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• AIA outlines how people can safely return to offices post pandemic

  07-05-2020 23:26
  
  The American Institute of Architects has released a tool kit that provides strategies for limiting exposure to coronavirus in buildings as restrictions begin to ease.
  The AIA released the Re-occupancy Assessment Tool today to promote a safer re-occupancy of buildings as lockdown and isolation measures ease in the US.
  Developed by the AIA's Disaster Assistance Committee, the 19-page document is geared towards re-opening buildings that closed as part of non-essential businesses, like offices, scho
  
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• OZ Architecture Shares Insight on the Future of Senior Living Design - milehighcre.com

  07-05-2020 22:25
  
  OZ Architecture Shares Insight on the Future of Senior Living Design  milehighcre.com
  
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• Cabin project upcycles ash trees for sustainable architecture - Cornell Chronicle

  07-05-2020 22:09
  
  Cabin project upcycles ash trees for sustainable architecture  Cornell Chronicle
  
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• Sidewalk Labs abandons Toronto smart city during pandemic

  07-05-2020 22:06
  
  Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs has abandoned its ambition to create a smart neighbourhood in Toronto amid "unprecedented economic uncertainty" caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
  Sidewalk Labs CEO Daniel L Doctoroff announced in an article posted to Medium today that the current economic climate meant the company was unable to move forward with developing the neighbourhood for its partner Waterfront Toronto.
  "It has become too difficult"
  "For the last two-and-a-half years, we have been p
  
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• Frank Lloyd Wright's legacy to live on after School of Architecture closes - Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3

  07-05-2020 21:52
  
  Frank Lloyd Wright's legacy to live on after School of Architecture closes  Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3
  
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• Splayed and stacked white volumes form San Antonio House in Mexico

  07-05-2020 19:00
  
  Pockets of greenery are used to contrast the bright "canvas" of this white house that Mexican studio Jaime Juárez R Arquitecto has completed in Morelia.
  The local practice designed a series of volumes to suit the unusual triangular shape of the plot. They include two one-storey blocks – one of which is cantilevered at the rear – that fork out in opposing directions. A third, smaller structure is stacked on top to rise two storeys.All the walls are constructed from brick and co
  
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• 2020 WAN Awards entry: Liyang Museum - CROX

  07-05-2020 16:13
  
  Liyang Museum by CROX is an entry in the Civic Category of the 2020 WAN Awards
  
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• RX Architects: business benefits from British Home Awards win

  07-05-2020 16:01
  
  For Robert Pollard, Architect and Director at RX Architects, last year’s winner of the BHA Small House of the Year category, there were significant benefits to both entering and winning
  
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• RX Architects: business benefits from British Home Awards Small House of the Year win

  07-05-2020 15:01
  
  Robert Pollard, Architect and Director at RX Architects, last year’s winner of the BHA’s Small House of the Year category, found there were significant gains from entering and going through to win this award.
  
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• Building Green: Denmark's New Class of Sustainable Architecture - ArchDaily

  07-05-2020 14:09
  
  Building Green: Denmark's New Class of Sustainable Architecture  ArchDaily
  
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• 2020 WAN Awards entry: Rebuilding of Main Building of Daimaru Shinsaibashi Store - Osaka

  07-05-2020 13:41
  
  Rebuilding of Main Building of Daimaru Shinsaibashi Store by Osaka is an entry in the Category Adaptive Reuse of the 2020 WAN Awards
  
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• Oliver Chapman Architects combines technology and craft in Flitch House

  07-05-2020 13:30
  
  Oliver Chapman Architects has added a garden room to a house in Edinburgh, combining an Arts and Crafts approach with smart-home technologies.
  Flitch House is an extension to an end-of-terrace family home in Trinity, built in 1895 by prominent local architect Alexander Hunter Crawford.To respect the house's architectural character, the extension is designed by Oliver Chapman Architects as a contemporary interpretation of the Arts and Crafts style – a movement that promoted tradit
  
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• C'entro is a fibreglass frame to help people social distance in public parks

  07-05-2020 13:25
  
  Design studio SBGA Blengini Ghirardelli has created a concept for social distancing within parks, plus today's other design-related coronavirus news.
  C'entro is a modular frame made of colourful fibreglass rods that would snap together to form a circle on the ground for up to two people to sit inside.
  Spacers between each hoop would show people the distance they need to keep between each other to slow the transmission of coronavirus.
  SBGA Blengini Ghirardelli designed C'entro to help p
  
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• 2020 WAN Awards entry: FengSheng 101 Tower- GWP Architects

  07-05-2020 13:24
  
  FengSheng 101 Tower by GWP Architectsis an entry in the Category Future Projects - Commercial of the 2020 WAN Awards
  
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• Merida House / Ludwig Godefroy Architecture - ArchDaily

  07-05-2020 13:04
  
  Merida House / Ludwig Godefroy Architecture  ArchDaily
  
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• 2020 WIN Awards entry: Gohong Wenzhou One Mansion - Matrix Design

  07-05-2020 12:52
  
  Gohong Wenzhou One Mansion by Matrix Design is an entry in the Category Residential developments of the 2020 WIN Awards
  
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• 2020 WIN Awards entry: China Merchants Zhanjiang Cruise Terminal Sales Center - Matrix Design

  07-05-2020 12:41
  
  China Merchants Zhanjiang Cruise Terminal Sales Center by Matrix Design is an entry in the Cultural venues category of the 2020 WAN/WIN Awards
  
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• London, New York, Paris and Milan give streets to cyclists and pedestrians

  07-05-2020 12:30
  
  Cities across Europe and the Americas are drawing up plans to take street space away from cars in favour of cyclists and pedestrians in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
  Urban spaces are being temporarily remapped to prioritise people walking and cycling while maintaining social distancing of up to two metres in major cities around the world including London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Milan and Bogata.
  The initiatives come amid growing support for measures to make cities more friendly to
  
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• 2020 WWIN Awards entry: Tak Wan Tea House - NONG STUDIO.

  07-05-2020 12:23
  
  Tak Wan Tea House by NONG STUDIO is an entry in the Category Restaurants and cafés of the 2020 WIN Awards
  
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• Artificial Intelligence Can Only Help Architecture if We Ask the Right Questions - ArchDaily

  07-05-2020 10:46
  
  Artificial Intelligence Can Only Help Architecture if We Ask the Right Questions  ArchDaily
  
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• 2020 WIN Awards entry: Tak Wan Tea House - NONG STUDIO.

  07-05-2020 10:18
  
  Tak Wan Tea House by NONG STUDIO is an entry in the Restaurants and cafés category of the 2020 WIN Awards
  
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• M-Rad designs mobile Covid-19 testing unit concept from "virus-destroying" copper

  07-05-2020 09:00
  
  California-based design and architecture studio M-Rad proposes using the natural antimicrobial properties of copper alloy to create a travelling Covid-19 testing unit.
  Designed to carry out both Covid-19 tests and antibody tests, M-Rad's concept for a portable testing unit features a body clad in copper alloy.
  Chosen for its antimicrobial properties, the copper exterior would create a "virus-destroying environment", said the studio, by naturally killing up to 99.9 per cent of bacteria prese
  
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• Estudio Cavernas designs Thailand community centre as learning hub for Burmese migrant children

  07-05-2020 03:00
  
  Not-for-profit organisation Estudio Cavernas has built the sugarcane-thatched Green Island community centre for over 400 Burmese children living near the Myanmar border in western Thailand.
  Located within a municipal waste centre in the town of Mae Sot, the timber community hall stands alongside a playground, vegetable garden and football pitch.
  The building by Estudio Cavernas serves as a learning hub for children with daily classes in Thai, English, critical thinking and football. It also
  
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