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THU House / KIENTRUC O

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Completed in 2006 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Images by Oki Hiroyuki. "When one is presented in a spatial setting which is fully and equally conditioned by the unraveling intensity acting between the physical and its.

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eVolo presents 2024 Skyscraper Competition winners

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Established in 2006, the annual award "recognizes visionary ideas that through the novel use of technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments."

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Former AIA Gold Medalist Antoine Predock passes away aged 87

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The architect and long-tenured University of New Mexico faculty member left a mark on the state he called his “spiritual home” over a four-decade career that culminated in the 2006 AIA Gold Medal and a Lifetime Achievement honor from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards the following year.

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On her 72nd birthday, two exhibitions honor the design legacy of Zaha Hadid

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Two ongoing exhibitions in America and the United Kingdom are offering a look at the diverse contributions of Zaha Hadid to the world of product design on what would have been the architect’s 72nd birthday.

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Judge rules that architect Valerio Olgiati’s social media comment about project was not defamation

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The two architects have known each other since 2006 and have collaborated on several projects, including co-publishing books. As we previously reported , Olgiati has served as Kenzo Tange Chair at the Harvard GSD. The origins of the case stem from a dispute between Olgiati and Breitschmid over a house designed and built in Virginia.

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Global Award for Sustainable Architecture reveals five winners for 2024

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The award was created in 2006 to promote "innovative thinking" around the sustainable practice of architecture globally. The results of the 18th Global Award for Sustainable Architecture have been announced by the German architect and UNESCO Education and Research Commission delegate Jana Revedin.

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Echoes and Requiems: Reflecting on the Legacy of Woodbury University School of Architecture in San Diego

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In the summer of 2006, I received a call from my friend and colleague Catherine Herbst, who had recently become the head of Woodbury University School of Architecture in San Diego (WUSD) following the departure of the previous chair, Geraldine Forbes, to New Mexico.