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MARCH 21, 2024

Building technologies of the past rarely managed, however, to create a complete separation between us and the outside world. While impermeability was a desired outcome, the porous building materials available always allowed some water, wind, or outside particles to leak into the interior spaces.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 6, 2023

© Dave Burk architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Location: Campanile Rd, Houston, TX 77005, United States Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Dave Burk Photographs: Lucas Blair Simpson Area: 251400.0 ft2 Read more »

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The incident began on the night of Thursday, February 22nd, and though the cause has not been definitively established, early reporting has suggested that the building’s cladding may have played a part in the disaster. Valencia is reeling from a fatal fire at an apartment complex in the Spanish city. Related.

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ArchDaily

APRIL 9, 2024

© DOF Sky|Ground, Yamastudio , Supakorn Soontararak architects: AATTN8A Location: 1616 Lat Phrao Rd, Khwaeng Wang Thonglang, Khet Wang Thonglang, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10310, Thailand Project Year: 2022 Photographs: DOF Sky|Ground, Yamastudio , Supakorn Soontararak Area: 11100.0 m2 Read more »

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JANUARY 8, 2024

© Tianpei Zeng architects: China Construction Science and Industry Corprotation LTD architects: FORWARD STUDIO architects: Jianxue Architecture and Engineering Design Institute CO. LTD Location: Longgang, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Tianpei Zeng Area: 6181.0 m2 Read more »

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Archinect

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The federal government wants to build a massive system of storm surge gates and seawalls to protect the New York harbor region from flooding and has put forth a much-delayed plan that would remake coastal areas from upper Manhattan down to Jamaica Bay. The New York District, North Atlantic Division of the U.S.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

via New York Engineers Almost two decades ago, in the downtown corridor of Columbus, Ohio, the century-old landmarked Lazarus Building underwent an extensive renovation to save the department store and restore it to its former glory. Sixty million dollars went into its restoration and transformation into a retail and office complex.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Concluding the 2023 World Architecture Festival in Singapore is the announcement of the prestigious World Building of the Year award , which went to Huizhen High School by Approach Design Studio and Zhejiang University of Technology Engineering Design Group.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

© Kevin Siyuan architects: Kyoob Architects Location: 100 Jurong East Street 21, Singapore Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Kevin Siyuan Area: 33682.0 m2 Read more »

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Huizhen High School by Approach Design Studio - Zhejiang University of Technology Engineering Design Group Co.,Ltd_Huizhen Ltd_Huizhen High School by Approach Design Studio. The announcement follows the final day of WAF, in which prize winners across all 44 categories competed for the winning titles.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Image courtesy of the University of Oregon Image courtesy of the University of Oregon The home, built from locally sourced mass plywood panels produced by Freres Engineered Wood, aims to address key issues such as affordable housing shortages, wildfire resilience, and economic sustainability.

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Archinect

MAY 20, 2024

A group of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia say they have discovered a means for protecting buildings from structural collapse. In a new set of building science experiments conducted in June 2023, they carefully studied animal neurobiology. meter-high floors — using prefabricated reinforced concrete.

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Archinect

MARCH 19, 2024

Chinese state-owned construction contractor will build China’s largest soccer park in Guangzhou on the site where struggling Chinese property developer China Evergrande Group was supposed to build its soccer stadium. The site was originally meant for a 100,000-seat stadium designed by Gensler.

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Archinect

MAY 20, 2024

A group of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia say they have discovered a means for protecting buildings from structural collapse. In a new set of building science experiments conducted in June 2023, they carefully studied animal neurobiology. meter-high floors — using prefabricated reinforced concrete.

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Archinect

JUNE 21, 2022

million grant for the development of resilient, 3D-printed building designs using a new green material called hempcrete. Leading the project is Petro Sideris, assistant professor in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who will develop residential and potential commercial construction designs.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) is progressing towards the completion of its new 600 W. Thornton Tomasetti is in charge of delivering the building’s facade system. The construction has been engineered to meet LEED v4.0 Greene Science Center, Lenfest Center f.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Wood ’s been around for long enough now, and we’ve been using it as a building material for centuries. Simply put, due to the complex physics involved in the perpendicular lamination, the strength of CLT board is similar to that of reinforced concrete, and has proven performance under seismic forces. So what’s new?

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Archinect

MAY 12, 2023

OMA , along with Circlewood, a coalition of architects, engineers, builders, and researchers, have developed a modular wood system to build a variety of schools in Amsterdam. This project aims to support the city’s goal to halve the use of primary raw materials by 2030 and become fully circular by 2050.

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designboom

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

described as ‘reconfigurable masonry’, the engineers use a custom machine from the MIT spinoff evenline, which is capable of 3D printing molten glass. The post MIT engineers 3D print recycled glass to build sturdy ‘LEGO’ bricks for buildings and facades appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

According to the publication, two professors from the Univeristy’s College of Design and Engineering confirmed the mold problem was not directly caused by a critical flaw in the materials.

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JANUARY 7, 2024

The latest is the new Health Professions Building (HPB) for Lane Community College. For all intents and purposes, we have functioned as a single office on the Health Professions Building project rather than as two separate firms. These metrics were: The degree to which the new building succeeds as a tool for teaching and learning.

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Archinect

MAY 10, 2023

UC San Diego has hosted the tallest full-scale seismic building test on an earthquake simulator. The 10-story building, made of cross-laminated timber, was tested on what the organizers say is the world’s largest outdoor shake table.

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Archinect

APRIL 10, 2024

calls for an individual “responsible for the technical innovation, integration, documentation, and execution of the architectural and engineering design intent.” The role, based in Washington, D.C.,

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Archinect

MARCH 21, 2023

That simple recipe for pandemic lemonade—offices people no longer use, combining with central urban locations where people want to live—is blissfully ignorant of a wide range of architectural and economic factors that make the vast majority of office buildings simply unsuitable as housing.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

degrees Celsius at noon, and has the potential to reduce a mid-rise apartment building's yearly carbon emissions by 10 percent. The technology was developed by a research team at the University of Maryland , led by Distinguished University Professor Liangbing Hu in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Researchers from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have published details of a new material that can auto-regulate its environment by changing its infrared colors and liquid-solid state. ” Image courtesy University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.

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Archinect

JUNE 24, 2022

Winning entries to the Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) and USDA Forest Service-sponsored 2022 Mass Timber Competition: Building to Net-Zero Carbon were announced yesterday as part of this weekend’s A’22 Conference in Chicago. Engineering nonprofit WoodWorks handled the project evaluation for the competition as well.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 24, 2022

We’re living through the birth of a new species of skyscraper that not even architects and engineers saw coming. Tall buildings that were in the works got scaled down or canceled on the assumption that soaring towers were too risky to be built or occupied. “All we’ve done in the 20 years since is build even taller.”

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ArchDaily

MAY 19, 2023

© Jian Fang architects: CCDI GROUP 21 Design Studio Location: Jinan, Shandong, China Project Year: 2022 Photographs: Jian Fang Area: 1445516.0 m2 Read more »

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Archinect

MAY 25, 2023

Famous historic sites, low-income apartments and Twitter's headquarters all appear on a previously unpublished draft list of 3,407 concrete buildings in San Francisco that may be at high risk of collapse in a major earthquake, according to a copy of a city government document obtained by NBC News through a public records request. Current U.S.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The BBC writes that a total of 113 warrants were issued to individuals within the country, reportedly including architects, engineers, and building contractors, over their supposed role in constructing the more than 25,000 buildings which failed or were damaged during the magnitude 7.8 tremor and subsequent aftershocks.

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Archinect

JANUARY 18, 2024

Thanks to this cooperation, in the end, not only the Control building serving the flood gate and ship lock, but also the bridge crossing the dam and the reinforced concrete structure itself could become an arch.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Titled Bamboo U , the 11-day course included teaching participants how to grow bamboo, treatment methods, bamboo design and model making, engineering, carpentry, and construction. The ArchDaily team participated in the workshop, which ran from August 16 - 27, 2024, and documented the full course from start to finish. Read more »

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Image © Stephen Bridger via Shutterstock Our contemporary society has been witnessing a surge in skyscraper construction in urban centers worldwide for various reasons—including engineering advancements, increased urban density , space constraints, and, arguably, a competitive drive for building the tallest structures.

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Archinect

MARCH 17, 2023

A new prototype multilayered fluid window system devised by researchers at the University of Toronto may have the potential to be an effective tool in the push toward greater sustainability in the building industry, according to their research published in the national academy of sciences journal PNAS.

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Archinect

MAY 4, 2023

The team, comprised of architects, engineers, craftspeople, and IE students, is led by Syrian-Spanish architect and IE architecture professor Wesam Al Asali along with Sigrid Adriaenssens, director of the Form Finding Lab at Princeton University.

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Archinect

AUGUST 10, 2024

Department of Energy ’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Maine are leading interesting new engineering research into floor cassettes made using recyclable natural materials that are strong enough to be used in multi-story buildings. The project came together at the initiative of the SHoP offshoot Assembly OSM.

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