Archinect

JANUARY 6, 2022

The Datong Art Museum has opened to the public in northern China , having recently been completed by Foster + Partners. The firm describes the new museum as a “landscaped terrain with a series of interconnected pyramids emerging from below the earth.” Image by Yang Chaoying for Foster + Partners The scheme’s four interconnected roof pyramids increase in height and fan outwards towards the four corners of the surrounding plaza.

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Avontuura

JANUARY 6, 2022

The new hub is in harmony with the unique tropical ecology of the site and is conceived as a micro-village of three pavilions. The post Adjaye Associates complete library & events center based on site’s unique tropical ecology appeared first on Åvontuura.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

When you intend to build a new home, the floor plan is a treasure trove promising the result. Trying to read a floor plan with dimensions and furniture layout gets you imagining the home of your dreams, and you start to wonder how the spaces will appear. But the language of a floor plan goes way beyond shapes and measurements. Sometimes experienced residential architects even surprise themselves by how different a finished home feels from their earlier concepts.

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JANUARY 2, 2022

St. Benedict Chapel, Sumvitg, Graubünden, Switzerland, designed by Peter Zumthor (photo by p2cl, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) Like 2020 before it, 2021 was hardly a banner year. Many people continued to suffer from stress and anxiety wrought by too many, now familiar issues: the COVID-19 pandemic, a toxic level of political divisiveness, social injustice, the accelerating impacts of climate change, and more.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Officials in Venice are finally caving to local demands to author significant changes to Santiago Calatrava’s Ponta della Costituzione bridge following years of protest and a rash of recent injuries. The New York Times is reporting that glass from the pedestrian bridge is going to be removed and replaced with more trachyte stone that will avert any possible future spills which have befallen users thanks to the 94-meter-long structure’s slippery surface.

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Portland Architecture

JANUARY 5, 2022

Michelle Black and Brian Carleton ( KLiK Concepts ). . BY BRIAN LIBBY. For quite a while now, I've been meaning to check in with Carleton Hart Architecture , and for a variety of reasons. I first met co-founder Brian Carleton just over 20 years ago, when I was working at the local American Institute of Architects chapter and he was the chapter's president for a year.

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Deezen

JANUARY 7, 2022

Last month Dezeen featured Villa Aa, a concrete house in Norway made "invisible" by being nestled into a shallow hill. Here, we round up 10 other half-buried and underground homes partially hidden from the rest of the world. Photo is by Sandra Pereznieto. Casa Aguacates, Mexico, by Francisco Pardo. Located on an avocado field sloping down to a forest in a rural lake town about two hours from Mexico City, this sunken home is accessed via an exterior staircase.

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Archinect

JANUARY 5, 2022

Adjaye Associates ’ $41.7 million Winter Park Library & Events Center in Winter Park, Florida is now complete. The library debuted to the public on December 13th during a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony. Developed through a public-private partnership with the City of Winter Park, the library, spanning 35,155 feet across two levels, consists of three separate pavilions located on the northwest corner of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Avontuura

JANUARY 2, 2022

The building, designed by artist Luo Xu, reflects a circular, steady, and basic image based on "austerity, simplicity, and authenticity.". The post Escape to this brick wellness resort in Western China appeared first on Åvontuura.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

sitting at the foot of a mountain in shenzen, china, the architecture features three openings that collect changes in color, light, and sound coming from the surroundings. The post 00group envisions sculptural bookstore that engages visitors with nature appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

The Act of Quad has introduced a smattering of blue furnishings and fittings to this high-rise apartment , renovated by the design studio in the Indian city of Thane. The cobalt touches create a vibrant contrast inside the otherwise neutral-toned 101-square-metre home, which is shared by a middle-aged couple, their two daughters and a pet cat. The Act of Quad dotted the apartment with cobalt-blue decor features.

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Archinect

JANUARY 4, 2022

A new computer program powered by artificial intelligence takes mere minutes to determine whether homes and buildings have been destroyed by wildfires once the smoke has cleared. Developed by scientists at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and Stanford University, DamageMap evaluates the destruction by scrutinizing post-wildfire aerial and satellite images.

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Avontuura

JANUARY 6, 2022

The aim of the masterplan has been to reinstate the fort as the cultural heart of the city with a new 140.000 sqm cultural park-scape. The post This landscape and masterplan by CEBRA reinstates the Qasr al Hosn Fort as Abu Dhabi’s cultural heart appeared first on Åvontuura.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

tardigrade is the world's first concept moon motorcycle, that took its name from the microscopic animals that are able to survive extreme conditions. The post tardigrade: hookie brings world’s first NASA motorcycle concept to life appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

The European Commission has proposed an overhaul of urban infrastructure to encourage more walking and cycling as part of the EU 's aim to become a net-zero continent by 2050. If passed, the Efficient and Green Mobility package would require the 424 largest cities in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) to hash out sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs) centred on these kinds of "active mobility" modes by 2025.

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Archinect

JANUARY 5, 2022

Architects have known how to prevent their buildings from becoming bird killers for more than a decade: Patterned glass, exterior screens and turning the lights off at night can all significantly reduce bird deaths. But those standards clash with the big glass and big views that clients associate with big money. The problem stems from the way glass reflects green spaces surrounding them.

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Architonic

JANUARY 3, 2022

LZ's Love Spa is a single building covered with an attractive unique façade, located in Thanh Hoa city, Vietnam. The project is a successful attempt to accommodate the disparate and conflicting nature of these requirements, screened from an iconic façade to present energetic of the building's purpose in an artful way. The site of the building is next to large-sized apartment blocks under construction, which means to require solving surrounding issues from air and noise pollution.

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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?

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JANUARY 6, 2022

the final design takes shape as a symmetrical volume — penetrated from arcs — that gradually elevate, achieving a sense of divinity. The post RSAA encloses chamber church with illuminated layered silhouettes in china appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Architects Ana Nun?o de Buen and Luis Young have used a green metallic frame to form the structure of an airy apartment built atop an existing building in Mexico City. The Cascada House was designed by Mexican architects Nun?o de Buen and Young to provide a standalone unit atop a concrete building from the 1950s. It is located in the Pedregal de San A?

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Archinect

JANUARY 7, 2022

The Musée du Louvre welcomed only 2.8 million visitors last year, less than 30% of its pre-Covid record levels when it received around ten million. The Louvre has not seen such low figures since 1986, before the opening of the glass pyramid and the Grand Louvre project which steadily boosted attendance over the past four decades. This level of attendance is nearly the same as the previous year, however French museums were closed for one month less in 2021 than in 2020.

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Architonic

JANUARY 3, 2022

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) with Château La Coste are pleased to present the completion of Richard Rogers’ final work begun before his retirement from practice in June 2020. Château La Coste, a 500-acre area of outstanding natural beauty is an internationally renowned destination for art and architecture. Set in Château La Coste’s vineyard, the Richard Rogers Drawing Gallery is a 120m2 gallery space that cantilevers off a hillside amongst trees above a historic Roman track, overlookin

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JANUARY 6, 2022

the elaborate works present a wide range of animal species, including a walrus, snail, shoebill, cicada, and even a triceratops. The post intricate LEGO sculptures by mitsuru nikaido reimagine animals as mecha-style robots appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has created a vividly coloured illustration series called Postmodern Icons, which celebrates buildings such as London's Isle of Dogs Pumping Station and Chicago's James R Thompson Center. The series is a personal project that Furman started during the 2020 coronavirus lockdown, when he decided to revisit an old hobby of sketching buildings that he liked and creating 3D models of them.

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Archinect

JANUARY 5, 2022

The airport's $5.5-billion Landside Access Modernization Program, or "LAMP," saw the completion of several of its major components in 2021, as well as construction milestones for the automated people mover that will serve as its centerpiec Among the more important elements of the highly-publicized program, the Automated People Mover (AMP) system , is now 67% complete, according to Urbanize.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

Local architect John Harvey Carter designed this midcentury-modern Sacramento home in 1968 with borrowed elements of Japanese design, including a zen courtyard reflecting pool and ‘floating’ interior walls. Located at 729 Columbia Drive, the ranch-style California property has been owned by the original family for 50 years, preserving Carter’s vision for the single-storey residence.

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