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Theaster Gates' Serpentine Pavilion "definitely" more sustainable than last year

Deezen

The 2022 Serpentine Pavilion is more sustainable than last year's "carbon-negative" design thanks to its reusable foundations and timber floor, say its engineers AECOM. Last year's design, by Counterspace, controversially claimed to be "carbon-negative" despite featuring concrete foundations that were not reusable.

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High-Speed heritage auction spotlights Paul Newman’s racing legacy

The Spaces

He’s going to take a small-block Ford V-8 racing engine, strip out the transmission and suspension, then supercharge it. ’ Letterman told his TV audience after Newman died in 2008, ‘This was the kind of car that people would stare at streetlights. My guy’s gonna make it for me. Would you like one?’

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The Sponge Evangelist

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Photo © Turenscape, courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation. In awarding the second biennial Oberlander Prize to the Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu, FASLA, the Cultural Landscape Foundation and its 2023 jury sent an unmistakable signal about the future of the field. Elizabeth K.

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Estudio Hidalgo

ArchiDiaries

Alvaro did his architecture at the University of Guadalajara in 2008. Abraham did his architecture at the University of Guadalajara 2008. He is a Professor of the project workshop and theory of the Architecture Engineering career. He has been a collaborator with Estudio Hidalgo from its foundation to date.

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Ten buildings that became embroiled in legal battles

Deezen

Read more about Hunters Point Library › Photo by Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz Ponte della Constituzione bridge, Italy, by Santiago Calatrava Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava , the Ponte della Constituzione bridge in Venice has been hit with multiple controversies since it opened in 2008.

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Tech Square 3 by Eskew+Dumez+Ripple

aasarchitecture

2008, for their integral support for the facility will be the new home for the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Image © EskewDumezRipple The 18-story George Tower, named to recognize Penny and Bill George, IE 1964, HON Ph.D.

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Landmark Award 

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Conditions were mostly unchanged when Studio-MLA and KPFF Consulting Engineers embarked on the design for Vista Hermosa Natural Park a few years later—a sloped site tucked between arteries leading toward Bunker Hill skyscrapers downtown and a low-income, primarily Latinx neighborhood. Deeper still, a fault line. Vista Hermosa Natural Park.