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Jeanne Gang named world’s most influential architect of 2019 by Time magazine

April 18, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

American architect Jeanne Gang has been listed on Time magazine’s list of 100 most influential people for 2019. The Studio Gang founder is the only architect to make the Time 100 list this year. She is recognised just a month after winning the commission for the overhaul of Chicago O’Hare international airport, in partnership with Studio ORD.

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Commoncraft designs whimsical Gertie cafe in Williamsburg

April 17, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Brooklyn studio Commoncraft has designed this eatery in the borough’s Williamsburg neighbourhood, which is intended as a playful tribute to the owner’s grandmother. Gertie is an all-day restaurant located on the ground floor of a new, three-storey building in north Brooklyn. It spans 3,500 square foot (325 square metres) and accommodates 70 people as a counter-service cafe. The eatery

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BIG wraps Massachusetts university building with “domino effect” copper walls

April 16, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

BIG has completed an extension to the business school at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst with gradually sloping walls that resemble falling dominos. New York firm Bjarke Ingles Group (BIG) teamed with Boston firm Goody Clancy, which served as the architect of record to design the extension for the college’s Isenberg School of Management. The 70,000-square-foot (6,503-square-metre)

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Student builds rammed-earth shelter at Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture school

April 15, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Tapered, rammed-earth walls support the roof of this small shelter that architecture student Conor Denison has built on the desert campus of Frank Lloyd Wright’s School of Architecture at Taliesin. Denison designed and built the shelter during his final year at the architecture school, founded by the late American architect in 1937, and previously named Frank

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Concrete walls tinted to match “warm tones of sunset” form Casa Moulat in Mexico

April 13, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Casa Moulat residence in Hidalgo Mexico by Centro de Colaboracion Arquitectonica

Earthen concrete walls, planted patios and pools feature in this house in Mexican state Hidalgo, which was designed by Mexican City firm Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica. Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica (CCA) completed the 608-square-metre Casa Moulat as a gabled volume flanked by two wings. The residence is predominantly built from concrete that has been tinted using earthen

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CTBUH names San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower world’s “best tall building”

April 12, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects’ Salesforce Tower has won the top prize at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s annual awards for high-rise structures, beating competition from BIG and David Chipperfield. Tall buildings expert Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) gave the 1,070-feet-high (326-metre-high) tower “Best Tall Building Worldwide” in its 2019

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SOM designs inflatable Moon Village to be first-ever lunar habitat

April 11, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Architect firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has unveiled a proposal for a permanent community on the moon, comprising inflating pods that balloon up to accommodate more inhabitants as the population grows. SOM teamed up with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to design Moon Village as “the first permanent human settlement on the

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Pritzker to sell Helmut Jahn’s postmodern Thompson Center in Chicago

April 9, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

The governor of Illinois, whose family started the Pritzker Prize, is set to sell Helmut Jahn’s James R Thompson Center in Chicago, putting the fate of the postmodern building in “serious trouble”. Jay Robert Pritzker signed a bill on 5 April 2019 paving the way for the sale, and likely demolition, of the German-American architect’s massive 17-storey structure. Pritzker was

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Pritzker to sell Helmut Jahn’s postmodern Thompson Center in Chicago

April 9, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

The governor of Illinois, whose family started the Pritzker Prize, is set to sell Helmut Jahn’s James R Thompson Center in Chicago, putting the fate of the postmodern building in “serious trouble”. Jay Robert Pritzker signed a bill on 5 April 2019 paving the way for the sale, and likely demolition, of the German-American architect’s massive 17-storey structure. Pritzker was

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US skyscrapers kill millions of birds a year, reports find

April 8, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Studies have found that the bright lights and glazing of towering structures in US cities including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles are causing millions of migratory birds to die each year. A study published by Cornell Lab of Ornithology this week ranked 125 US cities based on the danger they pose to birds. It found that

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