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Architect-led charity run HD5K returns with virtual 2021 event

April 19, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

The UK architecture industry’s charity run HD5K is going virtual in 2021, calling on people to run or walk five kilometres in their neighbourhoods and raise money to fight motor neurone disease. HD5K is organised by architectural visualisation studio Hayes Davidson in honour of its founder Alan Davidson, who died of motor neurone disease (MND)

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Dark roof brings loftiness to small Kyoto terrace house

April 10, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Japanese-Australian architecture studio Atelier Luke has renovated an old Kyoto row house, giving the narrow home a black-stained timber ceiling to create “a spacious void of shadows”. Named Terrace House near Demachiyanagi, the home has a historic facade that Atelier Luke restored while bringing contemporary Japanese and Australian design sensibilities into the interior. The studio started

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Hassell renovates historic Wharf building on Sydney Harbour for the Sydney Theatre Company

March 10, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Wharf building for the Sydney Theatre Company by Hassell

Australian architecture studio Hassell has renovated a theatre in a former wool warehouse on Sydney Harbour to modernise its facilities while emphasising the 100-year-old building’s history. Expanded performance spaces, a new back-of-house corridor and improved accessibility are among Hassell’s additions to the Sydney Theatre Company’s Wharf building, which is part of a complex of timber

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Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator launches to tackle industry emissions

February 21, 2020 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Companies from across the architecture, engineering and construction industries have collaborated to create a free digital embodied carbon calculator that they hope will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) allows architects, engineers and policy makers to easily compare potential building materials and choose the more sustainable option. The project was

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Generate to build carbon-neutral CLT apartment block in Boston

February 14, 2020 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Model-C carbon-neutral apartment block in Boston by Generate

Architecture studio Generate has unveiled plans to build a carbon-neutral apartment block, named Model-C, in Boston using a cross-laminated timber “kit of parts”. The proposed five-storey block will use Generate’s Model-C prototype “kit of parts” system, which is a type of modular prefabrication that allows for disassembly and reuse. It is intended to achieve the Passivhaus standard for

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Sidewalk Labs tests possibilities for timber construction with 35-storey “Proto-Model”

February 13, 2020 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Sidewalk Labs, the architecture and urbanism arm of Google parent company Alphabet, has unveiled a digital model for what would be the world’s tallest mass-timber building, reaching 35 storeys. Sidewalk Labs plans to build mass-timber high-rises as part of its redevelopment of the Toronto waterfront, but the current tallest buildings of this type are 18

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APL plays with proportions in “dramatic but serene” LA flagship store

January 22, 2020 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Sneaker brand APL has opened its first store — a dramatically narrow, runway-like space in Los Angeles with an interior designed by architect Bernard Dubois. Located in luxurious retail area The Grove, the APL (aka Athletic Propulsion Labs) flagship store is twice as high as it is wide and ten times as long. APL co-founders

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Carlo Ratti’s Eyes of the City exhibition in Shenzhen tracks visitors with facial-recognition tech

January 6, 2020 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Architect and MIT professor Carlo Ratti stokes the surveillance debate with his biennale exhibition, which is set in a working train station in China and actively uses facial-recognition technology. A part of the the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen, The Eyes of the City exhibition is now open at Futian station. It features works

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Dosist opens second LA cannabis store that elevates “wellness in every detail”

December 28, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Dose-controlled cannabis brand Dosist has opened its second shop in Los Angeles, with an interior designed to reinforce its products’ associations with wellness and consistency. The store, located on West 3rd Street in the Fairfax district west of central LA, sells Dosist’s vape-style Dose Pen and edibles-inspired Dose Dial — products that are meant to

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Two robotic fabrication methods entwine to make Tongji University bridge

November 29, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Thin carbon fibres wind over a 3D-printed metal frame to form this hybrid bridge, made by university students in Shanghai using two emerging robotic fabrication techniques. Students participating in the DigitalFUTURES International 2019 summer workshop at Tongji University worked with local research studio Fab-Union to design the bridge, which can hold more than 20 people.

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