Archinect

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Comprising two towers connected by a 100-meter tall skybridge, the headquarters building forms a new landmark near the main tollgate to and from Seoul. The tower's rational form contains office, auditorium, and tenant amenity space, including the Doosan History Museum and a café that opens up to the landscaped roof terrace.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Image credit: Atchain, courtesy of KPF Externally, the 635-foot-tall tapered tower is defined by a glass facade containing terraces on all office floors. The terraces have been “arranged in a configuration that conveys a sense of movement across the building” and detailed with light bronze soffit accents.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Mexican studio COA Arquitectura has enclosed a winery outside of Guadalajara with a corrugated steel sawtooth roof and rammed earth walls. Informed by the agricultural buildings of the area, each building is enclosed in rammed earth walls that are freestanding, square or C-shaped and in-filled with metal and wood.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 15, 2024

MAD Architects has unveiled the One River North apartment block in Denver Located next to a major interstate and light rail line, the 15-storey block's western facade has a curved facade clad in a glass curtain wall with a massive cut "cracking" the building open. The photography is by Iwan Baan unless otherwise stated.

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Archinect

APRIL 24, 2024

Image credit: Laurent Kronental for Chatillon Architectes New public gardens were created around the building, fostering an enhanced connection between it and other historic areas in the 8th arrondissement: the Champs-Élysées, Boulevard Churchill, and Petit Palais.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2024

An oversized, bamboo -clad roof connects the spaces at the Bamboo Gate community centre in the Mabi Reconstruction Disaster Prevention Park, Japan , designed by architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates. The post Kengo Kuma tops sculptural community centre with swooping bamboo roof appeared first on Dezeen.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Pei -designed Rock & Roll Hall of Fame museum in Cleveland ahead of next month’s anticipated groundbreaking. Rendering courtesy of Practice for Architect.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

LACMA ’s Unframed blog recently profiled the work of contractor Clark Construction to build the concrete structure for the Peter Zumthor -designed $750 million new David Geffen Galleries extension. The building has no columns!," Chris Bell, the project executive for Clark Construction, shared with Unframed.

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Deezen

JUNE 27, 2024

London studio SPPARC has overhauled a Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse in Fitzrovia to create a homely four-story office featuring a honeycomb-shaped roof. It is illuminated by an array of skylights set in a hexagonal roof structure resembling honeycomb. On one side, it forms a lightwell for the basement. "It

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Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2024

Infrastructure consultants AECOM and Spanish architecture studio Luis Vidal + Architects have created a terminal for Boston 's Logan Airport capped by a long, bright-red roof. On the opposite side, where the gates are, the face of the structure is mostly glass. Its corners taper to sharp edges that "cut through the sky with precision".

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Archinect

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A beloved monument returned to the Brooklyn skyline without pomp or circumstance last night when the Domino Sugar sign was quietly relit atop the Thomas Havemeyer building’s new barrel vaulted glass roof, illuminating the Williamsburg waterfront for the first time in eight years.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Social media is buzzing about the unreal damage to the O2 Arena's PTFE-coated glass fiber roof, which tore off during a live performance in the early morning hours Friday.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2024

Indian studio Kiron Cheerla Architecture has completed Pott House, a home in Hyderabad topped by a lantern-like roof that draws light and natural ventilation into its interiors. At night, lights inside glow outwards through the roof to create a lantern-like effect. The photography is by Vivek Eadara.

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Deezen

JULY 22, 2024

US architect Philip Johnson's Glass House annexe, the Brick House, has been restored and reopened following a 15-year closure in Connecticut. Architect Mark Stoner has led the restoration of Philip Johnson's Brick House It follows the building's closure in 2008 after the structure suffered ongoing "water intrusion" due to its sloping site.

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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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Deezen

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

American architecture studio SOM has completed the Schwarzman College of Computing, an eight-storey, glass-wrapped building designed to be a "collaborative nexus" on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge. The building holds departments related to computer science and artificial intelligence.

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Archinect

JUNE 7, 2022

The eight-storey building at 550-558 Spencer Street in West Melbourne will cost $40m and has been designed by the architecture firm Kennon on behalf of Dr Bella Freeman. The first-of-its-kind structure for Australia will be covered by 1,182 solar panels with the equivalent thickness of a conventional glass façade.

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Deezen

AUGUST 15, 2024

American studio ZGF Architects has completed an expansion to the main terminal at Portland International Airport, installing a massive mass-timber roof that was prefabricated to keep the airport operational. Many of the plantings were configured as "hanging gardens" with vines hanging over large expanses of glass to dampen the light.

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Years from now, serious collectors of architectural magazines may search for that single issue of the 21st century magazine Dwell , absent a major spread of a house designed in the midcentury modern (MCM) manner or a restoration of a building from that era. Read more »

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Deezen

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Local practice Studio Ellsinger has topped a small holiday cabin on Sweden 's west coast with a hat-shaped aluminium roof to "trigger curiosity" and offer protection from its wild surroundings. The clients had bought a very rural and wild plot on the west coast of Sweden, and they wanted a similar approach," he continued.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Mudu Library is an industrialized model building located in an open space which will be developed into an urban public green space in future. Named after Mudugang River besides the project, the building is designed to be a riverside reading room. With full-height glass curtain walls as enclosure façade, Mudu Libr.

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Deezen

AUGUST 7, 2024

The Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art by Danish studio BIG , engineering firm Arts Group and architecture studio Front has topped out in China , with curved metal roofs designed as a "fifth facade". The stainless roof tiles form a true fifth facade." The photography is by Justin Szeremeta unless stated.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Another milestone has been reached in the ongoing Automated People Mover (APM) project at Los Angeles International Airport after the last structural steel elements near the historic Theme Building have been installed.

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Archinect

MARCH 1, 2022

San Francisco’s Millennium Tower is on the move once more, this time in an entirely different dimension as the 13-year-old building is sliding while it sinks and tilts. The reflection of a building and crane on Millennium Tower's (301 Mission Street) curtainwall glass. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons user Hydrogen Iodide.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The project consists of three buildings, each with a designated use: shopping center, hotel, and offices. It is laid out in a “U” shape around a central courtyard with a translucent roof and glass façade that allows natural light to enter most of the day.

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Archinect

APRIL 19, 2024

MBB designed the expansion of an existing building for Grace Church School in New York City, adding a new top floor structure for a double-height gymnasium and athletic center. The new arched-roof steel roof encloses multipurpose, open areas to accommodate courts for team sports as well as all-school gatherings and events.

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Deezen

JULY 23, 2024

Local timber-framed buildings influenced the geometric form of Water Farm, a house that architecture practice Studio Bark has added to a family farm in Sussex. To complement these natural surroundings, the home is almost entirely coated in locally sourced sweet chestnut cladding.

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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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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Each section has curved edges that wrap inwards where the two volumes meet, creating an opening that serves as the entrance to the building. The facades are made up of long bars of pigmented concrete – meant to reference the "domed roofs of the city's cathedrals and old colonial buildings covered with local tiles", the developer said.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The existing vertical windows were replaced with clear glass, and the old candelabra chandeliers were removed. New minimal LED linear cove uplights were installed, washing the original building’s angled roof geometry, illuminating the room with indirect light.

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Archinect

JULY 25, 2022

Safdie Architects has completed a new verdant medical school and research building with a distinctive domed glass roof in São Paulo. It is slated to be one of Latin America’s most advanced institutions for medical research and study.

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Archinect

JUNE 12, 2023

We designed the lobby and pool spaces to be set behind a tall ribbon of north-facing glass, showcasing the adjacent treetops and reinforcing the building’s connection to the School’s other athletic facilities beyond.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Architecture studio Snøhetta has completed the Far Rockaway Library in New York, which is wrapped in fritted, orange ombre glass covered with thin, white script by Brooklyn artist José Parlá. Located in the Far Rockaway neighbourhood of Queens, the building replaces a former library on site and doubles its size.

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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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Archinect

MARCH 7, 2024

The Ismaili Centre uniquely responds to established Islamic building traditions, while incorporating contemporary architectural form, materiality, and construction methods. The centerpiece of the project is the prayer hall, whose crystalline glass roof creates ever-changing interior lighting conditions. Set within a 6.8

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Archinect

JULY 15, 2024

To that end, the Visitors’ Center is LEED Platinum certified – the first public building in New York City to achieve this rating. Water, a natural element significant to all cultures, is re-introduced throughout the site, unifying building and landscape. Additional sustainable elements inc.

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Deezen

APRIL 3, 2024

A crematorium clad in ribbed concrete and a geometric university bell tower feature in this roundup of 10 brutalist buildings photographed by Simon Phipps for his Brutal Wales book. I'm interested in the sculptural qualities of each building and the ways in which light and shade articulate them," he continued.

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