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American architects select the country’s 10 most influential buildings

July 28, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
Glass House by Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson’s Glass House and a Frank Lloyd Wright home are among the buildings that leading American architects have selected as the USA’s most significant pieces of architecture of all time. Dezeen asked 10 American architects, including American Institute of Architects (AIA) president Kimberly Dowdell and veteran New York architect Robert AM Stern, to name the US building project that

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Icon Architects unveils design for tallest mass-timber building in North America

July 22, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
Mass timber toronto rendering

Canadian studio Icon Architects has released its design for a 31-storey tower in Toronto that, if completed, will be the tallest mass-timber structure in North America. The structure has been proposed for downtown Toronto, near the University of Toronto. If approved by the city, the structure will be 90 metres tall, making it the tallest mass-timber

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Icon Architects unveils design for tallest mass-timber building in North America

July 22, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
Mass timber toronto rendering

Canadian studio Icon Architects has released its design for a 31-storey tower in Toronto that, if completed, will be the tallest mass-timber structure in North America. The structure has been proposed for downtown Toronto, near the University of Toronto. If approved by the city, the structure will be 90 metres tall, making it the tallest mass-timber

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Frank Gehry’s The Grand skyscrapers open in Los Angeles

July 19, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
The Grand Gehry

A pair of skyscrapers designed by architect Frank Gehry that contain residences, retail spaces and a hotel have opened in Los Angeles across from the architect’s famous Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Grand complex occupies a full block in downtown Los Angeles directly across the renowned Walt Disney Concert Hall, which Gehry completed in 2003.

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“The best tool for empowering people is through affordable housing,” says architect Victor Body-Lawson

July 18, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
Victor Body-Lawson Portrait

Architects should see themselves as the representatives of the community in the building process and not simply as an agent of developers, argues low-cost housing specialist Victor Body-Lawson in this interview. Body-Lawson, whose diverse studio designs housing for low-income areas in the US and Africa, told Dezeen that architecture is about finding ways to open

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Safdie Architects vaults glass atrium over indoor garden for São Paulo medical centre

July 14, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
Safdie Architects medical centre Brazil

Safdie Architects has oriented a medical centre in Brazil around a massive atrium with a glass ceiling that was designed to evoke “the feeling of being under a tree canopy”. Safdie Architects created The Albert Einstein Education and Research Center (AEERC), located in southern São Paulo, to house a medical school as well as research

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Chicago’s buildings “still not as efficient as those built 130 years ago” says Energy Revolution curator

July 13, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

The Energy Revolution exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Center aims to demonstrate that the city’s buildings need to become much more energy efficient. Energy Revolution, which was organised by architect Doug Farr and Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) director of exhibition Eve Fineman, seeks to educate the public on architecture’s impact on the climate by using historical charts, interactive installations

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HCMA embeds “Indigenous design principals” in British Columbia student housing

July 11, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
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Canadian architecture studio HCMA has completed the Wii Gyemsiga Siwilaawksat student housing and cultural center in Terrace, British Columbia. Called Wii Gyemsiga Siwilaawksat – a Sm’algyax phrase, which translates roughly to “where learners are content and comfortable” – the block is located at the Coast Mountain College on the ancestral lands of the Tsimshian Kitsumkalum First Nation.

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Michael Maltzan Architecture completes Ribbon of Light bridge with swooping arches in LA

July 8, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
Ribbon of Light LA

Michael Maltzan Architecture has completed the new Sixth Street Viaduct in Los Angeles, also named the Ribbon of Light for its multiple concrete arches lit from below. The 3,500 metre-long (1,067-metre) concrete and steel bridge replaced a deteriorating structure, called the 6th Street Viaduct, that was built in 1932. While the previous structure only serviced

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