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MAY 26, 2022

The Architecture Lobby 's Academia Working Group has announced this summer's Architecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC) School , building upon last year's focus on Capitalism, Labor, and Collectives. This year's workshop, taking place virtually July 18-23, is structured around the academic "studio" environment.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

Japanese studio Sou Fujimoto Architects has released construction photos of The Grand Ring, a vast wooden structure that will encircle the pavilions at the upcoming Expo 2025 Osaka. According to the event organisers, the structure is intended to serve as a symbol of unity between the 161 participating countries.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

SIPs (Structural Insulated Panels) are self-supporting panels composed of a rigid foam core that is located between two structural coverings, usually OSB boards. Courtesy of abarca+palma.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Research from a professor at the University of Aberdeen has advanced evidence that the art and practice of architectural drawing may have been invented by a 12th-century Scottish clergyman working in Paris around the time of the construction of Notre-Dame Cathedral and other important Gothic structures.

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MARCH 17, 2024

Romania Building, Franklin Boulevard side (my photo) This is the next in my Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet series of blog posts, the focus of each being a landmark building here in Eugene. My selection criteria for each will be threefold: The building must be of architectural interest, local importance, or historically significant.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Her work demonstrates a profound curiosity about the people who will inhabit her buildings and the unique stories embedded within each site. Her buildings aren't just structures; they're thoughtful responses to their surroundings, without aiming to disappear within them. Read more »

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

The site of the metabolist Nakagin Capsule Tower , which was disassembled in Tokyo 's Ginza district in 2022, is set to be taken over by a luxury hotel led by hospitality brand Accor. Accor has revealed it will open the Pullman Tokyo Ginza hotel on the site of the iconic Japanese housing block in late 2027.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Nestled on the banks of the Rhine River, the city unfolds its architectural narrative through the interplay between historical landmarks, and contemporary interventions. In the old town, the medieval Cologne Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the tallest cathedral in the world, dominates the skyline.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Architecture Research Office (ARO) , in partnership with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYS OPRHP) and The Olana Partnership (TOP), has today revealed a new plan for the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape at the Olana State Historic Site in Upstate New York.

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

The church is the second Calatrava-designed project to be completed at the World Trade Center Memorial site in New York City, following his World Trade Center Transportation Hub , which opened in 2016.

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JUNE 21, 2023

South Korean firm Haeahn Architecture , alongside New York-based H Architecture , has shared a video and photographs of their National Assembly Communication Building project in Seoul , South Korea. Image: Namsun Lee The project site was described as a green space surrounded by lush trees.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

For 843 N Spring Street, this month continues the installation of what will be 82,000 square feet of CLT panels in the hybrid timber structure designed by LEVER Architecture , developed by Redcar LTD, and built by Shawmut Design and Construction. According to a press releas.

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MARCH 17, 2022

The office building, designed by London-based architecture firm IF_DO , was made to be mobile, as it sits atop a “meanwhile space,” a location that hosts temporary buildings until the local council develops permanent plans for the space. The modules were prefabricated off-site and assembled on-site over five months.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Image © Fitria Ramli via Shutterstock Renowned sculptor Richard Serra , known for his monumental steel structures that reshaped the landscape of contemporary art, passed away at the age of 85 at his residence in Orient, N.Y. The ‘7’ Sculpture by Richard Serra located at the Museum Of Islamic Art Park pier in Doha, Qatar. Read more »

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

Image credit: Binyan Both the form and materiality of the opera house respond to a vernacular style in the area known as Najdi, which historically saw mud-brick structures closely clustered to create constant shade. ” As a result, the cluster of buildings is imagined as rising from the ground to form open passages across the site.

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MAY 30, 2023

Construction has begun in Warsaw on a new complex for the Polish History Museum and Polish Army Museum, designed by the Warsaw-based architectural design studio WXCA. Image credit: WXCA Three structures are to be built on the site: the headquarters of the Polish History Museum, and two buildings for the Polish Army Museum.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture ( ACSA ) and the Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) have just revealed the winners of the 2022 Timber in the City 4: Urban Habitats Competition in partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture and the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A CLT structural system is one of several sustainability considerations integral to RIOS ’ newly completed 42XX mixed-used project that landed on the Westside of Los Angeles earlier this summer.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

A Bangkok landmark known as the “robot building” has been stripped of its identity, heritage campaigners have said, as they called for the city’s distinctive architecture to preserved. [.] Campaigners have urged the bank to find a way to improve energy efficiency while maintaining the facade’s unique design.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Mexico City architecture studio HEMAA utilised a steel structure and green-coloured eaves for Pabellón de la Reserva, a meeting place sited on the marshy shores of a lake in the mountains of central Mexico. This design choice blurs the structure's boundaries, framing the natural landscape with subtlety," he continued.

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APRIL 3, 2024

based architecture firm EHDD , the tool “enables designers to better understand the carbon impacts from primary material choices and building form during site feasibility and massing studies at the beginning of a project planning process,” Autodesk says. Powered by the C.Scale data model developed by U.S.-based

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Image credit: Lara Swimmer Image credit: Lara Swimmer Visitors to the center are greeted by a new two-story lobby enclosed by a wood and glass curtain wall, responding to the site’s woodland context. “We took advantage of the scale and tectonic identity of the original structure.

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APRIL 25, 2024

A ring road with branches to each group of houses runs along the perimeter of the site. The structural frame of the houses, having only one internal support, creates great freedom in choosing the layout. Then the pedestrian zone begins – the central boulevard leading to the community center of the village.

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

As part of the project, Foster + Partners has also refurbished existing facilities on the site. The studio was selected following its previous collaboration with the family on Bodegas Portia – a Corten-clad structure completed in the Ribera del Duero region in 2010.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Image © Helene Binet As cities grow and evolve, the question of preserving, rehabilitating, or adapting historic sites arises. They then create modern extensions that either harmonize or contrast with the original structure. Antwerp Port House by Zaha Hadid Architects.

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JULY 12, 2024

Our client, a retired aerospace engineer and avid hiker, is not interested in horses, but fell in love with the site for its purity, simplicity and openness. The resulting building is essentially a platform for viewing the rise and fall of the sun, the change of the seasons, and the natural beauty that flows by and through the site.

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APRIL 18, 2023

A comprehensive overhaul of Montreal’s Esplanade Place Ville Marie by Sid Lee Architecture and Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes (MSDL) is now complete, marking the end of a $200 million revitalization project that’s brought much-needed civic life back to a busy section of the city’s downtown commercial core.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

The four-year construction effort yielded a total two million square feet of new office space that was built above active railroad tracks in what the firm describes as an "extraordinary" advancement of the methods used in urban design, structural engineering, and architecture.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A landmark era of high-profile additions and architectural changes to the historic Brooklyn waterfront has ushered in a new chapter with today’s official public unveiling of the PAU -designed The Refinery at Domino office component at the 11-acre former Domino Sugar Factory site in Williamsburg.

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MAY 31, 2023

The system aims to decrease the building’s energy consumption by over 60% compared to structures equipped with standard HVAC systems. The project, designed by STUDIO V Architecture , received partial funding from New York’s Community Heat Pump Pilot Program. Located at 1515 Surf Ave.

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JULY 9, 2024

This structure, home to the Seeley Library, is one of the renowned “Red Trilogy” buildings from the 1960s. Initially intended to showcase the significant library and “the act of reading,” the project is internationally celebrated as a landmark from the post-war architecture era. Read more »

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

Its most prominent structure is a large rectangular building that houses 3000 dwellings, along with a spacious interior square similar to a Roman forum and exterior windows inspired by the mosaics found in Islamic architecture. The project has several buildings with different scales. Read more »

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MAY 27, 2022

Frank Lloyd Wright ’s iconic 87-year-old Fallingwater historic site is getting a very necessary modern upgrade according to a press release issued last month by Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, the organization responsible for its stewardship. Image courtesy Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC).

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

Prince Lucien Campbell Hall (all photos by me) This is the next in my Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet series of blog posts, the focus of each being a landmark building here in Eugene. My selection criteria for each will be threefold: The building must be of architectural interest, local importance, or historically significant.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

acre site located adjacent to other prominent arts institutions along the city’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The Calder Foundation has shared renderings of the forthcoming Calder Gardens project ahead of its anticipated fall groundbreaking on a 1.8-acre

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The glulam structural system addresses ambitious sustainability goals, provides natural material warmth, and references the region’s timber legacy. Located adjacent to the revitalized Prairie Line Trail, the building is carefully sited to max. The use of mass timber, a low-carbon renewable resource, is a central design priority.

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MAY 11, 2023

Ando says the pavilion will be "eternal, not in material or structure, but in the memory of a landscape that will continue to live in people’s hearts." "To To reflect the lively nature of the site, like a blank canvas, I imagined an architecture of emptiness," his statement to the press continues.

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