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Praça da Árvore / Lazo Arquitetura e Urbanismo
Ricardo Bofill Passes Away at 82
An Architectural Language Shaped by Sustainability
Imagine Montessori School / Gradolí & Sanz
Support for Architects and Planners: Specifications, CAD Drawings, BIM Objects, and Other Design Tools
Heatherwick Studio Updates Vancouver's 1700 Alberni Towers Design
% Arabica, Wide & Narrow Alley in Chengdu / B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio
MAXXI Museum Celebrates Female Architects Through "Good News. Women in Architecture" Exhibition
Synesthetic Architecture: Getting to Know the Work of Superlimão
London Festival of Architecture Announces 2022 Program and Call for Entries
ArchDaily New Brand Image
Mapping Improvisation: The Role of Call and Response in Urban Planning
Our Lady of Victoria Monastery / Localworks
Architecture Biennial Installation of Mugak / BEAR
Reconstruction Design of Wuhan Stray Animal Base Adoption Area / UAO Design
Matter . Space . Soul Pavilion / Two Fold Studio
Tree-House / ROOM+ Design & Build
The Courtyard House / Manoj Patel Design Studio

Praça da Árvore / Lazo Arquitetura e Urbanismo

Posted: 14 Jan 2022 02:00 AM PST

architects: Lazo Arquitetura e Urbanismo
Location: Alto Santa Teresinha, Recife - PE, Brazil
Project Year: 2020
Photographs: Pedro Celso
Photographs: Morgana Nunes
Area: 920.0 m2

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Ricardo Bofill Passes Away at 82

Posted: 14 Jan 2022 01:12 AM PST

Via RBTA, used under terms of "fair use"

Ricardo Bofill, the Spanish architect founder of Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA), designer of the iconic Walden 7 and more than 1,000 projects in forty countries, has passed away at 82 in Barcelona on Friday, January 14, as officially announced by his own firm through a statement.

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An Architectural Language Shaped by Sustainability

Posted: 13 Jan 2022 11:30 PM PST

Taisugar Circular Village / Bio-architecture Formosana. Image © Studio Millspace

With its quantifiable objectives and measurable performance, sustainability often passes as a technological challenge. Its primary language is that of data, equipment, and engineered systems, most often translated into a hyper-technologized layer hidden within a design upholding pre-existing aesthetic norms. As architecture is the image of society at one moment in time, how does the focus on sustainability translate into architectural language, further legitimatizing the efforts to establish an equitable relationship with the environment? Architecture serves as an expression of attitudes, and since sustainability has become a fundamental value, it is worth looking at whether or not it has produced an aesthetic transformation.

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Imagine Montessori School / Gradolí & Sanz

Posted: 13 Jan 2022 11:00 PM PST

architects: Gradolí & Sanz
Location: C. Melissa, 46, 46980 Lloma Llarga Paterna, Valencia, Spain
Project Year: 2019
Photographs: Mariela Apollonio
Photographs: Bruno Almela
Area: 19827 ft2

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Support for Architects and Planners: Specifications, CAD Drawings, BIM Objects, and Other Design Tools

Posted: 13 Jan 2022 10:45 PM PST

Technology manufacturer 2N is diversifying its range of products by offering A&E, BIM technology, and other strategies for architects and designers.

2N is a Prague-based company engaged in the development and manufacturing of products in the field of IP intercoms and access control systems. According to an IHS report in 2016, 2N is the largest global manufacturer of IP intercoms, and a major innovator in the field of IP access systems, IP audio, and IP lift communicators. The company was established in 1991 in the Czech Republic, where its headquarters remain to this day.

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Heatherwick Studio Updates Vancouver's 1700 Alberni Towers Design

Posted: 13 Jan 2022 10:30 PM PST

Heatherwick Studio has unveiled an entirely new update for its 1700 Alberni Towers residential project in Vancouver, British Columbia. The new design features extended outdoor living areas with soaring views of the surrounding built environment and landscape, inspired by the province's strong connection with the wilderness, as well as the use of long-lasting, local materials.

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% Arabica, Wide & Narrow Alley in Chengdu / B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio

Posted: 13 Jan 2022 10:00 PM PST

architects: B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio
Location: Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Project Year: 2020
Photographs: Zhi Xia
Area: 320.0 m2

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MAXXI Museum Celebrates Female Architects Through "Good News. Women in Architecture" Exhibition

Posted: 13 Jan 2022 09:30 PM PST

© Musacchio, Ianniello & Pasqualini courtesy of Fondazione MAXXI

MAXXI Museum celebrates women in architecture in a new exhibition that documents the transformative role of female architects in the profession's evolution over the last century. Curated by Pippo Ciorra, Elena Motisi, Elena Tinacci, and with exhibition design by Matilde Cassani, Good News. Women in Architecture weaves together in four thematic sections the history of women in architecture, with the work of contemporary practitioners and the voices of young collectives, telling the stories of over eighty female architects.

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Synesthetic Architecture: Getting to Know the Work of Superlimão

Posted: 13 Jan 2022 09:00 PM PST

Escritório SouSmile / Superlimão. © Maíra Acayaba

Unusual materials, vibrant colors and daring compositions are some adjectives that can be applied when talking about Superlimão's work. It all started in 2002 when Antonio Carlos Figueira de Mello, Lula Gouveia, Thiago Rodrigues and former partner Sergio Cabral founded the firm, naming it in honor of the Super Lemon candy – "sour at the beginning and sweet at the end". Since then, this hint of humor - present even in the name itself - permeates all of the team's creations, hinting at new experiences and arousing curiosity as well as the taste of the candy.

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London Festival of Architecture Announces 2022 Program and Call for Entries

Posted: 13 Jan 2022 08:30 PM PST

LFA 2021_Pride Pop Up. Image © Aaron Hargreaves

The London Festival of Architecture (LFA), the world's largest annual architecture festival is returning for its 13th edition this summer, transforming the city's neighborhoods into a public display of installations, exhibitions, talks, and special events. Following two years of digitalized editions, this year's LFA falls under the theme of 'act', and will see a return of physical events alongside digital realms across the capital.

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ArchDaily New Brand Image

Posted: 13 Jan 2022 07:50 PM PST

When we started ArchDaily 14 years ago, we wanted to represent it through the archetypal image of a building, in an isometric view, blue color. After a quick sketch, we had the first version of our logo, which iterated throughout the years, adapted to diverse applications from wooden trophies to stickers, becoming a staple brand among architects.

As we continue into a new era, that started in 2020 together with Architonic and that continues today with the announcement of our new group DAAily Platforms, we thought it was time for an upgrade and we started to explore what we want to represent as a symbol, connected with our mission and views about architecture.

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Mapping Improvisation: The Role of Call and Response in Urban Planning

Posted: 13 Jan 2022 07:30 PM PST

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

New Orleans was designed by its early settlers in 1721 as a Cartesian grid. You know it as the famous French Quarter or Vieux Carré. Such grids are named for the Cartesian coordinate system we learned to use in algebra or geometry class, perpendicular X and Y axes, used to measure units of distance on a plane. The invention of René Descartes (1596–1650), these grids reflect his rationalism, the view that reason, not embodied or empirical experience, is the only source and certain test of knowledge. William Penn used a similar grid in 1682 in selling Philadelphia as an urban paradise where industry would thrive in the newly settled wilderness. And just as the massive buildings of Italian Rationalist (i.e., Fascist) architecture express authoritarian control, so, too, Cartesian grids implicitly say: Someone is in charge here. We've got this. Trust us.