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on 16/09/2013
One of the highlights of the weeklong London Design Festivalnbsp;(14-22 September) is the Endless Stair, which occupies the lawn in front of the Tate Modern until 10 October. London's dRMM was obviously inspired by M.C. Escher in their design, which entices people to move up and down... John Hill
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on 16/09/2013
Circles at various scales predominate in the new Fletcher Hotel situated near the A2 highway southeast of central Amsterdam. Octatube worked with Benthem Crouwel Architects to realize the outer glass skin but also its structure and the inner layer, creating an integrated façade system. John Hill
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on 09/09/2013
Five winners were selected from the twenty projects shortlisted for the 2013 cycle of the triennial Aga Khan Award for Architecture. John Hill
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on 09/09/2013
Light reflecting off the London tower designed by Rafael Viñoly is blamed for damaging automobile plastic. John Hill
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on 09/09/2013
Oklahoma sits atop some of the largest petroleum fields in the United States, so it's no surprise that the drilling and production of oil and natural gas is a major industry in the state. Kirkpatrick Oil is one of many companies making up the industry. Their headquarters is in Oklahoma...
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on 06/09/2013
architecten de vylder vinck taillieu have a solid body of work, which ranges from renovations of homes and single family houses to public and institutional buildings. The studio, made up by Jan De Vylder (1968), Inge Vinck (1973) and Jo Taillieu (1971), belongs to the new generation of...
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on 03/09/2013
Montreal’s Saucier + Perrotte Architects turn to roots, trunks and trees for a new pharmaceutical building on the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver.
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on 02/09/2013
A chiller plant consists of myriad mechanical equipment situated behind an enclosure, meaning that the architecture can be just about anything. One example is Helmut Jahn's glassy enclosure (
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on 02/09/2013
The HomeWise campaign argues for larger homes and windows in new houses in the UK. John Hill
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on 02/09/2013
The 22,000-seat BBPV Compass Stadium was built in 2012 to serve Major League Soccer's (MLS) Houston Dynamo. The design by Populous taps into EaDo's industrial roots through a tessellated exterior wrapped in extruded aluminum mesh from Amico. John Hill
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on 02/09/2013
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have selected 65 winners. John Hill
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on 02/09/2013
The New York Times looks at Greenpoint Landing in Brooklyn to see how "architectural renderings are weapons in real estate." John Hill
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on 02/09/2013
The distinctive black-and-white striped oculus of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) can be glimpsed in this photo, where a portion of the Mario Botta museum is being demolished to make way for the expansion designed by Snøhetta. John Hill
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on 01/09/2013
bHAN EAST, the first international project by Kyoto-based interior design firm FHAMS, is a gourmet food shop in the Gangnam district of Seoul that offers Yamaya-brand mentaiko (spicy-salty marinated pollock or cod roe) along with a select assortment of other Japanese and Korean products....
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on 26/08/2013
The Massachusetts museum's search for a replacement followed the death of Rick Mather in April. John Hill
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on 26/08/2013
The latest iteration of artist and identical twins Mike and Doug Starn's Big Bambú can be found in a bamboo grove on Japan's Teshima Island, as part of the Setouchi Triennale 2013. John Hill
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on 26/08/2013
Joshua David and Robert Hammond will receive the 15th award from the National Building Museum. John Hill
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on 26/08/2013
The end of summer also means the beginning of the school season, so as students head off to architecture school we present a selection of distinctive "spaces for learning." With the understanding that students learn as much from their environment as their professors, it's no wonder... John Hill
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on 26/08/2013
The Great Plains stretch from Texas to Canada in the swath east of the Mississippi and west of the Rockly Mountains. North Dakota lies at the northern U.S. edge of this flat expanse of prairie, grassland, and farms. This house for an art collector in Fargo finds inspiration in the farmstead...
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on 19/08/2013
The President's Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force selects ten multidisciplinary teams for the Rebuild by Design competition. John Hill
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on 19/08/2013
News reports that a skyscraper in Benidorm, Spain, was built without an elevator are specious. John Hill
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on 19/08/2013
Open since June, the Museum of Architectural Graphics in Berlin houses the extensive architectural drawing collection of the Tchoban Foundation. John Hill
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on 19/08/2013
The first impression upon seeing Behnisch Architekten's John and Frances Angelos Law Center at the University of Baltimore is the way the boxy volumes are covered in different types of glass. There is a checkerboard frit that responds to the library and a rainscreen of structural glass and... John Hill
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on 19/08/2013
The architects at Snøhetta describe their design of the James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University "in every way cutting edge," from an automated book delivery system to a video game research room. This is an intelligent stance to take in a library in the...
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on 12/08/2013
Queens Library is one of the most popular public libraries in the world, with a circulation last year of close to 19 million items. The system comprises a central library in the Jamaica neighborhood and 62 branch libraries, reaching from Astoria in the north and Far Rockaway in the south....
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on 05/08/2013
Lake|Flato Architects calls their design of this Desert House in Sante Fe, New Mexico, a "modern hacienda," harking back to traditional estates in the desert Southwest and the creation of courtyards through multiple structures. The house further taps into the local...
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on 01/08/2013
When it came time to rebuild an aging elementary school gymnasium in the town of Taishi, Hyogo Prefecture, officials decided to add a space open to the general public as well. Akira Sakamoto of Akira Sakamoto Architect & Associates, the firm in charge of the project, says his team aimed to...
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on 29/07/2013
New Brunswick is a city of about 55,000 people that is home to Rutgers University and a smattering of medical facilities, which has resulted in the unofficial moniker "The Healthcare City." In fact, a few short blocks from the new 6-story office building at 104 Bayard...
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on 26/07/2013
Teeple Architects’ latest residential project in southern Ontario celebrates all that surrounds it: fields, trees and water
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on 22/07/2013
The digitization of just about every aspect of life comes with the need to change our physical structures accordingly. Dartmouth College's new Digital Humanities program required a space of its own, prompting the school to consolidate related departments into a new building. The resulting...
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on 15/07/2013
Pierre Cardin abandons the project amidst opposition to the 250-meter-high (820-feet) tower. John Hill
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on 15/07/2013
The Philadelphia-based landscape architect is one of 11 recipients of the prestigious award. John Hill
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on 15/07/2013
The Japanese architect is the winner of an international design competition for Seguin Island in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. John Hill
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on 15/07/2013
Las Vegas may be an illuminated oasis in the American Southwest, drawings its electricity from the Hoover Dam and solar plants, but water conservation is the most pressing concern for the city and the region. About 15 miles (24 kilometers) west of The Strip is Red Rock Canyon, Nevada's...
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on 15/07/2013
Inspired by a recent Alvaro Siza lecture, in which the architect traced the design process of one of his buildings through a myriad of ever-more-refined sketches, we've combed through the profiles on World-Architects to find sketches and other hand drawings—not an easy feat, considering... John Hill