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OCTOBER 23, 2023

© Hiwell Properties / ICON, produced by SAN On a site that also hosts the Olympic Sports Centre , the 2023 Asian Games complex , UNStudio has unveiled the design of the new Hiwell Amber Centre, a complex of four high-rise towers planned to add a mic of offices, apartments, hotels, art spaces and retail to the city center of Hangzhou , China. Responding to the area’s rapid economic and cultural growth, the new development aims to provide a wide range of services to residents and visitors alike.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Enlace Chicago is a not-for-profit organization assisting the Little Village community through violence prevention, education and community development programs. Canopy worked with Enlace to develop a design that accommodates the basic office needs but goes beyond to create an exciting new community space that remains contextual to the neighborhood.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Image via Delta Sensory Garden The convergence of neuroscience, architecture, and landscaping has ignited a creative revolution in the design of our built environments. Neuroarchitecture , an emerging discipline that blends principles of neuroscience with architectural design, sheds light on the significant impact of physical spaces on our emotions, behaviors, and overall well-being.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Six outstanding new developments from around the world have been announced as winners of the 2023 Urban Land Institute (ULI) Global Awards for Excellence. Projects in three regions were selected out of a group of 23 winners from the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Founded in 1979, the awards recognize new projects in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors that exemplify the Institute's organizational goals of responsible land use and sustainable community development.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

© Deed Studio architects: Olgooco Location: Ammameh, Tehran Province, Iran Project Year: 2022 Photographs: Deed Studio Photographs: Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh Photographs: Area: 335.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Completed in 2023 in Decorah, United States. Images by Michael Grimm. Snøhetta and Vesterheim have completed a new building and landscape for the storied Vesterheim campus in Decorah, Iowa, housing the largest.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Boring, soulless buildings are making people stressed and lonely, according to Thomas Heatherwick [.] Calling for “a national conversation” about halting the spread of depressing architecture, he said: “We need to fearlessly demand interestingness. We need to rebel against the blandification of our streets, towns and cities, and make buildings that nourish our senses.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Courtesy of CRA | Floating Above the Floods Carlo Ratti Associati has revealed the design transformation of Turin’s historic waterfront in Italy. The project’s main aim is to address the current climate crisis and leverage architectural solutions to create spaces that can withstand the recurring floods of the Po River. Throughout the scheme, many architectural elements are kinetic, allowing them to rise above the water.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named social enterprise Onion Collective as its Client of the Year for 2023 over their role in spearheading the creation of an artists' space called East Quay in Somerset County, South West England. The project from Invisible Studio and Ellis Williams Architects helps to reinvigorate the seaside town of Watchet.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

Completed in 2023 in Toronto, Canada. Images by Felix Michaud. StudioAC presents Cherry Valley, a residence situated in Prince Edward County, two and a half hours east of Toronto. Characterized by an intricate.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Tate Modern in London has announced its compliance with the UK High Court’s February ruling regarding a privacy case that involved its 10th-floor viewing gallery and five residents of the adjacent Neo Bankside apartments. The museum will now restrict visitors' access to the platform, which was constructed in 2016 as part of a Herzog & de Meuron -led $318 million Blavatnik Building expansion.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 23, 2023

© Hoang Le Behind facades lie vibrant lives, where the exterior melds with the interior, transforming neglected urban spaces into captivating residences. In cities around the world, architects, engineers and designers face the challenge of integrating new buildings into existing urban landscapes with limited space. Many architects are now embracing this concept, expanding their designs beyond conventional boundaries and transforming small city lots into layered and interconnected living spaces.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Overview The ‘Meet and Greet” building of Kavya Resort and Spa is sculpted to witness the drama of passing clouds. Placed in the highest resort in Nagarkot, Nepal, the site experiences a dynamic phenomenon – a moment of clear visibility suddenly changing into total obscurity. While the two rock-shaped volumes are oriented to capture views of Himalaya and the valley below, their separation creates the passage for the clouds – sometimes bringing the fog and moisture deep in

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 23, 2023

SeiMilano / MCA. Image © MCA In March 2021, ACO and AIT-Dialog successfully launched a virtual tour through the seven continents of the world - inviting architects, urban planners, engineers and landscape architects to become part of "beyond.aco | architecture across continents". Now the journey continues: join them at their next live event on 15 November 2023 at 5 p.m.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

A House for Artists by APPARATA Architects has been awarded the RIBA’s 2023 Neave Brown Award for Housing. Awarded each year in honor of modernist architect and social housing pioneer Neave Brown, the award recognized the UK’s best new affordable housing. APPARATA's scheme was chosen from a shortlist of four announced in July.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Ugli Restaurant / loft buro. Image © Andrey Adveenko What you see is said to be what you get. The low-skilled cooking techniques and apparatus employed at branded fast-food restaurants, for example, are presented in full visibility to waiting customers. But this concept for designing open, transparent hospitality environments at least serves customers with honesty, because although the freshest ingredients and cordon bleu techniques are nowhere to be seen, neither is the grease and grime former

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Avontuura

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The profile of this house outlines the mountains of the landscape that surround it. Peaks of different heights delimit the spaces inside. The post Escape to this mountain side retreat outside Medellin, Colombia appeared first on Åvontuura.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

Aiming to bridge the worlds of human and robotic construction , product design engineer Jasper Mallinson has created a wearable CNC machine that he believes could one day be used on worksites to help realise parametric designs. The Mecha-morphis device was Mallinson's final project from the Innovation Design Engineering masters course, run by the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London.

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Architectural Record

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Affiliated with a number of institutions including Princeton, Cooper Union, Yale, and Brown, England-born Vidler was a towering figure in the world of architectural academia and thought.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

Mexican architect Frida Escobedo has completed a seaside resort in the Yucatán Peninsula with wooden guest quarters suspended on stilts. Known as Boca de Agua , the complex includes 26 vacation rentals along the Laguna de los Siete Colores (Lagoon of the Seven Colors) in Bacalar, Quintana Roo. Friday Escobedo has created a seaside resort in the Yucatán Peninsula "Built at the intersection of ecosystem preservation and well-being" the project resulted from a "desire to create a place that contrib

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

Set in Long Beach, California, the ranch-style home is crafted from brick, glass, and wood and wrapped with lush landscaping. Location : 5281 E El Roble Street, Long Beach, California Price : $3,400,000 Architect : John Lautner, FAIA Year Built : 1951 Footprint : 2,886 square feet (four bedrooms, four baths) Lot Size : 0.31 acres From the Agent : " Nestled within the heart of the highly sought after neighborhood of Park Estates lies the Alexander House, an unparalleled midcentury masterpiece.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has added a stepped roof and bright-coloured boxes to a former museum dedicated to Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha in the centre of Tirana , Albania. Working in collaboration with IRI Architecture, MVRDV carried out the alterations to transform the pyramid-shaped concrete structure from the 1980s into a cultural hub. The studios opened up the internal structure and added numerous stairs to its roof to allow locals to symbolically climb the building, which was once

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The Architect's Newsletter

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Settled on the historic College Hill in Providence, Rhode Island is the new Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University. Open to the public on October 21, the space has The post REX’s transformative design application shines at Brown University’s new Lindemann Performing Arts Center appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Cultural centre Het Nieuwe Instituut is rethinking the archetypal museum shop with a pop-up at Dutch Design Week , designed to encourage more ethical, resource-conscious consumption. Instead of offering a straightforward exchange of wares for money, New Store 1.0 offers patrons the opportunity to trade their urine for a piece of P**s Soap and encourages them to place their phones on specially designed fixtures to provide lighting for the venue once the sun goes down.

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Architonic

OCTOBER 23, 2023

<p>If we consciously design products that encourage us to cultivate a deeper, more emotional relationship with them, will this result in us consuming fewer products?</p> <p>This is the question I posed to a panel of design experts at a recent event in Milan, organised by fast-growing Italian furniture brand <a href="[link] The physical context was a beautifully considered installation of their furniture at the Fenix Scenario showroom in the city’s Brera district,

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