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AIA Announces Best New Housing Projects
Real-Time Archviz Enhances Kohn Pedersen Fox’s Design Processes
Hinges and Slides: Mobile Mechanisms to Take Advantage of Tiny Spaces
The Winding Saga of the Restoration of the Narkomfin, an Icon of Soviet Constructivism
Renovation of the Plant Building of Nantou Old Town / CM Design
Black Gems Townhouse in Amsterdam / Bureau Fraai
K & T’s Place / Nielsen Jenkins
BT1 Building / DRAWING WORKS
Vegan House / Block Architects
Tooronga Townhouse / Pitch Architecture + Design
ET New Manila House / PXP Design Workshop Co
St. Carolus Hospital Screening Facility / AT-LARS
VO House / BAQUERIZO Arquitectos
El Pangue House / José Ignacio Valdivieso + José Domingo Peñafiel
Concordia Design Wrocław Restaurant / mode:lina architekci
CP House / JAA Arquitectos
Beluga Nursery / Bob Gysin Partner BGP

Posted: 09 Sep 2020 10:00 PM PDT

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is recognizing seven new residential designs with 2020 Housing Awards. The projects are awarded across single family, production, multifamily and specialized housing. Presented by the AIA Housing and Community Development Knowledge Community, the awards emphasize the importance of good housing as a "necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit, and a valuable national resource."

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Real-Time Archviz Enhances Kohn Pedersen Fox’s Design Processes

Posted: 09 Sep 2020 09:30 PM PDT

International architectural practice Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) is constantly striving to improve efficiencies and enable greater creative exploration through the application of the latest technologies. With nine offices worldwide and projects based anywhere from Europe to the US and China, the company takes a global approach to its design process by fostering collaboration; it's not uncommon for a single project to involve team members based in London, New York, and Singapore, for example, who come together virtually in what Cobus Bothma, Director of Applied Research, calls their "tenth office".

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Hinges and Slides: Mobile Mechanisms to Take Advantage of Tiny Spaces

Posted: 09 Sep 2020 09:00 PM PDT

Kitnet Copan / Garoa. Image © Pedro Napolitano Prata

At the 2014 Venice Biennale, celebrated architect and curator Rem Koolhaas chose an unusual curatorial theme. Rather than exploring the major issues that plague modern society or their manifestations in the profession of architecture, the event's theme, "Fundamentals," and its main exhibition, "Elements of Architecture," examined in detail the bare fundamentals of buildings, simple elements used by everyday architects for everyday designs. According to Koolhaas, "Architecture is a profession trained to put things together, not to dismantle them. Only by looking at the elements of architecture under a microscope can we recognize cultural preferences, technological advances, changes triggered by the intensification of global exchange, climatic adaptations, local norms and, somewhere in the mix, the architect's ideas that constitute the practice of architecture today."

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The Winding Saga of the Restoration of the Narkomfin, an Icon of Soviet Constructivism

Posted: 09 Sep 2020 08:30 PM PDT

The main, east-facing facade of the newly restored Narkomfin Building had yellowed in recent decades. Image © Ivan Muraenko

If you wandered down Novinsky Boulevard in central Moscow five years ago looking for the Narkomfin building, you'd have been greeted by a sorry sight. The Narkomfin, the poster child for Constructivist architecture designed by Moisey Ginzburg and Ignaty Milinis in 1928, had been slowly falling into a state of dereliction after being left unloved for 45 years. Paint peeling, concrete crumbling, and windows broken—not to mention the numerous, muddling alterations made to the block of flats, including a completely new ground floor.