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Dwell

APRIL 5, 2024

From space-saving hacks to flexible floor plans, here’s what they say makes for the best tiny homes on the planet. The first cabins and saunas were built in a small Estonian village, and the company has since grown by leaps and bounds. What qualities make your company stand apart from the rest? Did you have a hobby?

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Deezen

APRIL 24, 2024

"The kind of unifying component of each of these exhibitions was a kind of starting point from basically deliberately not knowing before you start what you're going to talk about, research or design in that sense," said Bantal. If you ask me if we need another biennale in Europe, I would probably answer no," she said. "If

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Deezen

MAY 2, 2023

This allowed a way of working that Hutten says is now foreign to think about. "If And while he knew what his contemporaries in the Netherlands were doing, those in other countries did not. The Rag chair by Tejo Remy is another famous Droog design Their intervention changed design, Hutten says. We widened what design was."

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Few enslaved people could write, and even if they could, “Most of us don’t write down on paper, ‘I just broke a federal law today,’” says Kathryn Puckett, the board president of Restore Cleveland Hope, an advocacy organization that led the restoration of the Cozad-Bates House to commemorate Cleveland’s role in the Underground Railroad.

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The Spaces

MARCH 8, 2024

That’s unrealistic, he says, not to mention subjective. The problem with boring buildings is not just that people don’t want to spend time in them, says Heatherwick. That interest can be relatively inexpensive, he says. Much of what captures people’s imagination happens on a small scale. To the street?”

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Habitus Living

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

What perhaps would come as a surprise was Smart’s speech that firstly pointed out that it was time for all to vote yes to the Voice – the crowd cheered in agreement. This is not to say the previous projects had been anything less.

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Dwell

MARCH 13, 2024

From space-saving hacks to flexible floor plans, here’s what they say makes for the best tiny homes on the planet. We wanted to make houses that were designed to withstand the cold here in Quebec," says company cofounder Jean-Philippe Marquis. "We Here, he shares what the excitement surrounding Minimaliste is all about.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

Top photo by Bran Arifin "There were three items," he explained. Its design was centred around integrating outdoor spaces and creating a social environment "We were trying to fit into that environment – a preservation environment which you respect and love, rather than fitting into a slightly more mundane environment."

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Brandon Donnelly

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

As the regular non-autonomous version of cars started to infiltrate our cities in the early 20th century, largely following the creation of the mass-produced Ford Model T , there was a general view that cars were dangerous and a menace to cities. Arguably, not much has changed. Autonomous vehicles must be stopped.” We can do better.

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Deezen

APRIL 19, 2024

Renzo Piano Building Workshop has unveiled images of a cultural centre in Florida Plans for the center were announced late last year and the building is one of just two to three new commissions accepted by Renzo Piano annually, according to the studio. Rather, it's the beginning of what we're inventing and of something really unique."

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Dwell

APRIL 5, 2024

The lawsuit over her dubious dining set illuminates a growing problem in furniture design: everyone wants the real thing, but nobody knows what that is. Kim Kardashian falsely claimed the table and chairs in her office were by Donald Judd. They were based on these original sets, which include the 84 Chair the La Mansana Table 22.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 24, 2023

It made a huge difference," Breslauer says. I couldn’t find anyone to build it, though," Breslauer says. "We I eventually kind of walked the guy who did our floors through what I wanted, but that’s when I got the idea to start building catios for a living." Having a catio, she says, "is a fun way to try."

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Dwell

JANUARY 16, 2024

"I was like, Oh my goodness, this looks like what Rick designed," says Ellen. Rick had made a similar sketch when dreaming up his ideal home, though there were a few differences in the real building. "I Charlie was still alive when we bought the house, and he came and met us, which was very cool," says Rick. "I

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Dwell

JANUARY 3, 2024

Even while they were living in a cramped studio apartment in Melbourne, Josh Jessup and Matt Moss have always gone big with their interior design choices. Follow the fun, and you’ll create a home with outsized style, no matter what kind of budget or square footage you’re working with. "Our Electric blue Kartell chairs?

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Dwell

APRIL 21, 2023

How two families discovered their homes were designed by the first woman to found an architecture firm in the U.S. Just ask Rachel and Dan Solomon, or Matt and Rebecca Lisowski, who recently discovered via postmarked letters that their families’ residences were designed by Minerva Parker Nichols.

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Dwell

JANUARY 22, 2024

Natural light is an asset to any home, anywhere in the world, but you could say that it’s especially important in London. Light is our most important and powerful design tool, and we are careful to use it in the right way," says architect Oliver Leech. The kitchen’s polished concrete floor flows out to the patio.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

“We tried to think through how it wasn’t just a museum where people go to learn about farming; it was also your community park,” Lipovsky says. “We We want this to be a place where we can celebrate the history of dryland agriculture but [also] have a more future-oriented approach to what that means.”

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Before: Facade "It was a California bungalow to begin with," says architect Bronwyn Litera of LiteraTrotta. "We Photo by Tom Ferguson "I only recently found out that they were casually interviewing me," says Litera with a laugh. Andrew just asked, ‘What would you do, and how would you do it?’ We had a very general chat."

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Whitaker & Associates (WMWA) Landscape Architects on a 2017 master plan for the farm, says that in its mash-up of programs and aspirations, Lone Oaks is a “new kind of institution,” a public landscape where divergent land ethics might begin to find common ground. You basically had lawn running straight into water,” he says.

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Dwell

MARCH 25, 2024

It was the worst I had ever seen in a building that had not been condemned," says Butler of the home in Orange, Massachusetts, a town with mostly family-owned businesses and a population of around 7,500 near the New Hampshire border. Now the home has equity, and I can even use it to renovate another house," she says. Reid says. "I

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a professional photographer, Bess Friday has what she calls "the benefit and painful curse" of seeing many well-designed spaces as she works. There is so much inspiration to pull from," she says. "It While they love the area, they were also tired of wearing scarves and jackets in July and August. It can be overwhelming."

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