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Nine installations to see at the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial

November 13, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

The 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial has opened with installations focusing on monumentality, race and material innovations on show at sites throughout Chicago. This year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial, its fifth edition, focused on themes of collaboration and community building through architecture, with a series of exhibits adhering to the exhibition’s theme: This Is a Rehearsal. It was

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Norman Teague displays prototype of Douglass monument in Chicago

November 9, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Norman Teague Design Studios has erected a plywood structure as a full-scale model of the future monument to American abolitionists Frederick and Anna Douglass, for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The studio created the pavilion using wood, plastics and recycled materials to honour the legacy of American abolitionists Frederick and Anna Douglass. A copper version of

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Chicago Architecture Biennial fills postmodern Thompson Center with installations

November 7, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

A wooden pavilion shaped by dehydration and banners made from found urban objects are on show at Chicago’s James R Thompson Center for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The Floating Museum, an art collective and curator for the fifth Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB 5), collaborated with stakeholders of the iconic, Helmut Jahn-designed structure to array a

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Taller Capital practises “retroactive infrastructure” for linear park in Mexico

November 6, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio Taller Capital has created a linear park in Mexico City that incorporates a walkway and made with materials optimised for water retention and dust mitigation. Called Héroes de Tecamac Boulevard, the project was located in an urban area north of Mexico City. The project saw the renovation of 2.1 kilometres of a vacant

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Ten Cold War US embassies that embody America’s 20th-century “victorious exuberance”

November 2, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Embassies designed for the United States by Walter Gropius and Eero Saarinen feature in this roundup based on David B Peterson’s book US Embassies of the Cold War: The Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy and Defense. “These mid-century modern embassies were built as a billboard for democracy,” Peterson told Dezeen. “By the end of world war two, neoclassicism

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Ten Cold War US embassies that embody America’s 20th-century “victorious exuberance”

November 2, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Embassies designed for the United States by Walter Gropius and Eero Saarinen feature in this roundup based on David B Peterson’s book US Embassies of the Cold War: The Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy and Defense. “These mid-century modern embassies were built as a billboard for democracy,” Peterson told Dezeen. “By the end of world war two, neoclassicism

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Perkins&Will crowns Californian research centre with series of greenhouses

November 1, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio Perkins&Will has placed a series of greenhouses on top of a concrete structure to create this agricultural research centre in California. Called Riverside Plant Research One 1, the two-storey structure was created for the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) at the University of California Riverside campus east of Los Angeles. The

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HOK to design futuristic Berkeley Space Center at NASA Park

October 31, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

A team of master planners, including architecture studio HOK, has released plans for an office and research complex located within the NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley designed to “expand the frontiers of knowledge”. The project comprises 1.4 million square feet of office and research space and features University of California Berkley, developer SKS Partners, architecture

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REX creates “holy grail” combination of performance spaces in Providence

October 24, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

New York architecture studio REX the “most automated” performance building in the world at Brown University’s campus in Providence, Rhode Island. Called The Lindemann Performing Arts Center (The Lindemann) the 101,000 square-foot (9,383-square-metre) structure consists of a shoebox theatre with a long bridge-like walkway. It stands between Brown’s primary campus and Pembroke College, a women’s college that

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REX creates “holy grail” combination of performance spaces in Providence

October 24, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

New York architecture studio REX the “most automated” performance building in the world at Brown University’s campus in Providence, Rhode Island. Called The Lindemann Performing Arts Center (The Lindemann) the 101,000 square-foot (9,383-square-metre) structure consists of a shoebox theatre with a long bridge-like walkway. It stands between Brown’s primary campus and Pembroke College, a women’s college that

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