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• The Port Authority is seeking bids for JFK airport's $10 billion overhaul: archpaper.com/2017/07/jfk-ai… https://t.co/7i5aM9YTnu

  20-07-2017 21:06
  
  The Port Authority is seeking bids for JFK airport's $10 billion overhaul: archpaper.com/2017/07/jfk-ai… https://t.co/7i5aM9YTnu
  
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• Ervin Architecture unveils expansion of Maine's largest building

  03-05-2024 21:30 via dezeen.com
  
  US studio Ervin Architecture has unveiled the latest phase of an open-air theatre in Bangor, Maine with wood-clad, sawtooth boxes that flank open-air seating.
  The Maine Savings Amphitheater is the largest single building in the state of Maine in terms of square footage, with a capacity of 16,500 spectators.
  The Maine Savings Amphitheater is the largest single building in the state of Maine
  It contains 100,000 square feet (9,290 square metres) of building floor area as well as 130,000 square feet
  
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• SO-IL to convert Detroit warehouses into multi-purpose art spaces

  03-05-2024 19:00 via dezeen.com
  
  New York architecture studios SO-IL and Office of Strategy + Design have announced plans for the adaptive reuse of a series of warehouse buildings at a marina on the Detroit River as part of the Little Village development.
  The project includes the conversion of four warehouses into an integrated "arts campus". It is part of the Stanton Yard development led by New York architecture studio Office of Strategy + Design (OSD), which will convert the area in between the buildings – currently ser
  
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• SO-IL to convert Detroit warehouses into multi-purpose art space

  03-05-2024 19:00 via dezeen.com
  
  New York architecture studio SO-IL has announced plans for the adaptive reuse of a series of warehouse buildings at a marina on the Detroit River as part of the Little Village revitalisation programme in the city.
  Named Stanton Yards, after the marina it is to be built on, the project includes the conversion of four warehouses into an integrated "arts campus".
  SO-IL will provide critical restorations of the structures and unify the campus through a courtyard area that will connect to the buildin
  
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• Henning Larsen sets timber Klaksvík Row Club next to Faroe Islands fjord

  03-05-2024 12:30 via dezeen.com
  
  Global architecture studio Henning Larsen has designed a rowing club defined by a sloping green roof and timber structure in the Faroe Islands that celebrates the area's sports heritage.
  Situated next to Klaksvík's picturesque fjord, the clubhouse by Henning Larsen draws on the region's traditional architecture with the aim of forging a "harmonious dialogue" between the structure and its waterfront setting.
  The clubhouse celebrates the region's heritage
  "Our design approach was deeply roo
  
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• Parisian office blocks transformed into Ilot Saint-Germain social housing

  03-05-2024 12:00 via dezeen.com
  
  Concrete loggias overlook a communal courtyard at this social housing block in Paris, which French studios Francois Brugel Architectes Associes, H2o Architectes and Antoine Regnault Architecture have converted from offices.
  Named Ilot Saint-Germain, the housing is located in two interconnected blocks previously owned by the Ministry of the Armed Forces in the city's seventh arrondissement.
  The Ilot Saint-Germain social housing occupies former office blocks in Paris
  To the south, a load-bearing s
  
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• "Less is more is back" says panel during Gaggenau talk at Milan design week

  03-05-2024 11:15 via dezeen.com
  
  Dezeen teamed up with kitchen appliances brand Gaggenau to host and film a talk about reduction in design with representatives from Zaha Hadid Architects, SOM and Industrial Facility during Milan design week 2024.
  Moderated by Dezeen's editorial director Max Fraser, the talk explored how principles of reduction and essentialism in architecture and design can be employed to improve our lives.
  Titled Design by Reduction, the panel gathered contributors from different industries, with Zaha Hadid Ar
  
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• Tono Mirai Architects encloses toilet in Japanese park with rammed earth

  03-05-2024 11:00 via dezeen.com
  
  Japanese studio Tono Mirai Architects has used soil and wood to create Toiletowa, a curving structure in Saitama prefecture containing a public toilet that reuses wastewater.
  Located in a park in the town of Miyoshi, the building has a wooden frame covered with rammed earth made with soil sourced from construction sites and mixed with hydrated lime.
  Toiletowa has walls covered in rammed earth
  Tono Mirai Architects aimed to create a building that exemplifies waste-free construction, working with
  
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• Airbnb creates rentals from films including Up house suspended from crane

  02-05-2024 21:00 via dezeen.com
  
  Rental platform Airbnb has announced the addition of its Icons program, a category that provides a range of experiences including a stay in the house from Pixar's Up and an overnight stay in the Musee D'Orsay in Paris.
  The first 11 Icons experiences include recreations of houses from popular culture, such as the floating house from Pixar's film Up, and visits with celebrities, such as a night out with comic Kevin Hart.
  Airbnb has created 11 "extraordinary" experiences for its new Icons category.
  
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• Airbnb creates rentals based on famous places and movies for guests

  02-05-2024 21:00 via dezeen.com
  
  Rental platform Airbnb has announced the addition of its Icons program, a category that provides a range of international experiences including a stay in the house from Pixar's Up and an overnight in the Musee D' Orsay in Paris.
  The first 11 Icons experiences include recreations of houses from popular culture, such as the floating house from Pixar's film Up, and visits with celebrities, such as a night out with comic Kevin Hart.
  Airbnb has created 11 "extraordinary" experiences for its new Icons
  
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• Dezeen Agenda features Foster + Partners' plans for "London's lowest whole-life carbon high-rise"

  02-05-2024 20:00 via dezeen.com
  
  The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the approval of Foster + Partners' 18 Blackfriars Road development in London. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now.
  UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has been granted planning approval for 18 Blackfriars Road, a development that will contain two residential blocks and a 45-storey office skyscraper.
  The studio claimed that the project would have the lowest carbon footprint of any tall building in London.
  "[18 Blackfriars Roa
  
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• Cars and hurricanes inform "sail-shape" of Aston Martin's first residential skyscraper

  02-05-2024 19:00 via dezeen.com
  
  British automotive manufacturer Aston Martin and Argentinian architecture studio Bodas Mian Anger have completed a skyscraper in Miami with a curved, flat form and a cantilevered pool deck near its top.
  Located in Downtown Miami, the 66-storey skyscraper was designed through a collaboration between the British car manufacturer and Bodus Mian Anger (BMA) and developed by local firm G&G Business Developments. It is the first residential skyscraper to be branded by Aston Martin.
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• Mamout adds "smallest possible extension" to townhouse in Brussels

  02-05-2024 12:30 via dezeen.com
  
  Belgian studio Mamout has extended a townhouse in Brussels, adding a small garden room built from a prefabricated shell of pastel green-coloured steel.
  Aiming to improve the connection between the home and its garden, Mamout drew on the form of an existing bow window on the rear facade to create a glazed seating area for the existing kitchen.
  Mamout has added a garden room to a townhouse in Brussels
  "The aim is to create the smallest possible extension, but one that offers a radically
  
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• Elding Oscarson creates CLT dome theatre inside Swedish museum extension

  02-05-2024 12:00 via dezeen.com
  
  Architecture studio Elding Oscarson has extended the National Swedish Museum of Technology with Wisdome Stockholm, a timber building topped by a curving roof that bulges over a dome inside.
  Made from 277 pieces of triangular cross-laminated timber (CLT), the spherical structure, which the designers refer to as a "visualisation dome", contains tiered seating surrounded by 3D screens.
  The visualisation dome at Wisdome Stockholm was made from triangular CLT panels
  It sits inside an open-plan r
  
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• Hawaii house by Walker Warner Architects designed to be "elegant but spare"

  01-05-2024 21:00 via dezeen.com
  
  American studio Walker Warner Architects has completed Hale Kiawe, a family retreat with simple, gabled forms are set within an undulating landscape dotted with chunky lava rocks.
  Located along the Kona Coast on the island of Hawaii, the house was designed for a family who wanted a functional and beautiful retreat that was minimalist in spirit.
  Hale Kiawe is surrounded by chunky lava rocks
  "The homeowners, who come from a cross-cultural Indian background, believe that minimalism is about possess
  
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• SOM designs skyscraper with "exposed structure" for Miami

  01-05-2024 19:40 via dezeen.com
  
  American architecture studio SOM has designed a skyscraper in Downtown Miami defined by two expansive terraces and an "exposed structure".
  Located in Miami's Brickell neighborhood, 848 Brickell will rise 51 storeys and host office and retail space, as well as a restaurant and fitness centre across 750,000 square feet (69,680 square metres).
  SOM has designed an office tower located in Miami's Brickell neighborhood
  Renderings show three volumes divided by two expansive public terraces, one on top
  
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• SOM designs skyscraper with "exposed structure" for downtown Miami

  01-05-2024 19:40 via dezeen.com
  
  American architecture studio SOM has designed a skyscraper in downtown Miami defined by two expansive terraces and an "exposed structure".
  Located in Miami's Brickell neighborhood, 848 Brickell will rise 50 storeys and host office and retail space, as well as a restaurant and fitness centre across 750,000 square feet (69,680 square metres).
  SOM has designed an office tower located in Miami's Brickell neighborhood
  Renderings show three volumes divided by two expansive public terraces, one on top
  
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• SOM designs skyscraper with "exposed structure" for downtown

  01-05-2024 19:40 via dezeen.com
  
  American architecture studio SOM has designed a skyscraper in Downtown Miami defined by two expansive terraces and an "exposed structure".
  Located in Miami's Brickell neighborhood, 848 Brickell will rise 51 storeys and host office and retail space, as well as a restaurant and fitness centre across 750,000 square feet (69,680 square metres).
  SOM has designed an office tower located in Miami's Brickell neighborhood
  Renderings show three volumes divided by two expansive public terraces, one on top
  
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• Architecture criticism in 2024 defined by "shouting and not a lot of clarity" says Paul Goldberger

  01-05-2024 17:00 via dezeen.com
  
  The transition from print to online journalism has led to "chaos" within architecture criticism that has upsides as well as downsides, author Paul Goldberger tells Dezeen in this exclusive interview.
  Pulitzer Prize-winner Goldberger served as the in-house architecture critic for The New York Times in the 1970s and '80s during the zenith of postmodernism.
  He spoke to Dezeen about the changing priorities within architecture discourse in recent decades, including a greater focus on social responsib
  
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• A6A creates "haven in the middle of the city" for its Bordeaux studio

  01-05-2024 12:30 via dezeen.com
  
  Architecture studio A6A has converted a former model-making workshop in Bordeaux into a studio for itself that is defined by pared-back materials and spaces.
  Named L'Atelier, the L-shaped block was originally formed of a street-facing garage, a central garden and a large shed to the rear.
  Drawn to the spatial organisation and finishes of the workshop, A6A made minimal alterations but transformed it into a series of flexible workspaces intended to "reflect the philosophy" of the studio.
  A6A has c
  
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• Prince William "continuing his father's work" with Ben Pentreath-designed housing development

  01-05-2024 12:00 via dezeen.com
  
  The Duchy of Cornwall has submitted plans for a 2,500-home development in Faversham, UK, designed by Ben Pentreath, which will be the first major development led by Prince William.
  Designed by Pentreath in collaboration with landscape architect Kim Wilkie, the South East Faversham development will be organised around "ancient footpaths and landscape patterns" and contain at least 875 affordable homes.
  A planning application for the first phase of the scheme was submitted earlier this month.
  Ben
  
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• "Powerful demonstration of architecture at its best" says commenter

  01-05-2024 11:30 via dezeen.com
  
  In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a selection of brutalist and modernist churches captured by photographer Jamie McGregor Smith in his book Sacred Modernity.With 139 photographs of 100 churches, McGregor Smith created the book to showcase the sculptural and unique forms of some of the churches built across Europe in the post-war period.
  Sacred Modernity showcases "unique beauty and architectural innovation" of brutalist churches
  "Powerful demonstration of architecture at its
  
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• "London's lowest whole-life carbon high-rise" by Foster + Partners receives planning approval

  01-05-2024 11:00 via dezeen.com
  
  UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has been granted planning approval for office and residential development 18 Blackfriars Road, which the studio claims will be net-zero carbon.
  Located on a two-acre brownfield site in London's Bankside, 18 Blackfriars Road will contain two residential blocks and a 45-storey office skyscraper.
  Foster + Partners claimed the project would have the lowest whole-life carbon of any London high-rise development when it submitted its application, which has recen
  
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• Dezeen Events Guide launches digital guide to NYCxDesign 2024

  01-05-2024 09:00 via dezeen.com
  
  Dezeen Events Guide has launched its guide to NYCxDesign 2024, highlighting the key events in New York City from 16 to 23 May.
  The festival celebrates its 12th anniversary with a programme of exhibitions, open showrooms, tours, talks, design fairs and product launches.
  Located across neighbourhoods in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, around 200 events are taking place across eight days, spanning architecture, design, art, fashion and technology.
  There is still the opportunity to feature in the gu
  
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• Dezeen Debate features "whimsical and reverent" slaughterhouse conversion

  30-04-2024 20:00 via dezeen.com
  
  The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a conversion of a Czech slaughterhouse into an art gallery. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now.
  Architecture studio KWK Promes has repurposed a slaughterhouse in the Czech Republic into the Plato Contemporary Art Gallery, featuring exhibition spaces lined with rotating concrete walls.
  These additions comprise six large rotating walls. Three act as entrances to the gallery, while the remaining three open their exhibition spaces to the surrou
  
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• Eero Saarinen's Black Rock skyscraper refurbished in New York

  30-04-2024 19:00 via dezeen.com
  
  The first and only skyscraper designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen in New York City has undergone a renovation by Vocon Architects and MdeAS Architects to help it "meet the expectations of today".
  At the behest of developer HGI, local architecture studios Vocon Architects and MdeAS Architects renovated and restored the 51W52 skyscraper, also known as Black Rock, which was completed as a headquarters for American media giant CBS in 1964.
  CBS moved all of its facilities out in late
  
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• The MHK Architecture Eclectic Eight of Naples - Haute Living

  30-04-2024 18:50
  
  The MHK Architecture Eclectic Eight of Naples  Haute Living
  
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• Ten architecture student projects by the Confluence Institute - Dezeen

  30-04-2024 18:23
  
  Ten architecture student projects by the Confluence Institute  Dezeen
  
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• My Kind of Town: Hien Nguyen - Architecture Today

  30-04-2024 17:58
  
  My Kind of Town: Hien Nguyen  Architecture Today
  
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• Navigating New Horizons: AI's Role in Architecture Today - ARCHITECT Magazine

  30-04-2024 17:38
  
  Navigating New Horizons: AI's Role in Architecture Today  ARCHITECT Magazine
  
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