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David Adjaye’s first skyscraper “like a ruin” in New York

June 27, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

British-Ghanian architect David Adjaye has unveiled the 130 William skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, which was informed by the history of New York City’s skyline and industrial waterfront. Located in Manhattan’s Financial District, the 800-foot-tall (244 metre) building is the first skyscraper completed by the Adjaye and his studio Adjaye Associates. Named 130 William, the skyscraper has a striking

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MVRDV unveils The Canyon tower with “public ravine” in San Francisco

June 26, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has unveiled The Canyon, a housing complex in San Francisco that marks its first completed project on the United States’ West Coast. The Canyon is a 23-storey high rise with a 240-foot-tall (73 metres) tower standing on top of a plinth with a bisecting walkway that creates a canyon effect, giving

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Studio Other Spaces encloses Buffalo museum courtyard in “canopy of glass and mirrors”

June 23, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann’s firm Studio Other Spaces has created a sculptural work called Common Sky to enclose an open-air courtyard at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Created as part of a renovation of the museum led by architecture studio OMA’s New York office, Common Sky is a massive glass and mirror

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Studio Other Spaces encloses Buffalo museum courtyard in “canopy of glass and mirrors”

June 23, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann’s firm Studio Other Spaces has created a sculptural work called Common Sky to enclose an open-air courtyard at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Created as part of a renovation of the museum led by architecture studio OMA’s New York office, Common Sky is a massive glass and mirror

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International African American Museum lifted above Charleston site “without occupying it”

June 22, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

US architecture studios Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Moody Nolan have unveiled a museum in South Carolina that is lifted off the ground above a site where many enslaved people disembarked Designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Moody Nolan, the International African American Museum (IAAM) occupies a single-storey structure, which was lifted 13 feet

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Kengo Kuma unveils “sculptural and iconic” skyscraper in Vancouver

June 20, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma & Associates has completed a skyscraper in Vancouver, Canada, with a curved form and a semi-enclosed amphitheatre at its base. Called Alberni, the 43-storey residential skyscraper by Kengo Kuma & Associates (KKAA) is located in downtown Vancouver, near the waterfront on Vancouver Harbour. Its curved structure has a massing that

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OMA envelopes Buffalo art museum extension in transparent “veil”

June 16, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

OMA’s New York office led by architect Shohei Shigematsu has completed an expansion to Buffalo’s AKG Art Museum that features a promenade encased in a glass facade. Architecture studio OMA added the Jeffrey E Gundlach Building to the complex of buildings that make up Buffalo’s AKG Art Museum – an institution that lies on a park designed

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Zaha Hadid Architects to replace collapsed Surfside condo in Miami

June 14, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled designs for a luxury condominium with a glass-bottomed swimming pool in Surfside, Florida, on the site of a structure that collapsed in 2021. Zaha Hadid Architects unveiled two possible designs for the site, commissioned by developer DAMAC International, which purchased the land in 2022. Renderings of the design show

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GAF applies solar-reflective coating to mitigate Los Angeles heat islands

June 8, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

American roofing firm GAF has completed the first phase of a public-private initiative that seeks to mitigate urban heat in Los Angeles through solar-reflective coating. The GAF Cool Community Project completed the first phase of their public project in Los Angeles’ Pacoima, covering asphalt roads and public areas in a 10-block radius to see if

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HOK designs mirrored “stadium of the future” for Jacksonville Jaguars

June 7, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio HOK has unveiled the planned renovation of the National Football League stadium in Jacksonville, USA, which would cover the existing building with a fritted dome. The studio will expand the current program of the stadium by wrapping it in sinuous, reflective cladding and covering it in a see-through “membrane”. The team has referred to

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