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JUNE 13, 2024

© Binyan 3XN GXN has revealed its design for Mahler 1, a 15-storey mixed-use office building. The structure, developed in collaboration with Victory Group, Icon Real Estate, and Erik Dhont Landscape Architects, features a hybrid-timber construction system that creates a stepped volume, breaking down the building’s mass. At the street level, the development offers a wide variety of public amenities, striving to become an active hub for both residents and office workers.

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JUNE 13, 2024

Taliesin Preservation’s restoration of the Hillside Theater at Frank Lloyd Wright ’s former estate in Spring Green, Wisconsin, has been completed following a five-year and $1.1 million transformation effort for The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Originally designed in 1903 to serve the Hillside Home School that was included in the 800-acre estate in the heavily forested Driftless Area, the space is now once again capable of hosting theatrical productions and will precede its public r

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JUNE 13, 2024

Courtesy of Foster + Partners Located in the heart of Beijing’s Central Business District, the Z6 tower, designed by Foster + Partners , has become China's first high-rise office building to achieve “ Net Zero Carbon Outstanding” certification. The project received this recognition by passing the “Net Zero Carbon Building Evaluation System,” which was developed by the British Research Establishment (BRE) and TÜV Rheinland Greater China, based on BREEAM standards.

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JUNE 13, 2024

Engineers at Princeton University have developed a new cement composite, inspired by the material found within certain shells, that is 17 times more crack-resistant than standard cement and 19 times more able to stretch and deform without breaking. The research team was led by Reza Moini, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.

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JUNE 13, 2024

Shigeru Ban Architects Unveils Paper Log House at Philip Johnson's Glass House. Image © Michael Biondo The concept of low-tech architecture recognizes the impact of carbon-intensive technologies and building practices and proposes an alternative: a rediscovery of practical, rational, locally adapted solutions that count on smart design strategies instead of energy-intensive devices to ensure a safe, comfortable living environment.

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JUNE 13, 2024

Completed in 2022 in Meguro City, Japan. Images by Masanori Kaneshita. We designed a residence that doubles as a workspace in a 50-year-old apartment building on high ground in the heart of the city. The building stands.

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JUNE 13, 2024

Quinn Evans Architects has shared some photos of their completed work on the newly remade Michigan Central Station in Detroit. The home of the Ford Motor Company’s 1.2-million-square-foot technology hub in the historic Corktown district re-established the 110-year-old landmark through an expedited six-year process described as a "hybrid approach" by senior associate Angela Wyrembelski.

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JUNE 13, 2024

© Alejandro Gómez Vives architects: HB Estudi d'Arquitectura Location: Calle dels Mont 9, Algemesí (46680) Valencia , Spain Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Alejandro Gómez Vives Area: 893 ft2 Read more »

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JUNE 13, 2024

Quinn Evans Architects has shared some photos of their completed work on the newly remade Michigan Central Station in Detroit. The home of the Ford Motor Company’s 1.2-million-square-foot technology hub in the historic Corktown district re-established the 110-year-old landmark through an expedited six-year process described as a "hybrid approach" by senior associate Angela Wyrembelski.

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JUNE 13, 2024

Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University. Image © Josh Hallett This article was originally published on Common Edge. In London, where I live, there are 23 universities. Those universities make up an institutional population of nearly half a million people. In a city with almost 10 million residents, 5% may seem a small number, but it’s a significant one, roughly the population of Atlanta.

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JUNE 13, 2024

The billionaire proponents of a brand-new city that would rise from the rolling prairie northeast of the San Francisco Bay cleared their first big hurdle Tuesday, when the Solano County Registrar of Voters certified the group had enough signatures to put its proposal before local voters in November. The plan calls for up to 400,000 residents to be housed nearly 60 miles from San Francisco on an over 16,000-acre land parcel currently used mainly for tomato, walnut, and plant nursery farming.

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JUNE 13, 2024

© ICD-ITKE-IntCDC-University of Stuttgart architects: ICD/ITKE/IntCDC University of Stuttgart Location: Wangen im Allgäu, Germany Project Year: 2024 Photographs: ICD-ITKE-IntCDC-University of Stuttgart Photographs: Roland Halbe Photographs: Nina Baisch Photographs: Christoph Morlok Area: 50.

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JUNE 13, 2024

In the US architectural profession of the 2020s, and newfound scrutiny over workplace conditions from unpaid overtime to a poor work-life balance, architecture competitions have become the subject of debate over how the profession values itself and is valued by wider society while also ensuring public-funded projects are not exploited as avenues of cronyism.

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JUNE 13, 2024

© Vincent Fillon architects: chaixetmorel. Location: Saint-Denis, France Project Year: 2024 Photographs: Vincent Fillon Photographs: Anne Claude Barbier Area: 68000.

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JUNE 13, 2024

The meandering street offers a wide range of restaurants and shops, receding and expanding at the upper level to create unique vantage points. The post Foster + Partners complete Battersea Roof Gardens and 50 Electric Boulevard appeared first on Åvontuura.

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JUNE 13, 2024

© Punto Dos Studio architects: Baquio Arquitectura Location: Nanegalito, Ecuador Project Year: 2024 Photographs: Punto Dos Studio Area: 36.

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JUNE 13, 2024

Discover how Jake Williams leveraged Corona to highlight The Little Mod, an urban infill development, securing crucial funding and winning awards.

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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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JUNE 13, 2024

© Clemens Wronski architects: LNCL architects: büro hacke Location: Berlin, Germany Project Year: 2024 Photographs: Clemens Wronski Area: 752.

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JUNE 13, 2024

the lantern is a concentric installation with a glowing, elemental void at its core. The post TLS’ bamboo maze installation wrapped in mesh emits a luminous mist in chengdu appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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JUNE 13, 2024

© Felix Gerlach architects: Tengbom Location: Hägersten-Liljeholmen, Sweden Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Felix Gerlach Area: 14000.

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JUNE 13, 2024

The Hillside Theatre by Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin has reopened following an extensive five-year restoration that addressed "significant structural and functional challenges". Located on Taliesin, the Wisconsin estate Frank Lloyd Wright called home for nearly 50 years, the Hillside Theatre served as a multipurpose space since its 1903 inception and as a more formal "playhouse" since 1932.

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Completed in 2021 in , Brazil. Images by Ronaldo Melo.

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Graphic metal facades and curving glass-block walls characterise this apartment in Porto , which was converted from a ground-floor shop by local architecture studio Fala Atelier. Located in a 1970s housing block, the narrow commercial space has been transformed into a light-filled home named 097 Waves of Glass and Clouds of Metal. Mesh screens have been added to the rear of the property "Our project tried to blur the boundaries between what a domestic space and a virtual space could be, dealing

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JUNE 13, 2024

Completed in 2024 in Zhangjiakou, China. Images by Wen Studio.

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JUNE 13, 2024

After a lengthy $1.1 million restoration project, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hillside Theater at Taliesin is back open in Spring Green, Wisconsin. The endeavor was meant to preserve the iconic building The post Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hillside Theater reopens at Taliesin in Wisconsin appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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