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Robert Hutchison Architecture creates Chapel for Luis Barragán on roof of Mexican architect’s home

August 9, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Chapel for Luis Barragán by Robert Hutchison Architecture

Seattle-based Robert Hutchison Architecture has built a “ghost-like” pavilion on the roof of Luis Barragán’s house in Mexico City as part of his Memory Houses exhibition at the architect’s former residence. The installation, which was placed on top of Casa Luis Barragán during August and September in 2019, was a half-scale reinterpretation of an unbuilt memorial chapel

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Renzo Piano unveils replacement for collapsed motorway bridge in Genoa

August 5, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Renzo Piano’s Genoa San Giorgio Bridge, which is the replacement for the Morandi Bridge that collapsed in a storm almost two years ago, has opened in Italy. Built in Piano’s home town of Genoa, the 1,100-metre-long motorway bridge was inaugurated by the Italian prime minister almost exactly two years after the previous bridge collapsed on 14

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RIBA calls for “urgent reconsideration” of proposals to deregulate planning

August 4, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The UK government’s plans to deregulate the planning permission system in England will lead to poor quality housing warns the Royal Institute of British Architects. Under new regulations announced by UK housing secretary Robert Jenrick homes, hospitals, schools, shops and offices on land designated for growth will “automatically” be granted planning permission. “Deregulation is not the way

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Morris + Company to extend Walter Segal’s former London home

August 4, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Morris + Company to extend Walter Segal's home in Highgate, London

Architecture studio Morris + Company has designed an extension for the self-built home of Walter Segal in north London that is “a direct homage” to the architect’s body of work. Located in Highgate, London, Segal built North Hill House for himself and his family in 1964. The London-based architecture studio will renovate and extend the home in

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New homes, hospitals, schools, shops and offices will be “automatically” granted planning permission in England

August 3, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Housing "automatically" granted planning permission in England

A “new planning system” that will see new housing, hospitals, schools, shops and offices on land designated for growth automatically granted planning permission in England has been announced by UK housing secretary Robert Jenrick. Under the new regulations, described by Jenrick as a “once in a generation reform”, land will be divided into three categories “for growth, for renewal or

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Wuchazi Bridge creates “infinite meandering path” over river in Chengdu

August 3, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Wuchazi Bridge in Chengdu by architects Tom Wünschmann, Achim Kaufer, Wei Cai and Philipp Buschmeyer and Chinese design institutes SADI and JDTM

Berlin-based architects Tom Wünschmann, Achim Kaufer, Wei Cai and Philipp Buschmeyer and Chinese design institutes SADI and JDTM have created a bridge that offers a variety of routes across a river in Chengdu, China. The design team created a continual walkable path within the Wuchazi Bridge as part of its aim to make the structure

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This week, architects criticised Autodesk’s BIM software

August 1, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week, architects criticised Autodesk's Revit BIM software

This week on Dezeen, a group of 17 of the UK’s leading architecture studios wrote a letter to American software maker Autodesk criticising the cost and lack of development of its Revit application. In the letter, the architecture studios, which included Zaha Hadid Architects, Grimshaw and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, stated that the rising cost of Building

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Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios designs net-zero-carbon timber office in London

July 31, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Paradise net-zero carbon office, London, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

UK architecture studio Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has designed a six-storey cross-laminated timber office named Paradise, which will be net-zero-carbon to align with its Architects Declare commitments. The architecture studio designed the carbon-neutral office as it focuses on creating more sustainable architecture to meet the aims of climate change network Architects Declare. “As founding signatories of

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Listening to concerns “top priority” says Autodesk following architects’ criticism of BIM software

July 30, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architects criticise "lack of development"of Autodesk's BIM software

Software company Autodesk has said it will address the concerns of its customers after 17 of the UK’s largest architecture practices wrote a letter criticising the cost and lack of development of Revit. The American software company vowed to listen to the feedback within the open letter to its president Andrew Anagnost, which describes architects

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World’s tallest prefabricated skyscrapers set to be built in Singapore

July 30, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Avenue South Residences, world's tallest prefabricated skyscrapers in Singapore by ADDP

Architecture studio ADDP has designed a pair of 56-storey skyscrapers in Singapore that will be built using Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction, making them the tallest prefabricated buildings in the world. Named Avenue South Residences, the pair of high-rise residential tower blocks will be built within an existing housing estate in Singapore. ADDP chose to contrast the

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