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Life of an Architect – Best of 2014

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While 2014 isn’t technically over yet, it isn’t going to stop me [ cause I do what I want] from looking back at all the articles I wrote over the year to see which ones represented the very best that 2014 and I had to offer. On the residential part of our practice, we do a lot of pier and beam foundations.

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Pier and Beam Foundations - KHouse Progress | Life of an Architect

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Home / Construction / Pier and Beam Foundations – KHouse Progress Pier and Beam Foundations – KHouse Progress Bob Borson — June 12, 2014 — 73 Comments On the residential part of our practice, we do a lot of pier and beam foundations. Add water, through rain and irrigation, and the soil expands.

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Yasmeen Lari on track to build a million flood-resilient Pakistan homes by 2024

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For our Designing for Disaster series , her foundation reveals it is a third of the way towards that target. The latest update from the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan , founded by Lari, is that the rebuild programme has so far provided 333,000 homes for those displaced by the 2022 floods.

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Las Ánimas presents "altered vision of reality" in seven totemic designs

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Las Ánimas is formed of the artist couple Trini Salamanca and Pablo Párraga, who have been working together since 2014. All of these themes have geometry, iteration, symbolism, codes and repetition at their core foundations." Here, the Seville-based duo present seven designs that reveal their fascination with geometry and symbolism.

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Architectural Sketches | Life of an Architect

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There are many different styles and techniques that architects use when graphically working through problems. Since there isn’t a ground plane in my model, that’s why the foundation is casting shadows. I look at it more for technique than as a “how-to” Cody Great article again and fantastic images.

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Studio Other Spaces designs "anti-monument" to Ethiopia's former prime minister

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Studio Other Spaces designed five buildings in the park Described by the studio as an "anti-monument" they were built for the Meles Zenawi Foundation to commemorate the life of Meles Zenawi, who was the president of Ethiopia from 1991 to 1995 and then prime minister until his death in 2012.

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Outstanding Young Architecture Firms To Watch in 2023

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CPLUS Firm Location: Beijing, China Founded: 2014 Pictured Projects: LAB Art Museum , Chongqing, China ; Lost&Found Store , Beijing, China This growing practice in Beijing believes architecture should be a conduit between spatial users and the environment. Judging for the 11th A+Awards is now underway!