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MARCH 7, 2024

Wet Beast Office / Studioninedots. Image © Maarten Willemstein The facade of a building often serves as a reflection of both the urban fabric it is set in, as well as what lies behind it. Beyond aesthetics, facades hold important functional, cultural, and sustainable significance, especially in relation to the interior design. Although natural light, views, and spatial organization are influenced by the facade, architects have been prioritizing the relationship between the building's envelope an

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The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, has shared photos of its recent expansion project that was completed by EskewDumezRipple in April of 2023 at a cost of $67 million. Drawing inspiration from coastal New England granite quarries, the project added a total of 42,000 square feet via the new William L. Richter Art Wing. The expansion was undertaken to allow the museum’s art and science holdings to expand and be better interpreted as a coherent whole.

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MARCH 7, 2024

© Paul Clemence | Aluminaire House In his latest photographic journey, Paul Clemence explores the architecture of the Aluminaire House in Palm Springs. The Aluminaire House Foundation has bestowed the house exhibit upon the Palm Springs Art Museum, joining its permanent collection. This architectural landmark, designed by Albert Frey and Lawrence Kocher is currently undergoing reconstruction in the south parking lot of the Museum.

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MARCH 7, 2024

California-based Samara has opened a factory in Mexicali, Mexico, to scale up manufacturing of their backyard ADU units. As we reported in late 2022, the startup is led by Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia alongside former Flex chief executive Mike McNamara. Image credit: Samara The 150,000-square-foot factory will host the construction of Samara’s modular units, including interior and exterior finishes.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Tropical Space – Premier Office. Image © Trieu Chien Around the globe, today’s architects face several rising challenges. The demand for affordable housing is increasing significantly, but so is the urgent need to save the planet’s resources and reduce carbon emissions. At first glance, these two goals might seem mutually exclusive. However, the history of architecture is one of great minds overcoming challenges through creativity and innovation.

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MARCH 7, 2024

© Weiqi Jin architects: van Bergen Kolpa architects Location: China, Bei Jing Shi, Shi Jing Shan Qu, 中园路W5QP+8HW 邮政编码: 100144 Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Weiqi Jin Area: 3500.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Framing existing conditions as opportunities, SHED Architecture & Design created a coherent family compound on the shores of Seattle’s Lake Washington in which an old and new structure speak to one another and the surrounding landscape via a design solution informed by restraint, material relationship, and attention to detail. The primary design challenge was to inject new life into an old house suffering from deferred maintenance and additions that no longer made sense.

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MARCH 7, 2024

© Sosthen Hennekam architects: Sahel AlHiyari Architects Location: Amman, Jordan Project Year: 2022 Photographs: Sosthen Hennekam Area: 866.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Buildner has shared the results of its Beyond Isolation: Senior Housing Competition. The design ideas challenge awards cash prizes for solutions to the growing societal issue of isolation and the need for better-designed spaces in which elderly citizens can age in place, a topic represented recently by Mæ 's winning John Morden Centre entry for the 2023 RIBA Stirling Prize and other significant architectural awards programs.

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MARCH 7, 2024

São Paulo. Image by joao batista Shimoto licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Considered the fifth most populous city in the world as of 2022, São Paulo is confronted with a multitude of challenges befitting its over 22 million inhabitants. Among the numerous urban issues faced, the depopulation of the city's historic center has been a recurring topic for at least four decades, with governments announcing measures that could potentially reverse the si

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MARCH 7, 2024

London-based ecoLogicStudio has unveiled a collection of biophilic design products as part of their wider PhotoSynethetica research project. The collection includes a desktop biotechnological air purifier, a compostable stool, and a 3D printed jewel made of re-metabolized pollution. Image credit: Pepe Fotografia The project was overseen by ecoLogicStudio directors Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, who spoke with Archinect last year on a range of topics related to PhotoSynethetica and ‘ec

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MARCH 7, 2024

© David Yeow Photography architects: Spacemen Studio Location: Jln Tun Razak, Imbi, 55100 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Project Year: 2023 Photographs: David Yeow Photography Area: 180.

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MARCH 7, 2024

The Canadian War Museum (CWM) is one of the country's National museums, including both permanent and temporary galleries as well as extensive collection storage and conservation spaces. A large painting vault contains the extensive Beaverbrook collection of war art, which is in regular rotation within the temporary gallery when not out on external loans.

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MARCH 7, 2024

© Fangfang Tian architects: Atelier FCJZ Location: Tian Ming Lu, Hui Shan Qu, Wu Xi Shi, Jiang Su Sheng, China Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Fangfang Tian Photographs: Zhong Zhang Area: 23929.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Organizers of the W Awards have just announced their selection of this year's recipients of the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture and MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice via a special ceremony held today, March 7th, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. The annual awards program, led since 2012 by UK-based publications The Architectural Review and the Architect's Journal, aims to "raise the profile of women and non-binary people in architecture worldwide, inspirin

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MARCH 7, 2024

© Jeudi.Wang, courtesy SO–IL and the Williams College Museum of Art Brooklyn-based firm SO-IL has revealed the design for a new campus art museum at Willimas College in Massachusetts , created to become a primary teaching resource for the institution renowned for its art history program. Since its inauguration in 1920, the Williams College Museum of Art has gathered an expansive collection of over 15,000 works.

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MARCH 7, 2024

The Ismaili Centre uniquely responds to established Islamic building traditions, while incorporating contemporary architectural form, materiality, and construction methods. The architectural language distinguishes a community that is both informed by its past and modern in its outlook. The centerpiece of the project is the prayer hall, whose crystalline glass roof creates ever-changing interior lighting conditions.

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MARCH 7, 2024

© Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero (Imagen Subliminal) architects: Pedro Pitarch - Architectures & Urbanisms Ubicación: Madrid, Spain Año Proyecto: 2024 Fotografías: Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero (Imagen Subliminal) Read more »

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Moriyama Teshima Architects in collaboration with renowned architects Maki and Associates designed and delivered this landmark cultural complex, consisting of the Aga Khan Museum and the Ismaili Centre (designed with Charles Correa Associates). Through permanent and temporary exhibitions, educational programs and cultural events, the Aga Khan Museum fosters knowledge and understanding of Islamic civilization and its artistic, intellectual, scientific and religious heritage.

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MARCH 7, 2024

© Massimo Nicolino architects: WNA Walter Nicolino Architects Location: Via Jacopo Barozzi, 3m, 40126 Bologna BO, Italy Photographs: Massimo Nicolino Area: 2000.

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The building is situated at the beginning of a shopping street, between a church and a cemetery and surrounded by small-scale buildings. The post Marc Prosman Architecten design residential building with local brick that blends into its surroundings appeared first on Åvontuura.

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© Gonzalo Viramonte architects: Momento Location: Villa Carlos Paz, Córdoba, Argentina Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Gonzalo Viramonte Area: 1285.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Several council homes on the Stirling Prize-winning Goldsmith Street in Norwich could be sold at a discount just five years after they were built, Dezeen can reveal as part of our Social Housing Revival series. A Freedom of Information Act request submitted by Dezeen to Norwich City Council found that seven of the homes in the award-winning social-housing development are already subject to Right to Buy applications, having only been completed in 2019.

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MARCH 7, 2024

© Studio IKSHA architects: Monsoon Projects Location: Kozhikode, Kerala, India Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Studio IKSHA Area: 4850.

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The reconstructed spire of Notre-Dame cathedral has been revealed in Paris , with a design identical to the 1859 version designed by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. Scaffolding has been removed from around the 96-metre-tall spire, which is among the elements of the landmark to be reconstructed following the devastating fire in 2019. Scaffolding has been removed from the rebuilt spire at Notre-Dame cathedral.

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