Archinect
APRIL 29, 2024
If you're looking for exciting architecture and design events to add to your calendar this May, check out our curated selection of recommendations, including exhibitions, festivals, conferences, and symposia taking place across the U.S. and abroad. For the complete roster of ongoing and upcoming happenings listed on Bustler, head to our Events section.
Deezen
MAY 1, 2024
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a selection of brutalist and modernist churches captured by photographer Jamie McGregor Smith in his book Sacred Modernity. With 139 photographs of 100 churches, McGregor Smith created the book to showcase the sculptural and unique forms of some of the churches built across Europe in the post-war period.
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designboom
APRIL 28, 2024
baldridge architects builds a contemporary home for a sustainable bison and turkey ranch in texas hill country. The post roam ranch: baldridge architects designs modern home for rural texas appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Archinect
APRIL 29, 2024
Steven Holl Architects has won an international competition for the design of a new expo center in Tirana, Albania. Titled ‘Expo Albania,’ the project will also see the construction of an adjacent wine hotel and demonstration vineyards with the potential for wine trade festivals to be held in the expo hall.
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ArchDaily
APRIL 28, 2024
© LIN Yongchen architects: Protoscapes Location: Motan Village, Dawei Town, Hefei City, Anhui Province, China Project Year: 2023 Photographs: LIN Yongchen Area: 756.
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designboom
MAY 2, 2024
airbnb offers a faithful recreation of the iconic house, complete with over 8,000 balloons. The post airbnb lets you sleep inside pixar’s UP house — and yes, it floats appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Archinect
MAY 2, 2024
The tides are changing for women in architecture schools in surprising ways. Female deans currently lead Harvard, Yale, Princeton, NJIT, Cornell, Syracuse, NYIT, CCNY, Cooper Union, and Boston Architectural College, among others. Despite the difficulties some of them have faced, no doubt, their impact has been felt in architectural education across the U.S. and around the world.
ArchDaily
MAY 2, 2024
Andromeda Collection / LSM for UniFor. Image © Alberto Strada for UniFor This year's Milan Design Week brought together designers, architects, producers, and key figures from the design world. The events were divided between the Salone del Mobile at Rho Fiera, a trade fair with over 1950 exhibitors, and Fourisalone, featuring various events across Milan.
Deezen
MAY 1, 2024
UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has been granted planning approval for office and residential development 18 Blackfriars Road, which the studio claims will be net-zero carbon. Located on a two-acre brownfield site in London 's Bankside, 18 Blackfriars Road will contain two residential blocks and a 45-storey office skyscraper. Foster + Partners claimed the project would have the lowest whole-life carbon of any London high-rise development when it submitted its application, which has rece
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designboom
APRIL 29, 2024
real motor’s motorcycle ‘project : ARES’ is being developed, with the real production model of the electric cafe racer arriving in late 2025. The post sci-fi meets electric cafe racer in real motors’ latest two-wheeler, project : ARES appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Archinect
APRIL 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 Santa Barbara , Portland , Bridgehampton , Brooklyn , and Franklin, Massachusetts. For even more opportunities, head over to the Archinect job board and explore our active community of job seekers , firms , and schools.
ArchDaily
MAY 1, 2024
Completed in 2024 in Karuizawa, Japan. Images by Masahiro Ohgami, Takumi Ota. A private residence in Karuizawa, Nagano. Situated along the road lies the distinctive triangular property extending 110m in length. A creative.
Deezen
APRIL 29, 2024
Mexican architecture practice HW Studio has created a hillside house outside of Mexico City consisting of a vertical volume that houses circulation and a horizontal volume containing its living spaces. Located in Morelia, HW Studio created the 4,735 square foot (439 square metres) Casa Shi to strike a balance between the "natural and artificial". HW Studio has created a home in Mexico comprised of a vertical and horizontal volume The house is made up of a rectangular, vertical stone-clad volume
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designboom
APRIL 27, 2024
KOSMOS architects’ multifunctional wooden piece of furniture ‘DICE’ is also portable, as the compact design object can fit in a handbag. The post multifunctional furniture ‘DICE’ is a wooden stool, coffee table, leg bench and lamp at once appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Archinect
MAY 1, 2024
Manica Architecture has released renderings related to a late bid to lure the Kansas City Chiefs NFL franchise across the state border to Wyandotte County, Kansas. The design has been made public for the first time a week after the firm’s plans for a new Bears lakefront stadium in Chicago were panned by critics. Rendering courtesy Manica Architecture The proposed new dome-enclosed stadium was presented to Kansas lawmakers this week as part of a pitch to bring its first-ever major American
ArchDaily
APRIL 29, 2024
© Marie Luise | MPavilion Programming In Melbourne , Australia , the tenth edition of the MPavilion, designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Tadao Ando , has been extended until March 2025. Marking the architect’s sole-built project in Australia, the extension presents an opportunity for Melburnians and visitors to enjoy the space and its diverse offerings.
Deezen
MAY 1, 2024
Architecture studio A6A has converted a former model-making workshop in Bordeaux into a studio for itself that is defined by pared-back materials and spaces. Named L'Atelier, the L-shaped block was originally formed of a street-facing garage, a central garden and a large shed to the rear. Drawn to the spatial organisation and finishes of the workshop, A6A made minimal alterations but transformed it into a series of flexible workspaces intended to "reflect the philosophy" of the studio.
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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?
designboom
MAY 1, 2024
available in two sizes, kettal's insula allows various personalized configurations with a roll backrest that gives the sofa its horizontal orientation. The post patricia urquiola reinterprets traditional arabic majlis with modular sofa ‘insula’ for kettal appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Archinect
MAY 1, 2024
A group led by Milan/London-based a-fact has won an international competition for the design of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Natural History Museum, and Park of Arts & Culture in Podgorica, Montenegro. Selected from 48 submissions, the scheme is inspired by the nature of Montenegro, with stone cladding reflecting nearby mountains.
ArchDaily
APRIL 28, 2024
Completed in 2023 in Ostende, Argentina. Images by Diego Medina. House Three is part of a larger complex that has gradually been built for the same family over time. It is the third of a total of six residences.
Deezen
MAY 2, 2024
Belgian studio Mamout has extended a townhouse in Brussels , adding a small garden room built from a prefabricated shell of pastel green-coloured steel. Aiming to improve the connection between the home and its garden, Mamout drew on the form of an existing bow window on the rear facade to create a glazed seating area for the existing kitchen. Mamout has added a garden room to a townhouse in Brussels "The aim is to create the smallest possible extension, but one that offers a radically new per
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designboom
APRIL 27, 2024
snøhetta's newly completed 'vertikal nydalen' achieves net-zero energy usage for heating, cooling, and ventilation. The post snøhetta’s mixed-use building in oslo performs with net-zero energy usage appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Archinect
MAY 1, 2024
The newly released list of the country’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2024 has been announced to include LA’s Little Tokyo district and the Walden Pond Reservation area in Massachusetts. The pair was joined by nine other sites in eight states, Morocco, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The full list of America's Most Endangered Historic Places, compiled by the National Trust for Historic Preservation , includes: Cindy Walker House, Mexia, Texas Eatonville, Florida Estate Whim Mu
ArchDaily
APRIL 29, 2024
Courtesy of Feldman Architecture and Western Window Systems When it came to designing a nature-embracing modern home in Palo Alto, California, USA, architect Tai Ikegami took his responsibility to protect and venerate the magnificent trees on the lot seriously. “The house is designed around a series of trees on the site—an oak in the front, another oak on the side, a redwood in the back.
Deezen
APRIL 30, 2024
The first and only skyscraper designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen in New York City has undergone a renovation by Vocon Architects and MdeAS Architects to help it "meet the expectations of today". At the behest of developer HGI , local architecture studios Vocon Architects and MdeAS Architects renovated and restored the 51W52 skyscraper, also known as Black Rock, which was completed as a headquarters for American media giant CBS in 1964.
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