Aric Gitomer Architect
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Years’ worth of study , design development, software skills, and sleepless nights might have made you the architect you are today. But, there is so much more to achieve and as Robert Frost rightly said “miles to go before I sleep”. I have been a residential architect for over thirty-five years. My work gives me peace and thrill simultaneously.
SW Oregon Architect
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
This is another in my series of posts inspired by 1000 Awesome Things , the Webby Award-winning blog written by Neil Pasricha. The series is my meditation on the awesome reasons why I was and continue to be attracted to the art of architecture. Good architecture demands the many components that comprise a building work together to create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Avontuura
JULY 20, 2022
The bushy mountain and mirror-like lake provide a natural barrier to noise, which attracts the owners a lot. The post KiKi ARCHi design geometric red brick house in Beijing appeared first on Åvontuura.
Portland Architecture
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Daniel Toole ( Daniel Toole Architect ). . BY BRIAN LIBBY. The latest installment in our longtime discussion series with local architects about their inspirations, careers and collaborators takes us to Daniel Toole, who founded Daniel Toole Architecture in 2020 after stints with acclaimed Portland firm Allied Works, Tuscon's Rick Joy Architects, the Seattle office of Perkins + Will, and Berlin's Barkow Leibinger.
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Architecture Here and There
DECEMBER 29, 2022
Capital Square, in Richmond, with the original Life Insurance Co. of Virginia under construction to next to city hall to the center left of the Virginia State Capitol, designed by Thomas Jefferson. It grows ever more difficult and hence ever more depressing to construct these annual roundups of traditional architecture. I feel a bit of guilt arising from the headline “Best trad buildings of 2022,” because so many of them are obviously not “the best.” I think I have reason
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Archinect
DECEMBER 29, 2022
Arata Isozaki is dead. The famed designer of many of post-war Japan’s most significant public buildings and cultural commissions and winner of the 2019 Pritzker Prize passed away peacefully on Wednesday at his home in Okinawa, according to the New York Times. Born in Ōita Prefecture in 1931, Isozaki studied at the University of Tokyo before working in the office of Kenzo Tange and then setting out to form his own practice in 1963.
Architizer
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Project Status: Built. Year: 2021. Size: 0 sqft – 1000 sqft. Text description provided by the architects. SKAMLINGSBANKEN – AN ARCHITECTURAL PORTAL TO NATURE AND HISTORYThe new visitor centre at Skamlingsbanken in Kolding is an architectural portal to the glacial landscape and its history of democratic events. The centre is designed as a natural and integrated part of the undulating landscape and from the overall design to the small details, visitors will experience an architecture t
Portland Architecture
AUGUST 3, 2022
Tim Smith at his his AICP College of Fellows enshrinement ( SERA Architects ). . BY BRIAN LIBBY. Last December, more than a decade after it was first announced, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry unveiled plans for its OMSI District along the east side of Willamette River, which will turn surface parking lots and vacant land between the Marquam Bridge and Tilikum Crossing (and adjacent to the museum) into a high-density enclave.
ArchDaily
DECEMBER 29, 2022
© Thanh Pham. architects: Chi.Arch Location: Ninh Van Bay, Ninh Hòa, Vietnam Project Year: 2022 Photographs: Thanh Pham Area: 100.0 m2. Read more ».
Speaker: Dylan Secrest
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Archinect
DECEMBER 27, 2022
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has named a rural office and café by Moxon Architects as its Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award winner for 2022. Completed in 2020, Quarry Studios serves as the firm’s new headquarters while also providing a perky public reprieve for tourists and visitors staggering in from nearby Balmoral.
Archinect
DECEMBER 22, 2022
The first phase of a collaborative residential design between MVRDV and GRAS Reynes Arquitectos called Project Gomila has opened in Mallorca, Spain. Located in the city’s El Terreno district, the project will eventually bequeath 60 new dwellings in plots surrounding the Plaza Gamila that were purchased by the Fluxa Family, owners of the popular Mallorca-based shoe brand Camper, in order to initiate an urban renewal strategy in line with their business philosophy.
Archinect
DECEMBER 21, 2022
Snøhetta is nearing completion on a trio of clubhouse designs set in the densely populated center of Hong Kong ’s Pavilia Farm residential development in Tai Wai. As a space for social interaction and shared experiences, the project serves residents of Pavilia with a vital piece of communal infrastructure while also providing urban farming capabilities and a contemplative connection to nature in what can otherwise be considered a hyper-urban environment.
Archinect
DECEMBER 2, 2022
The final day of this year’s World Architecture Festival in Lisbon has culminated in 3XN ’s Quay Quarter Tower named the World Building of the Year during a special ceremony at the city’s historic converted Convento Do Beato. The 46-story Sydney tower provides a remarkable example of adaptive reuse to the industry, having retained some 65% of the original 1976 structure and a reported 95% of its core in the construction process that was completed in April of 2022.
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Archinect
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
Foster + Partners have been granted approval for the construction of a new mixed-use cross-laminated timber development in London. Named The William , the scheme will become one of London’s largest timber developments, and Foster + Partners’ first timber office building in the city. Image courtesy of Foster + Partners As reported by The Architect’s Journal , the process will see the demolition of a four-story 1950s housing block to be replaced by a pair of new seven-story mixed
ArchDaily
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
© Kyungsub Shin. architects: Society of Architecture Location: 35-17 Tongui-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea Project Year: 2020 Photographs: Kyungsub Shin Area: 996.0 m2. Read more ».
Archinect
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has unveiled details of an upcoming exhibition featuring the work of media artist Refik Anadol. Titled Refik Anadol: Unsupervised , and open from November 19th, 2022 through March 5th 2023, the installation will feature three new digital artworks by the artist. Image © Refik Anadol Studio, courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York Anadol’s three new pieces will use artificial intelligence to interpret more than 200 years of art from Mo
Archinect
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Dutch studio OKRA landschapsarchitecten has been announced as the winner of the 11th edition of the European Prize for Urban Public Space in a ceremony conducted at the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) on Tuesday. Their restoration of the Catharijnesingel canal in Utrecht was lauded by the jury as “an exemplary intervention for the survival of our cities in this new climate era.
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Archinect
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled their competition-winning design for the Hangzhou International Sports Center in China. The complex will be anchored by a 60,000-seat football stadium, while also holding a 19,000-seat indoor arena, an aquatics center with two 164-foot-long pools, and practice pitches. Image credit: Brick Visual The 1.45 million-square-foot stadium is connected to the indoor arena and aquatics center via a central podium.
Archinect
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
The University of Maine has unveiled what it claims to be the world’s first 3D printed home made entirely with bio-based materials. The home, developed by the university’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), measures 600 square feet and features walls, floors, and a roof made of 3D printed wood fibers and bio-resins. Titled BioHome3D, the single-family project was printed offsite in four modules before being transported to its current site and assembled in half a day.
Archinect
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects (EYRC) has completed their adaptive re-use of an abandoned Los Angeles Times print facility in Costa Mesa, Orange County. The 430,000-square-foot scheme titled ‘The Press’ saw the three-story complex converted into flexible office spaces. Photo credit: Matthew Millman The grounds surrounding the facility see an existing rail line reincorporated as a bike and pedestrian trial to link with a wider pathway network.
Archinect
OCTOBER 24, 2022
A conceptual design from international hospitality specialists OBMI has taken home the top prize as part of this year’s Radical Innovation Award. The firm’s "Aera Vertical Resort" proposal beat out two other finalists named earlier in the month for the award’s 16th edition. Featuring a porous, glass-canopied volume that encases a vertical garden and program of seven distinct districts set aside for dining, art, fashion, drama, garden, wellness, and family, respectively, the sch
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Archinect
DECEMBER 7, 2022
Continuing their work to recognize the valuable contributions of academics and researchers to the architectural field, the Royal Institute of Architects (RIBA) has announced its annual winners of the President’s Medal and Awards for Research. The 186th edition of the program saw UCL Bartlett School student Annabelle Tan taking home the RIBA Silver Medal for her investigation into notions of ‘tropicality’ in the context of Singapore titled 'A Journey through Past, Present and Po
Archinect
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
The third round of projects in the mix for the title of RIBA House of the Year has been released by the organization in advance of tonight’s third episode of the BBC Channel 4’s Grand Designs: House of the Year program. Home designs from Surman Weston and Haysom Ward Miller are the next two to compete for the now nine-year-old title, which, this year, features "Hard to Build" residential structures across the country.
Archinect
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Construction has commenced on the Zaha Hadid Architects -designed Jinghe New City Culture & Art Center in China, following a ground-breaking ceremony on September 16th, 2022. Zaha Hadid Architects won the international competition to design and deliver the scheme in June, which will serve as a new cultural and arts destination for the burgeoning Jinghe New City tech hub.
Archinect
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
With a grand opening just a little over a week away, the Orange County Museum of Art ( OCMA ) has revealed the latest photos of its Morphosis -designed new South Coast home in the beachfront community of Costa Mesa. Located on the campus of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, the 53,000-square-foot museum will be inaugurated with five special exhibitions and 24-hour celebrations to honor the work that went into its design and three-year-long construction.
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