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The Design Workspace Madrid 2024 - Office furniture exhibition

Event showcasing products for professionals in the office furniture and community equipment sectors,

Designing a Nature-Embracing Modern Home in Palo Alto, USA

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When it came to designing a nature-embracing modern home in Palo Alto, California, USA, architect Tai Ikegami took his responsibility to protect and venerate the magnificent trees on the lot seriously.

“The house is designed around a series of trees on the site—an oak in the front, another oak on the side, a redwood in the back. These are dramatic trees with a large scale,” says Ikegami, a partner at Feldman Architecture, San Francisco.

Join the Live Announcement of The Daylight Award 2024 Laureates

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On May 16th at 18:00 (CEST), Juhani Pallasmaa, chairing the esteemed jury consisting of Dorte Mandrup, Russell Foster, Iwan Baan, Yvonne de Kort, Michael Balick, and Gerd Folkers, will present the jury's reasoning, and the 2024 laureates for Daylight Research and Daylight in Architecture will be announced. This event will be streamed live online.

The online event is open to the global community of architects, researchers, scientists, building professionals, educators, students, and members of the press. It welcomes everyone interested in daylight and its significance for life on Earth. Sign up here to receive event notifications and join the live announcement.

ODA: Office of Design & Architecture by Eran Chen

Eran Chen discusses ODA: Office of Design and Architecture, the first book to comprehensively consider the full range of ODA's projects, all grounded in a humanistic philosophy that informs and uplifts.

Art & Architecture: Conversations on Architecture & Art Without Boundaries

The "Conversations on Architecture and Art Without Boundaries" panel will be held on Friday, April 26, in partnership with The Istanbul Architecture and Urbanism Research Academy - AURA Istanbul and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Architecture.

Call for Entries - Floating Marina Design - Monaco Smart & Sustainable Marina Rendez-vous

In order to regulate anchoring for small and large pleasure boats in environmentally sensitive areas along the French Mediterranean coast, we are launching a call for ideas for the creation of a floating marina for the 4th edition of the Monaco Smart & Sustainable Marina and Architecture Award.

Camp Taliesin West Returns, Now Enrolling for Summer 2024 Sessions

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation today announced the return of its popular Camp Taliesin West with a lineup of full- and half-day sessions for K-12 students on topics surrounding architecture, science, art and photography, both available in-person at Taliesin West, Wright’s winter home and studio in Scottsdale, and virtually through Zoom.

BERLIN DESIGN WEEK 2024

From 27 April to 5 May 2024, the Peter-Behrens-Bau in Oberschöneweide will be the heart of BERLIN DESIGN WEEK 2024. Visitors can look forward to a comprehensive programme including everything from exhibitions to talks all the way to interactive workshops, all offering in-depth insights into innovative design concepts.

"True Cost" Exhibition at Milan Design Week Portrays Environmental Cost of Construction Industry

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Milan Design Week rarely fails to deliver on compelling showcases of design and innovation.

One of the exhibitions this year, created by Swatchbox, conveys the “true cost” of traditional approaches to construction. The sample platform founded by architects to provide sustainable sampling methods to the design community launched its thought-provoking showcase at the heart of the Brera Design District in Milan.

The exhibit boldly confronts the issue of wastefulness inherent in traditional construction practices. Installed inside an office in Brera that is ordinarily occupied by a Milan architecture firm, the exhibit displays a large pile of construction materials typically destined for landfill. The materials are meticulously arranged to showcase the sheer volume of waste generated by the design community.

Socializing the Sky: The Typology of Tower Clusters

The book presents the remarkable history of the emergence in the past two decades of a dramatically new design of multi-tower and multi-functional tall building clusters. Based upon a decade of architectural research, the book provides a definition of the new typology, here termed The Tower Cluster, and its major concepts, design characteristics, and the typological knowledge required to design creative sub-variants. It provides the detailed analysis of a large series of outstanding recent case studies of the typology.

FABRICATE

Fabricate 2024: Creating Resourceful Futures sets focus on the pressing need to develop new models for architectural production that rethink how resource is deployed, its intensity, its socio-ecological origins and sensitivity to environment.

First Additions: Strategies for Adding On

Like many small residential practices Cohen & Hacker Architects have made a career of doing house additions. In a practice spanning almost forty years they have evolved strategies for making additions that represent both a theoretical and philosophical position about altering older buildings. They believe that recycling existing houses, retrofitting them to meet new energy standards, preserving their embodied energy as well as their cultural significance is the most sustainable way to practice architecture.

"Tripoli Fair: The Way I See It" Art Prize Exhibition - Selected Works

In the context of the designation of Tripoli as Arab Capital of Culture in 2024, and the enlisting of the Tripoli Fair as World Heritage in Danger by UNESCO in 2023, the Embassy of Brazil in Lebanon, Instituto Guimarães Rosa Beirut and Marsah invite you to the opening of the exhibition "Tripoli Fair: The Way I See It" Art Prize - Selected Works.

Open Call: Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024, Installation Programme Competition: "For-This-Situation"

The Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024, TAB 2024 (tab.ee), which will take place from 9 October to 1 December, 2024 (Opening Week: October 9th – 16th, 2024), has presented its Installation Programme Competition: "For-This-Situation".

Design + Build Bamboo Workshop Laos

This September, non-profit organization Building Trust will host a Live Build Workshop in Laos, in partnership with the local Free the Bears Fund rescue centre. Participants are invited to work with the Laotian local community and Free the Bears staff to construct a design a sustainable merchandise store within the bear rescue centre. The store will allow Free the Bears to sell merchandise that will in turn fund their ongoing bear conservation projects in Laos and beyond.

Architecture Matters 2024

Architecture Matters 2024
Annual Summit on Cities and the Future
15–16 May 2024
House of Communication & Frau im Mond

Open House Slovenia 2024

The architectural festival Open House Slovenia will open doors to new and renovated architectural projects, as well as important cultural heritage buildings throughout Slovenia, from April 12 to 14, marking its fifteenth year.
The purpose of the festival, throughout its years, has remained true to its basic mission—to raise awareness among the general public about the values ​​of well-designed spaces and to present examples of the best practices in contemporary architectural production as part of Slovenian culture and national identity. Through personal experiences in quality architecture, the festival enables a broader understanding of architecture and designed spaces, highlighting their importance for quality living.
Experts in the field of architecture and design, Blaž Budja, Maša Cvetko, Dean Lah, and Maja Stamenković comprised a professional jury that selected this year's festival programme from the submitted projects.
During the festival, visitors will have the opportunity to explore more than 70 projects across the entire country. They will be able to visit private apartments, single-family houses, renovations, educational and cultural institutions, as well as business and tourist facilities.
In Ljubljana, visitors will have the opportunity to explore the residential neighbourhood Dolgi Most II, social housing Rakova Jelša II, community centre Golovec, and the Biotechnology Hub of the National Institute of Biology. The doors will also be open at the Nuclear Reactor Institute Jožef Stefan – TRIGA. As part of the festival, visitors will also have the opportunity to see the projects Bohinj Kindergarten and the Covering of the Remains of the Church of St. John the Baptist in Žiče Charterhouse and Temporary Lapidary, which were shortlisted for the EU Mies Award 2024.
In alignment with the Open House Europe cooperation project, the festival adopts the theme "Architecture of New Opportunities," focusing on promoting inclusivity for all individuals and interest groups within built and designed spaces. It addresses questions of equal opportunities and new possibilities for living, working, education, living, and development of the entire society, all living beings, and nature with the aim of seeking answers about coexistence that good architecture can enable, promote, and protect.
In the festival programme, various thematic projects will be highlighted, promoting accessibility and enabling community development. The festival will also feature thematic tours and workshops targeting different audience groups.
The entire programme of the Open House Slovenia 2024 festival is published on the Open House Slovenia website. Registrations for tours and guided visits are mandatory. Visitors can sign up for tours on the website from April 3, 2024, onwards.
Open House Slovenia is part of Open House Europe, a cooperation project co-funded by the European Union. The project seeks to embrace a more inclusive debate about architecture and strengthen the role of architecture as a positive change-maker addressing relevant social and environmental challenges. For more information about the project, visit openhouseeurope.org.