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World Architecture Festival 2024: fjcstudio Recognized for World Building of The Year and All Other Day 3 Winners

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fjcstudio previously won Building of the Year in 2013, making it the first practice in WAF's history to win the award twice. Image © Brett Boardman The Darlington Public School in Australia by fjcstudio has been declared the World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival 2024.

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Los Angeles to convert vacant courthouse into affordable housing

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As detailed by The Real Deal , a motion to buy the courthouse, which has been vacant since June 2013, was proposed, asking Los Angeles County to source funds to acquire the space from the Judicial Council. The County has reportedly, so far, paid more than $3.5 million to the Council to incentivize development.

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Elvira y Marcos House / Pepe Gascon Arquitectura

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© Aitor Estévez architects: Pepe Gascon Arquitectura Location: Calle Revuelta, 3 - Viladecavalls (Barcelona), Spain Project Year: 2013 Photographs: Aitor Estévez Area: 2475.7 ft2 Read more »

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World's Tallest Skyscraper Resumes Construction After a 5-Year Hiatus in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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Set to become the world’s tallest skyscraper and beat the UAE’s Burj Khalifa, the tower was designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture and initially began construction in 2013. I nterestingly, the Burj Khalifa was also designed by Adrian Smith while at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

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Urban Landscape as an "Art of Survival”: An interview with Kongjian Yu, the Advocate of the Sponge Cities Concept

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His "sponge cities" concept, designed to address and prevent urban flooding in the face of accelerated climate change, was adopted as national policy in China in 2013. In this context, the work of Beijing -based architect Kongjian Yu , founder of the landscape architecture firm Turenscape , has gained international visibility. Read more »

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Lloyd's of London is mulling an exit from Richard Rogers' award-winning headquarters building

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The insurance giant's headquarters is one of several listed buildings in the Lime Street vicinity and was bought in 2013 by a Chinese insurance company, which holds the current lease until 2031 with a clause that can be broken in 2026, according to a real estate publication called React. Interior view of the Lloyd's building.

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'Architecture Education as an Active Project': A Conversation with Mariana Ibañez, Chair of UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design

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Since 2013, Archinect's Deans List series has provided in-depth conversations with architecture and design leaders (Deans and Department Chairs), giving us invaluable perspective on their pedagogical stances, the institution’s curriculum, and academic environment.

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