Archinect

MAY 9, 2023

The international jury for this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale has been announced by the fair’s Board of Directors in advance of its May 20th opening. The 18th International Architecture Exhibition will be judged by the Italian architect and curator Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli (who will serve as President of the jury); Palestinian architect and curator Nora Akawi; &South-African Cityscapes co-founder, curator, and editor Tau Tavengwa; Spain- and London-based Polish academi

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MAY 9, 2023

milic+ architects' geometrical volumes and white surfaces shape up three levels of D house. The post D house shapes multiple clever facades maximizing privacy in tel aviv neighborhood appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2023

University of Hong Kong professors John Lin and Lidia Ratoi have combined an abandoned traditional wooden house in China with a 3D-printed structure. Named Traditional House of the Future, the prototype project is part of a government plan in Nanlong Village in southwest China to renovate hundreds of old wooden houses that have become dilapidated. 3D-printed walls were integrated with the original structure of the wooden house The original house was scanned by Lin and Ratoi, before being disma

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ArchDaily

MAY 10, 2023

Bundanon Art Museum and Bridge. Image © Kerstin Thompson Architects The UIA World Congress of Architects 2023 is an invitation for architects from around the world to meet in Copenhagen July 2 – 6 to explore and communicate how architecture influences all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For more than two years, the Science Track and its international Scientific Committee have been analyzing the various ways in which architecture responds to the SDGs.

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Archinect

MAY 11, 2023

TenBerke , formerly Deborah Berke Partners, has completed what the firm calls its “most ambitious completed work to date.” The 485,000-square-foot project comprises two new residential colleges at Princeton University , each serving 510 students. Image credit: Chris Cooper Image credit: Christopher Payne/Esto The taller building, named New College West, features soft-grey metal ‘treehouses’ inspired by its woodland setting.

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MAY 11, 2023

HW Studio Arquitectos has completed a cruciform house with open-air corridors and courtyards tucked between locally quarried stone walls in San Miguel de Allende , Mexico. Based nearby in Morelia, HW Studio Arquitectos finished the 250-square metre (2,690-square foot) house, named Casa Enso II, in 2022, drawing on vernacular designs, cultural expression and local history of the Guanajuato region.

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ArchDaily

MAY 10, 2023

© Nils Koenning architects: Megowan Architectural Location: McKinnon VIC 3204, Australia Project Year: 2023 Photographs: Nils Koenning Area: 266.

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Archinect

MAY 10, 2023

Arquitectonica has released an update to its previously proposed redevelopment project at 8850 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. The former site of the notorious Viper Room will now feature an increased number of affordable housing units and market-rate condos while retaining its planned 5-star hotel component, which has been reduced from 113 to 90 rooms. 8850 Sunset Boulevard.

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designboom

MAY 11, 2023

'X house' combines minimalism with hidden gardens to create a tranquil escape in san miguel de allende, mexico. The post private gardens permeate this austere ‘X house’ oasis in mexico appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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MAY 9, 2023

French studio Olivia Fauvelle Architecture has used glazed tiles and concrete lintels to transform the outbuilding and courtyard of a house in the south of France. The outbuilding has been refurbished and extended to physically connect it to Maison Jericho, the 20th-century stone house to which it belongs in Marseille. Olivia Fauvelle Architecture's aim was to create a "seamless transition" through the garden of the home and better connect the two buildings along the long, narrow plot.

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The Architect's Newsletter

MAY 8, 2023

Pratt Institute has named Quilian Riano dean of the School of Architecture. After Harriet Harriss stepped down following a three-year tenure, the school assumed a national search to name a The post Pratt names Quilian Riano dean of the School of Architecture appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Archinect

MAY 9, 2023

A team comprising Orange Architects, Felixx , Ballast Nedam West, and ABT has completed a mixed-use residential scheme in Amsterdam inspired by various natural forms. Titled Jonas and situated on the artificial island of Ijburg, the building is centered around a “concentration of special places” inspired by rocks, islands, forests, beaches, and canyons.

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designboom

MAY 11, 2023

for the planning, the project prioritizes the natural elements affecting the site, such as the sun patterns on the peninsula. The post wooden cottage’s jagged overhangs hover above lake landscape in canada appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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MAY 8, 2023

Spanish studio Agora Arquitectura has converted a derelict brick building into a base for a raised timber house on the outskirts of Barcelona. Appropriately named House on a Brick Base, the home is located on an agricultural site that featured an old tool shed and a small red-brick building – both of which were in ruins when Agora Arquitectura discovered the site.

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The Architect's Newsletter

MAY 12, 2023

Since the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale was postponed due to COVID-19, odd years are now architecture years in La Serenissima. The 2023 rendition, themed as The Laboratory of the Future, The post Looking forward to next week’s Venice Architecture Biennale amid frustration shared by curator Lesley Lokko appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Archinect

MAY 8, 2023

Japanese architecture and engineering firm Mitsubishi Jisho Design has unveiled details of a sustainable teahouse project at the upcoming Venice Architecture Biennale , which takes place from May 20th to November 26th in what is now its 18th edition. The Veneti-An Tea House prototype is included in the European Cultural Center’ s Time Space Existence exhibition, which runs parallel to the fair in the city's Giardini Marinaressa Gardens.

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designboom

MAY 8, 2023

the project comprises a cluster of concrete buildings interconnected by rooftop gardens. The post OPEN architecture weaves rooftop gardens throughout its shanfeng academy building appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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MAY 9, 2023

American architect Eric Owen Moss has completed the (W)rapper office tower in Los Angeles , which was named for a structural support system that covers the facade. Moss, who runs an eponymous studio in LA and has been planning the tower for decades, recently completed the 235-foot (72 metres) structure in Los Angeles. Eric Owen Moss created (W)rapper Tower in Los Angeles The tower is roughly T-shaped in plan, with a rectangular primary volume – curved on one end – that holds most of the usable f

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Dwell

MAY 11, 2023

Just a few months after the Winter Park hotel opened, I recruited two of my ski-loving friends to stay with me and my dog in one of its 475-square-foot cabins. Welcome to One Night In , a series about staying in the most unparalleled places available to rest your head. When friends of mine mention they’d like to "get into skiing," I warn them: it’s expensive, dangerous, and a logistical nightmare.

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Archinect

MAY 11, 2023

HOK ’s plans for a new mixed-used development and soccer stadium in Willets Points, Queens, have been released following the project’s announcement last month. The 25,000-seat new home of New York City FC will come with 2,500 units of “100% affordable” housing plus a public school, hotel, retail component, and over 40,000 square feet of open public space.

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designboom

MAY 10, 2023

the facade's geometric forms reflect the encompassing environment to blur boundaries between nature and architecture. The post mirrored houses reflect fragmented light, shadows, and views of the lanzarote lava desert appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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MAY 6, 2023

Mirrored panels and Siberian larch cladding characterise Harwell Hide, a cluster of workspace pavilions designed by London studio Bell Phillips to blend into its surroundings in Oxfordshire. Located at the rural Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, the angular pavilions are constructed from cross-laminated timber (CLT) and set on tubular steel foundations to touch the landscape lightly.

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The Architect's Newsletter

MAY 12, 2023

Brought to you by: Architect: BNIM Location: Iowa City, Iowa Completion Date: January 2022 View More Project Info Nearly 15 years after a flood heavily damaged the original Stanley Museum The post BNIM brings a textured brick facade to University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum of Art appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Archinect

MAY 12, 2023

Henning Larsen has been announced to lead the renovation of the 58-year-old Canberra Theatre Centre in Australia. The firm will couple with Arup and Architectus for the transformative project, which will makeover the country’s oldest performing arts venue in a month of construction that results in a more inclusive multi-purpose events space anchor of the city’s future Civic and Cultural District.

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designboom

MAY 8, 2023

traditional japanese joinery techniques and local natural materials shape this cozy shelter for chickens. The post japanese shrine architecture informs 2m26’s zero-impact chicken coop in japan appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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