ArchDaily

JULY 5, 2024

Courtesy of Paris Media Center In 1900, Paris hosted its first Olympic games. It had been the second city to host them after the first Olympics in Athens. It was also the year of the Exposition Universelle, where the city would again showcase how it remade itself anew in less than 30 years. To this day, Paris remains a hub for all sorts of architectural innovation and development through bold designs that affect how people live and new materials and techniques.

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Archinect

JULY 4, 2024

The latest edition of our curated job highlights from Archinect Jobs features four employers in Chicago and one university in Champaign, Illinois , looking to expand with new, attractive career opportunities. To learn more about the various positions firms are offering, make sure to check out Archinect's Guide to Job Titles series. Also, consult our Archinect Tips collection for helpful guidance on how to get that next job.

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ArchDaily

JULY 1, 2024

Courtesy of mofa studio | Arak Office Building In the evolving landscape of workplace design and office architecture, the boundaries of creativity and functionality are constantly being pushed. From futuristic skyscrapers to co-working spaces, the future of work environments respond to the dynamic needs of modern businesses and their employees. This week's curated selection of Unbuilt Architecture focuses on office, workplace, and administrative buildings submitted by the ArchDaily Community.

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Archinect

JULY 3, 2024

Gendo, a new AI visualization platform, has launched today following a $1.1 million investment into the product created by London-based architectural designer George Proud with the help of his colleague and software engineer Will Jones. The platform claims to convert 2D drawings, sketches, or text-based inputs into life-like visualizations. Image courtesy Gendo Zaha Hadid Architects , David Chipperfield Architects , and Benoy are among the beta testers of the software.

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A new industry study conducted by Architizer on behalf of Chaos Enscape surveyed 2,139 design professionals to understand the state of architectural visualization and what to expect in the near future. We asked: How are visualizations produced in your firm? What impact does real-time rendering have? What approach are you taking toward the rise of AI?

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JUNE 30, 2024

Detail view of the new court design's "missing man" formation of flying ducks (photo from GoDucks.com) As both a devoted fan of the Oregon Ducks and an architect, I eagerly follow developments related to the university’s athletics facilities. For better or worse, the Ducks have become the poster child for lavish spending and trend-setting accommodations for its varsity sports.

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designboom

JULY 2, 2024

tokyo's affluent neighborhood of aoyama has seen the completion of a new family house designed by keiji ashizawa design. The post a timber screen facade shelters this house in aoyama, tokyo by keiji ashizawa appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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ArchDaily

JULY 2, 2024

© Jatupoom Srimuang architects: Too.architects Location: Tambon Prachathipat, Thailand Project Year: 2024 Photographs: Jatupoom Srimuang Area: 477.

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Archinect

JULY 1, 2024

Host cities through the decades, including Helsinki, Athens, London, Torin, Seoul, Barcelona, and most recently, Paris, have all used point access block housing that would be illegal to build in the U.S. When studying mixed-use Olympic Villages as a model for successful pedestrian-oriented development in the U.S., it becomes abundantly clear that major discrepancies exist between housing options in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

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Architonic

JULY 2, 2024

<p>Traditionally consisting of horizontally stacked logs with interlocked corners, the Blockbau is among the oldest timber construction techniques, remaining prevalent in Northern Europe. Inspired by the versatility, modularity and practicality of this method is the <a href="[link] sofa, a unique furniture system designed to meet the flexibility requirements of modern living.</p> <p>The <a href="[link] looks as it sounds – a modular masterpiece of design c

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JULY 3, 2024

Austrian architect Jakob Sprenger has installed 1920s plaster medallions above a large sculptural sink as the centre of skincare brand Aesop 's store in Paris. Located within a residential neighbourhood in the district of Ternes in Paris' 17th arrondissement, Sprenger designed the store to "create a feeling of simple domesticity". The space was designed around four 19th-century painted gypsum ceiling medallions that the team found during the initial stages of the project.

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designboom

JULY 2, 2024

the pigments of the crayons are extracted from different tree species such as cedar, cypress, and magnolia, to name a few. The post crayons made from recycled japanese trees and wood uncover different hues found in forests appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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ArchDaily

JULY 2, 2024

Ladder Street Cultural Space. Image Courtesy of Francesco Rossini As we near its 100th anniversary, expanded polystyrene (EPS) has become widely used in various industries and applications, especially in construction. Since 1970, EPS has been used in building construction due to its thermal insulation properties, lightweight closed-cell structure, durable strength, and long-term integrity.

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Bustler

JULY 4, 2024

If you're in search of new, exciting architecture and design competitions, take a look at the latest curated picks of challenges listed on Bustler. Highlighted below are four calls seeking artistic proposals for Berlin's Humboldt Forum façade that challenge its controversial history, exceptional architectural projects presented through audiovisual narratives, the best student and professional lighting designs, and influential architectural educators.

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Deezen

JULY 3, 2024

Circular holes form light wells, courtyards and spaces for existing trees at this lakeside house in Mexico 's Nayarit state, designed by Mexican studio MCxA Group. Casa Santa Maria del Oro is nestled into a steep slope that falls away to the water, partially embedded within the earth and covered by a green roof. The house is embedded into a slope and disguised by a green roof "The volume of the house is completely hidden, lost in the slope of the land and leaving only the terraces visible, which

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designboom

JULY 4, 2024

MVRDV crafts the sparkling facade for tiffany & co. shanghai with 6,988 handcrafted glass diamonds. The post tiffany & co. shanghai is veiled in a glimmering glass diamond facade by MVRDV appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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ArchDaily

JULY 3, 2024

Yoyogi Fukamachi Mini Park Toilet / Shigeru Ban Architects. © Satoshi Nagare, Courtesy of The Nippon Foundation "A bathroom is a place where everyone is equal—there is no rich or poor, no old or young; everyone is part of humanity." This reflection was shared by Wim Wenders , exponent of New German Cinema and director of the film Perfect Days (2023) when asked about the striking sets of his most recent work.

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Archinect

JULY 1, 2024

A team including 3XN GXN, SIAPLAN, and MDA will design the new Chungnam Art Center in South Korea following the results of an invited international competition. What is being billed as the final "keystone" design of the new Chungnam Art Precinct will be created by 2029. It will feature a sloping roof plane folded into its diagonal axis and then arched at points to define the different programmatic functions below.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JULY 3, 2024

The preeminent software licensing company, Adobe, whose products include industry-standard programs like Photoshop and Illustrator, is being sued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for surprising customers with hidden termination The post The FTC is suing software giant Adobe over hidden fees and an “overly complicated” cancellation process appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Deezen

JULY 4, 2024

Danish architecture studio BIG has completed two residential skyscrapers with twisted forms alongside New York's High Line. The 300-foot (91 metres) and 400-foot (122 metres) towers on Manhattan's west side are now completed, with amenity spaces designed by New York architecture office Gabellini Sheppard and Paris-based studio Gilles & Boissier.

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designboom

JUNE 29, 2024

RAD+ar transforms indonesia's urban landscape with the aruma split garden, a multi-leveled commercial garden that integrates nature within a compact footprint. The post RAD+ar blends multi-leveled commercial garden into indonesia’s tropical landscape appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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ArchDaily

JULY 2, 2024

Huvila by Jenni Reuter Architects, Finland. Image Courtesy of UIA 2030 Awards The UIA , in collaboration with UN-Habitat, has revealed the finalists for the first stage of the second edition of the UIA 2030 Award. Celebrating architecture that contributes to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the New Urban Agenda, this biennial award honors built projects that demonstrate design quality and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Speaker: Pedro Clarke – Principal Architect at A+ Architecture, In Loco Program Director

Sustainability begins with a conversation, and acquiring customer buy-in is entirely dependent on how the conversation is framed. Clients may not see sustainability as a priority out of fear of operational costs and quality. While these are legitimate concerns, it is our responsibility as architects to listen and foster a collaborative culture that answers client issues while also reducing our carbon footprint.

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Archinect

JULY 3, 2024

Calgary -based studio Modern Office of Design + Architecture (MODA) — the winners of Canada's 2022 RAIC Emerging Practice Award — has completed a forward-thinking mixed-use development that combines multi-residential housing and urban farming to build community and foster social interaction. Photo: Ema Peter Photo: Ema Peter Called GROW, the project features 20 units of varying sizes, which are accompanied by a 0.6-acre rooftop urban farm.

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World Architecture Community

JULY 2, 2024

The Treasury digital spatial asset platform has been unveiled by Treasury Spatial Data, a San Francisco-based design technology startup, and Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), a founding partner of Treasury.The Treasury platform offers a range of creative and technological tools for di.

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Deezen

JULY 2, 2024

Architects Hanna Karits and Mari Hunt used locally sourced wood to create this house in Estonia , which sits on top of a disused cellar in a forest. Named Põro House, the home is designed to have minimal impact on its remote plot, which is surrounded by lakes and trees in Võru County. It occupies a structure built almost entirely from wood, positioned on top of the existing basement walls and stilts that respond to the sloping site.

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designboom

JUNE 29, 2024

the arrangement of monolithic volumes forms a central patio, creating visual openness. The post three hermetic volumes fuse shaping sabino 10’s solid exterior in mexico appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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