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Hariri Pontarini Architects creates glass-wrapped theatre for Stratford Festival in Ontario

June 10, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

The Tom Patterson Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, designed by Canadian studio Hariri Pontarini Architects has opened following two years of Covid delays. Dedicated to the performing arts, the 7,150-square-metre theatre stands on the banks of the Avon River. It was completed in the summer of 2020, though the official ribbon only took place last month due

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WilkinsonEyre wraps Toronto skyscraper in “three-dimensional diamonds”

June 9, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

London architecture studio WilkinsonEyre has completed the CIBC Square skyscraper in Toronto, Canada, which is surrounded in undulating glass facades. Created as the headquarters for bank Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the 250-meters-tall skyscraper stands in Toronto’s central business district. Named CIBC Square, the building has a glass facade that covers the distinct volumes that make

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Construction begins on Studio Gang’s glazed ceramic-clad skyscraper in San Francisco

June 8, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Studio Gang's San Francisco tower exterior

Chicago-based Studio Gang has broken ground on a residential project in San Francisco that forms part of the Mission Rock development, which includes skyscrapers by MVRDV and Henning Larsen. Called Parcel F, the 23-storey residential skyscraper will be the final building in the first phase of the 28-acre development along the waterfront in San Francisco. Set back from the

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Yazdani Studio designs mass-timber sustainability research centre for Caltech

June 6, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

LA-based Yazdani Studio has broken ground on the Resnick Sustainability Resource Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena that will incorporate mass timber. Resnick Sustainability Resource Center will be an 80,000-square-foot (7,432-square-metre) complex on the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) campus in Pasadena, a city to the northeast of Los Angeles. Yazdani Studio developed

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GH3 outfits Alberta bus garage with stainless steel and sculptural details

June 3, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

gh3 transit facility exterior with sculptural cladding

Canadian architecture studio GH3 has created an expansive bus maintenance and storage facility in Edmonton, Alberta that has sculptural finishes while preserving an existing smokestack on the site. Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage (KATG) – named after Edmonton’s first female bus driver – occupies 50,000 square metres on a 1o-acre (4-hectare) site right off a major

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ODA designs tapered skyscrapers wrapped in steel grid in Fort Lauderdale

June 2, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio ODA has unveiled its design for the two-skyscraper Ombelle development in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which will be wrapped in a steel grid described by the architects as an exoskeleton. The Ombelle development will consist of a wide base with two tapered towers of the same height extended from it surrounded by balconies supported on

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Frank Gehry unveils new visuals of his tallest-ever residential skyscrapers

June 1, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Canadian architect Frank Gehry has revealed additional visuals of his Forma skyscrapers, which are set to be built in Toronto, Canada, and feature interiors by Paolo Ferrari. The Forma project will comprise two towers, a 298-metre-tall western and a 262-metre-tall eastern tower, which will be the tallest residential towers ever designed by Gehry. The tallest

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Texas senator proposes design measures to “harden schools” in wake of Uvalde shooting

May 27, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

US senator Ted Cruz has said that schools should be redesigned to have a single door guarded by armed police to prevent further shootings following the tragedy in Uvalde, Texas. Speaking to a local news program outside the school in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two adults were killed in a shooting on 24

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Omar Gandhi designs a “light-filled wood cathedral” for Toronto restaurant

May 26, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Canadian studio Omar Gandhi Architect has created a vaulted-wood interior inside a non-descript brick building for chef Matty Matheson’s restaurant in Toronto. Prime Seafood Palace is located in West Queen West and was a collaborative effort between Omar Gandhi Architect (OGA) and the restaurant’s chef, Matheson, who has developed an internet following. The space was

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Álvaro Siza completes limestone-clad skyscraper in Manhattan

May 25, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has revealed the 611 West 56th Street skyscraper in Manhattan, which is the Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect’s first building in the United States. The 450-foot-tall (137-metre) residential tower is sited on the Upper West Side between Riverside Park and Central Park near Danish architecture studio BIG’s Via 57 West residential tower. In line

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