Architizer
JANUARY 12, 2023
The winners of Architizer's Fourth Annual One Drawing Challenge have been revealed! Interested in next year's program? Subscribe to our newsletter for updates. . Architecture is the backdrop for life’s everyday moments. As one of the most personal and unique building types, residential homes are intimately tied to how we experience the world.
Archinect
JANUARY 12, 2023
Mecanoo has designed a distinctive residence with a striking double-curved roof and ceramic tile-covered façade in Schoorl, a village in northern Holland. Image: Ossip van Duivenbode, courtesy Mecanoo. Image: Ossip van Duivenbode, courtesy Mecanoo. Called Villa BW, it spans three floors, with an additional level within the hood of the roof. The roof comes together through two overlapping shapes: a gable roof and a horizontal roofline.
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ArchDaily
JANUARY 8, 2023
© Andrea Ferrari. architects: Piuarch Location: Via di Tizzano, 173A, 50012 Bagno a Ripoli FI, Italy Project Year: 2022 Photographs: Andrea Ferrari Photographs: Courtesy of Piuarch Area: 14000.0 m2. Read more ».
Avontuura
JANUARY 8, 2023
Fish Tail Park offers a model for urban nature with variable climates that can address challenges of floods and habitat restoration. The post Turenscape transforms abused natural landscape into stunning floating forest in Nanchang City appeared first on Åvontuura.
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SW Oregon Architect
JANUARY 8, 2023
Fallingwater (photo by Sxenko via Wikimedia used under the GNU Free Documentation License , Version 1.2) This is another in my series of posts inspired by 1000 Awesome Things , the Webby Award-winning blog written by Neil Pasricha. The series is my meditation on the awesome reasons why I was and continue to be attracted to the art of architecture. Most consider asymmetry to be the absence of formal symmetry within a composition or whole.
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ArchDaily
JANUARY 12, 2023
© TOREAL. architects: UID Architects Location: San-yo Shinkansen, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan Project Year: 2022 Photographs: TOREAL Area: 202.0 m2. Read more ».
designboom
JANUARY 13, 2023
turbulent states that its vortex turbines can power communities, cities, and villages with 50 to 500 households, 24/7 and all year round. The post turbulent electrifies remote locations with low-maintenance vortex turbines appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Deezen
JANUARY 11, 2023
Instead of desperately trying to reduce road congestion in the short term, politicians should be using traffic as a tool for making urban transport more sustainable, writes Phineas Harper. New research claims London's roads are the most congested in the world. But rather than wasting money and emissions building new roads in self-defeating attempts to reduce the time that Londoners who drive spend in traffic jams, politicians should be doing the exact opposite.
Archinect
JANUARY 11, 2023
Kevin Daly Architects (kdA) recently celebrated the completion of their new Houston Endowment headquarters project, designed in collaboration with Mexico City-based studio PRODUCTURA. The 32,000-square-foot building stands beside the city’s Spotts Park and offers the 96-year-old Endowment a new and more sustainable location that is better suited to its organizational aims and the needs of its public representation overall.
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ArchDaily
JANUARY 9, 2023
© Caroline Dethier. architects: Java Architecture Location: 61270 Les Genettes, France Project Year: 2022 Photographs: Caroline Dethier Area: 220.0 m2. Read more ».
designboom
JANUARY 12, 2023
casa piedra is sited is a forested region in argentina, its low-lying volume sensitively occupying its natural context. The post a house of stone dubbed ‘casa piedra’ shows warm interiors in argentina appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Deezen
JANUARY 10, 2023
Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design has created the interior of the Blue Bottle Coffee shop in Kobe 's Hankyu department store, taking advantage of its display windows to connect the cafe with the street outside. The 173-square-metre cafe, which shares the department store's ground floor with a number of apparel brands, has five large display windows.
Archinect
JANUARY 9, 2023
LEVER Architecture has been named the winner in the much-heralded international competition to design an expansion of the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in Maine’s largest city. The $100 million project will add approximately 60,000 square feet of space to the campus in the form of a new facility that “knits together” with the PMA’s four existing downtown buildings in order to provide for an anticipated visitorship of between 300,000 and 500,000 people per year.
Speaker: Donna Laquidara-Carr, PhD, LEED AP, Industry Insights Research Director at Dodge Construction Network
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ArchDaily
JANUARY 11, 2023
© Iwan Baan. architects: Kevin Daly Architects architects: PRODUCTORA Location: Houston, TX, United States Project Year: 2022 Photographs: Iwan Baan Photographs: Elizabeth Lawrence Knox Area: 31718.0 ft2. Read more ».
designboom
JANUARY 12, 2023
dubbed 'VS-01', the sleek, compact, and almost floating design promises a minimal, retro look. The post sleek vertical turntable brings bold colors & vintage mood to any room appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Deezen
JANUARY 10, 2023
Local studio Sparano + Mooney Architecture cantilevered two envelopes with blackened-cedar siding over a canyon outside of Salt Lake City , Utah. The home, called Wabi Sabi Residence and completed in 2020 is a 4,000-square-foot (370-square metre) structure on a nine-acre lot in the Wasatch Range. Sparano + Mooney created the cantilevered home near Salt Lake City.
Archinect
JANUARY 9, 2023
Three unbuilt projects by Frank Lloyd Wright have been recreated in 3D renderings by Spanish architect David Romero. Images of the high-rise schemes, located in Chicago and Washington D.C. , have been published in the latest edition of the Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly , a hard-copy magazine of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. The Illinois. Image credit: David Romero via The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation The tallest of the three, 'The Illinois,' remains one of Wright’s most famous unbuilt
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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?
ArchDaily
JANUARY 10, 2023
© Maris Mezulis. architects: HHF Location: Basel, Switzerland Project Year: 2022 Photographs: Maris Mezulis Photographs: Laurian Ghinitoiu Area: 1540.0 m2. Read more ».
designboom
JANUARY 12, 2023
perforated screens filter dynamic patterns of mediterranean sunlight and bring in views of the idyllic natural landscape. The post studiokontodimas unveils cluster of perforated volumes for quiet cliffside villa in greece appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Deezen
JANUARY 12, 2023
Architectural studio Undecorated has designed an elongated, metal Quonset hut punctuated with dormer windows and filled with loft-style units for an evolving neighbourhood in Detroit. The Caterpillar is located in Core City, an up-and-coming area that lies a few miles beyond the city's downtown zone. Set within an "urban woodland" with over 150 newly planted trees, The Caterpillar was designed by Undecorated , a local studio led by Ishtiaq Rafiuddin, who worked with executive architect Studio De
Archinect
JANUARY 11, 2023
Beijing-based landscape architecture firm Turenscape has completed the transformation of a former 126-acre dumping ground into a “dreamlike floating forest” in the eastern Chinese city of Nanchang. The new Fish Tail Park operates a triple function as a habitat for wildlife, a recreational area for the city, and a stormwater regulator, creating what the design team calls a “replicable model of designed urban nature for regions with monsoon or variable climates that can address t
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The Spaces
JANUARY 9, 2023
The Romans’ most enduring legacy is arguably their architectural one, with landmarks such as the Coliseum and Pantheon and ancient aqueducts standing strong for over 2,000 years. But until now, the durability of Roman concrete – which has endured for millennia while modern concrete can disintegrate in decades – was believed to be due to volcanic ash and slaked lime.
designboom
JANUARY 12, 2023
the narrow house by ashida architects, which would otherwise isolate itself from the city, acquires an extroverted character thanks to the protruding staircase. The post curved glass-enclosed staircase peeps out of tokyo house that ‘dances in the city’ appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Deezen
JANUARY 9, 2023
From a 14th-century landmark to brutalist structures by Le Corbusier , here are 12 buildings that Indian architects chose when Dezeen asked them to name their homeland's most significant piece of architecture. We contacted 13 prominent architects in India and asked them to pick a building in India that has been particularly inspirational to them and influential on their practice.
Archinect
JANUARY 10, 2023
MVRDV has won a competition for the design of the Wuhan Library in China. The 1.5 million-square-foot scheme is defined by three large openings in its flowing facade and will become one of the largest libraries in China upon its completion. The library’s flowing form draws inspiration from the “sculptural force” of Wuhan’s rivers.
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