Lawsuit against the Lucas Museum to Proceed

A lawsuit challenging plans for the Lucas museum along Chicago's lakefront can proceed, a federal judge ruled Thursday, leaving legal hurdles in place if the selected site remains between Soldier Field and McCormick Place. Friends of the Parks filed a ... Sigue leyendo →
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Get Lectured: Rutgers University, Spring ’15

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter-Spring 2015Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session! Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Che... Sigue leyendo →
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Tourist Information Centre Postojna / studio stratum

Architects: studio stratum
Location: Postojna, Slovenia
Design Team: Polona Filipič, Peter Šenk, Marko Pretnar
Area: 108.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Virginia Vrecl, Anita Kranjc Collaborators: Primož Špacapan, Nejc Jurič
Structure: CBD d. o. o., Biro Črta d. o. o.…
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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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New Zealand Residence Alternating Open and Enclosed Spaces: Freeman’s Bay Home

Dorrington Atcheson Architects completed the design and development of Freeman’s Bay Home, an inspiring contemporary family retreat located in Auckland, New Zealand: “This new build in the heritage suburb of Freeman’s Bay is a composition of concrete, steel and glass that gives a handshake to the past. Horizontal texture on the precast concrete walls echoes […]

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Garden Pavilion / Robert Edson Swain Architecture + Design

Architects: Robert Edson Swain Architecture + Design
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Area: 1125.0 ft2
Photographs: Ken Gutmaker , Courtesy of Robert Edson Swain Architecture + Design Interiors Consultant: InteriorWorks
Engineering: IL Gross
General Contractor: Krekow Jennings From the architect.… Prospect 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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