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• Studio Gang designs One Hundred skyscraper with angled facades in St Louis

  02-06-2021 21:00
  
  Architecture firm Studio Gang has completed a tiered residential skyscraper with angled glass elements that overlooks Forest Park in St Louis, Missouri.
  Called One Hundred, the high-rise tower was completed in 2020 and takes its name from its location at 100 Kingshighway Boulevard in St Louis, which overlooks the park to the west.
  The tower overlooks Forest Park
  The 380-feet-tall (116-metre-tall) tower has 316 units and measures 520,000 square feet (48, 310 square metres).
  Tiers of four storeys
  
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• Live imaging of chromatin distribution reveals novel principles of nuclear architecture and chromatin compartmentalization - Science Advances

  02-06-2021 20:04
  
  Live imaging of chromatin distribution reveals novel principles of nuclear architecture and chromatin compartmentalization  Science Advances
  
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• Architecture graduate students earn Engineering for Change Research Fellowships | Penn State University - Penn State News

  02-06-2021 19:28
  
  Architecture graduate students earn Engineering for Change Research Fellowships | Penn State University  Penn State News
  
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• Shenzhen Transport Hub competition winners announced

  02-06-2021 19:21
  
  Shenzhen Airport East Integrated Transport Hub will be designed by Grimshaw in collaboration with Mott MacDonald, China Aviation Planning and Design Institute and Beijing Urban Construction Design and Development Group
  
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• Kohn Pedersen Fox plans supertall skyscraper 343 Madison Avenue in New York

  02-06-2021 19:08
  
  American architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox has unveiled plans for 343 Madison Avenue, a supertall skyscraper that will be built near Grand Central Terminal in New York.
  Developer Boston Properties selected Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) to build the 1,050-foot-high (320 metres) office building, which will be located on the site of the former headquarters of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
  Demolition work on the existing building has begun and construction is expected to start on the
  
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• IDOM’s proposal for French parking facility

  02-06-2021 19:08
  
  Winner of a public tender process, the project is located in the town of Bouguenais, southeast of Nantes
  
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• UNStudio design green office campus for JetBrains in Russia

  02-06-2021 19:00
  
  The new modern and immersive building in St. Petersburg is intended to be a place of connectivity and openness, taking in views of the Gulf of Finland
  
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• China’s Villa Homespun Philosophy developed by T.K. Chu Design

  02-06-2021 18:51
  
  The project’s architecture responds to the historical and cultural context of Suzhou with a garden-like villa with two floors above ground and underground
  
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• ABIBOO Studio’s sustainable mission on Mars to house one million

  02-06-2021 18:43
  
  The Nüwa project is part of competitive scientific work organised by The Mars Society, and fully developed by the SONet network, an international team of scientists and academics, headed by the astrophysicist Guillem Anglada
  
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• Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel to design MilanoSesto’s “Unione Zero”

  02-06-2021 18:26
  
  The contract to design the office and hotel spaces is part of Italy’s largest urban regeneration projects
  
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• More Design Office commissioned to create China’s coastal Yantai Experience Centre

  02-06-2021 18:15
  
  The project sits at the corner of the central axis of a new development area, south of the Fengshan Scenic Area, along the Shandong Peninsula in Jinan and is defined by its hilly topography and winter snow
  
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• SLA designs Middle East's first urban biodiversity park

  02-06-2021 18:02
  
  With its innovative biodiversity, microclimate and social activities, Al Fay Park is a paradigm shift in how to design and implement nature in the region’s dense megacities
  
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• Envisage establish an educational safe haven for young girls in New Delhi

  02-06-2021 17:52
  
  The vision for White Flower Hall (Girls Hostel), for Mann School, centred on the importance of providing facilities to promote learning and all-round development at a home-away-from-home
  
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• Ceres+ Landscape Architecture is hiring a Intermediate Landscape Architect/Designer in Vail, CO, US - Archinect

  02-06-2021 17:45
  
  Ceres+ Landscape Architecture is hiring a Intermediate Landscape Architect/Designer in Vail, CO, US  Archinect
  
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• Cobe reveals design for Gothenburg University Library with facade curved like book pages

  02-06-2021 17:39
  
  Danish architecture studio Cobe has won the competition for the new University of Gothenburg library, with a design that evokes the pages of a book being opened.
  The 16,000-square-metre library will be situated in the university area of Näckrosen near the centre of Gothenburg, Sweden's second largest city.
  Cobe's design for the building has a cubic form, but with a slight curvature to the volume that is said to be informed by the shape of a book as it is opened.
  Cobe's design features a vol
  
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• Yinchuan Vanke Metropolis: Mind Design’s magnum opus in China

  02-06-2021 17:22
  
  Based on the neoclassical tone, the interior space of the Metropolis project integrates the essence of Greek and ancient Roman classicism, forming a strong contrast with the style of Yinchuan located outside the Great Wall in northwest China
  
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• WDP Romania achieves EDGE green building certification for 48 sites

  02-06-2021 17:03
  
  WDP Romania has now achieved EDGE green building certification at 48 sites across the country, in a plan to proactively reduce the carbon footprint of its portfolio and improve tenant experience
  
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• Next Progressives: Alda Ly Architecture - ARCHITECT Magazine

  02-06-2021 16:34
  
  Next Progressives: Alda Ly Architecture  ARCHITECT Magazine
  
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• The Fabricated Landscape highlights 10 global architecture studios charting new territory in the public realm - The Architect's Newspaper

  02-06-2021 16:33
  
  The Fabricated Landscape highlights 10 global architecture studios charting new territory in the public realm  The Architect's Newspaper
  
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• Sydney Everhart Appointed Head of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture - UConn Today

  02-06-2021 15:24
  
  Sydney Everhart Appointed Head of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture  UConn Today
  
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• Uber Reveals Its API Gateway's Architecture - InfoQ.com

  02-06-2021 14:00
  
  Uber Reveals Its API Gateway's Architecture  InfoQ.com
  
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• Sarah McKenzie Explores Power and Prison Architecture Through Painting | Westword - Westword

  02-06-2021 13:55
  
  Sarah McKenzie Explores Power and Prison Architecture Through Painting | Westword  Westword
  
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• Delugan Meissl completes Taiyuan Botanical Garden with giant domed greenhouses

  02-06-2021 13:40
  
  Austrian firm Delugan Meissl Associated Architects has completed a botanical garden complex in Taiyuan, China, featuring three domed greenhouses positioned on or alongside an artificial lake.
  The Taiyuan Botanical Garden occupies the site of a former coal mine in the Jinyuan district of Taiyuan in northern China, which the client wanted to transform into a landscaped park and museum.
  Top image: DMAA has completed Taiyuan Botanical Garden. Above: it comprises three domed greenhouses
  Delugan Meiss
  
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• Dorte Mandrup designs IKEA Copenhagen store with rooftop park

  02-06-2021 13:32
  
  Danish studio Dorte Mandrup has designed a city-centre IKEA store with a public rooftop park that will act as a "green lounge" for Copenhagen, Denmark.
  Slated to open in the Vesterbro neighbourhood in 2023, the store has been designed by Dorte Mandrup with IKEA to suit the behaviours of urban consumers.
  It will be easily accessible by foot or by bike and topped with a tree-lined roof that will offer "much-needed green space to the busy centre" of the capital city.
  Top image: Dorte Mandrup has un
  
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• the world turned inside out calls for an 'unexploring' of the earth at venice biennale - Designboom

  02-06-2021 13:01
  
  the world turned inside out calls for an 'unexploring' of the earth at venice biennale  Designboom
  
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• Curators Collective overcomes "barriers of borders and politics" at Venice Architecture Biennale

  02-06-2021 12:45
  
  Curators of fifty national pavilions at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale have come together to collaborate and share resources as part of the Curators Collective.
  The newly-founded Curators Collective challenges the usual approach to the Venice Architecture Biennale, where participants develop pavilions in isolation in response to a shared theme.
  Instead, the fifty members are working together and supporting each other through the sharing of resources, promotion of each others' work and
  
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• Japan creates exhibition from dismantled old house at Venice Architecture Biennale

  02-06-2021 10:59
  
  Japan has sent the dismantled remains of a 65-year-old house as its contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale, staging an exhibition that explores the potential for material reuse.
  Titled The Co-ownership of Action: Trajectories of Elements, the exhibition on the terrace of the Japanese Pavilion features benches made from the old house's roof and screens constructed from its exterior walls.
  Old house walls form exhibition screens at the Japan Pavilion
  Inside, yet-to-be-reused elements of
  
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• Arkio is a Collaborative Tool for Architecture Design & Review, Available Now on Quest, PC, & More - Road to VR

  02-06-2021 10:04
  
  Arkio is a Collaborative Tool for Architecture Design & Review, Available Now on Quest, PC, & More  Road to VR
  
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• CARARE 2021: Connecting Archaeology and Architecture in Europe - News | Europeana Pro

  02-06-2021 08:25
  
  CARARE 2021: Connecting Archaeology and Architecture in Europe  News | Europeana Pro
  
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• 'An architectural fashion show': Greenwich peninsula's Design District - The Guardian

  02-06-2021 07:00
  
  'An architectural fashion show': Greenwich peninsula's Design District  The Guardian
  
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