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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Foster + Partners has unveiled a new resiliency-based master plan for the low-lying Gaafaru Island in the Maldives. The plan addresses the existential crisis posed to the island by climate change, providing "holistic" solutions along multiple fronts where there is a need for a better economic and environmental way forward. Image courtesy Foster + Partners According to the firm, the six core tenets of the plan are: Adapting to rising sea levels and extreme conditions Minimizing damaging dredging

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

© Vize The consortium led by the French architecture firm Coldefy , in partnership with Albanian studio Atelier 4, Sempervirens, and Italian firm AEI Progetti, has just won the international competition to design Albania's new Public Administration Cluster in Tirana. This 31,000-square-meter project will bring together over 20 government institutions under one roof, aiming to improve administrative efficiency while fostering greater public accessibility and engagement.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

This week's edition of our curated jobs roundup from Archinect Jobs highlights eight employers with exciting job opportunities for architects, project managers, interior designers, and marketing professionals in Philadelphia. For helpful guidance on how to get that next job, make sure to check out Archinect's Guide to Job Titles series and our Archinect Tips collection.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Perspective drawing of the Lower Manhattan Expressway / City Corridor project (unbuilt), New York ca. 1967–72. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of the Howard Gilman Foundation (1290.2000). Image Courtesy of The Met The Metropolitan Museum of Art has opened a major exhibition focused on the diverse and innovative career of Paul Rudolph , a second-generation Modernist architect whose work stands alongside luminaries such as Eero Saarinen and I.M.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

The $2 billion plan for the mixed-use Fourth & Central development in downtown LA has been altered away from the project’s originally announced 10-building plan in the Arts District. Studio One Eleven is leading the plan, which has been updated as of October 17th. The update includes more rental housing than its previous iteration. An Adjaye Associates -designed residential tower has also been resized from 44 stories to 30 stories in response to "community concerns," according to devel

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

The second edition of RIBA’s Reinvention Award has been given to fardaa’s Croft 3 conversion project on the Scottish Isle of Mull. The firm’s entry was selected over five others in this year’s shortlist for the award, which is meant to recognize creativity and the best practices in the reuse and rehabilitation of buildings to make them more socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Model for reshaping Richmond, California, from Berkeley MUD first-semester introductory studio. Image: Courtesy College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley Fifteen UC Berkeley Master of Urban Design students watched as farmers, small business owners, government agency officials, representatives from Indigenous tribes, and interested citizens filed into the exhibition hall in the John Steinbeck Center.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

He’s now the subject of a modest but riveting retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, organized by Abraham Thomas, called 'Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph,' whose first order of business is obviously to answer a question people outside architecture circles will ask, namely: Who was he? The exhibition , the Met’s first major show on modern architecture in almost fifty years, opened on September 30th and includes over 80 artifacts from the Ken

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Completed in 2022 in Amarante, Portugal. Images by Ivo Tavares Studio. The “Áurea housing” project had as its initial premise the concept of the golden ratio. It developed with the implantation of two golden rectangles.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

A new tool for architectural visualizers has been revealed, delivering ray-traced rendering, seamless 3D scene assembly, and cinematic animation capabilities.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

© Eva Bloem architects: De Zwarte Hond Location: Leiden, The Netherlands Project Year: 2024 Photographs: Eva Bloem Photographs: De Zwarte Hond Photographs: Stijn Poelstra Area: 11400.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Today, the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Environment has shared its public events and lectures information as part of our Get Lectured roundups for Fall 2024. This week has seen appearances from Bill Leddy and LEVER’ s Thomas Robinson. The events continue over the weekend with the two-day Reynolds Symposium from October 18-19.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Ticket Booth in The Forbidden City / TnJ Studio. Image © TnJ Studio In celebration of Urban October , a month dedicated to recognizing the significance of innovative urban spaces, this curated selection presents 8 conceptual projects that demonstrate the transformative potential of public spaces. These projects, submitted by the ArchDaily community , showcase the myriad ways public spaces can enhance cultural identity, community interaction, and environmental quality.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

The fifth Neave Brown Award for Housing presented as part of RIBA’s Special Awards has been given to London’s Al-Jawad Pike for their Chowdhury Walk infill housing scheme in Hackney. The award is given each year in honor of the late architect and social housing pioneer, recognizing the best new designs in the important typology from around the UK.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Completed in 2023 in Iran. Images by Khatereh Eshqi. In Dopendar, we faced two challenges: first, viewing architecture as a cultural matter, and second, the two different perspectives of Hamed and.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Introducing Sky Base One , a masterpiece by Bespoke Architects , located in the breathtaking landscape of Lagoa, Portugal. Completed in 2023, this villa stands as a bold fusion of science fiction inspiration and traditional Taoist principles, offering a unique living experience that harmonizes with nature. What sets Sky Base One apart is its visionary origin.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Completed in 2024 in Porrentruy, Switzerland. Images by Sven Högger. The project is located in Porrentruy, a small town in the Swiss Jura. A modest three-story house, positioned at the end of a long street, had quietly.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Architects: Snøhetta, ECADI LOPO Terracotta Products: Natural Fired Terracotta (brick-red and sandy beige), 30mm Thickness, 11783.31 SQM On October 7, 2024, Beijing City Library just won the "2024 Public Library Award" from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and set three world records: The first library with a 25,000 square meter super-open reading environment.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Completed in 2024 in Paju-si, South Korea. Images by Yongbaek Lee. A city is alive, constantly evolving and establishing a dynamic balance through the interactions and events between people and places. Non-organic.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

The land is used for allotment gardens and farming, stimulating residents and their children to learn about the origin of healthy food. The post Dongshan Island by MORE Architecture offers an alternative to the Chinese residential compound. appeared first on Åvontuura.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

© Dan Ryan Studio architects: The Ranch Mine Location: Durango, United States Project Year: 2024 Photographs: Dan Ryan Studio Area: 2688.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Learn how arch viz studio, narrativ, used anima ALL to quickly breathe life into Portsmouth's Gunwharf Quays visualization with 3D people and 4D humans

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Building -& Mission Rock Building B reimages the future of the workplace by fostering a seamless connection between interior and exterior spaces.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

with its mountain-like rooftop clad in a ceramic skin, UCCA museum is a sculptural landmark for the city. The post kengo kuma wraps undulating clay museum in ceramic panels for china’s ‘pottery city’ appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

© Sharyn Cairns architects: Splinter Society Location: South Yarra, Australia Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Sharyn Cairns Area: 197.

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