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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University has shared its Fall speakers and events information as part of our look at what our Archinect Partner Schools have planned in the first half of the 2024-25 year. Heather Davis begins the term with the first Critical Dialogue series presentation, a look at her new title Plastic Matter on September 17th.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Overview of Tainan Spring. Image © Daria Scagliola via Archdaily Water architecture has always been important throughout human history. From the aqueducts in ancient Rome to the grand canals of Venice, water has not only sustained life but also played an important role in shaping the urban environment. It has facilitated trade, nourished agricultural lands, and provided a sense of place and identity to different communities.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Welcome to the third installment of Archinect's new series, State of AEC. At the end of each month, we will guide you through the latest analyses, indexes, and trends on how the architecture and construction industries are performing economically. In our previous edition of the series, we noted the almost unanimous hope expressed by commentators across the AEC industry that the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Renata Building / Metro Arquitetos. © Fran Parente The term " retrofit ," unlike rehabilitation or restoration , has been adopted by the market to address technological upgrades in existing buildings. These projects focus on aligning constructions with local technical standards and adapting spaces to be more functional and sustainable , meeting current demands.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Following our previous look at an opening for a Robotics/Prototype Specialist at the University of Redlands School of Architecture , we are using the latest edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an opening on Archinect Jobs for a Visualization Designer at Payette. The role, based in Boston, calls for an individual who will be responsible for 3D modeling and grasshopper creation within the firm’s Design Visualizations Group, which “works closely with architecture teams to st

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

American landscape architect Walter Hood has joined ranks with some of his profession's most well-recognized names after being honored today with the National Building Museum ’s prestigious Vincent Scully Prize for 2024.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Global Winners: The Light Filter and Solar Sinter. Image Courtesy of The International Velux Award for Students of Architecture 2024 The VELUX Group is proud to announce that the projects ‘Solar Sinter’ by Anders Eugen Lund (Denmark), and ‘The Light Filter’ by Wan Zilin, Poon Gin Yong & Zang Jiayou (China), have been selected as the global winners of the International VELUX Award for Students of Architecture 2024.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

MASS Design Group has opened a new Gun Violence Memorial Project in the city of Boston that will amplify individual stories of our ongoing collective tragedy nationwide. The firm says the project "aspires to be a catalyst for change and a testament to the resilience of communities affected by gun violence." Joining the other installations at City Hall and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston is another memorial house created inside the firm's office at 1 Chandler Street.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Masterplan Framework, designed by KPF. Image Courtesy of Plomp Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) has just unveiled its 2045 Campus Vision for the University of Birmingham , a plan designed to shape the future of the institution. This framework evaluates the university’s portfolio of over 300 buildings, identifying areas for retention, refurbishment , transformation, or replacement to support its goal of becoming a net-zero , future-ready university.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Over seven years after fire engulfed London’s Grenfell Tower killing 72 people, a public inquiry into the disaster has released its final report. The Grenfell Inquiry’s report has uncovered a chain of failures across government and the private sector, including an architecture firm, beginning a full 25 years before the 2017 fire. The report ultimately found that all 72 deaths were avoidable.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Completed in 2024 in Nyon, Switzerland. Images by Pepe Fotografia. Marking a new development in their long-term research on urban wellbeing, London- and Turin-based design innovation firm, completes the third.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The Harvard GSD has shared its Fall 2024 public lectures series as part of our Get Lectured roundup of events taking place across the academic spectrum in the new semester. The exciting lineup begins with professor Eric Höweler 's presentation 'Clay: Pedagogy and Practice' on September 9 followed by Chelina Odbert's Margaret McCurry Lectureship in the Design Arts on September 12.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Euro American Innovation City. Image © Foster + Partners Situated in Hangzhou's Central Business District, the Euro American Innovation City is a mixed-use development designed by Foster+Partners to become a dynamic addition to the city. The 346,450 square-meter project includes two 200-meter-high office towers and four high-rise apartment buildings, complemented by a public plaza, an IT incubator, and a retail mall on the lower levels.

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Speaker: Donna Laquidara-Carr, PhD, LEED AP, Industry Insights Research Director at Dodge Construction Network

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Today, the American Society of Landscape Architects announced thirty-nine winners for the 2024 edition of its annual Professional Awards honors. The group includes the second ASLA / International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) Global Impact Award, which this year went to Studio-MLA for their Puente Hills Landfill Park Plan project in Los Angeles, California.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

© Dapple Photography architects: WT Architecture Location: East Lothian Council, United Kingdom Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Dapple Photography Photographs: Leigh Simpson Area: 370.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This fall, the Art Institute of Chicago will be exhibiting the first-ever solo museum treatment of the groundbreaking work of Germane Barnes , the 2021 Wheelwright Prize winner and designer famous for his investigations into the politics of architecture. Titled ‘Columnar Disorder,’ the show brings together Barnes’ Rome Prize- winning research into African diasporic traditions and classical architecture.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

© CreatAR Images architects: VIASCAPE design Location: Southeast side of Caoxi Road and South Kaixuan Road, Xuhui District, China Project Year: 2023 Photographs: CreatAR Images Area: 140.

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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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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

MASS Design Group has opened a new Gun Violence Memorial Project in the city of Boston that will amplify individual stories of our ongoing collective tragedy nationwide. The firm says the project "aspires to be a catalyst for change and a testament to the resilience of communities affected by gun violence." Joining the other installations at City Hall and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston is another memorial house created inside the firm's office at 1 Chandler Street.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

© Kevin architects: Immediacy Design and Research Office Location: Xi'an Original Point New City, China Project Year: 2024 Photographs: Kevin Area: 29.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced that it has awarded a $190,000 competitive grant to the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Fund. The grant comes in the form of the Landmarks of American History and Culture award, which aims to support a series of workshops for 72 K-12 educators to study environmental humanities and place-making through the lens of landscape architecture in Washington, D.C.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

© Kim Fohmann architects: Curious About Location: Offenbach an der Queich, Germany Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Kim Fohmann Area: 153.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Today, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced thirty-nine winners for the 2024 edition of its annual Professional Awards honors. The group includes the second ASLA / International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) Global Impact Award, which this year went to Studio-MLA for their Puente Hills Landfill Park Plan project in Los Angeles, California.

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Completed in 2020 in São Paulo, Brazil. Images by Fran Parente. The brazility, so determining for the identity of the brand +55design, also& defined the architecture of the store, designed by Arthur Casas.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

instead of a boxy volume containing the entire program, the architects divided the core spaces into individual yet connected shared and private villas. The post SLIC scatters cluster of brick and limestone villas amid jungle in the philippines appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

© Javier Agustín Rojas architects: Ignacio Szulman arquitecto Location: Parque Chas, Buenos Aires, Argentina Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Javier Agustín Rojas Area: 1937.

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