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Study Pavilion by Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke wins Mies van der Rohe Award 2024

April 25, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Berlin architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke have been awarded this year’s Mies van der Rohe Award for Study Pavilion, a steel-framed university building in Germany. Düsing and Hacke, who founded their eponymous studios in 2015 and 2016 respectively, are the youngest people to have ever received the biennial accolade, also known as the European Union

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Chris Pratt’s destruction of Ellwood house in LA symptom of “systemic problems”

April 22, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Unprotected modernist houses are at risk of demolition as land often holds greater value than architectural heritage, says Docomomo US in response to actor Chris Pratt tearing down a home by architect Craig Ellwood. Pratt and his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger drew attention online when news broke that the couple had begun work on a 15,000-square-foot

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Don’t Move, Improve! unveils London’s best house renovations of 2024

April 19, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A dwelling with a “tin hat” by Nimtim Architects and a colourful extension by Charles Holland are among the 16 London homes named on the shortlist for this year’s Don’t Move, Improve! competition. A triangular house in a former garage by studio Brown Urbanism is also on the shortlist, alongside an extension by Cairn that

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Lesley Lokko and Marina Tabassum named world’s most influential architects

April 19, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architects Lesley Lokko and Marina Tabassum have been named on the list of the 100 most influential people of 2024 by Time magazine. The architects are included alongside world leaders, artists and sports stars in the annually published list of people the US magazine judges as the world’s most influential. Called a “force of nature”

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Oklahoma City approves USA’s tallest skyscraper height

April 18, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

A height variance request for what is set to be the tallest skyscraper in the US located in Oklahoma City has been approved to move forward to the next stage. The Oklahoma City Planning Commission has granted approval of a height increase request for Legends Tower, a proposed supertall skyscraper. Architecture studio AO and developer

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Foster + Partners tops out China Merchants Bank skyscraper in Shenzhen

April 16, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

The China Merchants Bank Headquarters by British architecture studio Foster + Partners has topped out in Shenzhen, with progress on a decorative ribbed steel and glass facade. Images of the skyscraper’s construction progress show the height of its structural core and facades made from steel and triangular glass panels taking shape around it. Once complete, the

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Fire engulfs Copenhagen’s old stock exchange causing spire to collapse

April 16, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A fire has broken out at the 17th-century Børsen building in  Copenhagen, Denmark, causing its iconic dragon tail-shaped spire to collapse. The fire at the building, which was the city’s stock exchange, began early this morning with the 56-metre-tall spire collapsing around 8:30am local time. Built in 1615, the Renaissance-style building is one of the

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Heatherwick’s Vessel set to reopen with “floor-to-ceiling steel mesh”

April 15, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

The Vessel viewpoint by Thomas Heatherwick is expected to reopen in New York this year, shrouded by steel netting to prevent people from jumping from its platforms. It follows the closure of the structure in Hudson Yards in August 2021, after a 14-year-old boy became the fourth person to die there by suicide. Related Companies,

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“Strong focus on aesthetics” contributed to collapse of Norway timber bridge

April 11, 2024 Nat Barker 0

An official report into the collapse of a 10-year-old mass-timber bridge in Norway in August 2022 has criticised the structure’s design and construction. Two drivers had to be rescued after the Tretten Bridge, over the Gudbrandsdalslågen river in the Øyer area of southern Norway, gave way as a heavy goods vehicle was crossing. Completed in

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