Archinect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

MIT engineers have created 3D-printed glass bricks that could offer a new approach to construction with sustainable and reusable materials. These interlocking bricks, which offer similar strength to concrete, are designed for circular construction, allowing buildings to be disassembled and reassembled at the end of their life cycle.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Promotion: Austrian facade brand Rieder has created a custom frontage for the One City Park office building in Bradford, which was designed by UK architecture studio Sheppard Robson. A gridded facade made up of rectangular windows and glass fibre-reinforced concrete (GFRC) bars wraps the building and its rounded corners.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Conservation group Twentieth Century Society has selected 10 UK buildings turning 30 to launch Coming of Age, a campaign drawing attention to the architecture it believes should be granted listed status. These wonderfully rich and varied buildings offer us a snapshot of the now not-so-recent past."

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The striking glass building, a symbol of the communist era, became an iconic representation of the political power of the time. For many years, Nová Scéna hosted the renowned Laterna Magika , the world’s first multimedia theatre. Read more »

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Image © Mark Herboth In the 21st century, Glass has become a cornerstone material for architecture. Once limited to apertures and openings, Glass now dominates entire facades, especially in high-rise buildings where transparent cladding material is preferred to maximize views. Read more »

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Deezen

JANUARY 8, 2025

Architecture studio Kennon has completed the 550 Spencer office building in Australia , forming the "first building in the country" to be powered on-site by a solar facade system. Located in Melbourne, the office building is defined by pleated glass facades that sit atop a brick base. The photography is by Tom Ross.

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Archinect

MARCH 11, 2025

Designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects , the Heartland Whole Health Institute building is set to open on May 1st. For the institute’s new building, the design team drew inspiration from the natural landscape of the Ozarks, with curvilinear forms that echo the region’s bluffs, caves, and forests.

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Deezen

MARCH 5, 2025

Following the completion of Brazil's tallest skyscraper , we've rounded up the tallest building in each of the South American countries, from Colombia to Argentina. The spread of skyscrapers in South America is very uneven, with Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela and Brazil claiming all of the 20 tallest buildings on the continent.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2025

Milan-based design studio 6:AM has installed Murano glass lamps , sconces and other objects among unfinished shower stalls located in the basement of the Piscina Cozzi pool house in Milan for the city's design week. The post 6:AM installs glass objects among shower stalls in Milan pool house appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

We wanted the building to amplify social interactions, scholarly collaborations, and cultural exchange between the University and the city of Paris." Cross-laminated timber decks are spread across steel trusses to create a structurally sound building that conforms to government requirements.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Following the completion of Open Architecture 's conical Sun Tower in China , we've collected 10 eye-catching skyscrapers , towers and cultural buildings that stand out from their surroundings. The studio created two double-curved facades to give the 180-metre-tall tower its twisted appearance, which is clad in double-curved glass.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Taylor, who’s been visiting this area since the ’70s, wanted the new building draw upon the rich local history of making rudimentary structures out of the materials that people had at hand. There is no glass involved in the house, only galvanized mesh sliding screens, separate sliding insect screens, and plastic curtains.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 1, 2024

In the living room, which has a symmetrical layout based on an axis through the central limestone fireplace, pieces like an emerald glass chain-link chandelier from Trueing and a pair of tan leather-bound chairs stand out. The post Rob Diaz uses all natural materials to build house in Los Angeles appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2024

From an art gallery in a converted grain silo to a brick workshop in Vietnam, Dezeen's editorial team have each picked their favourite building of 2024 , out of more than 1,000 we have published throughout the year. It's an unexpected triumph for a studio best known for its cultural landmarks."

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Deezen

DECEMBER 22, 2024

The building is located in the northern Czech city of Ostrava and boasts six rotating concrete walls. The revamp of the 260-metre-high tower included an overhaul of the lobby and amenities,giving greater presence to the building's cross-braced concrete structure and improving visual connection with the streetscape.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Municipal buildings are more than functional spaces they are the cornerstones of civic identity, places where communities come together to engage, deliberate and celebrate. The following buildings spotlight design that explores the possibilities of civic projects. Architects: Want to have your project featured?

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Deezen

MARCH 16, 2025

LA-based Mouthwash Studio has designed its own office space in collaboration with Aunt Studio, featuring glass-block partitions and walnut bleachers surrounding a custom phone booth. Glass block partitions separate the social areas from the workspace while allowing light to pass through. Mouthwash Studio , also known as MW.S,

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Architizer

MARCH 20, 2025

From timber grids to soaring steel trusses, the way a building holds itself up has long been hidden beneath layers of cladding and finishes. Without further ado, let’s see how architects are letting their buildings stand tall, bare-boned and proud. Architects: Want to have your project featured?

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2025

Here we outline the key facts about the supertall skyscraper that is vying to be the tallest building in the United States. If completed, it would be the tallest building in USA and the sixth tallest in the entire world. It is the 72nd tallest building in the United States at 844 feet (257 metres).

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Deezen

JANUARY 14, 2025

Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha , Qatar, by IM Pei , the first "mega-museum in the Gulf". Was the Museum of Islamic Art the most significant building completed in 2008 ? It was a big bang," the MIA's former director Julia Gonnella told Al Jazeera.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Architizer's 13th A+Awards features a suite of sustainability-focused categories recognizing designers that are building a greener industry and a better future. Buildings dont always need a fresh start sometimes, the most compelling transformations happen by working with whats already there. These additions take many forms.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The project, which had been marketed as an interdisciplinary and cohesive "makerspace" for Caltech scientists and engineering students, stands out thanks to an innovative building envelope shaped by an "undulating glass skim" that's noticeably distinct from other academic buildings on campus.

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Deezen

MARCH 4, 2025

American architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has unveiled designs for a building at Boston University that is set to be the tallest mass-timber structure in the Northeast United States. Openings of more translucent insulated glass will expose the timber structure underneath. metres (284 feet) tall.

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Deezen

JANUARY 2, 2025

The Schoenecker Center includes facilities like a double-height performance space with retractable seating The 130,000-square-foot (12,077-square-metre) building is split over five levels and houses classrooms, art and media studios, performance spaces, science labs, computer labs, engineering labs and more.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The six-building, 40-acre campus includes Frank Gehry ’s Center for the Visual Arts (CVA) and SANAA’ s Glass Pavilion from 2006. Plans will be unveiled in 2025, followed by the start of construction later in the year towards a 2027 completion.

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2025

Mexican studio Colectivo C733 has helped preserve an 18th-century port customs building, constructing a cultural centre and museum around it using historical adobe and steel in Nayarit, Mxico. The first level old San Blas customs building is still standing.

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Archinect

MARCH 25, 2025

The Lipsey Architecture Center Buffalo has announced an expansion on the Henry Hobson Ricardson-designed 19th-century Richardson Olmsted Campus that will come in the form of a new glass extension created by Höweler & Yoon. The Center’s executive director, Paris Roselli, frames it as an investment in the community.

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2025

Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings is Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles by Gehry Partners , an icon of deconstructivism. Disney Hall is perhaps the most famous building by Frank Gehry who, despite being Toronto-born, is one of, if not the most, famous living American architects.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Following the news that the construction of the Jeddah Tower has restarted in Saudi Arabia , we outline the key facts about the megatall skyscraper that is set to be the tallest building in the world. Once complete, it will be the world's tallest building. Another key element of the finished building will be its elevator system.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Australian architecture studio Bates Smart has referenced Australia's emerging architectural culture and the "monolithic forms" of its landscape for the design of an embassy in Washington DC , cladding it with glass and copper. The building's main entrance is oriented south toward the White House.

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SW Oregon Architect

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The use of light as a divine presence is another, with the didactic imagery of the colorful stained-glass windows augmenting the church liturgy. The ornate details, from the intricate wood carvings to the luminous stained-glass windows, speak to an era when no detail was too small to be perfected.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2025

The final project on our list of the 25 most significant buildings of the 21st century is the restoration of the Grand Palais in Paris by Chatillon Architectes , bookending our series with two powerful stories of reuse and renewal. It is crowned by the largest glass roof in Europe.

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2025

The museum is located on an artificial lake in Hangzhou Named Yohoo Museum, the building has an undulating roof design that takes the form of two interlocking rings. The museum is entirely clad in a glass facade and roof that was informed by jade, a rare gem stone in China.

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Deezen

JANUARY 14, 2025

Rising 40- and 46-storeys-high, the towers are made up of interconnected glass structures that widen at their tops and are joined by a podium at their base. Set off from this largely glass exterior, ornate screens typical of Islamic architecture surround the podium building.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The former headquarters building was a stereotypical pencil building that merely met the legal requirement for evacuation. Using a newly developed in-house paint for outdoor glass, we applied a gradient coating to tempered laminated glass. The view of the city from th.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The building, named La Nube, adds 77,000 square feet of learning and play space to the city, and was designed alongside El Paso architects Exigo and exhibition designers Gyroscope. The Snøhetta -designed El Paso Children’s Museum has completed construction in Texas.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Almost a self-explanatory name for façade systems consisting of two layers, usually glass, wherein air flows through the intermediate cavity. This space (which can vary from 20 cm to a few meters) acts as insulation against extreme temperatures, winds, and sound, improving the building's thermal efficiency for both high and low temperatures.

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