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Happy Panda II Restaurant / Hou de Sousa
Terbregsehof 11 / Loer Architecten
Bus or Bust? The Future of Public Transit in Life After COVID-19
146 Residences in Aarhus / CEBRA
Schmidt Hammer Lassen and BOGL to Transform a Former Prison Site in Denmark
Tenhachi House / Tenhachi Architect & Interior Design
City of Los Angeles Launches $100,000 Low-Rise Housing Competition
Brazilian Houses: 14 Homes with Wooden Window Frames
The Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture and Digital Fabrication at ETH Zürich Unveils its Latest Thesis Achievements
The Genius, Heart and Humility of Balkrishna Doshi
Avlakia House / ARP - Architecture Research Practice
Feng Shui House / Steffen Welsch Architects
MH Office / Gendai Sekkei
Operation Between Walls / Natura Futura Arquitectura
HS House / Studio Saransh
The Flax Mill House / T.A.P.
U House / URAStudio
House at Otago Bay / Topology Studio

Happy Panda II Restaurant / Hou de Sousa

Posted: 04 Dec 2020 04:00 AM PST

architects: Hou de Sousa
Location: Cumbaya, Quito, Ecuador
Project Year: 2020
Photographs: Bicubiks
Area: 315.0 m2

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Terbregsehof 11 / Loer Architecten

Posted: 04 Dec 2020 02:00 AM PST

architects: Loer Architecten
Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Project Year: 2020
Photographs: Rubén Dario Kleimeer
Area: 800.0 m2

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Bus or Bust? The Future of Public Transit in Life After COVID-19

Posted: 03 Dec 2020 11:30 PM PST

Empty NYC Metro Car. Image © Kit Suman via Unsplash

With the promising news of a potential vaccine that could soon return the world to a semi-normal way of life, questions are being raised about what the future of public transit might look like. While some predict that it will be years before we revert back to the muscle memory ways of packing like sardines into crowded subway cars during rush hour commutes, it's not just about how individuals feel being within close proximity of one another while moving about the city. It has more to do with how our other daily habits, which have been reshaped as a result of the pandemic, might change the overall goals for public transit systems around the globe. What strategies might be implemented to bring ridership back to normal levels and to bring the mobility landscape back to where it once was as society continues to undergo major fundamental shifts?

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146 Residences in Aarhus / CEBRA

Posted: 03 Dec 2020 11:00 PM PST

architects: CEBRA
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
Project Year: 2020
Photographs: Mikkel Frost
Area: 11800.0 m2

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Schmidt Hammer Lassen and BOGL to Transform a Former Prison Site in Denmark

Posted: 03 Dec 2020 10:30 PM PST

Courtesy of Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects+BOGL

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and BOGL were selected by the municipality of Albertslund and Freja Ejendomme to re-imagine Vridsløselille, a facility that housed once a state prison, and transform the site into an attractive, green district with a distinct identity derived from its unique heritage. The scheme was chosen alongside another project by COBE to create a combined vision for the future development of the area.

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Tenhachi House / Tenhachi Architect & Interior Design

Posted: 03 Dec 2020 10:00 PM PST

architects: Tenhachi Architect & Interior Design
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Photographs: Akihide Mishima
Area: 67.0 m2

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City of Los Angeles Launches $100,000 Low-Rise Housing Competition

Posted: 03 Dec 2020 09:30 PM PST

The City of Los Angeles has launched a $100,000 housing design challenge for low-rise developments. The competition asks architects and landscape architects to imagine "appealing and sustainable" models of low-rise, multi-unit housing. Organized by the Mayor's Office and Chief Design Officer Christopher Hawthorne, the initiative aims to create new paths to home-ownership and housing affordability in Los Angeles.

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Brazilian Houses: 14 Homes with Wooden Window Frames

Posted: 03 Dec 2020 09:00 PM PST

Do Bomba House / Sotero Arquitetos. Image: © Leonardo Finotti

Wood is a material naturally associated with beauty, versatility, and comfort and is used in many different ways in architecture, from flooring to roofing. These qualities also stand out when used in window frames.

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The Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture and Digital Fabrication at ETH Zürich Unveils its Latest Thesis Achievements

Posted: 03 Dec 2020 08:00 PM PST

Porous Assemblies - Robotic 3D printing of mineral foam for novel lightweight architectures . Image © Dinorah Martinez Schulte

The Master of Advanced Studies ETH Zurich in Architecture and Digital Fabrication (MAS ETH DFAB) is the educational program of the world's leading interdisciplinary research cluster on digital fabrication and robotics in architecture, the National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication at ETH Zürich. It is organized by the Chair for Digital Building Technologies and the Chair of Architecture and Digital Fabrication (Gramazio Kohler Research), two pioneering research groups in the field.

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The Genius, Heart and Humility of Balkrishna Doshi

Posted: 03 Dec 2020 07:30 PM PST

This article was originally published on Common Edge as "The Genius, Heart and Humility of Indian Architect B.V. Doshi"

I'm sitting in a busy suburban coffee-and-donut shop with the quiet, grandfatherly Indian architect, Jitendra Vaidya. When I started my life as an architecture intern in the late 90s, Jitendra was one of the most experienced technical designers I knew. Equally comfortable weighing the relative merits of various flashing details as he is discussing abstract design concepts, Jitendra is an old-school, universal architect. After more than half a century in a profession famous for grinding deadlines, Jitendra still maintains a joyful twinkle in his eye when he talks about architecture. So it's no surprise that Jitendra is visibly animated today as he tells me about his teacher, the man who was just recognized as one of the world's greatest living architects, B.V. Doshi.