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JANUARY 31, 2024

The four-year construction effort yielded a total two million square feet of new office space that was built above active railroad tracks in what the firm describes as an "extraordinary" advancement of the methods used in urban design, structural engineering, and architecture.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 19, 2024

Image Courtesy of Alejandro Haiek Coll Architecture practices usually start their design process with a client, who provides a program and a site. Their proposals are at the intersection of art , architecture , and engineering and weave community engagement, ecology , and new technologies into innovative forms of social infrastructure.

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Archinect

APRIL 7, 2023

The two-bedroom units come fully furnished and are set to be delivered later in the month in an effort to alleviate the burden on local workers – all doctors, nurses, teachers, and engineers, respectively. The company says: “The prefabricated homes are prebuilt and folded by Hapi Homes and assembled on-site.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Colien House steps down a sloped site in Barcelona "The central purpose was to answer the programme proposal made by the client by including a careful embodiment of the landscape, complying with the specific local rules and the relation of each of the four floors' elevation with the natural topography," Siza told Dezeen.

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JUNE 21, 2022

It is located atop the company’s historic 1923 Lingotto factory building (later converted into a mixed-use space by Renzo Piano) and retains, as a symbolic feature, the site’s original 1.1 683 mile) long test track that starred in the 1969 crime caper The Italian Job.

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Deezen

AUGUST 20, 2024

Mexican architect Iñaki Echeverria has completed work on the Lake Texcoco Ecological Park The project covers 14,030 hectares of land, making it one of the largest urban parks in the world, and is protected by federal decree as an ecological site. or soft engineering," he said. The photography is courtesy of Iñaki Echeverria.

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MAY 10, 2024

It was elevated to avoid humidity and provide greater views and more illumination The architects conceived a two-storey house that is partly lifted above the site by steel piers. Interior finishes include engineering oak flooring and olive wood siding for the ceiling and cabinetry. A glass-enclosed bridge links the two zones.

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Archinect

JANUARY 11, 2022

cm) a year, according to the engineer responsible for fixing the troubled building. At that rate, the building’s elevators and sewage systems would cease to function within a few years according to engineer Ron Hamburger’s report to the city’s municipal Board of Supervisors last week.

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MAY 18, 2023

The New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) has selected a team comprising RS&H , Populous , and Zia Engineering & Environmental Consultants to spearhead the Spaceport America Master Plan Project. It aims to serve as a multi-modal site for point-to-point space transportation , aerospace operations, research, development, and testing.

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JULY 18, 2024

Tenberke , in collaboration with Ballinger , has revealed designs for a new center for quantum science, engineering, and materials initiatives at Yale University. Therefore, USHD’s sloping site, which is close to bedrock, was chosen for its strong vibration stability.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Courtesy of MVRDV MVRDV , in collaboration with JGE Architects, landscape architects Copley Wolff, and Langan Engineering, has developed a masterplan for the redevelopment of Faneuil Gardens, a public housing site in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. Read more »

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Archinect

JUNE 23, 2022

The company said it planned to move it to a lower-cost site where maintenance could be carried out. It said that prior to its departure, the vessel had been thoroughly inspected by marine engineers and hoardings were installed, and all relevant approvals were obtained. The restaurant was towed away last Tuesday.

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Archinect

APRIL 1, 2024

Engineering News-Record reported that debris removal has already begun in haste at Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse site, where six people lost their lives last Tuesday , courtesy of the U.S. Navy, Army Corps of Engineers, and Coast Guard.

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MAY 1, 2024

Image credit: Dave Burk © SOM The structure's design was limited by an existing railroad track running along the site’s north axis, creating the need for a 44-foot bridge that connects to either volume across three levels.

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Deezen

JANUARY 25, 2024

UK architecture studio DaeWha Kang Design has designed a pavilion and courtyard for The OWO hotel at the site of the former Old War Office in Whitehall, London. The pavilion is located in front of the 1906 Grade II*-listed building, designed by architect William Young, that was once used by the British government's military departments.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

A British ITV documentary film crew recently reported on the growth of human rights concerns at The Line site after construction began. The press release names Delugan Meissl Associated Architects (DMAA), Gensler , and Mott MacDonald as additions.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Our research indeed reveals many additional concerns, from labour rights abuses, highlighted by the death of a worker on a construction site, to the devastating environmental impact," she continued. According to the human rights organisation, it is the "first death of a migrant worker on a Neom site" that has been documented.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The construction of the Sydney Opera House was a famously fraught saga, but as the city’s landmark turns 50, former workers remember a quite different atmosphere on the site itself. A design known for its engineering breakthroughs, it also was historic in terms of the concessions made to workers , says Solidarity Online.

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Archinect

JANUARY 5, 2024

The site is defined as a series of concentric rings that organize the campus both physically and conceptually: the Academic Core, the Water Loop, and the Living Loop. The School of Life Science, the School of Science and the School of Engineering are housed in separate buildings.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a gabled roof , along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland. The first of two planned residences, it is distinguished by its lower height and butterfly roof.

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Archinect

MARCH 8, 2024

Earlier this week, engineering and construction giant Bechtel and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) announced a multiyear partnership dedicated to preventing construction worker suicides. with the number of suicides being almost five times higher than the number of lives lost in job site safety incidents.

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JULY 19, 2023

The Hartree site in Cambridge. The design team includes various disciplines including, urban planners, architects, engineers, and sustainability experts. The water sewage treatment storage at the current Hartree site. Hartree is owned by water company Anglian Water and the Cambridge City Council.

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Archinect

MAY 12, 2023

OMA , along with Circlewood, a coalition of architects, engineers, builders, and researchers, have developed a modular wood system to build a variety of schools in Amsterdam. OMA explains, "All of the components are made in a factory under a digitally controlled process allowing for quick assembly and disassembly by an electric crane on site."

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Archinect

JULY 9, 2024

Developed alongside ppa.architecture as part of a consortium led by French civil engineering construction company Eiffage, which included Ingérop, ATP, and Quartiers Lumières, the bridge is one of four that will connect the Île du Ramier and the city.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It serves to engage the fields of architecture, design, engineering, and planning in the pursuit of sustainable design. Graduate students and professionals will also design housing for farm students on the site. All entrants will design the Teaching & Innovation Farm Lab.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 30, 2024

DataAE and Xavier Vendrell designed the project on a Barcelona hillside Claudi Aguiló and Albert Domingo, who run DataAE , and Xavier Vendrell Studio respectively, worked to create the project on a steep site at the edge of town. metre overhang that minimises the foundation in the rocky terrain.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The Center will rise atop a nine-acre site along Geneva Lake. It will serve as a space to gather women leaders across various industries, including engineering and technology, infrastructure and design, space and astrophysics, public and private enterprise, and more, to foster discourse and collaboration.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Martins describes the expansive tunnel as an engineering miracle. An alabaster head discovered at the excavation site. She views it as the perfect plan for the tomb of Cleopatra. It has gone undiscovered for so long because it was partially submerged underwater due to a series of ancient earthquakes that occurred.

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Archinect

MAY 30, 2022

The Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago is the site of a proposed new microgrid project set to improve its resiliency as the historic and predominantly Black community pushes towards energy independence.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 12, 2023

These challenges are particularly critical in large and complex construction sites, where any irregularities or unevenness can result in significant losses and complications for architects, engineers, and contractors. Read more »

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Archinect

APRIL 27, 2022

Connecting an area north of Dodger Stadium known as Elysian Valley to the neighboring Cypress Park district, the bridge sits on a 42-acre former railway site and has been given the nickname ‘Rumblefish’ by its creators.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Led by the university’s architecture school with support from computer science, engineering, and business professors, the ongoing research seeks to develop methods to measure embodied carbon in the construction industry: a category which accounts for 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Archinect

JUNE 6, 2023

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Archinect

MAY 25, 2023

Famous historic sites, low-income apartments and Twitter's headquarters all appear on a previously unpublished draft list of 3,407 concrete buildings in San Francisco that may be at high risk of collapse in a major earthquake, according to a copy of a city government document obtained by NBC News through a public records request. Current U.S.

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Archinect

JANUARY 28, 2022

A diverse consortium of architects has been announced for a massive new development called Cultural Terrace on the site of the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in Irvine, California led by IBI Group and MVRDV.

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Archinect

JULY 12, 2024

Our client, a retired aerospace engineer and avid hiker, is not interested in horses, but fell in love with the site for its purity, simplicity and openness. The resulting building is essentially a platform for viewing the rise and fall of the sun, the change of the seasons, and the natural beauty that flows by and through the site.

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JANUARY 7, 2024

Campus map showing the various sites considered during the site selection process. The site selection process proved eye-opening. We studied several candidate sites, but the Steering Committee ultimately chose one that wasn’t initially on anyone’s radar screen. While more challenging to work with than the others, Site N.3

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