Diana Center Opens at Barnard College
The Diana Center, a 98,000 square-foot multipurpose arts building at Barnard College, is now open to students and the public.
International Convention of Architecture
Big architecture versus good architecture – is there a contradiction between good and large architectural pieces? Budapest, March 6th, 2010
cepezed designs new headquarters for Environment Brussels
The Delft-based cepezed architects will design the new headquarters of Environment Brussels, the former Brussels Institute for Management of the Environment. The building, which is located in one of the larges urban renewal areas in the Belgian capital, is scheduled to achieve the Passive House Standard.
Event Suggestion
The trade show ROOF + TIMBER International in Cologne, Germany, will be presenting products and services for the entire building from the 24th until 27.2.2010. The host of the trade show, GHM Gesellschaft für Handwerksmessen mbH, is concentrating this year’s show on the core topic of “internationalisation” and “energy efficiency” stated Deter Dohr from the top management of GHM.
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ECOWEEK 2010 in Athens offers an international conference and design workshops on passive solar and ecological building and a look at sustainability in local communities and societies.
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Current English Issue
Until a few years ago, the prevailing dogma maintained that old and new must be clearly discernible as just that. This was evident in projects which set up dichotomy – through contrasts and restrained design – between the two, often separating them with a narrow joint. In the meantime, the positions have become more diverse, as you will see in the current issue.
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Notices
Building Information Modeling (BIM), a design and building method applying a digital 3-D model and database to develop the building or construction, is still comparably seldom in use among architects. According to many architects in France and the Netherlands, this is to change soon.
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Current Issue
Concrete Construction is various in the building’s utilisation, it’s surface design, or the technology which it is built with. The buildings in the new magazine mirror this diversity, e. g. the childrens’ playhouse near Paris with green coloured, structured exposed concrete by ECDM. Further examples are the system building constructions by Claus en Kaan Architecten, who are at the beginning of rising a new quarter in Amsterdam, and the concrete bearing structure for a administration building in London by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris.
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The transformation of the urban landscape within the last decades has increasingly been dominated by the demands of capitalist utilization. Due to the current crisis, however, which goes far beyond a ...
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Films
The project “Sliding House” by dRMM architects features an extraordinary design. A larch-enclosure was created that can be moved along in-ground rails. Thus, interior spaces become exterior spaces. ...
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Galleries
The Architectural Association summer pavilion "Driftwood" shown in July at Bedford Square in London is neither art nor architecture, science nor ecological adventure, but a sculptural installation ...
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Current Green Issue
Certification systems like LEED, BREEAM and DGNB are aimed at bringing more transparency to the business of rating sustainability. They claim to cover and assess all the aspects of sustainability ...
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Background
For almost three decades, the High Line languished like Sleeping Beauty, with even many New Yorkers unaware of the structure in their midst. In summer 2009, an 800-metre section of it reawakened as a ...
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Background
Prizes for one of the largest competitions in the field of sustainable architecture are currently being awarded in several countries. Presented every three years, the Holcim Award in 2009 will go to ...
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Galleries
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA are the authors of the beautiful and airy 2009 Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion. They have created a meandering, ethereal building that appears to be made ...
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Films
Generation G refers to a generation which is concerned about the environment. This is a matter of course for the pupils at Stewart Middle School in Washington D.C – a sustainably designed building. ...
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