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Did you really think this through? 2016

Life of an Architect

I typically hate writing the first post of a new year, it feels a little like that first sketch in the schematic design process – you know it isn’t going to be any good but you have to start somewhere; you’re just feeling things out a bit wondering where you want to take things.

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Populous completes Ice Ribbon arena for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

Deezen

Populous won a competition to design the National Speed Skating Oval (NSSO) in 2016. The firm then developed the schematic design in just 12 weeks, to allow construction to begin on schedule. The Ice Ribbon is the only permanent new venue at the Beijing 2022 games.

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Event: Inside Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Bustler

Kerry joined the RPBW office in 2016 to work on the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California. He was involved from the Design Development Phase through to the building's completion, including spending a year on-site in Los Angeles to follow the final phases of construction.

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INTERNATIONAL LIFE

Shades of Grey

This is a drawing I did in 2016: digital sketching over a digital photo. Yet another innovative scheme by the concept design team at GAJ. I was involved in moving the work into Revit for Schematic Design, gradually tailing off my input as it moved into Detailed Design. Somewhat unregulated, very hot and dusty.

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An Interim Landscape at NC State University Is a Masterclass in Reuse

Landscape Architecture Magazine

The building’s fate was sealed in the mid-2000s when a study found that it would be financially impracticable to bring the building into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, though about a decade passed before the moribund building was set to be demolished in 2016. Library, and two major green spaces with mature shade trees.

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Competitions: The International Competition of Open Call for the Creative Scheme of Cuihu Sports Centre

Bustler

Based on the scheme design results of the competition, the deepening design should absorb the advantages of other participating schemes, as well as the comments from the experts, the competition organizer, the competition operator, and the relevant departments. The second stage—Competition design ?1?The

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Line by Line

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Granite planters rise and fall, designed like visual vibrations through the four-block site, giving it form and functionality as seating. It was one of Landworks’s early projects for Pao Huei, and it won an honor award in 2016 from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects for streetscape design. Project Credits.