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Nikjoo weaves terraces into townhouse on London parking space

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The three-bedroom house by Nikjoo is located on a backland site tucked behind Stoke Newington's Church Street and was originally a parking space used by a convenience store to receive deliveries. On the ground floor is an open-plan kitchen, dining and living space that was given floor-to-ceiling glazing to let lin in natural light.

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Zaha Hadid Architects references magnetic forces for Serbian mill conversion

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An existing masonry chimney will be preserved Additional curved openings will be inserted in the building's internal walls to improve visitor circulation between gallery and exhibition spaces. "To In front of the museum, the Nikola Tesla Square will provide public space with curved paths and gardens informed by electromagnetic fields.

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How They Pulled It Off: A Secret Stair Hatch That Seals Off the Living Space

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of requirements that included a guest suite, a reconfigurable living space, ample outdoor connection without sacrificing privacy, and a Palm Springs midcentury-modern aesthetic (but not the copy/paste kind). Flexible space is something that more and more clients are asking for," says Bnysz. He also envisioned a house that folded.

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SOM completes Two Manhattan West, marking a major milestone for corporate office design in NYC

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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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Santiago Calatrava to receive a 2024 CTBUH Lifetime Achievement Award

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Both were selected for their respective contributions to the design of tall buildings worldwide, with Calatrava's (himself a trained structural engineer) work being hailed as one that "define[s] skylines and urban spaces across the globe" by CTBUH CEO Javier Quintana de Una.

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Tie Rods in Brazilian Architecture: From Furniture to Urban Infrastructure

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Image: Gabriel Fernandes from São Paulo, Brasil, CC BY-SA 2.0 <[link] via Wikimedia Commons Tie rods are integral in structural engineering, primarily for transmitting traffic loads and alleviating compression forces within a structure.

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MAD "cracks open" facade of Denver residential building

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The middle of the building was opened up to reveal plaster, cave-like elements that resembled a canyon "The canyon looks like a natural space cracking open a modern box," MAD Architects principal Ma Yansong told Dezeen. "In It is located in Denver's RiNo neighbourhood. The One River North block contains 187 rental units.