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On Friday, March 15, Hudson Yards officially opened to the public. Billed as a "whole new neighborhood" on Manhattan's Far West Side, the first phase of the 28-acre (11-hectare) development is anchored by what's known for now as Vessel, an "interactive landmark" designed by Thomas...


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The C building was designed for the current elementary school and in the future will be utilized for Ayb Middle School.


Anne Carrier architecture | ١٣.٠٣.٢٠١٩

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This second home is perched on high ground in Cap-aux-Corbeaux, a place made famous by the classic novel Menaud, maitre-draveur. The house is located on a shared private drive; accordingly, the more opaque secondary volumes by the roadside are oriented to protect the privacy of the...


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MM House groups the program in four boxes – kitchen, living/dining, main bedroom and guest bedrooms – each one placed carefully on the ground and rotated precisely on its axis to find the best views and orientation for their use.


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Five years after MoMA tore down Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects' Folk Art Museum in New York City, John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, has announced plans to raze the firm's 18-year-old Mattin Center.


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Building of the Week

Think of residential design in Aspen, Colorado, and most likely traditional edifices in the vein of mountain chalets come to mind. But the small town in the Rockies has its share of modern architecture, both public and residential. Falling into the latter is Studio B's recently completed...


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The ADHOC architects' team is very proud to present Le Jardinier (“The Gardener”), a project accomplished in collaboration with the developer Knightsbridge.


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In Wellton Park, a district in Moscow with a very high building density, the Dutch architecture firm Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik has completed two apartment buildings with outspoken brick facades. When the client requested “Dutch” architecture, the architects let themselves be inspired by the...


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Images have been unveiled for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture's contribution to the large Greenpoint Landing development on the Brooklyn waterfront.


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How are architects using Vectorworks to design better, more sustainable buildings? Answers were in abundance at the


Jenny Keller | ٠٨.٠٣.٢٠١٩

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Jürg Zumtobel, longtime Managing Director and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Zumtobel Group, recalls the beginnings and the core of the family business, which today employs six and a half thousand people worldwide and has always placed architecture at the center of its activities.


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New York's MoMA PS1 has announced that Mexico City's Pedro&Juana is winner of the 2019 Young Architects Program (YAP). The studio's Hórama Rama will be installed in the institution's courtyard this summer.


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Las Chicas, Los Chicos y Los Maniquís Restaurant by El Equipo Creativo has won Best Use of Colour at the 2019 Frame Awards.


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Western Canada's largest museum shares, preserves and collects the human and natural history of Alberta.


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The March 5th announcement of Arata Isozaki as the 2019 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize brought with it a flurry of official press photos of the Japanese architect's most prominent buildings. But what about the other projects that also define who Isozaki is as an architect – and...


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Arata Isozaki, the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, explains in a short film how his approach to architecture was born from the destruction of World War II, leading...


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Itinerant Office's "Past, Present, Future: about being an architect yesterday, today and beyond" consists of interviews with eleven architects heading firms based in Italy and the Netherlands. Here we highlight Stefano Boeri, founder of Milan's Stefano Boeri Architetti.


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Chicago's Hyatt Foundation has announced that Japanese architect Arata Isozaki is the 2019 laureate of the annual Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered architecture's highest honor.


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Estimated housing deficit in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital and home to 21 million people: 3 million


Waechter Architecture | ٠٤.٠٣.٢٠١٩

Building of the Week

From its establishment in 2014 until last year, Furioso Vineyards occupied a barn-like, easy-to-miss building with red siding. Renovated by Portland's Waechter Architecture, the winery's charred cedar screen now grabs the attention of those driving by, while glass walls invite them to sip some...


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The Irish-born American architect Kevin Roche, recipient of the 1982 Pritzker Architecture Prize, has died at the age of 96.


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New York's Weiss/Manfredi has released renderings of their masterplan for the 28-acre U.S. Embassy campus in India, more than sixty years after Edward Durell Stone designed the Chancery there.


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Nestled in the vales of the Eastern Townships, near the Vermont border, the Abercorn Chalet is the brainchild of Laurent Guez, designer and partner at Tux Creative. His aim was to create a unique living experience through architecture, embodying contrasts of harmony, open spaces and cozy...


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Siza: Unseen and Unknown, now on display at the Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin, features around 100 sketches by architect Álvaro Siza — as well as drawings by his late wife, son, and grandson.


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The Baechi Foundation contracted gus wüstemann architects to build a housing block in the outer green belt of Albisrieden in the city of Zurich — nine flats with a high living quality on a low budget.


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Tata Consultancy Services’ new software development campus was inspired by the important role courtyards play in traditional Indian architecture, specifically the role they play in fostering community interactions.


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The small Dodged house is located in the historical city center of Lisbon, in the popular neighborhood of Mouraria.


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The studio led by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas has won the competition for the extension and restructuring of the port of Fontvieille with cultural, commercial, public, and landscaped spaces.


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The building is set back facing Frankfurter Straße, thus generating the space for a public square – Emanuel Merck Platz. The interior is characterized by the unfolding of a continuously flowing spatial structure.


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Building of the Week

Josep Lluis Sert served as Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 1953 to 1969, during which time he designed the Holyoke Center across the street from Harvard Square and the gates to Harvard Yard. Now the Smith Campus Center, the administrative building was renovated by Hopkins...


i29 interior architects & Chris Collaris | ٢٥.٠٢.٢٠١٩

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In the middle of nature at the Vinkeveense plassen, i29 interior architects and Chris Collaris designed a tiny holiday home.


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Number of new buildings of around 10 stories being built near the Acropolis in Athens that have sparked protests (and a petition with more than 22,000 signees) over the


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The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) is now accepting entries for the third $100,000 RAIC International Prize, formerly...


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A "living sculpture" on display at the Centre Pompidou in Paris consists of oxygen-producing bacteria inserted into a 3D-printed substructure. Could this be the next generation of living walls that adorn buildings?


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The Learning Resource Center is an innovative state-of-the-art library that provides a vibrant collection of study spaces organized around a dramatic social stair on the Michael J. Grant Campus of Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood, New York.


John Hill | ٢١.٠٢.٢٠١٩

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With Frank Gehry's 90th birthday coming at the end of the month, it's worth checking in on the status of two huge projects he's working on in the city he calls home and the one where he was born.