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“It’s important to start reimagining how we reuse buildings” says Jeanne Gang

May 3, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

People working in the built environment should prioritise the reuse of existing buildings and aim to increase the sustainability of concrete, said American architect Jeanne Gang. Speaking on the occasion of the opening of the Gilder Center in New York, the founder of Chicago-based Studio Gang told Dezeen that reusing buildings is important if our

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Woods Bagot looks to “future rather than nostalgia” for Brooklyn Tower lobby interiors

April 28, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

International architecture studio Woods Bagot has completed the lobby design of the Brooklyn Tower, a supertall skyscraper that is the tallest in the New York City borough. Woods Bagot was commissioned for the interior spaces – including lobbies, amenities spaces and furniture – for the SHoP Architects-designed skyscraper, which is completing this year. So far,

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Studio Gang designs cave-like Gilder Center for American Museum of Natural History

April 28, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Chicago-based architecture firm Studio Gang has designed the Gilder Center in Manhattan to prioritize connectivity, creating a massive cavernous atrium meant to provoke a sense of exploration and discovery. The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Innovation, and Education is a new addition to the American Museum of Natural History off Central Park that unites, visually and

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Controversial Vkhutemas architecture exhibition opens at the Cooper Union

April 27, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

An exhibition showcasing the history and work of a Soviet avant-garde school of architecture has opened up at the Cooper Union in New York City after more than a year of delays due to the ongoing Ukraine war. Vkhutemas: Laboratory of the Avant-Garde 1920-1930, which grew out of a 2019 class taught by Cooper Union assistant

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Olson Kundig places detachable studio on rail tracks in Washington State

April 26, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Seattle firm Olson Kundig Architects has created a studio attached to a primary residence in Washington, which sits on railroad tracks that allow it to completely detach. Called Maxon Studio, the project comprises a two-storey weathering-steel structure constructed as an office for the client’s branding agency in Carnation, Washington. The studio was built on top

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SOM designs “sinuous” mass-timber building for New York Climate Exchange

April 25, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio SOM has unveiled designs for the mass-timber New York Climate Exchange on Governors Island, which will be topped with a solar panel-covered canopy. Set to be built on Governors Island – a patch of land in New York harbour between Brooklyn and Manhattan – the New York Climate Exchange (The Exchange) will aim

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Studio Gang unites Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts buildings with folded concrete canopy

April 21, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Chicago-based Studio Gang has completed the overall of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock, Arkansas, with the addition of a sculptural folded concrete roof. The Jeanne Gang-led studio, united eight previous structures, that have been built for the museum complex since it opened in 1937, with the concrete canopy. The 133,000-square-foot (44,333 square

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Studio Gang unites Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts buildings with folded concrete canopy

April 21, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Chicago-based Studio Gang has completed the overall of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock, Arkansas, with the addition of a sculptural folded concrete roof. The Jeanne Gang-led studio, united eight previous structures, that have been built for the museum complex since it opened in 1937, with the concrete canopy. The 133,000-square-foot (44,333 square

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PAU designs US air traffic control towers to “build on legacy” of IM Pei

April 20, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

New York studio PAU has released designs for air traffic control towers that will be built at airports in the United States as the largest commission since IM Pei’s designs in the early 1960s. Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) was selected in an open competition by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to design a new

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BIG and Frank Gehry among studios with “singular visions” for US Navy Museum

April 18, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

BIG, Gehry Partners and Perkins&Will are among the five studios that have been selected as finalists in a contest to design the future National Museum of the US Navy. US governmental agency Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) released the winning designs from a competition launched to explore potential designs for the museum, which called

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