Archinect

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Researchers aiming to combat rising global temperatures have developed a new 'cooling glass' that can turn down the heat indoors without electricity by drawing on the cold depths of space. The new technology, a microporous glass coating, can lower the temperature of the material beneath it by 3.5

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The academic structure in Paris's 13th arrondissement was designed by Studio Gang with a hybrid-timber-and-steel structure and a facade covered with over 900 cylindrical limestone-covered fibreglass "batons" that function as brise soleil. It has a hybrid mass-timber-and-steel structure.

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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.

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ArchDaily

APRIL 25, 2024

© Michael Biondo Shigeru Ban Architects, in collaboration with The Glass House and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union , have just revealed “Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log House at The Glass House.” Read more »

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Archinect

APRIL 8, 2022

Renderings from INOA Architecture are the first to reveal a new seven-story mixed-use building at 308 East 59th Street in Sutton Place, Manhattan. Located immediately next to the Queensboro Bridge onramp, the building will house a mix of hospital outpatient facilities with specialized medical spaces above.

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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

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

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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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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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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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

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

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. We didn't want to impose a structure on the space but rather respond to it.

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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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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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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. In the 21st century, these structures are transforming into symbols of inclusivity and innovation, embodying the values of the societies they serve.

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Archinect

JUNE 24, 2024

They designed it to block more than half of the radiation from the buildings and the ground. As reported by New Scientist , the material emits heat in the form of infrared radiation into space, while reflecting the sun’s radiation and infrared radiation emitted by surrounding structures, such as buildings and pavement.

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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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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The new, 15-story glass commercial space was constructed inside the building’s old brick masonry shell, offering tenants 460,000 square feet of Class A office space enhanced by carefully-inserted biophilic elements and marked by the firm’s attenuation to ascendant health and wellness considerations typical in modern workplace design.

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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 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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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

APRIL 16, 2025

Its zigzagging balconies wrapping around the structure create a rhythmic sense of movement and interplay of light and shadow reminiscent of the pattern of horizontal fins in Niemeyer’s Edifcio Montreal (1951-1954) in So Paulo. So Paulo, Brazil | Photo by Daniel Ducci.

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

These lattices are recognizable on the facades of buildings from the Middle Ages, exemplified by structures like the Alhambra , to 20th-century constructions such as Casa Gomis , considered historical monuments. The facade , being the skin of the building, is the architectural component that is usually directly exposed to sunlight.

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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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Archinect

DECEMBER 5, 2022

New glass barriers have successfully prevented a high tide from flooding St Mark’s Basilica in Venice for the first time [.] Writing on Twitter, tourism councillor Simone Venturini praised the structure and added, 'Now it’s time to accelerate the completion of the MOSE works for definite safety of the square.'

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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

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. The photography is by Dirk Lindner.

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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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Archinect

JANUARY 4, 2023

A modular , wooden cabin from Dutch designer Caspar Schols has won the World Hotel Building of the Year 2022 Award at the recent World Architecture Festival (WAF). Image: Tonu Tunnel Image: Jorrit 't Hoen The building blends into its surrounding environment through its highly flexible design.

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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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Deezen

MARCH 3, 2025

Architecture practice Studio Ruan Xing has created an arched , central hall as part of the renovation of a building on the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's School of Design campus in Shanghai. Studio Ruan Xing added skylights to let in natural light and create dynamic shadow plays as the light travels through the arches.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Aiming to challenge what schools traditionally look like, Andblack Design Studio designed the structure with a playful, curving form to avoid "conventional, box-like classrooms". Full-height glass panels and open spaces dissolve visual barriers, while the landscape acts as an extension of the school." "The

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Deezen

APRIL 11, 2025

Local architecture studio Swatt + Partners has used two vertical concrete slabs to support a "wood-framed glass box" that floats over the landscape and holds a home office. The team conceived a rectangular building that lies west of the main dwelling and is designed to minimise impact to the landscape.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The structure will use passive design strategies The Navoi State Museum of Literature, which sits at the heart of the development, will host 13 permanent exhibition halls organised around a central courtyard. Renders of the exterior reveal a large glass facade and entrance, sheltered by the building's sweeping brick forms.

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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 19, 2025

But as these structures push the boundaries of scale and spectacle, they often overshadow the essential qualities of human-centered design. This ethos extends beyond individual buildings to the broader urban environment. Consider Louis Kahns Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. An oft-cited example is E.

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