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Grenfell Tower to be demolished, UK government confirms

Archinect

The remaining structure of Grenfell Tower is to be demolished, the UK government has confirmed. “It will likely take around two years to sensitively take down the tower through a process of careful and sensitive progressive deconstruction that happens behind the wrapping,” the statement said.

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2023 could see a rise in green building policies centered on embodied carbon

Archinect

That will shift in May, when Denver’s newly adopted green code takes effect, said Christy Collins, green communities specialist with the local government. Additionally, there has also been a rise in policies designed to foster a circular economy , such as salvaging materials and deconstructing buildings rather than demolishing them.

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Deconstruction by Design: How Architects Are Redefining Practice Through Material Reuse

Architizer

This initiative, a collaboration with local government and gardeners, reflects New Affiliates’ commitment to transforming construction waste into resources. The post Deconstruction by Design: How Architects Are Redefining Practice Through Material Reuse appeared first on Journal.

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Burle Marx, Reconstructed

Landscape Architecture Magazine

John Milner Associates, a local preservation architecture firm, used those scans, with and without plants, as a guide for the deconstruction and reconstruction of the garden. A lidar image of the Cascade Garden’s southwest corner before deconstruction. Courtesy Longwood Gardens. Still, not everything is the same.

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Deconstructivist architecture "challenges the very values of harmony, unity and stability"

Deezen

But the emergence of deconstructivism – an ungainly portmanteau of the mid-to-late twentieth-century philosophical movement, deconstruction, and 1920s Russian constructivism – suggested that the avant-garde's demise may have been exaggerated. The seminal Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition was held at the MoMA.

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Nine projects that encapsulate The Laboratory of the Future at Venice Architecture Biennale

Deezen

"Africa's unique context, which is both richly challenging and richly creative, means it's a powerful place from which to examine the issues that will dominate the next century – climate change, societal change, demographic change, new forms of governance, explosive urbanity."

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Why aren't more architects using stone as a building material?

Deezen

Using renewable energy, as the French government has asked its quarries to do, the stone has next to zero embodied carbon," he continued. Nowadays there's a lot of talk about deconstruction" Petkova argued that disassembling stone buildings is not without carbon cost.

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