Dow Planetarium revitalised as Centech incubator in Montreal

December 20, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0
Dow Planetarium by Menkes Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes

Canadian firm Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes has rehabilitated a planetarium in Montreal into an incubator for entrepreneurship and technology, and retaining its viewing area. The Dow Planetarium in Montreal was converted into a building for Centech, a non-profit incubator to support technology and entrepreneurship. The structure was built 45 years ago, but closed in

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MKCA designs Children’s Library for transitional shelter in New York

December 17, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0
Children's Library by MKCA

American studio MKCA has created a small, colourful library for the Concourse House, a shelter for women and kids who are transitioning out of homelessness. Established in 1991, the Concourse House is located in the Bronx – one of New York City’s five boroughs. The shelter provides stable, transitional housing and a range of social services

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CO Architects creates highly transparent Health Education Building in Kansas

December 11, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

A glazed box revealing floors wrapped in a terracotta screen forms part of this new academic facility, designed by CO Architects for a university in Kansas City. Built on the site of a former parking lot, the Health Education Building is located on a prominent corner in the University of Kansas Medical Center campus –

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John Wardle Architects looks to natural landscape with design of Monash University building

December 5, 2018 Ali Morris 0

John Wardle Architects imagined a landscape with ravines, clearings and escarpments when designing the spaces of the Learning & Teaching Building at Monash University’s Clayton Campus in Melbourne, Australia. Serving as a “new front door” to the university, the multi-faculty LTB building houses the institution’s Office of Learning and Teaching as well as the Faculty of Education. John

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John Ronan wraps IIT’s Kaplan Institute in ETFE and glass

December 4, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

American studio John Ronan Architects has completed an academic building at the Illinois Institute of Technology that is meant to have a “light, cloud-like appearance”. The building, officially known as the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship, is situated in the heart of the IIT campus, which was master-planned by Mies van

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Snøhetta completes ultra-efficient HouseZero at Harvard University

December 3, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

Rooftop photovoltaics and windows that automatically open and close are among the sustainable features in a small Harvard building, which Snøhetta, Skanska and university researchers have retrofitted. The project involved an extensive overhaul of a pre-1940s home that serves as the headquarters for the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Situated on

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Warped concrete roof tops Miami architecture school by Arquitectonica

December 1, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

A massive curving slab of concrete covers the new school of architecture building at the University of Miami, by local firm Arquitectonica. The Thomas P Murphy Design Studio Building is the latest addition to the University of Miami campus in Coral Gables, Florida – southeast of Downtown Miami. Arquitectonica designed the 20,000-square-foot (1,858-square-metre) building for

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