Architect and Structural Engineering

Pushing Boundaries with Bamboo: A Structural Engineering Case Study

ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Image Courtesy of CO-LAB design office In a world grappling with environmental challenges, forward-thinking architects and engineers are increasingly leaning towards more sustainable solutions. Aerial perspective of the Luum Temple under construction, revealing the network of bamboo elements.

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Zaha Hadid Architects references magnetic forces for Serbian mill conversion

Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2025

UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects and local studio Bureau Cube Partners are set to transform a paper mill in Belgrade , Serbia, into a museum with an elliptical roof informed by the scientific work of Nikola Tesla. The museum's design draws on Tesla's research into magnetic fields and wireless energy transfer," said Zaha Hadid Architects.

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Researchers uniting ‘fragmented construction sector’ win RIBA Scott Brownrigg Award for Sustainable Development

Archinect

MARCH 14, 2025

” The winning team comprises: Giulliana-Florela Giorgi (architect at Allies and Morrison , Associate Lecturer at Ravensbourne University London), Jenny Haines (Senior Structural Engineer at Webb Yates Engineers ) and Matt Robb (Marketing and Media Manager for Stone Federation Great Britain).

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David Kohn Architects curves University of Oxford college building around three-sided quadrangles

Deezen

MARCH 20, 2025

London studio David Kohn Architects has completed a sinuous stone student accommodation and office tower for the Gradel Quadrangles expansion of the University of Oxford 's New College. A stone tower contains offices David Kohn Architects also designed a 21.5-metre-tall The curving architecture gives it this sense of invitation."

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OEB Architects adds Italian-informed loft extension to south London house

Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

London-based OEB Architects has completed Lewisham Loggias, a colourful loft extension that takes cues from Italian palazzos and paintings. The gable end wall features a round window Italian art and architecture was a recurring theme, prompting OEB Architects to develop a dormer with an ornate, symmetrical facade.

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Miró Rivera Architects clads lakeside Austin retreat with weathering steel

Deezen

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Local studio Miró Rivera Architects has clad the lakeside River Hills Residence in weathering steel , complemented by a delicate two-storey dock and guest house. Completed on a reservoir of the Colorado River, the complex sits on a seven-acre site that slopes gently from a berm and is shaded by native pecan and bald cypress trees.

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Archinect's latest featured hiring firms include SCAPE, AGENCIE, L'Observatoire International, Wade Design Architects, and M. Ziemke Architecture

Archinect

JULY 16, 2024

New York-based architecture and structural engineering studio AGENCIE / Architecture & Engineering is currently hiring a Job Captain with five to eight years of experience. Qualified candidates should be proficient with Revit, Rhino, Unreal Engine, and Adobe Creative Suite. Tribeca Lofts by AGENCIE.

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Threefold Architects puts modern spin on Tudor architecture for Eight Gables house

Deezen

MARCH 17, 2025

London studio Threefold Architects has married red brick and timber for this home in Whitstable, Kent , which is designed as a "contemporary reinterpretation" of the area's mock-Tudor architecture. Eight Gables' bedrooms are contained on the upper floor Threefold Architects was founded by Matthew Driscoll and Jack Hosea in 2004.

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Raphael Viñoly Architects resumes construction on renamed 125 Greenwich Street condo tower in Manhattan

Archinect

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Construction is in full swing again on a Raphael Viñoly Architects -designed 88-story 125 Greenwich Street Manhattan residential project after resuming earlier this year following a four-year pause.

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Rafael Viñoly Architects resumes construction on renamed 125 Greenwich Street condo tower in Manhattan

Archinect

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Construction is in full swing again on a Rafael Viñoly Architects -designed 88-story 125 Greenwich Street Manhattan residential project after resuming earlier this year following a four-year pause.

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This architect has identified the qualities office buildings need for converting to residential

Archinect

MARCH 21, 2023

According to San Francisco-based architect and structural engineer Charles F. Bloszies , the challenge with converting some office buildings lies in their large floor plates and lack of street exposure.

Residential

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World's tallest mass timber tower opens in Milwaukee

Archinect

JULY 14, 2022

A historic milestone in the use of mass timber as a construction material is about to be passed as Korb + Associates Architects ’ aptly-named Ascent tower is finally set to open tomorrow, July 15, in Milwaukee. Standing 25 stories and a total of 86.6 meters (or roughly 4 feet). Standing 25 stories and a total of 86.6

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New NEOM documentary features Thom Mayne, Peter Cook, Reinier de Graaf, and other architects speaking highly of The Line megacity project

Archinect

JULY 28, 2023

A new look behind the process and select architects involved in Saudi Arabia’s controversial The Line megacity for NEOM has been released, answering some questions as to its ideation while leaving many remaining in regard to the project's structural engineering, technical specifics, and design feasibility overall.

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Hanif Kara of AKT II Receives 2024 Soane Medal for Pioneering Engineering and Architectural Innovation

ArchDaily

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Courtesy of Soane Museum | Hanif Kara Sir John Soane's Museum has announced Hanif Kara, a celebrated structural engineer and co-founder of AKT II , as the recipient of the prestigious 2024 Soane Medal.

Engineering

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MAD "cracks open" facade of Denver residential building

Deezen

OCTOBER 15, 2024

International studio MAD Architects has unveiled the One River North apartment block in Denver , Colorado, which has a large, canyon-like opening breaking open its main facade. MAD Architects wanted the reference to natural rock formations to appear to be imposing itself on an otherwise typical residential facade.

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Check out the 22 projects just named winners of WoodWorks' 2023 Wood Design Awards

Archinect

MARCH 27, 2023

A total of 22 projects were selected in ten categories by a jury panel that included Hacker Architects Principal Corey Martin, Cheung Chan of the Iowa-based firm Neumann Monson Architects , and Arup Senior Structural Engineer Lauren Wingo.

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Chipperfield, DS+R, Maltzan among shortlisted teams for Dallas Museum of Art revitalization

Archinect

APRIL 27, 2023

Teams were required to employ at least one architect licensed to practice in the state of Texas and were given honorariums totaling $50,000 for their efforts. The DMA shares that the competition’s first stage drew some 154 submissions from around the world.

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Meet the student winners of the 2022 TimberFever Design-Build Competition

Archinect

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Moss Structural Engineers and the Toronto Metropolitan University announce the winners of its now-returned, in-person, annual TimberFever student design-build competition. He added, "I wanted to give students the opportunity to work with tools, learn about wood, and introduce collaboration between engineers and architects."

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LAX Midfield Satellite Concourse South project has topped out in Los Angeles

Archinect

APRIL 22, 2024

Related on Archinect: Woods Bagot's LAX Midfield Satellite Concourse South expansion has broken ground Buro Happold , structural engineer, sustainability consultant, lighting and acoustical designer on the project, in partnership with architects Woods Bagot and RAW International , says: "Each segment was designed with an independent lateral system (..)

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Webuild and Carlo Ratti propose replacement for Baltimore’s collapsed Key Bridge following tragedy

Archinect

MAY 3, 2024

Today, the Webuild group advanced a proposal designed in collaboration with architect and MIT professor Carlo Ratti and French structural engineer Michel Virlogeux for a new bridge in Baltimore that would replace the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge.

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We’ve Never Seen a Brick-Clad Prefab Home Before, Either

Dwell

JANUARY 9, 2025

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Tuckey Design Studio uses concrete ruin as "blank canvas" for Lake Como Villa

Deezen

APRIL 5, 2025

The project's starting point was how to reuse the concrete structure of the old house, which the client wanted to repurpose after it had been left abandoned on the site for over a decade. Its other recent projects include a home in London with a "monastery-like" interior and the renovation of a converted chapel in London.

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David Chipperfield adds social housing and offices to Lyon riverside development

Deezen

DECEMBER 6, 2024

British studio David Chipperfield Architects has completed a social housing block, an office building and a mixed-use high-rise as part of a masterplan in Lyon led by Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron. The studio also aimed for the 11 buildings to be visually cohesive while being distinguishable from each other.

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In New Zealand, a "House Within a House" Explores the Limits of Indoor/Outdoor Living

Dwell

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Project Details: Location: Whakamaru, New Zealand Architect: DCA Architects of Transformation / @ dca_architects Footprint: 3,218 square feet Builder: HRC Construction Structural Engineer: No.8

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An Airy Black Cabin Tucks Into a Tree Canopy in Australia

Dwell

JANUARY 13, 2025

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Not for Its Owners Weve Never Seen a Brick-Clad Prefab Home Before, Either Before & After: An Architects Home Reinterprets Suburbia in the Pacific Northwest Have one to share? Post it here.

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Nikjoo weaves terraces into townhouse on London parking space

Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With the intention of bringing light deep into the house's plan, the architect designed unusually tall windows on its east facade, as well as large skylights in bedrooms and circulation spaces. Playful portholes were added to its west facade.

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Sliders, Skylights, and a Clerestory: This Family’s New Addition Is Suffused With Light

Dwell

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Omar Gandhi Architects balances cedar house on rocky Nova Scotia coastline

Deezen

APRIL 25, 2024

Canadian studio Omar Gandhi Architects has completed a cedar-wrapped house "inspired by the scattered boulders" that trail down the seaside property in Hubbards, Nova Scotia. The house presents as two interlocked, stacking boxes – that are meant to weather over time to match the pale grey of the sky – perched on a hillside.

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Dig Studio and Lake Flato revamp Scottsdale Civic Plaza for "increasingly warming world"

Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2025

Studio Dig and Lake Flato have redesigned Scottsdale Civic Plaza Partly sitting on an overpass that allows pedestrians to bypass a busy street, the plaza provides public space for multiple public and arts institutions, including a public library and the Scottsdale Civic Center both designed by renowned Arizona architect Bennie Gonzales.

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Gensler completes Austin's tallest skyscraper

Deezen

JANUARY 23, 2025

Read: Gensler unveils latest renovations to Chicago's iconic Merchandise Mart "There are various view corridors from around the city that you need to be able to see the Capitol from, and that's going to be in perpetuity," Gensler project architect Andrew Kao told Dezeen. Additional engineering Services: RWDI; Lerch Bates, Inc.

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Polysmiths adds Mediterranean texture to Arch House in London

Deezen

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Lime-plastered walls, tiled floors and wooden joinery define the interior The blockwork arches, designed in collaboration with structural engineer Techne Engineering also reduced demolition and construction waste and eliminated the need to put in costly ground beams, Wu explained.

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Trackside hotel gives "unrivalled proximity to the tarmac" at Silverstone race track

Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2024

UK studio Twelve Architects has unveiled the Escapade Silverstone holiday-home development on the edge of the Silverstone race track, home of the British Grand Prix. Our job was to find a way to bring these two elements together and complement them both." The photography is by Jack Hobhouse.

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"Final Usonian home" by Frank Lloyd Wright completed in Ohio

Deezen

MARCH 20, 2025

The Dykstra's began construction of Riverrock in October 2023, following the approval of "original plans for the home, with supplemental structural engineering drawings" by the Willoughby Hills Building Department and Architectural Review Board and the Lake County Building Department.

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They Camped Out for Two Years to Build a Home in a Catskills Quarry

Dwell

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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LOHA uses "rhythmic massing" for dual-use building in Los Angeles

Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The photography is by Eric Staudenmaier.

Building

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Oliver Leech Architects adds skylit extension to London home

Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2024

Local studio Oliver Leech Architects has extended a Victorian terrace house in south London, introducing a four-metre-wide skylight at its centre that offers views of a wildflower meadow roof. The extension features a window seat overlooking the rear courtyard Oliver Leech Architects was founded in 2016.

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HW Studio carves pyramidal lightwell into Mexican house

Deezen

MARCH 10, 2025

HW Studio created a house on a slender lot in Morelia Casa Emma was informed by the Casa das Histrias Paula Rego , designed by architect Eduardo Souto de Moura in Cascais, Portugal, that the HW Studio team had visited years earlier. The photography is by Csar Bjar.

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Loader Monteith celebrates rural Scottish architecture at Cairnconon Byre house

Deezen

MARCH 7, 2025

It is formed of two pitched volumes "A byre is an ancillary farm building often used to stable animals over the winter," project architect Jamie Mack told Dezeen. "In In particular, they desired a space that evoked bothies shelters often found in remote Scotland that are free to use and byres to pay homage to the site's former use.

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A "No-Maintenance" Home in Coastal Argentina Rehashes the Area’s 1970s Retreats

Dwell

JANUARY 20, 2025

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Project Details: Location: Mar Azul, Argentina Architect: Barrionuevo Villanuevo Arquitectos / @ brr_vll_arq Footprint: 1,560 square feet Structural Engineer: Andrs Moscatelli Photographer: GArq.

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They Restored an Abandoned Church and Turned It Into a 30-Unit Apartment Building

Dwell

MARCH 17, 2025

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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5468796 Architecture adds "floating" office floor within preserved pumphouse

Deezen

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Other renovations of industrial buildings include Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron' restoration and conversion of a power plant on an industrial site along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. The photography is by James Brittain.

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A Larger-Than-Average Home for the Street Still Plays Nice With Its Melbourne Neighborhood

Dwell

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Andrei Saltykov tucks unconventional house behind suburban London street

Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Lacey & Salkytov has completed Station Lodge in southwest London Twice as big as neighbouring properties, with a total floor space of 241 square metres, the architect designed the house to follow the geometry of its triangular-shaped plot – formerly a row of old garages.

Housing

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The Architectural Works of Santiago Calatrava

Santa Cruz Architect

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Santiago Calatrava, born on July 28, 1951, in Benimmet, Valencia, Spain, is one of the most celebrated architects and engineers of our time. Known for his innovative approach that seamlessly combines structural engineering with artistic expression, Calatravas works have left an indelible mark on the global architectural landscape.

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Pushing Boundaries with Bamboo: A Structural Engineering Case Study

Zaha Hadid Architects references magnetic forces for Serbian mill conversion

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Researchers uniting ‘fragmented construction sector’ win RIBA Scott Brownrigg Award for Sustainable Development

David Kohn Architects curves University of Oxford college building around three-sided quadrangles

OEB Architects adds Italian-informed loft extension to south London house

Miró Rivera Architects clads lakeside Austin retreat with weathering steel

Archinect's latest featured hiring firms include SCAPE, AGENCIE, L'Observatoire International, Wade Design Architects, and M. Ziemke Architecture

Threefold Architects puts modern spin on Tudor architecture for Eight Gables house

Raphael Viñoly Architects resumes construction on renamed 125 Greenwich Street condo tower in Manhattan

Rafael Viñoly Architects resumes construction on renamed 125 Greenwich Street condo tower in Manhattan

This architect has identified the qualities office buildings need for converting to residential

World's tallest mass timber tower opens in Milwaukee

New NEOM documentary features Thom Mayne, Peter Cook, Reinier de Graaf, and other architects speaking highly of The Line megacity project

Hanif Kara of AKT II Receives 2024 Soane Medal for Pioneering Engineering and Architectural Innovation

MAD "cracks open" facade of Denver residential building

Check out the 22 projects just named winners of WoodWorks' 2023 Wood Design Awards

Chipperfield, DS+R, Maltzan among shortlisted teams for Dallas Museum of Art revitalization

Meet the student winners of the 2022 TimberFever Design-Build Competition

LAX Midfield Satellite Concourse South project has topped out in Los Angeles

Webuild and Carlo Ratti propose replacement for Baltimore’s collapsed Key Bridge following tragedy

We’ve Never Seen a Brick-Clad Prefab Home Before, Either

Tuckey Design Studio uses concrete ruin as "blank canvas" for Lake Como Villa

David Chipperfield adds social housing and offices to Lyon riverside development

In New Zealand, a "House Within a House" Explores the Limits of Indoor/Outdoor Living

An Airy Black Cabin Tucks Into a Tree Canopy in Australia

Nikjoo weaves terraces into townhouse on London parking space

Sliders, Skylights, and a Clerestory: This Family’s New Addition Is Suffused With Light

Omar Gandhi Architects balances cedar house on rocky Nova Scotia coastline

Dig Studio and Lake Flato revamp Scottsdale Civic Plaza for "increasingly warming world"

Gensler completes Austin's tallest skyscraper

Polysmiths adds Mediterranean texture to Arch House in London

Trackside hotel gives "unrivalled proximity to the tarmac" at Silverstone race track

"Final Usonian home" by Frank Lloyd Wright completed in Ohio

They Camped Out for Two Years to Build a Home in a Catskills Quarry

LOHA uses "rhythmic massing" for dual-use building in Los Angeles

Oliver Leech Architects adds skylit extension to London home

HW Studio carves pyramidal lightwell into Mexican house

Loader Monteith celebrates rural Scottish architecture at Cairnconon Byre house

A "No-Maintenance" Home in Coastal Argentina Rehashes the Area’s 1970s Retreats

They Restored an Abandoned Church and Turned It Into a 30-Unit Apartment Building

5468796 Architecture adds "floating" office floor within preserved pumphouse

A Larger-Than-Average Home for the Street Still Plays Nice With Its Melbourne Neighborhood

Andrei Saltykov tucks unconventional house behind suburban London street

The Architectural Works of Santiago Calatrava

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