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Koolhaas Denounces Plagiarism Rumors Surrounding Zaera-Polo’s Princeton Resignation

This past October Alejandro Zaera-Polo abruptly resigned from his position as Dean of Princeton’s School of Architecture amidst plagiarism rumors. The resignation, requested by University President Christopher Eisgruber, was the result of Zaera-Polo’s removal of citations from his contribution to the “Facade”… Sigue leyendo →
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Improvisation and Troublemaking: Frank Gehry in Conversation with Eric Owen Moss at SCI-Arc

Despite making recent news for a particularly antisocial public display, Frank Gehry remains a highly influential and crowd-drawing figure, as evidenced by SCI-Arc’s completely full Keck Lecture Hall over an hour before Gehry took the stage on We... Sigue leyendo →
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Frei Otto, ADEPT, the Kun House, and Belatchew Arkitekter are among this week’s many winners

At the start of every week, we highlight some of the most recent news in competition-winning projects, commissions, awards, shortlists, and events on Bustler from the previous week that are worth checking out.Here's recap #51 for Mar 9-13, 2015 below:F... Sigue leyendo →
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Facebook’s «Zee Town» and the rocky history of corporate urbanism

In founding a town for some 10,000 of his employees to call their own, the Facebook mogul is following generations of entrepreneurs, from the Dutch East India Company to Walt Disney. [...] Zuckerberg’s version is to take the form of a 200-acre p... Sigue leyendo →
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How Alucobond® Aluminum Composite Materials Have Evolved To Meet Strict Building Standards

This post is brought to you by Alucobond® The national and international building codes have recently challenged the construction market with design-oriented goals of sustainability and energy efficiency. The increasing demand for high perform... Sigue leyendo →
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Columbia University Division of Student Affairs by Stephen Yablon Architecture

A new state-of-the-art advising center guides and enriches undergraduate students' experiences. Areas of public circulation are faced with metal panel walls perforated in a pattern based on the paving in front of Low Library, the iconic center of the U... Sigue leyendo →
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Holy Cross House by T B A

Montréal, Canada - Located in the city's up and coming Southwest neighbourhood this 300 m2 detached house hides a rich spatial complexity behind its tough working class façade. Turning to the neighbourhood’s post-war veteran&rs... Sigue leyendo →
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House in Nogyang by studio_GAON

House in NogyangWritten by Hyoungnam Lim, Eunjoo Roh in studio_GAON‘House in Nogyang‘ is facing the boundary of the green belt, which boundary that the city can’t expand anymore. It is close to downtown but quiet, near to an apartment... Sigue leyendo →
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Editor’s Picks #408

Nicholas Korody profiled the Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND). jla-x was excited as has "been looking for a way to get involved with something like this".  News - The world lost visionary Frei Otto and his death moved u... Sigue leyendo →
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Call for Ideas: Food & Wellness Club

Young Architects Competitions (YAC) is launching an open architectural competition to design a Food & Wellness Club for the upcoming F.I.CO.® (Fabbrica Italiana Contadina) theme park in Bologna. In 2016, F.I.CO. …will become the world’s  biggest theme park Sigue leyendo →
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