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JULY 18, 2024

Tenberke , in collaboration with Ballinger , has revealed designs for a new center for quantum science, engineering, and materials initiatives at Yale University. Called the Upper Science Hill Development (USHD), the 611,000-square-foot complex will be one of Yale’s largest and most complex building projects ever undertaken. Located in the Science Hill precinct, the complex will add a publicly accessible series of landscape spaces to foster pedestrian and cyclist circulation on the campus.

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JULY 18, 2024

Not too long ago, the words 'design of the future' might have conjured images of austere concrete and steel structures devoid of color, let alone green spaces. We saw the built environment of the future as indifferent, if not hostile, to our innate human need to be connected with the natural environment.

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JULY 18, 2024

A group of eight important Black modernist sites across the country has been selected for a round of grants worth a total of $1.2 million by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. They were part of the Conserving Black Modernism program that is being directed by the Trust's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. Grants ranging up to $150,000 were awarded in four categories.

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JULY 18, 2024

Saltholme Pools Hide is the refurbishment of a dilapidated bird hide at Saltholme Nature Reserve in the North-East of England The post Child Graddon Lewis refurbish dilapidated bird hide at Saltholme Nature Reserve in North-East England appeared first on Åvontuura.

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JULY 18, 2024

Among the 16 global projects recognized by Prix Versailles with a World’s Most Beautiful Restaurants award this year is a unique café space in Chonburi, Thailand, from the 20-year-old Bangkok studio IDIN Architects, which garnered particular attention for its delightful and well-detailed design. Image: DOF Sky | Ground Image: DOF Sky | Ground The stand-alone Harudot project was completed between February 2022 and June of last year.

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JULY 18, 2024

City Councilmember Lincoln Restler of Brooklyn, who confirmed the news with Gothamist on Wednesday, said he plans to introduce his bill during Thursday’s stated meeting. The bill is intended to mimic current local law requiring landlords to provide tenants with heat during the winter months by requiring them to ensure tenants can cool their homes to at least 78 degrees when it is 82 degrees or warmer during the summer, Restler said.

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JULY 18, 2024

village des athlètes by brenac & gonzalez & associés transitions from temporary athlete housing to long-term residential use. The post matte terracotta tiles in dynamic patterns outline athletes’ village in paris appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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JULY 18, 2024

This week's edition of our curated jobs roundup from Archinect Jobs highlights ten architecture firms and one school currently hiring Marketing & Business Development specialists in New York City. 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. Diller Scofidio + Renfro seeks a Director of Marketing & Business Development "The Director leads a team that is responsible for developing and supp

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JULY 18, 2024

'casa na rua sara beirão' is a residence by SIA arquitectura which cantilevers dramatically over oeiras, portugal. The post SIA arquitectura builds a gravity-defying dwelling with a cantilevered swimming pool appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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JULY 18, 2024

The 25th edition of the International Garden Festival at Reford Gardens in Grand-Métis, Quebec, is now open to the public. 27 contemporary gardens, including six new ones, are on show, along with a permanent installation ( Pergola ) and two extramural projects ( FolkFLORE and Repairia / Riparia). For this edition of the festival, which will run until October 6th, designers responded to the theme "The Ecology of Possibility," which aimed to cultivate explorations into the future of garden

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JULY 18, 2024

Architecture studio Büro Ole Scheeren has revealed Scenic City, its design for the headquarters of Chinese e-commerce company JD.com, which will feature facades designed to resemble waterfalls. The project is located in Nanshan District in Shenzhen , China , a newly established business and financial hub where several Chinese tech giants will reside.

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Archinect

JULY 18, 2024

Is the Chrysler Building’s reputation enough for it to endure as an icon, or is it at risk of fading away from the skyline, as newer, taller and glitzier glass buildings surround it? William Van Alen’s iconic masterpiece of the Art Deco style (which topped out just six days before the stock market crash of 1929) is now facing financial uncertainties after its pre-pandemic sale for just $150 million to an Austrian developer and New York-based CRE firm.

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JULY 18, 2024

Sustainability must be incorporated into architecture projects in a truly holistic way in order to support the green transition, writes Trimble SketchUp's Andrew Corney as part of Dezeen's Climate Salon partnership with the software company. In the realm of architecture, aesthetics have long been intertwined with cultural norms, technological advancements and individual preferences.

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JULY 18, 2024

A thought-provoking new café design in Shanghai ’s mixed-use Columbia Circle complex from Neri&Hu for the Blue Bottle Coffee chain has caught our eye after being completed earlier this year. Executed at just 1,680 square feet within the leftover footprint evacuated by a former residential building, the new 'The Imprint' café provides customers a respite from the blistering pace of city life with a welcoming sense of 'home' in line with the client's brand identity and comm

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JULY 18, 2024

A plantation-era cemetery in Georgia, a 1930s Mississippi jazz “juke joint,” and one of the oldest Black mosques in the country are among the 30 sites selected by the National The post Houses, churches, cemeteries, and other sites centering African American histories receive $3 million in funding for preservation projects appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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JULY 18, 2024

Lasting Joy is a farm brewery located on a 31 acre parcel of former agricultural land in the Hudson Valley. An existing barn was repurposed as the brewery portion of the program, and a new, purpose-built tasting room space was constructed. The tasting room is composed of a glulam structural frame and cross-laminated timber roof. The space is defined by its structural system, along with a fully glazed enclosure and exterior weathering-steel cladding.

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JULY 18, 2024

Local studio CookFox Architects has added an extension to an early 1900s building in the Upper West Side , paying homage to its historic character. The 378 West End Avenue project consisted of restoring the facade of a pre-existing building while extending the structure externally and internally with a 19-storey apartment building made-up of red and white-brick clad volumes.

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JULY 18, 2024

This home, on two acres, near Mazama in Washington's Methow Valley, was sited to take maximum advantage of a south-facing orientation. Its horseshoe shape creates a courtyard between the wings of the home which is cooler in the summer and cozy with a fire pit in the winter. The home’s design highlights the indoor/outdoor relationship that characterizes Methow Valley life.

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JULY 18, 2024

the sleek, triangular form culminates in a tall opening that frames a garden view. The post vertical louvered wooden columns form temp’s 3-to-1 triangular pavilion in shanghai appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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JULY 18, 2024

An integrated commercial precinct for Shanghai Shanghai has welcomed a new mixed-use urban destination, Seasons Place, next to one of the city’s major railway interchanges, the Shanghai Railway Station in Jing'an District. Lead8 is the retail architect and retail interior designer for the development and collaborated with Goettsch Partners on the overall masterplan.

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JULY 18, 2024

Technology company Dyson has unveiled the OnTrac noise-cancelling headphones , which are the brand's first-ever audio-only headphones. Launched today, the OnTrac was designed to make an impact on the headphones market people in a similar way to Dyson 's launch of the DC01 vacuum in 1993. Dyson has launched its first audio-only headphones "At Dyson, we are driven by the opportunity to disrupt established categories," Dyson principal industrial designer Phil Douglas told Dezeen.

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JULY 18, 2024

1. Marziyeh, the architect who helped us here at Rooydaad for three years, making our architectural endeavors brighter, sat before us one day, overwhelmed with fear and anxiety, and confessed that she no longer felt passionate about architecture and desired to focus solely on painting—a revelation that seemed incongruous given her professionalism and proficiency in her role.

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JULY 18, 2024

Bahamian artist Tavares Strachan has positioned a large-scale model of a ship in a rooftop pond at London's Hayward Gallery , forming an outdoor installation to accompany his current art exhibition There Is Light Somewhere. The installation is a replica of SS Yarmouth – the flagship of the former Black Star Line, the first Black-owned shipping company in North America established by the Jamaican political activist Marcus Garvey in 1919.

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Archinect

JULY 18, 2024

What if civic buildings in London’s Square Mile transformed from enclosed institutional structures into a horizontal system integrated into the fabric of the streets, opening up and encouraging public participation across discussions on the future of London and its people? For the 20th anniversary of the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) this summer, Urban Radicals has designed 4 Street Assembly platforms across the Square Mile, which re-imagine alternative parliament typologies and fo

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designboom

JULY 18, 2024

the installation will open as a 'living, breathing' snapshot of wild nature in the mountains of austria. The post fabian knecht’s upcoming installation will isolate austria’s wild nature within a white cube appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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