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• Tod Williams Billie Tsien faces $10.7 million lawsuit for Princeton University building

  02-01-2020 22:00
  
  Princeton University is suing Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects over the school's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, claiming the building process was careless and took too long.
  The New York firm and Texas sub-consultants Jacobs Entities of Jacobs Engineering Group are both being sued for work done on the research institute, which was completed in 2016 for the New Jersey university.
  The $10.7 million (£8.12 million) lawsuit was filed in December 2019 by the Board of Trust
  
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• The 2020s "will see the return of the real", argues Aaron Betsky

  02-01-2020 19:00
  
  As the 2020s begin, what will the next decade hold for architecture asks Aaron Betsky.Crystal balls are notoriously cloudy, tea leaves open to many interpretations, and, according to science fiction films such as Blade Runner, by now we would all be living with replicants. Future predictions are more wishful – or dreadful – scenarios, fairy tales we tell ourselves about our destiny. So herewith some stories for a century that is exiting childhood and moving into early adulthood.
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• Solar panels form canopy over surgical facility in Uganda

  02-01-2020 13:34
  
  The Mount Sinai Kyabirwa Surgical Facility in Uganda by Kliment Halsband Architects is a self-sustaining facility topped with solar panels.
  Local labourers built the health facility using materials sourced from the area, including red bricks that form the perforated screen walls that allow for natural ventilation.
  Red clay was dug up from sites near the building and fired to create bricks and cladding for the medical facility, a decision that also helped support the local economy.
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• Save the world, one city at a time: Reinventing Cities

  02-01-2020 13:01
  
  Calling all architects, designers, urban planners, entrepreneurs, artists, environmentalists and innovators: enter the Reinventing Cities competition
  
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• Oval-shaped meeting room is centrepiece of granite office in Chandigarh

  02-01-2020 12:32
  
  Indian architecture studio Charged Voids has designed Office 543 around an elliptic meeting room with granite walls, which is a private space among the glass-walled offices.
  Designed for construction company Khullar Builders, the office is located in the Mohali district of Indian city Chandigarh, which was planned by modernist architect Le Corbusier.The two-storey building was conceived by the local studio as a series of small spaces that branch off a central double-height atrium. With
  
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• Bustler's Most Popular Architecture Events of 2019 | News - Archinect

  02-01-2020 09:00
  
  Bustler's Most Popular Architecture Events of 2019 | News  Archinect
  
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• Green ceramic tiles cover extension of a house in rural China

  02-01-2020 03:00
  
  Wonder Architects have used pale green ceramic tiles to clad a house extension in Yangqing, China, that mirrors the form of its traditional neighbours.
  Called Intertwine House, the building closely resembles the dimensions and pitched roofs of the village's existing houses, so old and modern architecture sit side by side.Wonder Architects said they wanted to explore how China's rural areas can respond to urban renewal without erasing their existing architecture.
  "The [original] house, built
  
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