Archinect
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Steven Holl Architects is advancing toward the start of their Terezín Ghetto Museum project in the Czech Republic. The firm was named the winner of an international competition to design an extension of the existing museum in 2022 and will deliver the project on the site, which was first constructed as a citadel in 1780. The Schematic Design phase was completed in March.
ArchDaily
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Erlev School by Arkitema. Image © Niels Nygaard With spaces for children, “ you have the opportunity to create architecture that in many ways is unformulated architecture. Children react to spaces completely spontaneously. It is almost an enhanced architecture ”, says Dorte Mandrup. The implication is that design can contribute to forming critical thinking, encouraging autonomy, and responsibility, and helping forge future citizens.
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Archinect
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
UNStudio has completed a flagship store for the Chinese communications giant Huawei in Shanghai. Designed in collaboration with Huawei’s internal design team, the store seeks to create an “experience-rich concept that brings people, nature, and technology together and caters to consumer preferences.” Image credit: Wen Studio Image credit: Huawei According to the architects, the design of the two-level store was inspired by biophilic forms that transition between indoor and outd
ArchDaily
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
© Siming WU architects: 11ARCHITECTURE Location: Yi He Lu, Shun De Qu, Fo Shan Shi, Guang Dong Sheng, China Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Siming WU Photographs: Chao Zhang Area: 650.
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Archinect
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The Seattle/Portland-based SRG Partnership has announced its merger with CannonDesign in a move that will be felt widely in the health and wellness, education, science and technology, and sports and recreation sectors in the Pacific Northwest market and beyond. SRG will be reorganized as SRG + CannonDesign. The new entity brings CannonDesign into the region for the first time.
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Archinect
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
A judge in Virginia has dismissed a defamation counterclaim in a case involving two architects. The case involves Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati versus Markus Breitschmid , an architect and architecture professor at Virginia Tech , and is being heard in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. As we previously reported , Olgiati has served as Kenzo Tange Chair at the Harvard GSD.
ArchDaily
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Completed in 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. Images by José Hevia. The 13,500 m2 building, comprising a six-story horizontal block and a 13-story tower situated on the corner of Avinguda Meridiana and Carrer Sancho.
Archinect
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
For this week's curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we are highlighting four briefs seeking the best in landscape architecture from around the world, applicants for a fellowship and summer residency to address pressing issues related to the built environment, student-driven projects that explore innovative uses of steel in design and construction, and work by architects that both demonstrate design quality and contribute to the UN's Sustainable Development Go
ArchDaily
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
© Igor Ribeiro architects: AzulPitanga Location: Barbalha, State of Ceara, Brzsil Project Year: 2021 Photographs: Igor Ribeiro Area: 62.
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Deezen
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Curving walls and windows placed "like notes in a melody" define the latest Maggie's Centre , designed by architecture firm Studio Libeskind for the Royal Free Hospital in London. Situated to the side of the hospital 's car park, Maggie's Royal Free features a bold, sinuous shape that aims to draw visitors into its warm and inviting interior. Maggie's Royal Free features curving walls The curved building is London's fourth Maggie's Centre , joining designs by Steven Holl Architects , Ab Rogers D
World Architecture Community
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Secret passages, intimate bedrooms, low-height ceiling, natural materials, recycled elements, open courtyard and sinuous walls that all define the language of this biophilic farmhouse by Indian architecture practice Blurring Boundaries.Located near Mumbai, India, the ööÜ-square-m.
Deezen
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has revealed an "optical illusion" infinity pool at Italy 's Lake Como made from prefabricated steel and sat against a backdrop of historic colonnades. Located in the village of Blevio, the pool is part of a larger development by Herzog & de Meuron for the Mandarin Oriental Lago di Como resort. This saw the studio reconceptualise the existing pool area and update the resort's indoor spa and reception.
designboom
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
ASYNC opens its co-creation program where electric motorbike fans can join and finalize the design of the motocross-looking X1 before production. The post ASYNC’s first electric motorbike X1 gathers suggestions from riders to finish its final design appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
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Deezen
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Architecture studio Wood Marsh has used curving walls of charred timber and rammed earth to create this home south of Melbourne , which is designed to echo Australia's "windswept" coastline. Called Peninsula House, the dwelling is located near the town of Flinders, overlooking the Bass Strait and surrounded by farmland. Peninsula House has a curved form crafted from rammed earth Instead of designing an orthogonal volume, Wood Marsh took cues from the shape of the coastline and the meandering pat
The Architect's Newsletter
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Carl Andre died last week at the age of 88. He is survived by his wife, the artist Melissa L. Kretschmer, and his sister, according to a post by Paula The post Minimalist artist Carl Andre, involved in the death of Ana Mendieta in 1985, dead at 88 appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
Deezen
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Architecture studio Eric Parry Architects has updated its plans for the One Undershaft skyscraper in the City of London , increasing its height to make it the UK's joint tallest building. The studio recently submitted a planning submission to update the design and slightly increase the height of the planned building, which was approved to be built in 2016.
Architizer
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
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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?
Deezen
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
From homes made from steel and rammed earth in the Texas deserts to prototypes for 3D-printed housing, we have rounded up 10 projects from Lake Flato Architects , whose founders won this year's AIA Gold Medal. The Texas-based studio is known for its residential and educational buildings, from massive pavilions that integrate rainwater collection systems and tower lake houses.
designboom
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
HOSPIWOOD prioritizes sustainability and patient well-being. The post vincent callebaut’s biophilic hospital campus in belgium unfolds around flower-shaped atrium appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Deezen
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Dutch firm UNStudio has revealed a two-storey flagship store for Chinese technology company Huawei in Shanghai with a facade clad in ivory-coloured petal-like forms. Drawing from Huawei's global operating system, named Harmony, UNStudio 's design aimed to generate biophilic associations between the brand and its technology by integrating organic geometric shapes throughout the scheme.
The Architect's Newsletter
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
When the architect Charles Jencks’s wife, Maggie, was diagnosed with cancer, he wanted to channel his grief towards something productive that helped others with similar diagnoses. Shortly after, Jencks co-founded The post Studio Libeskind’s sculptural Maggie’s Centre at Royal Free Hospital opens its doors in London appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
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Deezen
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
After Junya Ishigami unveiled a kilometre-long art museum that emerges from an artificial lake , Dezeen rounds up 10 recent Chinese architecture projects that play with arresting landscapes. Japanese architect Ishigami said he wanted his project to address a tendency for buildings in China to be "closed off" from their environment. But he is not the first to explore these themes in the country.
designboom
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
the eames institute of infinite curiosity unveils its new bay area gallery, allowing the public to explore ray and charles eames' extensive collection for the first time. The post eames institute offers insights into the duo’s legacy at new bay area headquarters appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Deezen
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
This week on Dezeen , Japanese studio Nikken Sekkei unveiled a skyscraper in Dubai that includes the world's longest cantilever. Measuring 67.5 metres, the cantilever projects out from a link connecting two skyscrapers at the One Za'abeel development in Dubai. The cantilever is one metre longer than the 66.5-metre-long observation deck at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore , making it the longest in the world.
designboom
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
from the cathay cinema to the paramount ballroom, the series captures a nodal record of the city’s architectural heritage. The post yang chen’s photographic series spotlights twelve art deco buildings across shanghai appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
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