• Pushing Boundaries with Bamboo: A Structural Engineering Case Study
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023 from Arch Daily
    Aerial perspective of the Luum Temple under construction, revealing the network of bamboo elements. Image Courtesy of CO-LAB design office In a world grappling with environmental challenges, forward-thinking architects and engineers are increasingly leaning towards more sustainable solutions. While steel and concrete have long dominated the construction industry, bamboo is...
  • Simba Vision Montessori School / Architectural Pioneering Consultants
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023 from Arch Daily
    © Nadia Christ Ngabobo Village is located in Tanzania’s remote northern savanna, just 3 degrees south of the equator. Having a subtropical highland climate with mild annual temperatures ranging between 18 and 23°C, the plains between Mount Meru and...
  • From Sketch to Painting: A Digital Art Gallery To Inspire Everyday Architectural Work
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023 from Arch Daily
    Digitization has revolutionized the way we experience art on platforms like SINGULART, which combines multiple influences from various artists.. Image Courtesy of SINGULART The relationship between art and architecture is a recurring topic of discussion , seeing as architecture can be positioned at the intersection of structure, technology, and aesthetics. Despite the utilization of technical knowledge,...
  • James R. Thompson Center Announces Participation at Chicago Architecture Biennial's 5th Edition
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023 from Arch Daily
    Photo by Kenneth C. Zirke. Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB 5) has announced the participation of the James R Thompson Center as both a cultural partner and city site for the 5th edition of the exhibition. CAB 5: This is A Rehearsal is curated by the Chicago...
  • Medifer Office / Impepinable Studio
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023 from Arch Daily
    © ​David Frutos The renovation of the offices of this SME dedicated to the sale of agricultural products represents a significant change in its work environment. The need to update the facilities arose as a response to the evolving demands of a changing...
  • Polish-Israeli Architect Zvi Hecker Passes Away at the Age of 92
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023 from Arch Daily
    Heinz-Galinski School Berlin, Germany, 1995. Image © Michael Krüger Polish-Israeli architect Zvi Hecker , internationally recognized as an influential figure of Modernism in Israel , as well as a painter, illustration artist, and furniture designer, has passed away at the age of 92, as reported by...
  • Maximalism: What It Is and Why You Need to Know It
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023 from Arch Daily
    Project by Freddy Mamani. Image © Alfredo Zeballos Maximalism is an artistic movement that stands in stark contrast to minimalism. While minimalism famously preaches "Less is more," maximalism embraces the opposite mantra of "More is more."
  • How to Use Vertical Farming for Sustainable Living
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023 from Arch Daily
    The Urban Farming Office in Ho Chih Minh City, Vietnam, seeks to return green space to the city using the building’s facade as a structure for vertical urban farming. Image © Hiroyuki Oki Increasing in both size and number, cities worldwide are experiencing accelerated growth. With green land regularly lost to either urbanization or its effects – such as rising sea levels or natural disasters – and expanding populations...
  • Technology, Nature, and Diversity in Architecture: An Interview with Guto Requena
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023 from Arch Daily
    Equipe do Estudio Guto Requena. Photo Courtesy by Guto Requena. During July, we delved into the Design Process as our monthly topic. Inspired by practices that intersect various uncommon layers in their creations, we talked with architect Guto Requena . When designing, his studio experiments with...
  • Urban Parks Should Be a Greater Part of the Healthcare System
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023 from Arch Daily
    Riverfront Spokane. Image Courtesy of The Dirt Each year, the Trust for Public Land (TPL) issues its ParkScore, which ranks the park systems of the 100 most populated cities in the U.S. This year, the organization also explored the positive health outcomes of top-scoring cities,...
  • Polish History Museum / WXCA
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023 from Arch Daily
    © Daniel Ciesielski The Warsaw Citadel of Museums. Work on the architectural design of the Polish History Museum at the Warsaw Citadel began back in 2016. The project was commissioned by Polish architectural design studio WXCA, which in 2009 won the...
  • Jabuticaba House / Fernanda Marques Arquitetura
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023 from Arch Daily
    © Fernando Guerra | FG + SG The proposal for a residence in a condominium in the city of São José dos Campos, for a young couple with small children, arose from the request for a home for life. This is the scope that Fernanda Marques' project...
  • Tile House / The Bloom
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023 from Arch Daily
    © Hiroyuki Oki In early 2022, we had the opportunity to work with an investor in Bao Loc, which was also the time when we clearly realized the difficulties that this land would bring. Those were long, dry, sunny days followed by endless rain from day...
  • M17 Building / zanderroth
    Tuesday, September 26, 2023 from Arch Daily
    © Simon Menges Situated between Alexanderplatz and Schillingstrasse, between East German Plattenbauten and the Kino International, and between Karl-Marx-Allee and a historic residential quarter, Magazinstrasse is a product of Berlin ’s urban history....
  • Upgrading and Renovation of Dinghao Electronics Building / Nikken Sekkei
    Monday, September 25, 2023 from Arch Daily
    © Zhen Jia Yao This project is a conversion of the Ding Hao Building, a 200,000 square-meter commercial and office complex completed in 2003 and 2008 in Zhongguancun, Beijing , an area known as the Silicon Valley of China. Many IT companies are...
  • Sunset House / One and a Half Architects
    Monday, September 25, 2023 from Arch Daily
    © DOF Sky|Ground Project Objective - This house is built on land with a central golf course area. The rear of the house serves as a viewpoint showcasing the garden and the lake, which are significant features of the space.
  • House in Bocaina / Ana Altberg + Cesar Jordão
    Monday, September 25, 2023 from Arch Daily
    © Federico Cairoli Since the first visit, we were greatly impressed by the power of Serra da Bocaina, just like the client who requested a house that "embraced the landscape." After many studies and conversations, in order to interpret this desire, we...
  • Polpo Bar / Sofía Betancur
    Monday, September 25, 2023 from Arch Daily
    © Arturo Arrieta The project is located within the recently restored commercial passage El Parián, an eclectic-style building cataloged by the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL), whose name comes from the Tagalog "parian" which...
  • 42 Years of Critical Regionalism
    Monday, September 25, 2023 from A Daily Dose of Architecture
  • ‘Colours give comfort in these difficult times’: Ukraine’s Lego-inspired city – in pictures
    Monday, September 25, 2023 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Comfort Town is a residential area of Kyiv built on a former industrial area. It was designed to brighten up the former grey Soviet buildings from the 1950s and 60s Continue reading...
  • The Black Exterior Of This Barn-Inspired Home Is Contrasted With A White Interior
    Thursday, September 21, 2023 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    A modern barn-inspired home with a black exterior and bright white interior. Architecture and interior design studio Laney LA has shared photos of a modern home they designed in Culver City, California, that has a dark black exterior. The home with its gabled design, has a path that leads to the glass front door....
  • Red-Pigmented Concrete Screens Surround This New Home In Cape Town
    Wednesday, September 20, 2023 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    A modern home with distinctive red-pigmented concrete, which can be seen on the angled pre-cast concrete screens that are mounted on steel frames. Architecture firm SAOTA, together with interior design firm ARRCC, has recently completed a modern house in Cape Town, South Africa. The home was designed by Philip Olmesdahl, principal of SAOTA, for himself and his family, with him...
  • The Remodeling Of This Home’s Rear Addition Created A Light-Filled Interior
    Tuesday, September 19, 2023 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    An updated brick extension for an Edwardian home. Cox Architects has sent us photos of a project they completed that included the re-modeling of a 775 square foot (72 sqm) brick addition. BeforeThe original Edwardian house, located in a leafy South London Conservation Area, already had...
  • Whangārei’s Almond Court flats being demolished for future hotel development
    Monday, September 18, 2023 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    The boarded up Almond Court flats have been an iconic landmark in Whangārei for years.
  • The Latest from MoMA: Emerging Ecologies
    Monday, September 18, 2023 from A Daily Dose of Architecture
  • New book pays tribute to Māori architect, seeks answers for future designs
    Sunday, September 17, 2023 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    The book focuses on designs, concepts and visions that encompass Māori beliefs.
  • Ep 134: Management 101
    Sunday, September 17, 2023 from Life of an Architect
    Today we are talking about firm management – but at a fairly introductory level so that we can focus on a broad range of considerations that are applicable to a broader range of individuals who are transitioning into management roles....
  • ‘The buildings were a sign of civic pride’: anger as art colleges around the UK close their doors
    Sunday, September 17, 2023 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Colleges that once fostered talent – often from working-class backgrounds – have vanished at an alarming rate. Two beneficiaries of that system are documenting its demise On a trip to Norfolk back in 2009, artist and academic Matthew...
  • UCL East Marshgate review – an inward-looking class act
    Sunday, September 17, 2023 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London University College London’s flexible new campus, designed by Stirling prize-winners Stanton Williams, is all complex drama within, yet its forbidding exterior sits somewhat uneasily with its Olympic...
  • Before & After – A 1960s Split-Level Turned Three-Story Home In Seattle
    Friday, September 15, 2023 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    A 1960s split-level home was transformed into a clean, functional, and practical design for a family of five. Floisand Studio Architects has sent us photos of a remodel project they completed in Seattle, Washington, that transformed a 1960s split-level home into an updated design for a family of five. The project’s goals were to modernize...
  • Peter Buchanan obituary
    Thursday, September 14, 2023 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Architect and writer who was concerned with the way buildings work within the natural world Peter Buchanan, who has died aged 80, was an architect, critic, essayist and teacher. The touring exhibition Ten Shades of Green: Architecture...
  • From collective ambition to crumbling concrete: Essex is a totem of Britain’s decline | Tim Burrows
    Wednesday, September 13, 2023 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Yes, many of the county’s postwar buildings used Raac; but the real problem is a Tory ideology that has negligence at its core Essex has long been stereotyped for its bubbly TV personalities, but these days it is better known for its...
  • ‘A fairytale wooden world’: Soviet country cottages – in pictures
    Wednesday, September 13, 2023 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Widespread in the former USSR, dachas set in rural idylls were inhabited by writers, architects and those looking to escape the city for a self-sufficient life Continue reading...
  • The Guardian view on the hidden carvings of Salisbury Cathedral: messages to the future | Editorial
    Tuesday, September 12, 2023 from Architecture | The Guardian
    For centuries stonemasons have left secret signature works in buildings. In an age of machines, they are a testament to what it is to be human The “topping out” of Salisbury Cathedral last week marked the end of a 37-year restoration...
  • ‘We’re here to stay’: the stack-em-high wooden workspace fighting the luxury flats plague
    Tuesday, September 12, 2023 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Huge numbers of vital workshops have been lost to higher-return housing. But one architect is creating budget spaces by building upwards – with wood. We meet the busy tenants of his £5m Workstack A stack of blocks teeters on the side of...
  • Chateau Tongariro’s tangled web of cost traps taxpayers
    Monday, September 11, 2023 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    What, we must ask ourselves, is the grande dame worth?
  • Places in Time II
    Monday, September 11, 2023 from A Daily Dose of Architecture
  • Megacities in the desert: the human cost of Egypt and Saudi Arabia’s bold new projects | Nesrine Malik
    Monday, September 11, 2023 from Architecture | The Guardian
    In their rush to claim the future and concrete over the past, these vast rebrands are demolishing people’s homes and their heritage Spread over an area almost 7km (4 miles) long, Cairo’s Necropolis is a sprawling district of tombs,...
  • A Black Brick Exterior Is Consistent With The Dark Forest Surrounding This Modern Home
    Sunday, September 10, 2023 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    A modern home with a dark brick exterior and wood elements made from Douglas Fir. Architecture and interior design firm GO’C has shared photos of a home they recently completed northwest of Seattle on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington. Located on a secluded wooded site, near a small beach town, the home has...
  • Adam Nathaniel Furman: ‘I like the senses to be tickled’
    Sunday, September 10, 2023 from Architecture | The Guardian
    The British artist and designer, whose work spans Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and a Bristol underpass, is redefining public spaces with an outsider’s eye for the monumental and an emphasis on craft and delight “They last for ever,” says Adam...
  • Dewsbury in Yorkshire recognised as ‘greenest town’ of the 1800s
    Friday, September 8, 2023 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Historic England lists 12 buildings in recognition of town’s role in recycling yarn from all over world It’s a Yorkshire town perhaps best known for its big market or as the birthplace of Betty Boothroyd but a national heritage body is...
  • New York’s plan to save birds from crashing into buildings: lights out
    Thursday, September 7, 2023 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Legislation aims to dim the city’s night-time lights that pose a threat to millions of migratory birds passing through In a few days, two beams will illuminate the Manhattan sky in a tribute to those killed in the September 11 attacks....
  • A White Material Palette Creates A Peaceful Coastal Living Feeling For This Home
    Wednesday, September 6, 2023 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    Inspired by coastal living, this modern home features an exterior of white weatherboards, stone, and white battens. Habitat Studio Architects has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Queensland, Australia, that’s located right on Currumbin Beach. Inspired by coastal living, the home features an exterior of stone, white weatherboards...
  • ‘A polite beige consensus’: are these really Britain’s best new buildings?
    Tuesday, September 5, 2023 from Architecture | The Guardian
    The six nominees for the 2023 RIBA Stirling prize shortlist are tasteful and well made – but a great many quirky buildings with a sense of fun have been overlooked Do you like your bricks in red, brown or grey? And do you prefer your...
  • Salisbury Cathedral prepares for final ‘topping out’ after 37 years of repairs
    Tuesday, September 5, 2023 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Scaffolding will soon be taken down on 13th-century building as huge restoration programme nears end It has taken 37 years to restore Salisbury Cathedral – only 12 months less than medieval builders required to construct the main body of...
  • Ep 133: Ask the Show Fall 2023
    Monday, September 4, 2023 from Life of an Architect
    Management transition, Where to start a design, the Role of Artificial Intelligence in architecture, and What Cocktail Should Architects drink ... We answer your questions today on Ep 133: Ask the Show. Fall 2023 The post Ep 133: Ask the...
  • Tom Markus obituary
    Monday, September 4, 2023 from Architecture | The Guardian
    My father, Tom Markus, who has died aged 95 , was the first professor of building science at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he established a thriving research base and, inspired by his socialist politics and Catholic...
  • Corrugated Metal Covers The Barrel Shaped Roofs Of This Portable Home
    Monday, September 4, 2023 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    A modern and small one-bedroom home with a study, kitchen, loft, and bedroom. William Samuels Architects has sent us photos of a small home they designed and built in Nelson, New Zealand, that includes a single bedroom. The project was created out of a desire by architect William Samuels and his partner, Hannah...
  • Places in Time I
    Monday, September 4, 2023 from A Daily Dose of Architecture
  • NSW premier open to ‘pattern-book’ housing across Sydney as solution for crisis
    Monday, September 4, 2023 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Unlikely alliance pushes for more medium-density housing of the sort typically found in inner-city suburbs Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, says he is...
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