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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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Supertall skyscrapers and casino planned for Hudson Yards expansion

March 20, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Development firm Related Companies has announced plans to expand the program of Hudson Yards with a series of buildings including supertall skyscrapers and a casino. In partnership with Wynn Resorts, the developer submitted proposals to the city for the project in February and last week released a series of renderings showing what the potential skyscrapers

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WXY and Situ lead design of New York outdoor dining prototypes

March 15, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Local studios WXY Architecture and Situ have collaborated with government agencies to create standardised formats for outdoor dining pavilions in New York City to improve health and safety along with new guidelines. Following a decision to keep outdoor dining pavilions as a permanent fixture on New York streets, the city launched a public competition for

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ICON develops 3D printer to build enclosed multi-storey structures

March 12, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Texas-based ICON has unveiled Phoenix, a robotic-arm-mounted 3D printer that can create fully-enclosed, multi-storey structures from a low-carbon mixture, at SXSW. ICON revealed the demountable crane-based 3D printer during a talk held as part of the annual SXSW festival in Austin, Phoenix allows ICON to construct multi-storey houses with enclosed systems. It said that it

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