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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Canadian Architect HeadlinesThe first new law school in Canada in 30 years has opened its new home at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) in Kamloops, British Columbia. The design by Diamond Schmitt Architects revitalizes an existing campus building known as the Old M...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from ArchitizerMeet the leaders of LEED in Latin America. Read more.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Arch Daily
Architects: Bohuon Bertic Architectes Location: Rue Joseph Bleunven, Plabennec, France Area: 2,980 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Patrick Miara From the architect.… The project is built on a site strongly characterized by the horizont... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from The Modern House Blog
Riverside Wharf West Beach Cafe East Beach Cafe We have been reading about Jane Wood‘s role in transforming Littlehampton, in West Sussex, through cutting-edge modern architecture and design. Around ten years ago Wood bought a form... -
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Archinect
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Archinect
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsA bike path along the "Iron Curtain," an Olympics for robots, and more news worth a click this Thursday.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Arch Daily
In an article for London’s Royal Academy of Arts Magazine entitled Plane Sailing , Zaha Hadid discusses the influence of Russian Suprematist painter Kazimir Malevich on her own design work. In Hadid’s early work, such as Th... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Dezeen » Architecture
News: OMA has won planning permission to transform a 19th-century structure in Paris into a gallery and studio for contemporary artists, commissioned by French department store Galeries Lafayette. The Galeries Lafayette Foundation will t... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsThe program supports nearly 96,000 jobs each year, according to revised industry estimates from the National Association of Home Builders.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsThe New York-based firm announced the milestone following a $40-million portfolio closing in California and two new commitments in New York.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsFrom the timely introduction of Honeywell's answer to the Nest thermostat to the unexpected technology in the Keen Smart Vent, these cutting-edge products are sure to impress any home buyer.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsA smart water pitcher and a barcode-scanning oven are among the first appliances to be produced by the crowd-sourced design initiative at the micro-factory in Louisville, Ky.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from DeMilkedDeMilked | DeMilked
Iranian artist Omid Asadi uses delicate cutting techniques to create impressively intricate leaf artworks. The beautiful cuttings depict icons of the past, such as John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix, as well as dreamy abstractions. Related pos... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
The building's sustainable features include solar PV panels, wastewater recycling, a green roof and an "EcoWall" with solar tubes that will provide heat during the winter while during the summer the same wall will provide shading to keep... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Archiscene - Your Daily Architecture & Design Update
The eye-catching design of Carbon Fiber Eames Sofa is work of creative designer Matthew Strong. (...)Read the rest of Carbon Fiber Eames Sofa by Matthew Strong © admin for Archiscene - Your Daily Architecture & Design Update, 2014. &... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Arch Daily
Architects: Meier + Associés Architectes Location: Les Evouettes, Port-Valais, Switzerland Year: 2012 Photographs: Yves André Collaborators: R Niogret, AI Pepermans, JC Mathen, JB Lamballe Civil Engineer: Conus & Bignens SA From th... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from I Like Architecture
Keenly awaited by the town’s people, the Quinconces cultural complex, designed by Éric Babin and Jean-François Renaud has occupied an important place in the cultural and social life of Le[...] The post Les Quinconces Cultural Center by... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from DeMilkedDeMilked | DeMilked
Turkish graphic designer Tolga Girgin is an impressively talented modern calligraphy artist who has brought this ancient art to a new level – 3D. Using shadows, clever perspective and brilliant skills, he makes his writing leap off the p... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Arch Daily
Update: CCA releases statement from Siza. … Earlier this week we announced that Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza was considering donating his archive to institutions outside of his home country of Portugal. Finally, after much disc... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
The mechanical magic of the house is based on a fixed main volume of the structure, with mobile parts that adapt to the functional needs of its users. Rooms of the first and third floors can be reconfigured for different purposes and sea... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » ArchitectureSea levels are rising, floods are prevalent, and cities are at greater risk than ever due to climate change. Now that we've accepted these facts, it's time to design and build more resilient structures. Koen Olthuis, one of the most forw...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Arch Daily
“I look for inspiration (or opportunities) from people and places rather than looking for people and places to host my ideas.” — Julia King… Regardless of whether or not Shigeru Ban deserved to be awarded the p... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Arch Daily
Architects: Enrique Bardají & Asociados Location: Paseo Imperial, Madrid, Spain Architect In Charge: José Luis Olalla Merlo Design Team: Enrique Bardají Álvarez,Carlos Santi Merayo Area: 17,751 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Jesús Grana... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
Located north of Brisbane, the Woodford Folk Festival is an annual music festival that celebrates a wide variety of music genres for six days and six nights. Built as the entrance to the festival's main amphitheater, Woven Sky was constr... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Archiscene - Your Daily Architecture & Design Update
Manly Apartment was refurbished by Katon Redgen Mathieson practice this year as a Sydney base for an Australian expatriate couple. The apartment is located within a 1970’s residential tower that enjoys significant vi... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Dezeen » Architecture
The overlapping layers of this house by Japanese studio UID Architects form terraces that extend inside and living rooms that open out to the garden (+ slideshow). Cosmic House by Fukuyama-based UID Architects features a mixture of enclo... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Dezeen » Architecture
News: the Venezuelan government is forcibly evicting hundreds of families from Torre David, the abandoned skyscraper in Venezuela that squatters have turned into a role model for informal communities. The evictions have been criticised b... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from e-architect
Design: Tetrarc The Tetrarc agency has put its name to the Hub Créatic in Nantes, a building dedicated to young companies developing new digital applications. Behind its lively yellow walls, the building assembles seventy of these start-... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Arch Daily
After years of rebuilding from the devastating earthquake that hit the city in February 2011, the city of Christchurch in New Zealand has announced an open competition to design a memorial to the 185 people that lost their lives in the t... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Little Miss Architect - architecture, interiors and movie set designs.Inspired by urban design in Gdynia and urban design in Gdańsk I started browsing the internet searching for pallet design. Using pallets have been in trends for a long time, interior design blogs are full of inspirations of diy pallet ta...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from e-architect
eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite architects, students, engineers, designers, and artists from around the globe to take part in the eVolo 2015 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition is one of the... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsWalls, panels, and seating get a punch of color and pattern with these fabrics.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Architecture | The GuardianBritish artist Damien Hirst to display over 2,000 pieces from his personal art collection in converted warehouses next year. British artist Damien Hirst's personal art collection is will be on display in 2015, in a street-length gallery ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsStartup MarkForged's first product is a 3D printer that extrudes continuous carbon fiber and other resilient materials to create objects with high strength-to-weight ratios.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building » Architecture
In a stunning illustration if the ever-widening inequality gap, the richest man in China is currently building tiny apartments in Hong Kong for those city dwellers who can’t afford housing in the world’s most unaffordable city. Clocking ... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Arch Daily
Talk about Modernist Japanese architecture, and you can hardly fail to bring up Tokyo‘s Hotel Okura. Built in 1962 under the design direction of Yoshiro Taniguchi, Hideo Kosaka, Shiko Munakata, and Kenkichi Tomimoto, the hotel has ... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Dezeen » Architecture
This modular honeycomb of wooden cells by a team of Belgian designers could provide a solution for people avoiding music festivals because they don't like sleeping in tents (+ slideshow). The B-and-Bee hexagonal sleeping cells each conta... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from DeMilkedDeMilked | DeMilked
These pendants by Japanese designer Takayuki Fukusawa are little human and animal figurines that seem to be diving down into their wearers’ breasts. Pretty provocative and definitely eye-catching! Related posts: More Than Human: Charisma... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Architect Magazine: Most Recent NewsThe $200 million project to convert Washington, D.C.'s landmark Old Post Office into a high-end hotel kicked off Wednesday.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Architecture | The GuardianTwo months after fire gutted the Glasgow School of Art, it is fire itself playing the same mercurial role it always has in our urban environment that will help shape its reconstruction The flames flickering through the windows of the Gla...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Arch Daily
Architects: gmp architekten Location: Manaus, Brazil Architect In Charge: Volkwin Marg and Hubert Nienhoff with Martin Glass Director Of Gmp Do Brazil: Ralf Amann Project Management: Martin Glass, Maike Carlsen Project Management In Braz... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Arch Daily
Biotope… , a three-strong Norwegian practice based in the Arctic town of Varanger, have designed bird hides since 2009. For them, architecture is “a tool to protect and promote birds, wildlife and nature” – an app... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from The Modern House Blog
Bogwest House by Steve Larkin Architects in County Wexford, south-east Ireland, was built in 2012. The contemporary house, which incorporates traditional stone walls, offers views over the Irish countryside. Photography: Alice Clancy For... -
Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Dezeen » Architecture
This community viewing platform and play area, designed by Hong Kong architects Olivier Ottevaere and John Lin, provides a loop that rises up to overlook rice terraces carved into the surrounding valleys (+ slideshow). Located in the vil...
