The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has certified the 86.6-m (284-ft), 25-story Ascent building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the tallest mass timber structure in the world in two categories—the tallest timber building overall, and the World’s Tallest Timber-Concrete Hybrid Building.
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THE LINE, a vertically oriented urban development run entirely on renewable energy and built on a footprint of mere 34 km2 (13 mi2)—unveiled by the Saudi Kingdom as part of the ambitious NEOM city to be built on Red Sea shoreline—aims to revolutionize urban living.
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Georgia Tech School of Architecture’s new chair and William Harrison Professor of Architecture, Ingeborg Rocker, will continue in the footsteps of Georgia Tech professor emeritus Chuck Eastman, considered by many to be the father of building Information Modeling (BIM).
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A team of design researchers and building industry partners are building a house through a hybridized construction of concrete walls combined with wood framing, aiming for the increased adoption of such construction in the multifamily housing and mixed-use sectors in the U.S., where framing is the one of the...
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A new condominium development in Boston, MA, called 100 Shawmut, combines adaptive reuse and new construction to restore an iconic warehouse in The South End, a protected Boston Landmark District.
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Josh Hersel, NCARB, and Shawn Pelowitz, AIA, LEED AP, DBIA, recently promoted to associate principals at Cushing Terrell, will bring their ample experiences in residential, commercial and hospitality design, and U.S. military and government agency design respectively, into planning and managing the multidisciplinary design firm’s future.
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The National Building Museum has awarded its 24th Vincent Scully Prize to Dolores Hayden, award-winning author, and professor emerita of architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale University, because of her influential work on highlighting gender and race stereotypes embedded in American built environments.
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Historic preservation and architecture firm Page & Turnbull is running a campaign to fund the 185.8 m2(2000-sf) expansion of San Francisco’s Presidio Chapel, proposed by the firm to accommodate the diverse praying needs of the different religions using the facility.
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Google’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, California, features one of North America’s largest building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), 90,000 silver solar panels layered over one another onto the building’s canopy-style roof, to reach the company goal of running on carbon-free energy entirely by 2030.
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When specifying flooring, one should consider both sustainability and performance. They are not mutually exclusive, but rather completely integrated. Both are affected by the material science that goes into the product: How are they constructed? Where do the materials come from that make these products? These factors not only...
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