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Construction resumes in Saudi Arabia on world’s tallest skyscraper

September 22, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Construction work has resumed on Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia, a skyscraper designed by Chicago-based studio Adrian Smith + Gill Gordon Architecture, which is expected to become the world’s tallest building. According to Dubai-based magazine Middle East Economic Digest (MEED), work will resume on the project after nearly a decade of construction. Designed by Adrian

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Tatiana Bilbao Estudio completes ruin-like aquarium in Mexico

September 21, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio Tatiana Bilbao Estudio has completed an aquarium in Mazatlán, Mexico, with a labyrinthine structure that “merges marine and terrestrial elements in its architectural design”. The Sea of Cortez Research Center sits on an estuary near the ocean and is part of a general regeneration project for Mazatlán Central Park. Tatiana Bilbao Estudio’s intention

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Detroit Month of Design highlights initiatives and reuse projects “for a better Detroit”

September 19, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

This year’s edition of Detroit Month of Design features a number of adaptive reuse projects, including furniture made from recycled bulletproof glass and religious buildings converted into art spaces. The yearly festival, put on by local NGO Design Core Detroit, creates programming to celebrate design projects and initiatives in the city. It highlights a number

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MoMA exhibition examines “how far we’ve come” in environmental architecture

September 15, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

The Museum of Modern Art in New York has opened an exhibition focused on the relationship between environmentalism and architecture in the 20th century. The exhibition, called Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism, details work – built and conceptual – produced during the 20th century and features a number of drawings, photographs, models and

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Rex clads “mystery box” World Trade Center performance arts center in translucent marble

September 14, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio Rex has revealed the translucent-marble-clad Perelman Performing Arts Center at New York’s World Trade Center site. Located alongside One World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan, the Perelman Performing Arts Center by Rex comprises a cubic structure with thin marble cladding. Davis Brody Bond served as the executive architect on the project. The thin stone allows

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Photos show Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s “surreal and magical” Blue Dream house in the Hamptons

September 13, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

A sloping fibreglass roof and a glass facade characterise New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s first completed residential project, which has been photographed officially for the first time by Iwan Baan. The home was completed in 2017 by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) in East Hampton for Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit founder Julie

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Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects creates low-energy school expansion in California

September 8, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects has designed a school building that prioritises low-carbon solutions and water retention on restored woodlands outside of San Francisco. Called The Science and Environmental Center, the structure is an expansion of the campus for the Nueva School in Hillsborough, Silicon Valley. The campus comprises an 11,600-square-foot (1,077 square-metre) two-storey building on

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Atelier Industrial installs minimalist office within warehouse in Argentina

September 7, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Local studio Atelier Industrial has created a minimalist office with walls made from polycarbonate panels within an existing warehouse in San Rafael, Argentina. The studio placed the small, 67-square-metre office space within an area of an industrial warehouse that is part of a winery in the city. Called Atelier Cuadro Benegas, it sits on top

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Studio Gang and SCAPE add timber canopy to “inclusive” park on Memphis waterfront

August 31, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

US firms Studio Gang and SCAPE have created a public park alongside the Mississippi River in Memphis that features a mass-timber shade structure and an installation by artist Theaster Gates. Officially called Day One at Tom Lee Park, the park comprises 31 acres of land along the river, with walking paths, fields, river terraces and a

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Architectural Workers United claims Snøhetta “unlawfully discriminated” against employees

August 31, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

US labour organiser Architectural Workers United has filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge against architecture studio Snøhetta, claiming that it discriminated against employees during a recent union drive. The charges were announced yesterday by Architectural Workers United (AWU), a sub-division of the national labour union Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM). In the suit

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