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Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School Music Centre / McBride Charles Ryan
Northpointe Bank Operations Center / Ghafari Associates, LLC
Parfums Christian Dior Company Restaurant / Palissad Architectures
Lazy House / petrjanda/brainwork
Neve Tzedek Patio House / Meirav Galan Architects
A Virtual Tour of Mies van der Rohe’s Unbuilt Resor House
Exploring the Eccentric Decorations That Define Baroque Architecture
Two Bay House / MISA ARCHITECTS
Barcelona named UNESCO World Capital of Architecture for 2026
Twin Houses / Demetrios Issaias - Tassis Papaioannou, Architects
SOM Designs New Public Health Laboratory in New York
Houses in Guatemala: Shade and Ventilation in Tropical Architecture
World Architecture Festival 2021 Shortlist Unveiled
The Shape of Our Existing Buildings
Huis van Albrandswaard Municipal Building / Gortemaker Algra Feenstra
Felix Café / Oficina Bravo
Huentitán Natural Park / SPRB Arquitectos
Tsingpu Wulin Retreat / Nazodesign Studio

Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School Music Centre / McBride Charles Ryan

Posted: 30 Jul 2021 11:00 AM PDT

architects: McBride Charles Ryan
Location: Essendon VIC 3040, Australia
Project Year: 2020
Photographs: John Gollings Photography
Area: 520.0 m2

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Northpointe Bank Operations Center / Ghafari Associates, LLC

Posted: 30 Jul 2021 09:00 AM PDT

architects: Ghafari Associates, LLC
Location: Grand Rapids, MI, United States
Project Year: 2020
Photographs: James John Jetel
Area: 91000.0 ft2

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Parfums Christian Dior Company Restaurant / Palissad Architectures

Posted: 30 Jul 2021 07:00 AM PDT

architects: Palissad Architectures
Location: 185 Av. de Verdun, 45800 Saint-Jean-de-Braye, France
Project Year: 2020
Photographs: Sergio Grazia
Area: 2200.0 m2

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Lazy House / petrjanda/brainwork

Posted: 30 Jul 2021 05:00 AM PDT

architects: petrjanda/brainwork
Location: Zlín, Czech Republic
Project Year: 2020
Photographs: BoysPlayNice
Area: 400.0 m2

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Neve Tzedek Patio House / Meirav Galan Architects

Posted: 30 Jul 2021 03:00 AM PDT

architects: Meirav Galan Architects
Location: Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Project Year: 2020
Photographs: 181 Maalot
Area: 580.0 m2

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A Virtual Tour of Mies van der Rohe’s Unbuilt Resor House

Posted: 30 Jul 2021 02:30 AM PDT

The Resor House was a hugely pivotal project for Mies van der Rohe, in both his life, and his career. It was his first commission in the United States and prior to landing in Chicago, he lived for two months on the site of the house near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Its design was unique for Mies in its rural landscape setting and material choices, mainly its wood-clad exterior and interior. While it was never constructed due to cost overruns, the design documents and working models were collected by MoMA in NY, where the client, Helen Resor was on the Board of Directors. This video traces a digital reconstruction of the house — using those archival documents — to serve as the subject of an in-depth tour and analysis. What sorts of discoveries are to be found inside this unbuilt masterpiece?

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Exploring the Eccentric Decorations That Define Baroque Architecture

Posted: 30 Jul 2021 12:30 AM PDT

Versailles, France. Image © Photo by Vitor Pinto on Unsplash

Architecture is perhaps the most expressive forms of culture, representing the zeitgeist of a particular location, and telling the story of how it evolved over time. It allows visitors to transport themselves back in history to understand the influences that shaped the world we once lived in. Baroque architecture, in particular, was one of the most ornamental and decorative architectural styles. Translating to "curious or strange" in French, it was once used as a derogatory word, meaning noisy, eccentric, and excessive- and Baroque architecture was truly just that.

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Two Bay House / MISA ARCHITECTS

Posted: 30 Jul 2021 12:00 AM PDT

architects: MISA ARCHITECTS
Location: Chekhla, Gujarat, India
Project Year: 2020
Photographs: Inclined Studio
Area: 180000.0 ft2

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Barcelona named UNESCO World Capital of Architecture for 2026

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 11:30 PM PDT

Joining Copenhagen and Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona has been named as the UIA's 2026 World Capital of Architecture by UNESCO, and will be hosting the International Union of Architect's World Congress two years after the event in Copenhagen. Barcelona and Beijing were both contenders for the 2026 title, but the Catalan city took the lead with its winning bid titled "One today, one tomorrow", which explores the city's approach to sustainability and the future of the built environment.

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Twin Houses / Demetrios Issaias - Tassis Papaioannou, Architects

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT

architects: Demetrios Issaias - Tassis Papaioannou, Architects
Location: Rodon 93, Ekali 145 78, Greece
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: George Messaritakis
Area: 800.0 m2

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SOM Designs New Public Health Laboratory in New York

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:30 PM PDT

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) unveiled its design for the New York City Public Health Laboratory, a ten storey building meant to strengthen the metropole's capability to respond to a variety of public health issues and future challenges. The laboratory is organized within a cubic glass volume stepping outward, which rises from a masonry-clad podium containing community-related functions. In order to give the new facility an active role within the Harlem neighbourhood, the design incorporates a training lab and an auditorium available to the community.

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Houses in Guatemala: Shade and Ventilation in Tropical Architecture

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT

Plan B Guatemala / DEOC Arquitectos. Image Cortesía de DEOC Arquitectos

"Here in the tropics, it's the shade not the stove that refreshes and brings people together," says Bruno Stagno about tropical architecture.

Guatemala ha estado construyendo su sombra a lo largo de los años. Nos encontramos con 3 ejemplos que proponen interesantes respuestas a este clima. Proyectos que materializan tanto grandes cubiertas con pendientes para dar sombra y evacuar el agua de lluvia con rapidez, como fachadas perforadas que permiten el ingreso de la brisa y la ventilación interior.

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World Architecture Festival 2021 Shortlist Unveiled

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 09:30 PM PDT

ZAV Architects, Majara Residency, Hormuz island, Iran. Image Courtesy of WAF

Some of the best architecture by today's foremost practices is revealed as the World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards announces its 2021 shortlist, celebrating buildings and landscapes to have been completed across the world between 2019 and 2021. The 200-strong shortlist has been selected from over 700 entries from countries ranging from China and Japan to Mexico and Ecuador.

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The Shape of Our Existing Buildings

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 08:30 PM PDT

downtown Boston. Image via Boston Planning & Development Agency.

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

Jeffry Burchard explores in his essay the "opportunity found by extending the life and purpose of viable existing buildings", that have shaped our cities. Arguing that "we have an abundant supply of buildings", the author proposes four essential steps to transform existing buildings.