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Philip Johnson's Glass House guest annexe reopens after restoration

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It consists of a rectangular brick structure lined with port-hole windows along the rear Completed two months before the Glass House in 1949, the Brick House served as a secluded personal and guest retreat for US architect Philip Johnson and his partner David Whitney before their passing in 2005. Replacement material: Donated by Fortuny, Inc.,

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BIG HQ nears completion in Copenhagen

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The 4,880-square-metre building will become the fourth office of architecture studio BIG since it was founded by Bjarke Ingels in 2005. The building will be BIG's own office BIG's landscape, engineering, architecture, planning and product teams designed all elements of BIG HQ from the "door handles to the 20-meter-long concrete beams".

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DS2 Architecture

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He graduated in architecture in 2005 from University Vishveshwarya College of Engineering, Bengaluru. A well informed collaborative approach in synthesising a product is at the core of his design practice. All the design propositions are well informed by the place, functionally resolved and aesthetically blended or muted.

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Kéré Architecture designs community centre in Uganda to be "source of inspiration and pride"

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This platform is used to create subtle changes in level across the site that differentiates between areas, with the playing field slightly sunken and surrounded by tribune-like steps that allow the community to watch games or gather informally. Read: Termite mounds inform Kéré Architecture's design of Kenyan education campus.

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Studio Zhu-Pei tops art centre in China with wave-like concrete roofs

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Located in a semi-rural area outside the city of Zibo, the centre was informed by the region's vernacular materials and architecture, specifically the "siheyuan", or courtyard house, typology. Studio Zhu-Pei was founded by architect Zhu Pei in 2005. Facade consultants: King Glass Engineering. Photo is by Xia Zhi.

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Super BIM: 7 award-winning BIM/VDC-driven projects

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Launched in 2005, the program honors projects that best harness building information modeling and virtual design and construction tools and processes, and related innovations. The AIA''s Technology in Architectural Practice (TAP) Knowledge Community recently announced the winners of the 2014 AIA TAP BIM Awards. Body Image: read more.

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Macdonald Wright Architects creates low-energy home in London as "scalable prototype"

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Macdonald Wright Architects wanted to use the opportunity to study the energy performance of the home, which has the same footprint as "the average UK dwelling", to inform its future projects. Macdonald Wright Architects hopes that the Library House will become a "scalable prototype" and inform its future projects at various scales.

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