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AUGUST 6, 2024

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting that Hip Hop Architect Michael Ford will design the city’s new Bronzeville Center for the Arts for 2028. The 50,000-square-foot, $54.9 million project is set to take shape at a 3.4-acre former state Department of Natural Resources office with design and technical support from HGA. The project, which follows Ford’s collaboration on the S9 Architecture -led Universal Hip Hop Museum in the South Bronx, New York, is meant to serve as the first

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AUGUST 6, 2024

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AUGUST 6, 2024

In this week's curated employer highlight from Archinect Jobs , we are featuring five architecture and design firms with current openings in New York City , Los Angeles , Philadelphia , and Boston. In Philadelphia, ISA is seeking an Architect/Project Leader and a Marketing and Business Development Coordinator. The Architect/Project Leader should have five to ten-plus years of experience and knowledge of building code, construction detailing, construction administration, and Revit.

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Avontuura

AUGUST 6, 2024

The main design concept of French Kitsch III is developed by interpreting its name; ‘French’ and ‘Kitsch’. The post This French café in Thailand is inspired by the imperfect shape of a croissant appeared first on Åvontuura.

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Archinect

AUGUST 6, 2024

Most often, homes with little or no air conditioning are occupied by low-income residents – often renters — and people of color, a 2022 Boston University analysis of 115 U.S. metro areas found. That leaves them vulnerable as climate change makes heatwaves more frequent, more intense and longer lasting. Heat stress now kills more people globally each year than any other weather-related cause, according to the World Health Organization — and many of these deaths occur indoors.

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Archinect

AUGUST 6, 2024

“We’ve done all the competitive events up to the Olympics so starting with Dubai this year and then through the Olympic qualifying series in Shanghai and Budapest,” he said. “There’s been a progression of design that goes through each of those different courses both in street and park that will ultimately lead up to the courses we’ve designed for Paris and the Olympics.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Mathieu Lehanneur 's designs have played a starring role at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. In this interview , the French designer explains why his "flying" Olympic cauldron may become a permanent Parisian landmark. Lehanneur , who is known for his playful and often thought-provoking product designs, began work on the cauldron and the Olympic torch in early 2023 and says he was given free reign over the designs.

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Archinect

AUGUST 6, 2024

A unique Frank Lloyd Wright home in the historic Parkwyn Village community in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, is for sale after listing for $1.85 million. The two-story Robert D. and Winifred L. Winn House from the architect’s Usonian period was built in 1950 and features a similar three-bedroom layout shared by a pair of Wright designs located nearby in The Acres that went on the market last September.

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Deezen

AUGUST 6, 2024

Local architecture studio CookFox Architects has unveiled plans to renovate a former women's prison in Chelsea into "100 per cent" affordable housing. Located just blocks away from the One High Line luxury residential towers by BIG, the building once served merchant marines as the Seamen's House YMCA before it was converted into the Bayview Correctional Facility.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

It's hot out there, so go and refresh your senses with some inspiring exhibitions, grab a chilled drink, and mingle with fellow architecture and design community members at exciting live and virtual events this month. From the roster of ongoing and upcoming events listed on Bustler , here is a brief curated selection of recommendations worth checking out this August.

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designboom

AUGUST 6, 2024

drawing from colonial central courtyards, caracola provides an intimate space that allows guests to enjoy the sun while enjoying their privacy. The post lush, breezy central courtyard anchors caracola surf retreat experience in guatemala appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

AUGUST 6, 2024

The second edition of the Marsception Architecture Competition just published its winning entries, exploring the potential of Mars being a future habitat for humankind. The brief tasked participants to design concepts for a self-sustaining living space for a group of five researchers on the Red Planet. Proposals needed to feature a functional and sustainable space located anywhere on Mars that meets the needs of the researchers.

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designboom

AUGUST 6, 2024

this year's edition is hosted at the homes of two asian-brazilian women, artist tomie ohtake and designer/architect chu ming silveira, honoring their legacy. The post ABERTO show unfolds at tomie ohtake & chu ming silveira’s brutalist são paulo residences appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

AUGUST 6, 2024

This project involved the renewal of a children's playground located in a corner of a large commercial facility. We created a beautiful and enjoyable paradise, "SHANGRI-LA," that will remain in the memories of children. Spiral Terrace We preserved a 25-year-old zelkova tree, placing it at the center and expanding a spiral water surface around it, resembling terraced rice paddies.

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Deezen

AUGUST 6, 2024

Architectural sites with significance to African American culture have received funds as part of Conserving Black Modernism, a national grant program that highlights "undervalued" contributions of Black architects in the United States. Among the featured projects are a dormitory complex in Mississippi and a mosque in Washington DC. The Conserving Black Modernism program is a grant program in its second year, managed under the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund ( AACHAF ).

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Dwell

AUGUST 6, 2024

Set in Highland Park, the 1920s Spanish-style home pairs smooth plastered walls with Saltillo, Talavera, and zellige finishes. Location : 6132 Mount Angelus Drive, Los Angeles, California Price : $1,600,000 Year Built : 1928 Renovated by : Bungalowe Footprint : 1,069 square feet (two bedrooms, three baths) Lot Size : 0.07 acres From the Agent : " Presented by design-build team Bungalowe, this striking home boasts Oaxacan style, effortless flow, and city views—offering a sanctuary in the hills of

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designboom

AUGUST 6, 2024

each shade represents a sport: surfing for blue, tennis for green, basketball for yellow, boxing for red, and skateboarding for black. The post paris 2024 olympics ‘alter egos’ come out as custom electric motorbikes by DAB motors appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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The Architect's Newsletter

AUGUST 6, 2024

This fall, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will exhibit Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial. The museum has commissioned 25 site-specific installations examining “design’s role in shaping the physical and emotional realities The post Smithsonian Design Triennial names participants to create 25 installations related to the concept of home appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Deezen

AUGUST 6, 2024

Franco-Brazilian architecture studio Triptyque has designed a building to house the United States delegation in the Olympic Village, which will be converted to affordable housing after the Olympics. The structure is one of 82 buildings within the 2024 Olympic Village, which has been built in San Denis to house houses 14,000 athletes and technical staff on a site that previously contained industrial structures.

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designboom

AUGUST 6, 2024

challenging industrial homogenization, mycelium mushroom grows on monobloc chairs, plastic stools, and lighting fixtures. The post agricultural waste-grown mycelium by NONGZAO takes over everyday plastic objects appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

AUGUST 6, 2024

A sage green facade formed of rhythmic wooden panels defines Babendiekstraße 23, a pair of timber houses that architecture studio NOTO has completed in Hamburg , Germany. Located on a tree-filled site, the two homes are combined within a three-storey cubic form with cutouts that make space for existing greenery around its edges. This includes one corner of the plan, where NOTO has cut off the building at an angle to make space for an existing tree.

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designboom

AUGUST 6, 2024

designboom interviews pioneer works founder and artistic director to learn about the exhibitions ahead of next month's opening in brooklyn. The post red hook’s pioneer works to reopen with new slate of exhibitions and performances appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

AUGUST 6, 2024

Welsh practice Benjamin Hale Architects has added two modern extensions – one made from pale brick, the other from black zinc – to a Victorian-era home in south London. The end-of-terrace house is located in Dulwich and previously featured a dim and dated interior. The ground floor extension accommodates a new kitchen Working alongside local interior designer Hamish Vincent , Benjamin Hale Architects set out to bring natural light back into the plan and "engender a sense of calm and domesticity"

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designboom

AUGUST 6, 2024

the design concept by delicate is inspired by the wind, symbolizing movement and progress. The post fluid brick-clad facade undulates around karinox coffee shop in vietnam appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Hotel Designs

AUGUST 6, 2024

Hotel Designs Hot off the press – Harlequin x Henry Holland Hot off the press – Harlequin x Henry Holland Launching today, Harlequin x Henry Holland is a collaboration that combines Harlequin’s mastery of colour with Henry Holland’s signature style in clay work to create a cool, effortlessly curated collection of fabric and wallpaper that sits at the intersection of ceramics and interiors… This collaborative collection reveals Hollands’s work , combined with Harlequin’s vision for empowere

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