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How Marble Carving Robots Will Expand the Limits of Architecture
What if John Ruskin was a robot? Imagine an army of artisan robots working to carve intricate masonry for 21st-century cathedrals? This could become reality if new, automated design and fabrication...
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A House for Best Years
A central design question for this project was how to reinterpret a traditional architectural typology for contemporary living. When the time had come for their kids to leave home, this active and...
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House 0605
The house was designed for a young couple and their daughter and is situated on the outskirts of Nicosia. The house falls into the category of "half plots" where two distinct residences are...
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ALD House
This weekend retreat is projected on a land of a little over 10,764 square feet and it is articulated in two main volumes: a prism into which another rectangular wooden prism is embedded. Since the...
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Dear Jingumae Project
This is a conversion project that totally renovated a 25-year-old office building, located on a back street of Omotesando in Tokyo, in order to facilitate commercial functions. The client requested a...
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Integrated Technology Hub
Box Hill Institute’s new Integrated Technology Hub is a purpose-designed technical skills education facility with a new degree-oriented teaching space above. Adjacent to a previous Spowers project...
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Sunshine Canyon House
Up until a few years ago, this 4.5-acre property located in a rocky canyon above Boulder, Colorado, was a dense forest of pine and fir trees. But on Labor Day, 2010, the Four Mile Canyon fire scorched...
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Absolute Stunners: The 10 Sexiest Models of All Time
Would I really stoop as low as clichéd architectural innuendo to act as click-bait for an article? Why, yes, it appears I would. Well, now that you’re here, you may as well take a peek at this perfect...
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Whatever Happened to the Column? 10 Examples that Redefine the Concept of...
In case Alberti’s approach to designing a column seems overly pedantic, you might prefer Venturi’s idea of what a column should look like. Cartoonishly oversized, his “Ironic” column at the 1977...
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Calithornbury Bungalow
This project maximizes natural light to a south-facing extension, while strategically extending the rear of the existing house to mesh with the new house. A double-glazed outlook maximizes a large...
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Watch Mies's Farnsworth House Become a New Media Light Fantasy
Every architect has studied Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's iconic Farnsworth House, the modernist glass box built in Plano, IL from 1945-51. In its steel-and-glass geometry, the residence was a pivotal...
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Wunderbugs
Wunderbugs: interactive architecture for insects and humans. Wunderbugs is an interactive wooden pavilion with sensors collecting environmental changes and allowing insects to modulate music. It's a...
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Richard Meier's Residential Prowess Takes Shape in Taiwan
A+ Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Richard Meier, will soon begin construction on the Taichung Condominium Tower, his firm's first ever tower in Taiwan. Located in the city's vibrant center, the...
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Single Family House in Thiva, Greece
Design and supervision: Takis Exarchopoulos, Panos E. Gerakakis, Eleni Exarchopoulou Structural design: Georgios Mamalis Mechanical design: Ioannis Kavvadias This residence has been built for a family...
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Hardware for Revit and Optimizing Performance
Computer configuration is no easy task. Even a well-seasoned pro can get caught up in the never ending and constantly changing options for speed, size, manufacturer, and price, and how all these parts...
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Waterfront Redevelopment
This project is a redevelopment of a waterfront site including new summer houses, a restaurant, toilet facilities, a waterfront walkway, beach restoration, and a children's playground.
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Medieval Parametricism: Inside Gaudí's Unfinished Masterpiece
An exhibition explores the digital nature of the ongoing design and construction of Antonio Gaudi's Sagrada Familia.
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This Transparent Cabin Is a Sustainable Hedonist Escape
Germany’s Theather der Welt is committed to providing a room with a view. Hotel ShabbyShabby commissioned the construction of 22 temporary standalone hotel rooms for the Mannheim-based theater...
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Balmoral Residence
This northeast facing residence located on the slopes above Balmoral Beach spans three levels supported by a forest of tall columns beneath a flat, sinuous roof. From the property’s street level...
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See How Mecanoo Crushes Cultural Commissions
Soon, you won't have to travel the world to appreciate the broad scope of the interdisciplinary design firm Mecanoo, as their breadth of built work will be presented in an exhibition at the Coop...
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