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• University of Houston is hiring a Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture in Houston, TX, US - Archinect

  30-08-2019 23:39
  University of Houston is hiring a Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture in Houston, TX, US  ArchinectAssistant Professor of Interior Architecture - Tenure-Track. Description. The Interior Architecture program at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and ...
  
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• From the Architecture Foundation of Oregon's Claire Blaylock: Building equity and empathy in architecture - Portland Business Journal

  30-08-2019 22:31
  From the Architecture Foundation of Oregon's Claire Blaylock: Building equity and empathy in architecture  Portland Business JournalThe Architecture Foundation of Oregon's Claire Blaylock and others in the group are taking a hard look at building a more diverse sector.
  
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• Roux Center for the Environment by @cambridgeseven http://bit.ly/2Lg88dv pic.twitter.com/jAoQAQ1GHQ

  30-08-2019 21:30
  Roux Center for the Environment by @cambridgeseven http://bit.ly/2Lg88dv pic.twitter.com/jAoQAQ1GHQ
  
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• This Week in Tech: @Apple reveals nautical outpost near Miami, @we announces its latest acquisition, Vancouver might build the world's tallest Passive House Standard tower, and more design-tech news from this week. http://bit.ly/30MBSVN pic.twitter.

  30-08-2019 21:00
  This Week in Tech: @Apple reveals nautical outpost near Miami, @weannounces its latest acquisition, Vancouver might build the world's tallest Passive House Standard tower, and more design-tech news from this week. http://bit.ly/30MBSVN pic.twitter.com/4IwNItvgRn
  
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• Gemeinschaftssaal Community Hall & Apartments / Blättler Dafflon Architektenhttp://dlvr.it/RCBKgd 

  30-08-2019 20:17
  Gemeinschaftssaal Community Hall & Apartments / Blättler Dafflon Architektenhttp://dlvr.it/RCBKgd 
  
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• Protecting your structure from moisture infiltration is key to its longevity. http://ow.ly/b93T50vPjkZ pic.twitter.com/1NZMWN6RpE

  30-08-2019 20:15
  Protecting your structure from moisture infiltration is key to its longevity.http://ow.ly/b93T50vPjkZ pic.twitter.com/1NZMWN6RpE
  
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• Rock Star Energy Bike Park features a massive BMX track and recreation public space spanning 23 acres just north of the city.https://archpaper.com/2019/08/rock-star-energy-bike-park-houston-ojb/ …

  30-08-2019 20:00
  Rock Star Energy Bike Park features a massive BMX track and recreation public space spanning 23 acres just north of the city.https://archpaper.com/2019/08/rock-star-energy-bike-park-houston-ojb/ …
  
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• Best known as a center of creativity and #art, #Austin is an example of how sustainability can contribute to the development and growth of a city. http://bit.ly/2MLtAtW pic.twitter.com/cRPKtL67Ip

  30-08-2019 20:00
  Best known as a center of creativity and #art, #Austin is an example of how sustainability can contribute to the development and growth of a city. http://bit.ly/2MLtAtW pic.twitter.com/cRPKtL67Ip
  
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• ‘The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes’: Architecture as spectator sport - Curbed

  30-08-2019 19:37
  ‘The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes’: Architecture as spectator sport  CurbedAvailable on Netflix, 'The World's Most Extraordinary Homes' is a TV show that manages to be both relatable and awe-inspiring.
  
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• AN Interior: Australian designer Matt Woods leaves every inch uncovered in a renovated Sydney cafe: http://aninteriormag.com/matt-woods-sydney-cafe/ …pic.twitter.com/EGfkZr8P9O

  30-08-2019 19:28
  AN Interior: Australian designer Matt Woods leaves every inch uncovered in a renovated Sydney cafe: http://aninteriormag.com/matt-woods-sydney-cafe/ …pic.twitter.com/EGfkZr8P9O
  
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• America's largest BMX park opens in Houston, courtesy OJB Landscape Architecture - The Architect's Newspaper

  30-08-2019 19:06
  America's largest BMX park opens in Houston, courtesy OJB Landscape Architecture  The Architect's NewspaperOJB Landscape Architecture's (OJB) ambitious vision for America's largest BMX venue opened earlier this month in Houston. Located near the Bush ...
  
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• With the ubiquity of online shopping, brick-and-mortar retail has become more competitive, and for Mountain Equipment Co-op, that meant the need for an augmented reality app.https://archpaper.com/2019/08/retail-is-getting-reimagined-with-augmented-reality

  30-08-2019 19:00
  With the ubiquity of online shopping, brick-and-mortar retail has become more competitive, and for Mountain Equipment Co-op, that meant the need for an augmented reality app.https://archpaper.com/2019/08/retail-is-getting-reimagined-with-augmented-reality/ …
  
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• $100 million repairs approved for San Francisco's sinking Millennium Tower

  30-08-2019 19:00
  A $100 million alteration designed to prop up the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower in San Francisco has been approved as tenants reach a tentative settlement with its developers.Independent experts have endorsed the plan to fix the 58-storey luxury condominium tower, which has sunk 18 inches (45.7 centimetres) and tilted 14 inches (36 centimetres) since completion in 2008, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
  The "perimeter pile upgrade" solution, which has been approved by a panel inc
  
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• Take This Interactive DevSecOps Reference Architecture For a Test Drive - Security Boulevard

  30-08-2019 18:30
  Take This Interactive DevSecOps Reference Architecture For a Test Drive  Security BoulevardHow do you get started with DevSecOps? There is so much to consider -- people, processes, tools, and measurement. To help plan and build a DevSecOps ...
  
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• Hackney Backhouse / Guttfield Architecture - ArchDaily

  30-08-2019 18:04
  Hackney Backhouse / Guttfield Architecture  ArchDailyCompleted in 2018 in London, United Kingdom. Images by Will Scott. Hackney Backhouse is a brave, imaginative and contemporary back-garden house that ...
  
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• Earlier this year, OFFICEUNTITLED completed the new Woodlark Hotel in Portland's storied Downtown neighborhood, combining two disparate buildings into a wholly new project.https://archpaper.com/2019/08/officeuntitled-combines-two-buildings-for-portlands-s

  30-08-2019 18:00
  Earlier this year, OFFICEUNTITLED completed the new Woodlark Hotel in Portland's storied Downtown neighborhood, combining two disparate buildings into a wholly new project.https://archpaper.com/2019/08/officeuntitled-combines-two-buildings-for-portlands-stately-woodlark-hotel/ …
  
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• The best architecture on NYC’s college campuses - Curbed NY

  30-08-2019 17:38
  The best architecture on NYC’s college campuses  Curbed NYNew York City isn't home to many traditional college campuses—those bastions of knowledge with stately buildings clustered around a rambling landscape ...
  
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• Designers Imagine Bamboo Colony on Marshttp://dlvr.it/RC9nYD 

  30-08-2019 17:15
  Designers Imagine Bamboo Colony on Marshttp://dlvr.it/RC9nYD 
  
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• Historic buildings are getting a new life through the power of adaptive reuse.http://bit.ly/2MMlYrc 

  30-08-2019 17:01
  Historic buildings are getting a new life through the power of adaptive reuse.http://bit.ly/2MMlYrc 
  
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• La Hermosa Christian Church has unveiled further plans to integrate a music school and cultural center into a proposed residential tower along Central Park.https://archpaper.com/2019/08/la-hermosa-fxcollaborative/ …

  30-08-2019 17:00
  La Hermosa Christian Church has unveiled further plans to integrate a music school and cultural center into a proposed residential tower along Central Park.https://archpaper.com/2019/08/la-hermosa-fxcollaborative/ …
  
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• Have a new residential project you think makes an impact? Maybe a net-zero house or an innovative micro-unit? Submit your project for the 2019 Residential Design Awards! Entries are open through Sept. 13. http://bit.ly/2Nt6YiV pic.twitter.com/nazTXt3

  30-08-2019 17:00
  Have a new residential project you think makes an impact? Maybe a net-zero house or an innovative micro-unit? Submit your project for the 2019 Residential Design Awards! Entries are open through Sept. 13. http://bit.ly/2Nt6YiV pic.twitter.com/nazTXt3WeF
  
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• Tsingpu Yangzhou Retreat by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office @neriandhu http://bit.ly/2ztPgSD pic.twitter.com/4MFoO6Uxfk

  30-08-2019 16:00
  Tsingpu Yangzhou Retreat by
  Neri&Hu Design and Research Office @neriandhu http://bit.ly/2ztPgSD pic.twitter.com/4MFoO6Uxfk
  
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• Architecture students win KC Architectural Foundation awards - KU Today

  30-08-2019 15:53
  Architecture students win KC Architectural Foundation awards  KU TodayLAWRENCE — Five University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design students have won awards from the Kansas City Architectural Foundation. Since 1984 ...
  
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• The Lipton Thayer Brick House by Brooks + Scarpa and Studio Dwell features an undulating brick screen wall and a Mies-style glass curtain wall.https://archpaper.com/2019/08/brooks-scarpa-undulating-brick-screen-wall/#gallery-0-slide-0 …

  30-08-2019 15:30
  The Lipton Thayer Brick House by Brooks + Scarpa and Studio Dwell features an undulating brick screen wall and a Mies-style glass curtain wall.https://archpaper.com/2019/08/brooks-scarpa-undulating-brick-screen-wall/#gallery-0-slide-0 …
  
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• Think tank to research terraforming Earth founded by Moscow’s Strelka Institute

  30-08-2019 15:11
  The Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow has launched a postgraduate course to research how the Earth could be terraformed to reverse the impacts of climate change.
  Called The Terraforming, the interdisciplinary think tank will research ways in which the Earth could be dramatically transformed in the future to return it to a state where it is suitable for human life.
  "The term terraforming usually refers to transforming the ecosystems of other planets or moons to make t
  
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• HKIA Architecture Exhibition in Los Angeles “Island__Peninsula” - Yahoo Finance

  30-08-2019 15:05
  HKIA Architecture Exhibition in Los Angeles “Island__Peninsula”  Yahoo FinanceGlamor, Efficiency, Orderliness & Constant Change: Making of the Hong Kong Architecture Landscape.
  
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• HKIA Architecture Exhibition in Los Angeles “Island__Peninsula” - Business Wire

  30-08-2019 15:05
  HKIA Architecture Exhibition in Los Angeles “Island__Peninsula”  Business WireOrganized by The Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA) with Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative R.
  
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• Washington, DC’s neoclassical Dumbarton Bridge, with its gentle curve, spans Rock Creek and is decorated with busts and bronze buffalos. @ggwash tells us the fascinating history in this #flashbackFriday feature.http://bit.ly/2L3BnBf 

  30-08-2019 15:00
  Washington, DC’s neoclassical Dumbarton Bridge, with its gentle curve, spans Rock Creek and is decorated with busts and bronze buffalos. @ggwash tells us the fascinating history in this #flashbackFriday feature.http://bit.ly/2L3BnBf 
  
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• 30 Warren Street by Post-Office Architectes is located in Tribeca and is clad in ultra-high-performance concrete formed with corrugated cardboard.https://archpaper.com/2019/08/post-office-architectes-stamps-tribeca-corrugated-cardboard-concrete-formwork/&

  30-08-2019 15:00
  30 Warren Street by Post-Office Architectes is located in Tribeca and is clad in ultra-high-performance concrete formed with corrugated cardboard.https://archpaper.com/2019/08/post-office-architectes-stamps-tribeca-corrugated-cardboard-concrete-formwork/ …
  
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• WGNB designs all-black flagship store for fashion brand Juun.J

  30-08-2019 13:54
  Korean practice WGNB has designed the flagship shop for fashion brand Juun.J in Seoul as a cluster of black geometric forms.
  Working with the motifs of circles, triangles and squares, the store occupies a black-rendered building that abuts a cafe with a steep triangular roof sweeping down to cover a glazed circular courtyard.WGNB drew on ideas from Tanizaki Junichiro's essay on Japanese aesthetics and their subtlety, In Praise of Shadows, when conceptualising the building.
  Entry into the st
  
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• Podcast: Driving Real Social Change Through Public Interest Architecture - ARCHITECT Magazine

  30-08-2019 13:36
  Podcast: Driving Real Social Change Through Public Interest Architecture  ARCHITECT MagazineListen to more podcast episodes from ARCHITECT here. Deanna Van Buren wanted to create environments that would improve the lives of those largely absent ...
  
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• winners of the 2019 aga khan award for architecture announced - Designboom

  30-08-2019 13:02
  winners of the 2019 aga khan award for architecture announced  Designboomthe aga khan award aims to identify and encourage building concepts that address the needs and aspirations of muslim communities.
  
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• Architecture and advocacy is the legacy of 90-year-old Robert Traynham Coles - WBFO

  30-08-2019 12:43
  Architecture and advocacy is the legacy of 90-year-old Robert Traynham Coles  WBFOIn Buffalo, a local architect has received a national recognition for over a half century of contributions to the profession of architecture. His story has.
  
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• Competition: win a copy of New Nordic Houses by Dominic Bradbury

  30-08-2019 12:08
  In our latest competition, we're offering readers the chance to win one of five copies of New Nordic Houses by Dominic Bradbury, which affords a glimpse into more than forty contemporary Scandinavian homes.
  Curated by architecture and design journalist Dominic Bradbury, the book offers insights into homes in the region, complete with architectural plans.
  We've teamed up with publisher Thames & Hudson to give away five hardback copies of New Nordic Houses, which will be published on 10 Septem
  
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• Ricardo Bofill: “Why Are Historical Towns More Beautiful Than Modern Cities?”http://dlvr.it/RC8kFl 

  30-08-2019 11:16
  Ricardo Bofill: “Why Are Historical Towns More Beautiful Than Modern Cities?”http://dlvr.it/RC8kFl 
  
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• 10 fresh examples of glass in architecture | News - Archinect

  30-08-2019 11:00
  10 fresh examples of glass in architecture | News  ArchinectIn case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various ...
  
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• CAL, a Lebanese architecture collective to raise awareness on the importance of urban planning. - Kawa News

  30-08-2019 10:57
  CAL, a Lebanese architecture collective to raise awareness on the importance of urban planning.  Kawa NewsIn the era of globalized and disinhibited capitalism, architecture and urban planning have become fundamental to form united societies. A role not always ...
  
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• Materials unite old and new living spaces inside De Beauvoir Townhouse

  30-08-2019 10:00
  Brickwork, terrazzo surfaces and green-hued furnishings add character to the interiors of this east London townhouse, which has been renovated and extended by architecture studio HÛT.
  De Beauvoir Townhouse was previously host to dark and disconnected living spaces that were undesirable to its creative owners – a musician and a furniture designer.
  For the overhaul of the home in London's Hackney district, Shoreditch-based studio HÛT therefore focused on creating light-filled and
  
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• Seattle DJC.com local business news and data - Architecture & Engineering - OSU to get quake research funds - Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce

  30-08-2019 09:00
  Seattle DJC.com local business news and data - Architecture & Engineering - OSU to get quake research funds  Seattle Daily Journal of CommerceWASHINGTON (AP) — Oregon State University will receive more than $400,000 in federal funds to research how large earthquakes, like ones that could strike in ...
  
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• Lower Queen Anne apartments up for landmark status - Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce

  30-08-2019 09:00
  Lower Queen Anne apartments up for landmark status  Seattle Daily Journal of CommerceThe 100 Roy Street Apartments were built in the late 1940s. The 66-unit building was designed by architect Fred J. Rogers, who experimented with modernism.
  
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