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RIBA Announces the 26 Winners of the 2023 National Awards Showcasing UK's Best New Architecture

ArchDaily

This year’s award celebrates projects that feature “inspiring examples of existing buildings and structures that have been given a new lease of life.” Recognized for intelligent design and collaboration with clients and local communities, the award winners also showcase innovative construction techniques and thoughtful material selections.

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Reimagining the convent typology to blend spirituality and social engagement

Archinect

Italian architecture and landscape firm Mixtura has designed a wood-structured conventual complex in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil , that provides both a space for worship and philanthropic services. Image: Cesare Querci The initiative has so far seen the construction of a kindergarten for 120 children from the neighboring favelas.

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The Importance of Architectural Conception in Mass Timber Projects

ArchDaily

Due to technological advancements and research into the limits and possibilities of this material, there has been a significant leap in the development of wood in construction. Read more »

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Junya Ishigami 'excavates' concrete cave for restaurant and residence in Japan

Archinect

Asked by the client for a space that "has to look as if it has been there and will continue to be there for the longest time," Ishigami responded with a cave-like structure punctured by three courtyards. Junya Ishigami + Associates has completed a residence and restaurant for a French restauranter in the city of Ube, Japan.

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Record-setting 50-story mass timber skyscraper approved in Perth

Archinect

Australian architecture firm Elenberg Fraser is moving forward with a new $350 million AUD ($223 million USD) high-rise tower in Perth on the country's west coast that could set the record as the world’s tallest mass timber structure once completed.

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Mass timber rose to new heights in 2022

Archinect

In 2022, hardly a week passed on Archinect without the hottest construction material of the year making the news: Mass timber was everywhere — in novel conceptual proposals, competition-winning entries, experimental school projects, and, increasingly so, in completed, real-life, and often record-shattering buildings.

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Architects "can develop a new language" with structural stone says Aurore Baulier

Deezen

Top: Aurore Baulier is calling on architects to use structural stone. series, which is exploring the material's potential to be a modern construction material. She advocates for the use of structural stone as part Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN), where she coordinates the Natural Materials Group. It's a whole team.

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