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Sitelab integrates commercial and public space at 5M in San Francisco

March 8, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Sitelab Urban Studio has completed the first phases of a mixed-use development called 5M in San Francisco’s SoMa neighbourhood with Kohn Pederson Fox (KPF) as lead architect. The project, developed by Brookfield Properties and Hearst, includes a privately owned public park surrounded by a new residential and commercial tower along with rehabilitated historic buildings, including

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Gensler releases plans for winged Flight Test Museum in California

March 7, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture firm Gensler has released plans for the new Flight Test Museum in Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles. The design combines the dimensions of an airport hangar with the shape of the Nighthawk aircraft, an American stealth plane first built in the 1980s. “The reimagination of the Flight Test Museum coincides with the rise

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ICON and Lake Flato build 3D-printed House Zero in Austin

March 4, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
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Construction technology outfit ICON and architecture studio Lake Flato have completed a 3D-printed, modern ranch-style home in Austin to be displayed during the SXSW festival. ICON, the company to first sell ready-to-own 3D homes in the US, worked with San Antonio and Austin-based architecture studio Lake Flato to design House Zero. The home is sited

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Vaulted brick roof spans Intermediate House in Paraguay by Equipo de Arquitectura

March 3, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Paraguay studio Equipo de Arquitectura has completed a residence with vaulted brick ceilings on a narrow lot in Asunción, which opens to a courtyard with a mango tree. The Intermediate House comprises two blocks either side of the central, open-air courtyard. The architects referred to the entrance block as the “quincho”, which loosely translates to

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Falling ice from supertall skyscrapers on Billionaires’ Row causes injuries and closures

March 1, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Ice falling from supertall skyscrapers in New York, including 11 West 57th Street on Billionaires’ Row, injured motorists and closed roads over the weekend. Numerous reports from New York City described incidents of ice falling from some of the city’s tallest buildings. A motorist was injured on Friday night when a chunk of ice fell from SHoP

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Diller Scofidio + Renfro creates pair of Columbia Business School buildings with “layer-cake design”

February 28, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed two buildings on the Manhattanville campus of Columbia University’s School of Business in New York City. The two buildings – Henry R Kravis Hall and David Geffen Hall – were designed in collaboration with FXCollaborative for Manhattanville, a 17-acre (6.9-hectare) site north of the university’s existing campus

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CLB Architects arranges Japan-influenced Wyoming home around courtyard gardens

February 25, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

US firm CLB Architects has blended Japanese and mid-century Californian architecture styles for this house in Jackson, Wyoming, which is broken up by a trio of courtyards. The Tengoku Residence is located in the ski resort town of Jackson, at the base of the Teton Range of the Rocky Mountains. It is situated next to

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Plan:b Arquitectos creates brick vacation home in Colombian tropical forest

February 24, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Brothers Felipe and Federico Mesa of Plan:b Arquitectos have designed a brick and perforated concrete holiday home for their families in the rural town of La Siria, Colombia. House in La Siria, which sits on a narrow patch of land abutting the tropical forest and mountains around 120 kilometres south west of Medellin, was designed to be as compact

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Adjaye Associates designs mass-timber building covered in plants for Toronto’s waterfront

February 23, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio Adjaye Associates has designed a plant-covered building called Timber House as part of a developement on Toronto’s waterfront that will include buildings by Alison Brooks Architects and Henning Larsen. Set back from the waterfront, the long and narrow Timber House will reportedly be one of the largest residential mass-timber structures in Canada, when it completes. Set to

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Rediscovered Mies van der Rohe design completes in Indiana

February 22, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

A glass building designed in 1952 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe has completed at Indiana University in Bloomington, more than 50 years after the German-American architect’s death. Now known as the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, the design was adapted for contemporary use from the rediscovered plans by New York architecture studio

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