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BIG designs all-wood cubic structure as “living curriculum” at University of Kansas

April 22, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Danish architecture studio BIG, alongside faculty at the University of Kansas, has unveiled its design for the mass-timber Makers’ KUbe in Kansas, USA. The structure will serve as an educational building for the University of Kansas (KU) School of Architecture & Design in Lawrence, Kansas. BIG’s design was chosen as part of an open call,

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Ross Barney Architects encloses NASA testing facility in unique copper-concrete panels

April 16, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

US architecture Ross Barney Architects has completed a NASA laboratory for deep-space technology testing in Cleveland, USA, which includes a tower made of pre-cast concrete panels for testing antennas. Ross Barney Architects created the Aerospace Communications Facility at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, which originally opened as the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in

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Detroit skyscraper becomes city’s second-tallest building

April 12, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

A skyscraper designed by New York studio SHoP Architects at Detroit’s Hudson’s Detroit development has topped out, making it the second tallest building in the city. Named the Tower, the 681-foot-high (207 metre) skyscraper forms part of a larger development in Downtown Detroit called Hudson’s Detroit. It reached its full height this week. When complete

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Allied Works layers sandstone for facade of Pennsylvania museum

April 10, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Brooklyn architecture studio Allied Works has created a building with interlocking boxy forms clad in sandstone and steel for the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, USA. The sprawling structure serves as a home to The Pennsylvania State University’s (Penn State) art collections, which fill the galleries and storage areas of the 73,000-square-foot (6,781

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Ædifica presents “vision of densification” for Cité Angus II housing block in Montreal

April 5, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Local architecture studio Ædifica has created a residential apartment building outside Montreal with an interior courtyard and a metal-mesh second skin on the facade. Called Cité Angus II, the structure is part of Technopôle Angus, an urban revitalization project that its developers say is a “full-scale sustainable development”. It will put multi-storey residential and businesses

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Diamond Schmitt Architects to expand Canada’s “oldest continuing museum”

April 4, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Toronto-based studio Diamond Schmitt Architects has been selected to expand the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John, Canada, which is one of the country’s oldest museums. The 134,000-square-foot expansion designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects in collaboration with international firm EXP will unite the current disparate collections of the museum, currently spread in different facilities throughout

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Glavovic Studio adds massive periscope on walkway near Everglades

April 3, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

American firm Glavovic Studio has created a red aluminium walkway with a large-scale periscope in Florida to connect the local population with the nearby Everglades. Located in Tamarac, a city northwest of Fort Lauderdale, the walkway was placed at the edge of dense suburban development including sprawling single-family neighbourhoods and an Amazon fulfilment centre. It

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Montgomery County has found a way to reinvigorate public housing in America

April 1, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

As part of Dezeen’s Social Housing Revival series, we look at how one county in Maryland is leading the way in the US after devising a novel public-development strategy to help combat its housing crisis. Montgomery is a growing county on the outskirts of the Washington DC metropolitan area that has come up with a method

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SelgasCano and Diego Cano wrap LA hillside house in colourful aluminium tubes

March 25, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Spanish architecture studios SelgasCano and Diego Cano used multi-coloured tubes made from recycled aluminium to clad a house on a steep site in Los Angeles. Set on a steep hill in Mount Washington, a suburb northeast of Los Angeles, the home for SelgasCano founders Lucía Cano and José Selgas was designed in collaboration with Diego

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Albert Frey’s all-metal 1930s Aluminaire House reassembled in Palm Springs

March 22, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

The Palm Springs Art Museum has unveiled the reconstructed Aluminaire House in California, a modernist house originally designed in the 1930s by architect Albert Frey and editor A Lawrence Kocher. After “languishing for decades” in upstate New York, the house has been relocated to Palm Springs, California, where the museum plans to showcase and preserve

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