Archinect

JULY 30, 2024

The winners of the best architects 25 award have been revealed, with 83 projects honored for their outstanding achievements and innovative architectural designs. Eight works received gold awards for their particular quality. This year's jury, comprised of Matthias Castorph (Munich, Germany), Maria Saiz (Vevey, Switzerland), and Michael Salvi (Vienna, Austria), described the field of winners as diverse, complex, and creative.

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Mesh House Architect: Alison Brooks ArchitectsLocation: Belsize Park, LondonType: HouseYear: 2024Photographs: Paul Riddle Photography The following description is courtesy of the designers. This project is a private house in Belsize Park, London, a neighbourhood renowned for its architectural character and experimental houses dating from the 18th to 21st centuries.

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Archinect

JULY 30, 2024

The Tribune recently asked why mass timber construction is so lagging in Chicago while nearby Milwaukee and other cities in the Pacific Northwest and Europe are making strides to embrace the movement by altering their building codes and fire safety regulations. Even after an amenable update to its citywide code in 2020, forces such as the collective memory of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire are one such impediment to the development of new wooden designs.

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JULY 30, 2024

The Royal Institute of British Architects has unveiled its shortlist for this year's Stirling Prize , made up of six British buildings that are "purposeful yet unassuming". All shortlisted projects are in England, with just two of the six located outside of London. These are Phase 2 of the Park Hill estate regeneration in Sheffield by Mikhail Riches and the Wraxall Yard holiday accommodation in Dorset by Clementine Blakemore Architects.

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Archinect

JULY 30, 2024

Next month, Brooklyn’s Weeksville Heritage Site begins the first of a new imaginative public art installations series from the Black Reconstruction Collective. There, the industrial ‘Unmonument’ designed by Olalekan Jeyifous will take center stage starting August 8 as the instigator of several other small site activations surrounding it.

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Archinect

JULY 30, 2024

Archinect has received new project images of the latest 3D printed building prototype produced on-site in Barcelona’s Collserola Natural Park by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). The 100-square-meter (1,076-square-foot) Earth Forest Campus project (also called TEIXIT), which uses local soil and natural materials with a Crane WASP 3D printer, was created in collaboration with Hassell and provides a live laboratory for testing new architectural solutions and sustai

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designboom

JULY 30, 2024

Spiders of Paradise: through the lens of Maria Fernanda Cardoso In her Spiders of Paradise project, exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, nature-focused artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso presents a highly detailed photographic journey into the world of the tiny Australian Maratus spider. Measuring less than 5mm in size, these spiders are renowned […] The post maria fernanda cardoso’s detailed photos explore the vibrant world of tiny maratus spiders appeared first on desi

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Archinect

JULY 30, 2024

Look below for Archinect's latest curated selection of architecture and design firms currently hiring on Archinect Jobs. This week's featured employer highlight includes openings in New York City/Brooklyn , Philadelphia , Los Angeles , and Chicago. For even more opportunities, visit the Archinect job board and explore our active community of job seekers , firms , and schools.

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JULY 30, 2024

arranged vertically in a staggered pattern, sardarch's atobiu extends horizontally. The post modular steel elements stack in various configurations shaping open amphitheater in sardinia appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

JULY 30, 2024

The latest addition to Toronto’s skyline, PEI Architects ’ 2221 Yonge Street tower, is now open after a 2022 completion. New images of the 56-story design reveal the presence of cantilevered wraparound balconies leading down to a six-story podium with a grand porte-cochère and sloped garden, a facade concept which PEI’s principal Li Chung (Sandi) Pei explains as a "unique design feature, rather than as appendages to a large glassy mass.

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JULY 30, 2024

Charles Fleming, a celebrated modern architect from St. Louis, died on July 8. He was 86 years old. News of his passing was shared in a heartfelt remembrance by Washington The post Charles Fleming, a trailblazing modern architect from St. Louis, dies at 86 appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Archinect

JULY 30, 2024

The British government’s plans to construct a new two-mile underground tunnel near the Stonehenge UNESCO World Heritage site have been called off in what’s being framed as a major victory for preservationists. The BBC has more on the late budgetary decision, which ends a yearslong legal back-and-forth between local campaigners and National Highways.

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JULY 30, 2024

Nine kilometres of ribbon were used for one ball alone in series three of Netflix 's Regency-era drama Bridgerton , which features decadent set designs that "soaked up materials". The latest series of Bridgerton follows the solidifying of the stewing romance between characters Colin Bridgerton (played by Luke Newton ) and Penelope Featherington (played by Nicola Coughlan ), who is simultaneously attempting to conceal her identity as Lady Whistledown, the town's elusive gossip columnist.

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Archinect

JULY 30, 2024

The intention of this project is deeply rooted in the understanding of the site as an opportunity to create a sense of place. The house is not perceived as an imposed object but as a tool to uncover the natural events and manifestations specific to the context. The placement of the modules sets a high priority on the disposition of outdoor areas, establishing pathways through them and creating zones of contemplation.

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JULY 30, 2024

Local studio Patrick Bradley Architects has added a cantilevered shipping container to ruined walls on an old farm in Northern Ireland to create a contemporary house with an annexe. Named Barneys Ruins, the project brings a traditional small-holding settlement in Mid Ulster, known as a clachan, to modern-day standards while preserving the 200-year-old ruins of its old cottage.

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Archinect

JULY 30, 2024

Regulations passed in Florida after the 2021 collapse of the Champlain Towers condominium have helped fuel the drive by developers to buy out and replace older residential buildings. The new rules have increased costs for residents in many older buildings, sometimes requiring sizeable special assessments that may be unaffordable. The rush to improve building safety in the wake of the 2021 Surfside condo collapse has since produced some unintended and expensive consequences for residents of Flori

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Deezen

JULY 30, 2024

Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis has created four rotating glass pillars for the plaza of Atlanta's High Museum of Art. Panorama consists of four rectangular pillars clad in glass panels of orange and red ombre that rotate to offer visitors "a different perspective of their surroundings" when passing through and around the installation. Sabine Marcelis has created a rotating installation for the High Museum of Art Located in the central Woodruff Arts Center's Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza, the inst

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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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Archinect

JULY 30, 2024

Perched on a hill just outside Norfolk, Connecticut, this prefab home serves as a weekend getaway for a family of four seeking to escape their hectic New York City lifestyle. Located just three hours north of the city, the 2,650 sf home features floor-to-ceiling aluminum-clad windows that maximize daylight and provide sweeping views of the countryside beyond.

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World Architecture Community

JULY 30, 2024

Oslo-based architecture practice Oslotre Architects has completed an "all-timber office building" with curved wooden façade in the town of Kristiansand, Norway.Named Lumber Building ö, the Ö,ÇÜ-square-metre building is the first a.

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Archinect

JULY 30, 2024

After living in Manhattan for decades, the owners sought to trade the confines of city living for a site with sweeping views of the Hudson River. They wanted a compact home that was as extraordinary as the vista it offered, equipped with just enough space for two. The site is entered via a winding gravel drive through meadow grasses and lilacs up to a framed view of the Hudson River through the carport.

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Deezen

JULY 30, 2024

Artist Na Chainkua Reindorf has refurbished two basketball courts in Downtown Manhattan together with cosmetics brand Glossier , creating large-scale artworks to celebrate women in sport. Building on a four-year-long partnership with the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ), Glossier teamed up with Reindorf , non-profit organisation Project Blackboard and the New York City Parks Department to redesign the basketball courts in Tompkins Square Park.

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Archinect

JULY 30, 2024

The Portland Residence, designed by Tyler Engle Architects, incorporates multi-use spaces to give the owners flexibility within the architecture. This is done by creating a loft-like arrangement of the main space like the kitchen, dining room, and living room. The owners can convertibly expand the living room into the adjacent den/office, depending on their needs.

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Dwell

JULY 30, 2024

Perched in the Palos Verdes community of Rolling Hills, the 1950 home has wood-wrapped interiors, walls of glass, and unobstructed coastline views. Location : 7 Cinchring Road, Rolling Hills, California Price : $5,495,000 Architect : Richard Neutra Year Built : 1950 Footprint : two bedrooms, three baths Lot Size : 1.02 acres From the Agent : " Presenting the Coe House by Richard Neutra.

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designboom

JULY 30, 2024

bivak studio employs a minimalist interior design to promote simplicity and create a serene environment conducive to creativity. The post living space and creative studio merge within BIVAK’s elongated atelier house tahi in hungary appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

JULY 30, 2024

Architecture firm Studio Anne Holtrop has renovated the Siyadi Pearl Museum and mosque in Bahrain , using a plastering technique designed to maintain "characteristics of the past". Situated within Muharraq, a region with a history of pearling, the project saw the renewal of two existing coral stone buildings – a rundown museum and adjacent mosque. Studio Anne Holtrop has renewed a museum and mosque in Bahrain Aiming to accentuate the building's historic qualities, Studio Anne Holtrop removed som

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