Architecture Lab

With a rising global population and increasing political focus on the future of power generation, the task of designing a 49 mega-watt, bio-mass fueled power station in Stockton-On-Tees is an interesting design challenge.

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Located on a lot sharing two roads in the District of Ashrafieh, in Beirut, the project responds to this urban condition by creating two seperate building. An office building on the main boulevard where several office buildings and banks have been built since the 80s, and a residential building on the Sursok road belonging to a more residential neighborhood with several old villas.

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The team at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, known for net-zero and positive energy designs, lent its expertise to its hometown of Chicago.

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Dutch architects MVRDV and the French project developer ICADE Promotion have presented their plans for the “Pushed Slab”, a low energy office building to be erected at ZAC Gare de Rungis in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.

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The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority unveiled OMA’s conceptual masterplan for a major new arts district in Hong Kong.

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Completing its trilogy of housing projects in Oerestad with the same client, BIG + green roof contractor Veg Tech receives the award for 8 House’s 1.700 m2 sloping green roof.

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It is Britain’s first fully functioning recycled theatre – made of old nails, pallets and discarded doors. As the Jellyfish opens, Jonathan Glancey examines the rise of ‘junkitecture’

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Sukkah City, www.sukkahcity.com, an ambitious global architectural contest that engaged the design, creative and architectural worlds to radically reinvent the ancient sukkah, today announced the twelve winners of the competition that will be on display in Union Square Park, ahead of the week-long festival of Sukkot.

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Long Island-based firm Bates Masi + Architects has been honored with two AIA New York State Design Awards in the Residential Small Project Category.

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The following is part of the continuing series of posts ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL. It is the first of a three-part post about the experimental studio conducted this summer as part of the Cornell University MArch II program.

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Studio Banana TV interviews Belzunce-Mauriño-García Millán, authors of the hill-crawling social housing complex in Mina del Morro, Bilbao. Watch it after the jump

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The apartment building is located in the dense district of Gemayze in Beirut. The street enjoys an alignment of old buildings from one side and a big garden and church on the other.

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Earlier this year, AMO proposed a feasible design to decarbonize the European power grid by 2050.

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The people of Kenya have today, voted for a new national constitution, the first since independence from Great Britain. In doing so Kenyans have demonstrated their collective ambition for progress, equality and prosperity. check the project after the jump.

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