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• AIA conference cancelled until 2021 due to coronavirus

  16-04-2020 23:23
  
  The American Institute of Architects has cancelled its annual conference, which was set to take place in a month, as the US continues to battle the spread of coronavirus.The AIA had previously planned to postpone the conference scheduled for 14 to 16 May until a later date this year. It revealed today that it will instead take place next year.
  Decision amid "uncertainties" of the coming months
  "After carefully monitoring Covid-19 developments, we have determined that we will not be able to resch
  
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• Orange performance room stands out at Yale University's radio station

  16-04-2020 22:00
  
  New York architecture studio Forma has created contrasting orange and grey-coloured rooms for Yale University's student-run radio station.
  Forma, led by Miroslava Brooks and Daniel Markiewicz, designed the interiors with a simple but striking colour palette that covers the floors, ceilings and walls.A recording studio is painted top-to-bottom in pale grey and is joined by an orange-painted performance space. Forma designed the radio station on the top floor of a four-storey, 1930s building in Ne
  
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• SunnyHills cake shop shows how "Kuma is Japan's Walt Disney" says video blogger Martin van der Linden

  16-04-2020 21:27
  
  Kengo Kuma's SunnyHills cake shop illustrates how the architect interprets the Japanese vernacular, according to YouTuber Martin van der Linden in the first of a series of videos from Tokyo shared with Virtual Design Festival.Van der Lindin, who produces the One Minute Architecture channel on YouTube, made a short film about the basket-like building in Tokyo's fashionable Aoyama district.
  "You might confuse the building behind me as the head office of the local Boy Scouts," says van der Linden i
  
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• Architecture & Design Film Festival Offers Online Lineup - Architectural Record

  16-04-2020 19:47
  
  Architecture & Design Film Festival Offers Online Lineup  Architectural Record
  
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• Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham say lack of "huggy-kissy stuff" in Japan may help slow coronavirus

  16-04-2020 19:42
  
  Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture explain how Japan's culture of bowing instead of hand-shaking may have helped in the fight against coronavirus, in their video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival.
  "Luckily the virus hasn't hit too hard here," Mark Dytham explained in the video. "I think one of the reasons is that we wear these masks quite a lot, especially in the winter during the flu months."
  He also puts the slow spread of the virus in Japan down to the Japane
  
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• Rozana Montiel builds Mexican incinerators from corrugated-concrete

  16-04-2020 19:21
  
  Mexican architect Rozana Montiel has developed a "new kind of folded concrete" that is being used to build prefabricated solid-waste furnaces across Mexico.Rozana Montiel's architecture studio was enlisted to develop a prefabricated furnace that could be quickly rolled out across 17 ports and airports in the country.The studio chose concrete with a rippled texture because it would be durable in a range of climates.
  "The main challenge of this project was that the client wanted ready-made pa
  
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• IN PUBLIC: BOSTON - Landscape Architecture Magazine

  16-04-2020 17:25
  
  IN PUBLIC: BOSTON  Landscape Architecture Magazine
  
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• Initiative to boost collaboration between UTSA's engineering and architecture colleges - UTSA Today

  16-04-2020 17:14
  
  Initiative to boost collaboration between UTSA's engineering and architecture colleges  UTSA Today
  
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• Copenhagen's Distinct Architecture Knit into Color-Blocked Urban Landscapes by Jake Henzler - Colossal

  16-04-2020 17:01
  
  Copenhagen's Distinct Architecture Knit into Color-Blocked Urban Landscapes by Jake Henzler  Colossal
  
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• 5 Books That Let You Explore Dallas Architecture From Home - D Magazine

  16-04-2020 16:10
  
  5 Books That Let You Explore Dallas Architecture From Home  D Magazine
  
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• Cliff House / PLANET Creations Sekiya Masato Architecture Design Office - ArchDaily

  16-04-2020 16:02
  
  Cliff House / PLANET Creations Sekiya Masato Architecture Design Office  ArchDaily
  
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• Parasite house designed from "simple floor plan" sketched by Bong Joon-Ho

  16-04-2020 16:00
  
  Production designer Lee Ha Jun created the house at the centre of the film Parasite based on a basic sketch drawn by director Bong Joon–Ho. In this interview, Jun explains how he designed the set that many people thought was a real house.The Korean film, which won four Oscars at this year's Academy Awards, predominantly takes place in the residence of the wealthy Park family. In the movie, the home was designed by fictional architect Namgoong Heonja, but in reality, the property is a serie
  
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• OpenLegacy Joins the Banking Industry Architecture Network to Help Create Global Banking Standards - PR Web

  16-04-2020 15:03
  
  OpenLegacy Joins the Banking Industry Architecture Network to Help Create Global Banking Standards  PR Web
  
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• Live video interview with Klein Dytham Architecture as part of Virtual Design Festival - Dezeen

  16-04-2020 14:44
  
  Live video interview with Klein Dytham Architecture as part of Virtual Design Festival  Dezeen
  
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• Live video interview with Klein Dytham Architecture as part of Virtual Design Festival

  16-04-2020 14:44
  
  Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture speak to Dezeen live from Tokyo today as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the interview here at 2:00pm UK time.
  Klein and Dytham are also founders of the PechaKucha presentation format, and the interview follows the live streaming of last night's PechaKucha Inspire The World event.
  In the live interview with Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs, Klein and Dytham discuss the PechaKucha format, in which each participant shows 20 images fo
  
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• Precht designs Parc de la Distance for outdoor social distancing

  16-04-2020 14:08
  
  Austria-based studio Precht has designed a maze-like park divided by high hedges that would allow people to be outdoors while maintaining social distance during the coronavirus pandemic.
  Chris Precht, founder of studio Precht, designed the Parc de la Distance following numerous public, outdoor spaces around the world closing due to the coronavirus outbreak.
  "The project started with a couple of questions regarding this pandemic," he told Dezeen.
  "What would a park look like and how wou
  
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• VDF collaborates with Tokyo architecture YouTuber Martin Vermeulen to explore Tokyo's "mysterious urbanity"

  16-04-2020 14:04
  
  Today Virtual Design Festival teams up with Dutch architect Martin Vermeulen of YouTube channel One Minute Architecture to present a selection of his best short architecture movies.
  Vermeulen, founder of Tokyo-based Van Der Architects, has lived in Japan since 1995 when he moved to the country to work on Hiroshi Hara's monumental Kyoto Station.
  Projects he has completed since then include a 2014 community centre in the earthquake-hit town of Yamada.
  He started making videos about six years ago,
  
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• VDF collaborates with Tokyo architecture YouTuber Martin Vermeulen - Dezeen

  16-04-2020 14:04
  
  VDF collaborates with Tokyo architecture YouTuber Martin Vermeulen  Dezeen
  
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• VDF collaborates with Tokyo architecture YouTuber Martin van der Linden to explore Tokyo's "mysterious urbanity"

  16-04-2020 14:04
  
  Today Virtual Design Festival teams up with Dutch architect Martin van der Linden of YouTube channel One Minute Architecture to present a selection of his best short architecture movies.
  Van der Linden, founder of Tokyo-based Van Der Architects, has lived in Japan since 1995 when he moved to the country to work on Hiroshi Hara's monumental Kyoto Station.
  Projects he has completed since then include a 2014 community centre in the earthquake-hit town of Yamada.
  He started making videos about six y
  
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• Rastegar To Build North America's Tallest Living Wall - Living Architecture Monitor magazine

  16-04-2020 14:00
  Rastegar To Build North America's Tallest Living Wall  Living Architecture Monitor magazine
  
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• Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 16 April - Dezeen

  16-04-2020 13:53
  
  Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 16 April  Dezeen
  
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• Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 16 April

  16-04-2020 13:53
  
  Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes architecture films chosen by Dezeen readers and hospital gowns made from airbags.
  HTA and HOK launch The Industry Prints to co-ordinate efforts to 3D print face visors for NHS 
  Architecture studios HTA and HOK have established a nationwide initiative called The Industry Prints to manufacture and distribute face visors made to NHS specifications (via The Industry Prints).
  10 fil
  
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• 2020 WAN Awards entry: Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School - LMN Architects

  16-04-2020 13:44
  
  Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School by LMN Architectsis an entry in the Education category of the 2020 WAN Awards
  
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• 2020 WAN Awards entry: Seattle Asian Art Museum - LMN Architects

  16-04-2020 13:32
  
  Seattle Asian Art Museum by LMN Architects is an entry in the Civic category of the 2020 WAN Awards
  
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• Carmen Court on Denver's Endangered Architecture List - Westword

  16-04-2020 13:29
  
  Carmen Court on Denver's Endangered Architecture List  Westword
  
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• 2020 WAN Awards entry: Downtown Seattle Hotel - LMN Architects

  16-04-2020 13:25
  
  Downtown Seattle Hotel by LMN Architects is an entry in the Commercial category of the 2020 WAN Awards
  
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• 2020 WAN Awards entry: Financial City Community Center - Lacime Architects

  16-04-2020 12:36
  
  Financial City Community Center by Lacime Architects is an entry in the Civic category of the 2020 WAN Awards
  
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• 2020 WAN Awards entry: Vanke Beijing Upward - Lacime Architects

  16-04-2020 12:13
  
  Vanke Beijing Upward by Lacime Architects is an entry in the Civic category of the 2020 WAN Awards
  
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• "Some comics have been more nuanced about modern architecture than a lot of the published histories" - Dezeen

  16-04-2020 12:00
  
  "Some comics have been more nuanced about modern architecture than a lot of the published histories"  Dezeen
  
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• "Some comics have been more nuanced about modern architecture than a lot of the published histories"

  16-04-2020 12:00
  
  Two new graphic novels, which a Le Corbusier figure makes an appearance in, depict the uncomfortable side of modern architecture, writes Owen Hatherley.
  The story of modern architecture is usually told as being a matter of heroes and villains, and one figure, Le Corbusier, has always had the luck to be portrayed as both. The destroyer of cities, the giver of form, instantly recognisable by the thick, round, black-rimmed glasses and the thinning hair, a uniform embarrassingly copie
  
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• 2020 WAN Awards entry: Liva Riverside Book Bar Reconstruction - Lacime Architects

  16-04-2020 11:56
  
  Liva Riverside Book Bar Reconstruction by Lacime Architects is an entry in the Adaptive Reuse category of the 2020 WAN Awards
  
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• WAN judge: Fernanda Canales, Architect, Fernanda Canales

  16-04-2020 11:31
  
  Fernanda holds a PhD in Architecture (ETSAM, Madrid), and has been distinguished with several international awards, such as the Emerging Voices Award from The Architectural League of New York
  
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• What makes a winning entry? WAN judge, Harbinder Birdi, Partner and Head of infrastructure at Hawkins\Brown Architects explains

  16-04-2020 11:25
  
  Harbinder is the principal architect leading the designs for three of the central section Crossrail stations as well as the design for the central section of the Thames Tideway Tunnel
  
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• Introducing WAN Awards judge Tara Gbolade, co-founder of Gbolade Design Studio

  16-04-2020 11:13
  
  Tara’s practice specialises in residential and mixed-use developments for public and private sector clients, making 'everyday places for people extraordinary' by focusing on place-making
  
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• WAN Awards judge: Professor. Dr. Song Yehao is an architect, researcher and educator.

  16-04-2020 11:05
  
  Professor Song is the co-founder and principal of SUP Atelier, the director of Institute of Architecture and Technology at school of architecture, Tsinghua University, and the secretary-general of the Green Building's Theoretical and Practical Group, Chinese Green Building Committee
  
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• Sony World Photography Awards 2020: the architecture category winner revealed - Domus

  16-04-2020 10:27
  
  Sony World Photography Awards 2020: the architecture category winner revealed  Domus
  
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• Conquer Enterprise Architecture With Workflow Automation - Toolbox

  16-04-2020 09:57
  
  Conquer Enterprise Architecture With Workflow Automation  Toolbox
  
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• Praline creates new 'elevator pitch' website and branding for architecture and design practice Softroom - Creative Boom

  16-04-2020 09:45
  
  Praline creates new 'elevator pitch' website and branding for architecture and design practice Softroom  Creative Boom
  
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• radar F/A-18C/D open-systems architecture - Military & Aerospace Electronics

  16-04-2020 09:37
  radar F/A-18C/D open-systems architecture  Military & Aerospace Electronics
  
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• Graal Architecture Jaurès Recreation Centre in AthisMons France - Floornature.com

  16-04-2020 08:48
  
  Graal Architecture Jaurès Recreation Centre in AthisMons France  Floornature.com
  
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• Dynamic Volt VAR Control Architecture Market Dynamics, Trends, Opportunities, Drivers, Challenges and Influence Factors Shared In a Very Latest Report - Curious Desk

  16-04-2020 08:48
  Dynamic Volt VAR Control Architecture Market Dynamics, Trends, Opportunities, Drivers, Challenges and Influence Factors Shared In a Very Latest Report  Curious Desk
  
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• Concrete ribbons define this unusual concept house's architecture - Yanko Design

  16-04-2020 04:00
  Concrete ribbons define this unusual concept house's architecture  Yanko Design
  
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• Wall Fitting Revisited: A Study in Organic Architecture - ARCHITECT Magazine

  16-04-2020 01:01
  Wall Fitting Revisited: A Study in Organic Architecture  ARCHITECT Magazine
  
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