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JULY 23, 2024

The bigger picture of RIOS ’s massive The 1901 Project proposal on Chicago ’s West Side came into focus today as part of a planned $7 billion redevelopment of areas surrounding the United Center. The 55-acre site is set to be transformed into a mix of retail, entertainment, and residential spaces over a period of ten years in a new privately funded venture that will join RIOS with Field Operations beginning in the spring of 2025.

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JULY 23, 2024

It seems like everywhere you turn these days, someone’s talking about AI. Will it take our jobs? Will it change our future for better or for worse? Architecture is no exception when it comes to these discussions. The question on everyone’s mind is: Will AI replace architects? It's a hot topic, sparking debates, articles, and heated arguments across the industry.

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JULY 23, 2024

Take a look at our latest curated selection of architecture and design firms currently hiring on Archinect Jobs : This week's featured employer highlight includes job openings in New York City , Los Angeles , and Charleston, South Carolina. For even more opportunities, head over to the Archinect job board and explore our active community of job seekers , firms , and schools.

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JULY 23, 2024

Garden Pavilion Architect: spaceworkersLocation: Paredes, PortugalType: PavilionYear: 2024Photographs: Fernando Guerra The following description is courtesy of the designers. This project transcends the limits of simple physical construction. It is a philosophical manifestation that seeks to establish a harmonious dialogue between humans, nature, and architecture.

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JULY 23, 2024

MAD Architects has unveiled a captivating installation that resembles a bubble being gently blown from a traditional wooden structure. Called the “Ephemeral Bubble,” the project was created for the 2024 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, an outdoor art exhibition held every three years in Japan ’s Niigata Prefecture. The biomorphic design seeks to open a dialogue with the Japanese countryside, the architects say.

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Archinect

JULY 23, 2024

A well-deserved tribute to the influential late Italian businessman and multihyphenate designer Paolo Pininfarina , who passed away unexpectedly this April at the age of 65, has come in the form of the 2024 American Prize for Design. His selection as its newest laureate was announced by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies in conjunction with Good Design.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JULY 23, 2024

For the kings and queens of the European monarchy, horses—much like palaces—have historically served as symbols of power and wealth. This month, horses are returning to Versailles as part of The post For the Paris Olympics, a temporary arena renews an equestrian legacy on the grounds of Versailles appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Archinect

JULY 23, 2024

What’s the typical future teenager’s room going to look like? A current exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center explores that very question with a number of surprising answers relating to the influence social media, sustainability, and mental health concerns have all had on interior design as it moves headlong into the third decade of the 21st century.

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JULY 23, 2024

a distinctive staircase, with a skylight and louvered window, illuminates the home. The post modern farmhouse in india sets up patterned exposed brick facade appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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JULY 23, 2024

School is out of session for the summer, but Vassar College ’s new Center for the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and Contemplative Practices is on our minds after a recently completed project from L.E.FT Architects restored the existing Pratt House into a campus hub for student’s wellness and intellectual growth. Photo by Michael Vahrenwald/ESTO Their adaptive reuse of the 109-year-old building turned its three-story Gothic Revival structure into a home for the office and the

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designboom

JULY 23, 2024

more than sixty villas and spa amenities will follow the contours and slopes of the lush green landscape in taiwan. The post ACPV ARCHITECTS begins construction on capella kenting resort in taiwan appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

JULY 23, 2024

This summer, outside of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the museum’s famous forecourt area will be the site of a timely skatepark activation by local artist Raphaël Zarka. His new Cycloïde Piazza installation is meant to connect young Parisian skate enthusiasts and forms a key part of the Cultural Olympiad preceding this year's games , as presented by Centre Pompidou curator Jean-Max Colard.

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JULY 23, 2024

Architecture studio Between the Walls invited artists from across Ukraine to create a collection of chairs , which was raffled off to raise funds for a foundation supporting displaced people in the war-torn country. Local practice Between the Walls asked eight contemporary artists to transform its design for a simple flat-pack wooden chair into a unique art object to raise funds for housing charity District#1.

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JULY 23, 2024

‘Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body’ is the new exhibition at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge , featuring exhibition and graphic design by architects and exhibition designers Nissen Richards Studio. The show, which opened on 19 July and runs until November, revisits the Paris Olympics of 1924, a seminal moment in terms of changes to the way sport was represented - and coinciding with the city hosting the summer games one hundred years later, with the Paris Olympics 2024 opening on

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JULY 23, 2024

Dutch studio MORE Architecture has completed a concrete museum on an island in a manmade lake in Jiaxing, China. Named Ginkgo Gallery after the ginkgo trees that cover the island, the contemporary art museum comprises exhibition rooms, an auditorium, a reading room and a workshop space. Ginkgo Gallery is located on an island in Jiaxing Designed as a small-scale museum and constructed with a minimalist use of materials, the 1,500-square-metre Gingko Gallery was intended to be different from the l

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Architectural Record

JULY 23, 2024

Eight architecturally significant sites, including a Washington, D.C., theater and a Buffalo community center, will share $3.1 million earmarked for preservation efforts through a grant partnership with the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.

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JULY 23, 2024

New York City-based studio WXY Architecture has unveiled a wooden, light-filled visitor centre for a nature preserve on the seaside in Rockaway, Queens. The Arverne East Welcome Center marks the entrance to a 35-acre nature preserve and is part of Phase 1 of New York City's first net-zero residential community. Known as Arverne East, it will have 1,650 housing units across 116 acres.

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A new industry study conducted by Architizer on behalf of Chaos Enscape surveyed 2,139 design professionals to understand the state of architectural visualization and what to expect in the near future. We asked: How are visualizations produced in your firm? What impact does real-time rendering have? What approach are you taking toward the rise of AI?

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designboom

JULY 23, 2024

vondom’s milos collection, honored with the red dot award 2024 and designed by jean-marie massaud, creates a fluid ensemble for outdoor spaces. The post vondom’s outdoor milos collection mimics rocks smoothed by mediterranean winds & waves appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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JULY 23, 2024

Local timber-framed buildings influenced the geometric form of Water Farm, a house that architecture practice Studio Bark has added to a family farm in Sussex. The five-bedroom family home is constructed from wood and defined by its origami-like, wood-clad roof, which pays homage to local buildings and agricultural structures in nearby villages. Water Farm is informed by agricultural buildings in nearby villages "The surrounding villages have many timber-framed buildings from various different a

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JULY 23, 2024

the house embodies strategies prevalent in nature, seen in the circulatory systems of living beings, plant growths, or river arrangements. The post tree branches inform contorting configuration of voluar arquitectura’s house of forking paths appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

JULY 23, 2024

Chinese architects Tao Liu and Chunyan Cai , founders of Shanghai-based Atelier Tao+C , have joined Dezeen Awards China 2024 as judges. Here, they select five projects that best reflect their work. "In recent years our work has been in small-scale architectural remodelling and interior design, aiming to make connections in the often neglected gap between architecture and interiors", Liu and Cai told Dezeen.

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JULY 23, 2024

our guide lists the shows coinciding with the games as well as the background behind the visuals found in the events. The post guide to the paris 2024 olympics, from the design of the games to exhibitions around the city appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JULY 23, 2024

In Silicon Valley, plans to transform 60,000 acres of farmland into a new city for 400,000 people have been shelved by California Forever, at least for now. Jan Sramek, founder The post California Forever withdraws proposed ballot measure for East Solano Plan appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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designboom

JULY 23, 2024

aside from its manila cream exterior, another standout feature may come from the 55-inch, pillar-to-pillar display at the dashboard of the vehicle. The post cadillac’s concept electric convertible ‘SOLLEI’ resurrects manila cream color of 1950s cars appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JULY 23, 2024

Chelsea, Massachusetts, is a city of 38,000 people just north of Boston. (East Boston, to be exact.) In Chelsea’s historic Powder Horn Hill neighborhood, a new hospital that provides long-term The post In Massachusetts, a new veterans hospital by Payette embodies “compassion, dignity, and sustainability” appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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