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Deadline Approaches for Architecture at Zero 2024: Showcase Your Sustainable Design by Dec 16th

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This annual event calls for innovative, sustainable building designs that emphasize equity and resilience, providing a unique platform for creative solutions addressing today’s architectural challenges.

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Oregon researchers build prototype mass timber home that ‘fits together like gingerbread house’

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A research team in Oregon has unveiled a mass timber prototype home that seeks to showcase a sustainable, energy-efficient alternative to traditional home construction. Unlike conventional timber construction, the home is constructed of mass plywood panels shaped to fit together like pieces of a gingerbread house, the team says.

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Seven architecture and design events in November from Dezeen Events Guide

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Design Mumbai , Dezeen Awards Party , BAQ and BDNY are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this November. Other events taking place during the month include festivals Dubai Design Week , Design Canberra Festival and Seoul Design Festival. Downtown Design takes place from 6 to 9 November.

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Architecture in Focus: 16 Global Events between September and December 2024

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Image © Stijn Bollaert As the architectural landscape continues to evolve in response to pressing global challenges , events such as biennales, design weeks, and fairs play an instrumental role in shaping the profession's future.

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COP29 Highlights: Key Takeaways for Cities and the Built Environment

ArchDaily

In fact, cities are on the frontlines of the crisis, facing record-breaking heatwaves, catastrophic floods, and increasing economic losses from extreme weather events. The outcomes of COP29 directly affect urban planning, architecture, and sustainability efforts.

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Call For Entries: Italian Prize For Sustainable Architecture

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Gold Medal 2020 XIV Edition Italian Prize Sustainable Architecture / HOME*: Humanitarian and (un) Ordinary Machine for Emergency. Read more »

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Product designs explore sustainable potential of 3D-printable wood

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Read: Material Cultures transforms woodland waste into sustainable sheet materials The Lumo sofa is completed with a removable fabric suspended seat that attaches to a groove along the shell's edge, and since both the upholstery and filling are 100 per cent wool, the sofa in its entirety would eventually biodegrade if returned to the earth.