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JANUARY 27, 2025

White Arkitekter 's Sara Kulturhus in Sweden is next in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series, after bringing one of the world's tallest timber buildings to the small subarctic city of Skellefte. When I saw the competition proposal, I didn't think it would be possible to build," he told the Guardian.

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Archinect

JANUARY 5, 2024

Charlie Thornton, the well-admired structural engineer, co-founder and CEO of Thornton Tomasetti , passed away in early December at the age of 83, according to his firm. The Bronx-born Thornton began his career in the New York offices of Lev Zetlin Associates before pursuing a new venture with Richard Tomasetti after 1977.

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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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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Have one to share? Post it here. Passive House design strategies and detailing reduce energy loads for heating and cooling to the point where they are zeroed out by a modest solar array."

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Archinect

JULY 22, 2024

Santiago Calatrava has been named the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 's 2024 recipient of the Lynn S. In receiving the annual distinction, he joins SOM engineer John Zils, the winner of this year's Fazlur R. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award. Khan Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Archinect

MAY 31, 2024

Led by SOM Partners Adam Semel and Scott Duncan in collaboration with Burj Khalifa ’s structural engineer Bill Baker, the initiative will be the first such technology to integrate gravity-based energy storage technology within the superstructure of tall buildings, enabling a carbon payback within accelerated 3–4 year timeframes.

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Archinect

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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Archinect

MARCH 27, 2023

WoodWorks has announced the winners of the 2023 Wood Design Awards, an annual showcase of the industry’s most inspiring applications of mass timber and wood in building designs across the United States.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Today is World Engineering Day , and to celebrate it, Archinect has curated a few outstanding bridge projects we’ve included in our recent news coverage to highlight critical pieces of infrastructure at an important time for civil and structural engineering in the Americas and abroad.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 6, 2024

British studio David Chipperfield Architects has completed a social housing block, an office building and a mixed-use high-rise as part of a masterplan in Lyon led by Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron. The studio also aimed for the 11 buildings to be visually cohesive while being distinguishable from each other.

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Archinect

MAY 21, 2024

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)’s 2024 Award of Excellence winners have been presented following a three-month juried selection process that awarded winners in 20 categories. This year’s cohort is said to be evocative of the "paradigm shift in design and construction practices."

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Deezen

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Local studio 5468796 Architecture has renovated an early 20th-century utilities building in Winnipeg , Canada, showcasing the industrial equipment while updating the structure for contemporary usage. 5468796 Architecture has added residential buildings to the site The station closed in 1986 and was slated for demolition.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The site was bought by small developer Flawk to build Lode, named after a vein of precious metal to reflect the client's aim for the building to stand out like a "jewel" in the neighbourhood. Playful portholes were added to its west facade.

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Dwell

MARCH 17, 2025

Originally constructed at the corner of Church Street and Oak Avenue in 1910 for a largely Swedish immigrant community, the existing building on the site was used by the Soujorner Covenant Church for over a hundred years. Have one to share? Post it here.

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APRIL 23, 2025

The building is the outcome of an intricate superposition of different site constraints fused with internal functional requirements. Due to the imposition of a strict height regulation, the site is almost entirely occupied by the building mass. This scheme also allows for the connection of smaller units to form larger ones.

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JULY 26, 2022

The new Strata Wynwood mixed-use residential building, designed by global firm Stantec, is the newest addition to the Wynwood Arts District in Miami. Stantec provided building architecture and landscape architecture as well as structural engineering services for the development.

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Deezen

JANUARY 23, 2025

Private residential balconies line the majority of the upper levels, while planes of glass curtain wall cover the building's angeled sides and the office floors. One of those cuts through this building. A large terrace sits on top of the podium and another was placed at the joint between the tower's office and residential floors.

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Dwell

JANUARY 9, 2025

The single-story building has the same silhouette as stable block with overhanging eaves. The external walls have also been designed in a zigzag arrangement that creates more shadows in the vertical plane of the faade, helping blend the building into the foliage. "The Post it here.

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Deezen

APRIL 15, 2025

Read: Brooks + Scarpa wraps Florida sports complex building in concrete shell In addition to the large windows, strategically placed skylights allow natural light to wash interior spaces deep into the plan.

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Dwell

APRIL 14, 2025

The house was designed for a family of four interested in living in an unconventional but small building footprint. The covered outdoor area is pushed out from the building, not only defining the garden void but allowing winter sun to pass over the single-story kitchen/living wing and fall into the space. Post it here.

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Dwell

JANUARY 13, 2025

The sole occupant enjoys an intimate connection to the tree canopy, the abundance of indirect natural light within the dwelling, and the way the building ventilates during the warmer months." The design strives to maximize views, thermal comfort, and most importantly, connection to nature.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Lime-plastered walls, tiled floors and wooden joinery define the interior The blockwork arches, designed in collaboration with structural engineer Techne Engineering also reduced demolition and construction waste and eliminated the need to put in costly ground beams, Wu explained.

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Deezen

JANUARY 6, 2025

American firms Dig Studio and Lake Flato have restored and expanded Scottsdale Civic Plaza in Arizona , adding a series of pavilions and responding directly to existing buildings flanking the outdoor space. million gallons (22,000 cubic metres) of water annually for the plaza. The photography is by Alan Karchmer.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2025

We like it when a loft extension continues some of the personality of the building below and its inhabitants, rather than pretending to blend into the roofscape," Eland told Dezeen. The photography is by Taran Wilkhu.

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APRIL 5, 2025

In this instance, however, we treated the existing 'building' as more of a blank canvas, which opened so much potential, whilst framing the concrete as much as we could," added Aleksandrov. The 183-square-metre Lake Como Villa is divided into two wings. The photography is by Dario Borruto.

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Deezen

APRIL 13, 2025

To update the 130-year-old Flow House in Toronto, Dubbeldam Architecture + Design extended the building at the rear and on top to add more space for the family. A staircase formed from sinuous curves connects the levels of this Victorian home that Toronto studio Dubbeldam Architecture + Design has renovated for a ceramicist.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2025

Architecture studio Loader Monteith has replaced a dilapidated farm building in Angus, Scotland , with a home finished with stone, black-painted pine and a red corrugated-metal roof. In this area of Angus, byres are typically unrendered stone buildings with pitched roofs," Mack continued. The photography by Jim Stephenson.

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

Santiago Calatrava, born on July 28, 1951, in Benimmet, Valencia, Spain, is one of the most celebrated architects and engineers of our time. Known for his innovative approach that seamlessly combines structural engineering with artistic expression, Calatravas works have left an indelible mark on the global architectural landscape.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2024

These are not going to be a hard, shiny buildings in bright colours which is what you might imagine when you think of racing cars," said Stoutt Griffith. "We There is no racing at night and the bedrooms are on the quiet side of the building," said Stoutt Griffith. We wanted this soft material but with crisp, detailed edges."

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Deezen

JUNE 18, 2024

Polycarbonate , steel and concrete are among the resilient materials used to form a pair of industrial buildings at Fulldraw Vineyard, designed by American studio Clayton Korte. The team designed three buildings for the site. The winery is known for its production of Rhone-style wines.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Across the globe, regions prone to seismic activity face the dual challenge of designing structures that not only endure these forces but also serve as symbols of hope and recovery for their communities. The lightweight yet strong vaults are waterproofed and topped with local granite for additional stability and a natural aesthetic.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2024

Design studio HGA has completed a pair of educational facilities , Mills Hall and Gibbons Center, that are among the first "commercially scaled mass-timber buildings" in the state of Maine. Both buildings also have mass timber frames, wooden interior finishes and brick facades.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The 82,305 square foot (7,646 square metre) addition extends outwards from the college's main academic building and consists of buildings and courtyards encased in a large, elevated concrete terrace. The mass-timber buildings showcase an exposed, "eccentric" black-toned bracing system, which encircles the buildings in a cage-like skin.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2025

It felt as if every corner of the building was bathed in soft, velvety, warm light that touched everything and brought it to life." Casa Emma features an interior void shaped like a pyramid "Light filtered gently through a high skylight, cascading like golden rays on the museums surfaces," the team said. "It The photography is by Csar Bjar.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

When seen from inside, the roof's shell structure is exposed revealing its "complex" geometry and its Douglas fir and steel construction, designed in collaboration with London structural engineers Foster Structures.

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Dwell

JANUARY 2, 2025

Updating insulation was critical, of course, but so was preserving the historic structure with the materials and construction techniques originally used to build it. Transforming this farm building into a gathering place required creating a large central space where the whole family could come together. Have one to share?

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2024

The building is situated in Seattle 's Fremont neighbourhood, known for its bohemian character. Robert Hutchinson Architecture has converted a 1950s Seattle building into an event space The venue's name stems from the owner's love of automobiles, along with its location along a street called Stone Way.

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