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British Columbia has doubled height limits allowed for timber towers – and countries around the world are following suit British Columbia is no stranger to wooden giants. Along its western coast, Douglas fir and Sitka spruce trees topping 60 meters in height have in some cases w…
Roseville Pavilions is an alterations and additions to a freestanding house in Sydney’s north. The project is a renovation to the existing house, with additional garden room and updated landscaping. The project site slopes down from the entry level to the garden by a whole floor.…
The project site is the place where it located in the north side of Fukuori Koshu city Yamanashi prefecture where a plan site is an excellent production center of the Koshu kind of wine. Fukuori is the are that can overlook Mt Fuji in the south direction. There was a mulberry fie…
In 2016, Maogong government and Dimen Eco-Museum decided to convert an old vacant barn into an Art Center for local communities as a new culture carrier. Approach Architecture Studio turned this redevelopment commission into a pivotal project of Maogong revitalization plan.
The Three Step House derives its name from the design approach we took to addressing the site. The steep vacant hillside lot presented peculiar creative and technical challenges. The lot was virgin, a rarity in the dense Silverlake area. The slope profile was inordinately steep a…
The All for Transportation sales tax in Hillsborough County, Florida, survived a revolt and legal challenge from conservative county commissioners, despite earning 57 percent of the public vote.
The owner rented a yard in the hutong and asked us to design a teahouse garden. It is hoped that the gardens will include the elements of traditional gardens and have the true feeling of traditional gardens. It is not allowed to change the plane position of the original building…
Transportation and land use are being considered together at a new scale in the Bay Area, as transit oriented development pops up next to BART stations all over the region.
A glass walkway and terrace connect both halves of this black house near La Juanita beach, Uruguay, which FRAM Arquitectos and Delfina Riverti built almost exclusively out of wood. The property is built on a slope near Jose Ignacio Lake, a coastal body of water that feeds into t…
Some customers visited the Estancia Chapel and contacted us to make a private chapel on their weekend house at Cuernavaca. They wanted an Ecumenical Chapel, a non-religious chapel, a chapel to meditate.
Rivers are high and drought conditions have been lifted, but experts say that the 19-year drought in Colorado isn't over.
Distinguished architect who designed the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and One Canada Square in LondonCésar Pelli will be remembered as a designer of world-beating skyscrapers, but for him the quality of his projects was more important than their height. The Argentin…
The project is part of the celebration of Siam Cement Group (SCG), the biggest construction materials producer in Thailand, for the company’s 100 year anniversary. Supermachine Studio and 2 other renowned Thai architects are invited to propose a public facility which will be real…
Authorities in San Francisco are making moves to bring a $600 million affordable housing bond to voters later this year. The bond, according a recent press release, would allow the city to fund the creation, preservation, and rehabilitation of affordable housing in San Francisco…
Residents of Washington, D.C. report being very concerned about being forced to move by rising housing prices.
The ML residence is located in the city of Nova lima , state of Minas Gerais. The plot is in a mountainous site with an average slope of 53 per cent. In order to avoid permanent retaining walls (structures) it was decided that the interference in the topography and earthwork woul…
Pelli, who died on Friday, July 19, at the age of 92, saw architecture less as an outlet for personal expression than as a way to make a mark on cities.
Not since the Great Recession have sales of multi-family residential buildings in New York City slowed to such a standstill. Experts are blaming the state's new rent control regulations.
Fraher & Findlay has built a wildflower-topped rear extension, a glass-walled courtyard and a loft extension for a 20th-century house in London. Architecture studio Fraher & Findlay's design for The Courtyard House draws on the history of its south west London conservation area…
Located in a suburban development, this residence uses the conventional construction methods of its McMansion neighbors, but focuses on reductive materials and detailing. Four gabled forms enclose a courtyard pool for this young family. Sited at the ridge of a hayfield, the house…
NextOffice’s Sadra Artists Forum is a public cultural center to be located in the arid suburban town of Sadra. Consisting entirely of low-lying or subterranean building levels, the project's unique structure contrasts the surrounding urban area and uniquely shapes the relationshi…
This week on our Pinterest account we're showcasing the architecture of Latin America, including projects in Chile, Brazil and Mexico. Open the Pinterest app on your phone, tap the camera icon and scan the Pincode below to explore Dezeen's feed. The post Take a tour of Latin Ame…
After a week in which Norman Foster’s ‘Tulip’ tower planned for London was culled, a book on the aesthetics of ugly buildings is timelySeared into architectural folk memory is the time in 1984 when Prince Charles went off piste at a dinner to celebrate the 150th anniversary of th…
Shanghai is a city full of contradictions. Beneath the towering skyscrapers and contemporary complexes, old houses and shops are tucked away, gradually falling apart. The city's disappearing streets caught the attention of many international photographers. Some displayed the rela…
The aim of the project is a creation of simple and sober building, in relation to its direct context while developing logic and therapeutic architecture.
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Baoguosi Buddhism Temple is located in a remote mountain area of Sichuan Province. The history of the temple can be traced back to Sui Dynasty (C.E. 581-C.E. 618). The site of Zen Centre was a teahouse, built around 1970’s.
September 22, 2018 witnessed the simultaneous opening of three offline new retail stores of Yitiao.tv in three shopping malls in Shanghai, followed by its ranking the No. 1 on the list of the most popular household commodities in Shanghai (from dianping.com) one month later. The…
Past, Present, Future is an interview project by Itinerant Office, asking acclaimed architects to share their perspectives on the constantly evolving world of architecture. Each interview is split into three video segments: Past, Present, and Future, in which interviewees discuss…
OLWEN HOUSE is a residential project situated in a tightly-knit neighborhood in Danang, central Vietnam. The brief is to pact a showroom, retail space, makeup and workspace for the photography studio all within a 75-sqm land plot in a low-rise residential area surrounded by block…
There is still political work to do, and questions to be answered about funding, but a new pedestrian plan for the city of Milwaukee has cleared a key council committee.
The Argentinian-American architect designed some of the world’s tallest buildings The architect César Pelli, who designed some of the world’s tallest and best-known buildings, has died. He was 92. Anibal Bellomio, a senior associate architect at Pelli’s studio in Connecticut, co…
The Design Project of headquarters building of BIALMED pharmaceutical wholesaler breaks a stereotype of a typical warehouse design time fulfilling a task of blending an enormous structure into a green landscape of Masuria district in Poland at the same. The design becomes almost…
BART is a financial and operational mess, and its new inspector general has a slew of major issues to tackle.
De Hoge Rielen is a place for civic and ecological education in the 300-hectare forest of a former military base. The O-shaped “Hostel Wadi” encircles part of the pine forest, retained as a memento of a disappearing artificial landscape that is rapidly transforming into broadlea…
In removing all gendered language from its civil code, the city of Berkeley is tossing out some familiar nomenclature.
As much as any single new building downtown, the tower dubbed the Avery embodies the grand, often clashing ambitions of today’s San Francisco.John King, urban design critic for The San Francisco Chronicle, has weighed in on the recently-completed Avery tower complex, a 55-story…
New York design studio The Very Many has built a white orbed pavilion in Charlotte, North Carolina with bulbs shaded soft blue and pink inside. Pillar of Dreams is a 26-foot-high (eight-metre) structure made from two layers of thin aluminium, perforated and layered on top of eac…
The economy is improving in places like Texas, but a closer look indicates that cities are taking off while rural areas are lagging behind.
People know Mosul's Old City by its riverfront - it has some of the city's most important historic features, Fethi added, referring to the city's old wall, the citadel, palaces and other heritage sites along the Tigris' west bank. It [the council] should aim to preserve Mosul's…
New York trains are running on time more often because of additional vacuum trains, according to the New York MTA.
Urko Sanchez Architects has designed a concrete compound in Djibouti for the charity SOS Children's Villages International as a home for vulnerable children. The project, which completed in 2014, has been nominated for the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture Urko Sanchez Archit…
Argentine-American architect César Pelli, renowned for designing landmark skyscrapers around the world, has died aged 92. The AIA Gold medal-winning architect was best known as the designer of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, formerly the world's tallest building. Pelli, who…
Mr. Pelli, whose many distinctive projects include the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, tried to reconcile modernism with his interest in shape, texture and the architecture of the past.
The richly imagined story of an affair between Le Corbusier and Sri Lanka’s first modernist architect, Minnette de Silva There’s an air of romance to nearly all the places Shiromi Pinto describes in Plastic Emotions, her novel about a love affair between two great 20th-century a…
Argentina’s Telam state news agency reported his passing on Friday, as did the governor of Tucuman province, where Pelli grew up and spent his formative years. “With much regret we receive the sad news of the death of the great Architect César Pelli,” the region’s governor, Juan…
The Los Angeles office market has been on the upswing since 2013 and showed no sign of stalling in the second quarter as tech and entertainment firms continue to expand into new space. Developers are responding to the demand by building new offices that are often rented long bef…
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world with a current net worth of $125 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index. And he’s investing much of his Amazon fortune in the development of space technologies through his aerospace company Blue Origin. Why…
[...] the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is issuing a Request for Information for the design and development of JFK Central, an approximately 14-acre, mixed-use space at the epicenter of the redeveloped John F. Kennedy International Airport. This new site offers a bla…
The global tourism boom that’s inundated legacy destinations like Venice, Amsterdam, and Barcelona has birthed a term—overtourism—to describe the harried state of a city besieged by too many visitors. A recent report by the World Travel and Tourism Council, Destination 2030, loo…
SOM has released exterior and interior building photos of the National Museum of the United States Army, which is nearing completion in Virginia. The stainless steel-clad museum has been designed by American architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), to tell the story o…
Construction on Sendero Verde, a sizable Handel Architects-designed affordable housing development in New York City, is expected to break ground later this summer. Patch reports that L+M Development Partners, Jonathan Rose Companies, and Acacia Network, the developers behind th…
...an approach known as bioclimatic design: using the environment around a building to passively manage the temperature and light inside, rather than mechanically heat and cool a space. Structures designed that way are energy efficient, which leaves them with a smaller carbon fo…
In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles. (Tip: use the handy FOLLOW feature to easily keep up-to-date with all your favorite Archi…
New York native Maurice Cox is stepping down from his role this fall as Detroit's planning director. He's expected to take on a role as the top planning executive for the City of Chicago, a city official confirmed. After four years at the helm of Detroit's planning department, M…
We get it. It can get a little overwhelming keeping up with the dozens of new architecture competitions launching worldwide on any given week — let alone having to stay on top of the multiple deadlines for each and every one. That's why Bustler is here to help! At the end of eve…
Bates Masi Architects has used sliding doors, decks and balconies to open up this slatted wooden home in Annapolis, Maryland to the nearby water. The New York firm designed the property on the Chesapeake Bay in Acton Cove, Maryland's capital city, which is home to the US Naval A…
Up To 765 Homes Approved for Development Near Columbus Ohio
Upscale Townhomes Popping Up in Atlanta
Exclusive: Move follows Guardian report that social tenants were being banned from using facilities Segregated play spaces are to be banned in all future London housing developments, the Greater London Authority (GLA) has revealed this week. The policy, part of the London Plan f…
The fact that Norman Foster wants to start building social housing again after 40 years is a sign that a lot of it may be about to be built, says Owen Hatherley. In the 1970s Foster designed a council estate for the first and last time. Beanhill, in Milton Keynes, was devised in…
Lendlease has revealed an unexpectedly diverse list of practices in the running to design a mixed-use market building at the heart of its £1.5 billion Birmingham Smithfield regeneration
Charles Holland Architects has won planning approval for a new 118m² preschool in the village of Kingsdown, east Kent
How do you turn off water when you have plumbing repairs to be done? Why is it important to know the different ways to turn off water? We have all faced the annoying situations of a leaking pipe or plumbing fixture. While some of the common plumbing problems can be fixed without…
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios is to draw up plans for development of the Cornwall radiocommunications complex that helped broadcast the moon landings 50 years ago
Google Lens just launched an art experience with Wescover that lets users discover helpful digital information about the physical art and design objects around them, revealing the artists and stories behind local art in hotels, restaurants, and city streets.
The 5th Annual Buffcon will be held at the Buffalo Central Terminal. Many professionals and design students in the Buffalo market don't have the opportunity to experience Neocon every year.
The Inventia Rastrum 3D Bioprinter has been awarded the 2019 Good Design Award of the Year at the 61st annual Good Design Awards Ceremony in Sydney.
Architects Eduard Balcells, Ignasi Rius and Daniel Tigges have designed a wood-clad concrete kindergarten for the El Tiller Waldorf-Steiner School in Bellaterra, Spain. The concrete and pine kindergarten is one of six structures arranged like a small village around a central ram…
It's one step closer to crowning the UK's best new building for 2019. Today, RIBA announced the six projects that were shortlisted for the 2019 Stirling Prize. Regarded as the UK's most prestigious accolade in architecture, the Stirling Prize is awarded to the building that has…
Norma Merrick Sklarek, a pioneering 20th century architect, has been posthumously awarded the 2019 AIA|LA Gold Medal by the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles chapter. Born in 1926 in Harlem, New York City, Sklarek learned carpentry skills from her father during the…
Faced with this level of acquiescence, the case for unionising the profession becomes compelling. As a regulator of working conditions and a protective body for workers, a trade union would force the industry to adapt to healthier working conditions; without these decisions bein…
In the first half of 2019, New York City apartment building sales fell 48% from the same period a year earlier, B6 said in a report. It was the biggest decline for any six-month period in data going back to 2009. In northern Manhattan, which includes Harlem, the drop in multifam…
This all makes what is happening now all the more remarkable. Last summer, Ford Motor Company announced it had bought the building, with plans to invest $740million to transform it into a world-leading research centre for ‘future mobility’. The very industry that signed the stat…
The city of Berkeley will no longer allow natural gas pipes in many new buildings starting Jan. 1, 2020. It’s the first city in California to pass such a law, officials said. [...] Public support was also unanimous during 45 minutes of comment from community members and represen…
ArchDaily, Strelka Institute, and Strelka KB have selected a long list of 50 architectural projects nominated for the joint ArchDaily & Strelka Award, which celebrates emerging architects and new ideas that transform the contemporary city. Now the readers of ArchDaily and Strelka…
As a result of reduced tax revenue from the 2017 corporate tax cuts enacted by President Donald Trump, the development of at least 15,000 affordable housing units has been either delayed or eliminated entirely, The Sacramento Bee reports. The reason? A significant portion of af…
Commissioned by Princeton University, this project is simple in form but sophisticated in function. It involves an “open source building” to host research on the future of construction and computation. Just as biologists use an electron microscope to study organisms, architects…
Which is the world's most vertical city? You might think of Hong Kong, given its famous skyscraper skyline, but by different measures of verticality other cities come out on topAccording to building data research company Emporis, writes Matthew Keegan for the Guardian Cities ser…
Daniel Libeskind is the latest architect to design a Maggie's cancer care centre, releasing visuals of building covered in angled timber louvres that is set to be built in London. The Maggie's Centre will be located by the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north London. Prefabri…
An eclectic group of contenders makes up the six-strong shortlist for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize
From managing job sites to working with contractors, construction managers and administrators play a key role in seeing a project into fruition. Are you an individual well versed in code compliance, managing construction documents, and contractor submittals? Can you lead buildin…
The Royal Institute of British Architects has named six finalists for one of the United Kingdom’s most highly regarded architectural prizes.
Douglas and King Architects has won planning approval for 10 new homes in the Hertfordshire countryside
Vietnamese practice K59 Atelier has designed its own architecture office and home for a family in Ho Chi Minh City, connecting two alleyways with an open and airy ground floor. The four storey block, which contains a three-bedroom home along with office and workshop space for th…
The mayor has been as bad as Boris Johnson in bowing down to speculators. If only his interest in design had kicked in sooner Tulipmania is no more. London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, has rejected Norman Foster’s 1,000ft “Tulip” for the City of London, crowning an unhappy week for the…
Have you ever wondered how great it would be if you could one day turn your passionately created doodle designs into a winning layout for a top brand? You are now a couple of clicks away! Architecture Lab welcomes the call for entries for the A’ Design Awards & Competition; a co…
Wim Crouwel, the renowned Dutch graphic designer, type designer, museum director, and teacher, has received the 32nd TDC Medal, the highest honor for lifetime achievement bestowed by the Type Directors Club.
The Lib Dems have made an extraordinary comeback in 2019 because of their anti-Brexit stance. The Observer political editor, Toby Helm, discusses whether the party is here to stay. And: Oliver Wainwright on the inclusion of social housing in this year’s Stirling architecture pri…
The desert outside Tennant Creek, deep in the Northern Territory, is not the most obvious place to build and transmit Singapore’s future electricity supply. Though few in the southern states are yet to take notice, a group of Australian developers are betting that will change. I…
An experimental cork house, Grimshaw's London Bridge Station, and Feilden Fowles Architects' visitor centre at Yorkshire Sculpture Park are among the projects shortlisted for this year's Stirling Prize. The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the six finalists vy…
Energy efficiency is a priority this year as a railway station, visitor centre, social housing project and opera house vie for the RIBA award for British building of the year A house made of cork will go up against a whisky distillery and one of the busiest stations in the UK to…
Municipal laws in New York City are hampering the city's real estate developers and building owners as they look to embrace the use of drones to perform periodic building and facade inspections on their properties, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. In New York C…
Landscape architecture firm Reed Hilderbrand has cut a pathway through water as part of its extension to the sculpture garden at the New Orleans Museum of Modern Art. Measuring six acres (2.4 hectares), Reed Hilderbrand's addition doubles the size of the Sydney and Walda Besthof…
Challenging conditions in the U.S. housing market, along with tighter currency controls by the Chinese government, caused a stunning drop in foreign demand for American homes. The dollar volume of homes purchased by foreign buyers from April 2018 through March 2019 dropped 36% f…
Some of what went wrong that night has been reported in the French news media, including Le Monde and Le Canard Enchaîné. Now, The New York Times conducted scores of interviews and reviewed hundreds of documents to reconstruct the missteps—and the battle that saved Notre-Dame in…
Cary Leibowitz and Simon Lince’s New York retreat brims with bright streamers, a faux fireplace by Robert Venturi — and royal commemorative mugs.
From landscape architecture to engineering design, last week's Employer of the Day featured firms are as diverse as their current job listings. Read on to learn more about these roles. Our latest recap starts with leading design practice Martha Schwartz Partners, whose currently…
A new housing typology will be coming to the Chicago neighborhoods of West Humboldt Park and Bronzeville, where Perkins + Will architect Greg Tamborino will bring his independently-produced, competition-winning affordable housing designs to a pair of vacant lots. Tamborino was r…
Demand for design services at architecture firms decreased in June in comparison to the previous month, according to a new report today from The American Institute of Architects (AIA). AIA’s Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score for June was 49.1, which is down from 50.2 in Ma…
