How to use Built-in Asset Tools to Render Faster

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This guide shows how to render faster using D5 Render scatter, brush, and path tools for architecture, landscape design & visualization.

World's Most Liveable Cities in 2021: Auckland in New Zealand Tops the Ranking

Auckland in New Zealand has topped the ranking in the 2021 EIU's annual world's most liveable city survey. Classifying 140 cities across five categories including stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure, this year’s edition of the review has been highly affected by the global pandemic. Australia, Japan, and New Zealand took leading positions, while European and Canadian cities fell down the ranking.

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Shack in the Rocks / Sean Godsell Architects

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Foster + Partner's Power Station Master Plan in San Francisco Breaks Ground

As part of the Dogpatch mixed-use waterfront development, Foster + Partner's Power Station extension has finally broken ground. The master plan will create multiple new residential, commercial, and recreational spaces, honoring its industrial past and reconnecting the community with the San Francisco Bay waterfront. The architecture firm's 2-building proposal provides the neighborhood with an ideal urban framework to help create a vibrant, healthy, and inclusive community.

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Focus on the Fundamentals: 10 Metrics of High Performing Architecture Firms

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With 38% of projects over budget and 35% behind schedule, according to the 42nd Annual Deltek Clarity Report, architecture firms are focusing on the fundamentals. This includes tracking metrics and adopting new technology to keep a closer pulse on performance and profitability. Many architecture firms have a ways to go as only 25% currently see their business as digitally mature, but 76% of firms envision firm digital sophistication in five years, according to the report.

Qianhai Floating City / People's Architecture Office

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Barozzi Veiga Completes the First Building of London's Design District

Barcelona-based studio Barozzi Veiga has completed its first UK project, which will house Ravensbourne University’s Institute for Creativity and Technology. The building, whose interiors are designed by Brinkworth, is also the first to be completed within the Design District, London’s new purpose-built creative hub at the heart of the Greenwich Peninsula. Featuring a polished aluminium-clad façade that reflects the neighbouring buildings, the design engages with the surrounding context, while also referencing the area’s industrial past.

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Artificial Lighting in Interior Design

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Natural or artificial, lighting is one of the most important elements in architecture, directly affecting our perception of spaces. It is capable of defining volumes, enhancing colors, textures, and therefore, contributing to the overall relationship between dimension, proportion, and contrasts. One of the many challenges of architecture is to shape spaces based on light and shade, and sometimes natural light is not enough, requiring additional light sources to be installed and controlled.

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Holography: How It Could Change Architectural Space

Although holograms have been a possibility for decades—the first hologram was developed in the early 1960’s following the development of laser technology—many might still associate them more with science fiction, the term conjuring up images of high-tech superhero gadgets and spaceships in the distant future. Yet as we inch closer to the reality of a hyper-technologized future, and a variety of industries—including architecture and construction— begin to embrace new forms of increasingly advanced technology, holography, too, has a chance of completely reshaping the way we conceptualize and experience architecture. While it is impossible to predict exactly how holographic technology will be used in the future, below, we list several examples of existing projects that use holograms and other types of holography to create atmospheric environments, fantastical scenes, and practical visualizations. These examples move beyond the use of holograms to visualize structures and sites during the design phase; they utilize holography to shape the completed architectural space itself, completely altering the sensory and spatial experience of their environment.

Gabled Roofs Experience a Revival Across North America

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Nova Scotia–based MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects has built several steel-clad gabled houses like the East Dover House, shown here, because the material blends in with cliffside landscapes, rusts to fit geology, and needs zero maintenance.. Image Courtesy of James Brittain Photography

In this week's piece by Metropolis, author Kelly Beamon explores in her original article "the patriotism associated with pitched roofs and shares how architects are reimagining this staple of suburban house styles". According to its definition, a gable roof is a classic roof shape, usually in cold or temperate climates, consisting of two roof sections sloping in opposite directions and placed such that the highest, horizontal edges meet to form the roof ridge. Emblematic of the US, this article discusses its return to the urban fabric.

Novacella Abbey Museum Addition / MoDusArchitects

Novacella Abbey Museum Addition / MoDusArchitects - Exterior Photography, Renovation
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  • Architects: MoDusArchitects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  610
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2021
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Askeen, Doormatic, Möbel Ladinia, Putzer, Rubner Türen, +3

Residential Building in Sadovye Kvartaly / SPEECH

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Moskva, Russia
  • Architects: SPEECH
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  15200
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2020
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Hagemeister

JS Apartment / EB Arquitetos

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Cruzeiro Novo, Brazil
  • Architects: EB Arquitetos
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  46
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2021

Matsubara Civic Library / MARU。architecture

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Matsubara, Japan
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  2987
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2019
  • Professionals: Arup

Kanahebisui Shrine / Kazuya Saito Architects

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Terrace House near Demachiyanagi / atelier Luke

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  • Architects: atelier Luke
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Grohe, Cielo, Gotoh Lighting Furniture, HORI LOCKS, Hi-Ceramics, +8
  • Professionals: Matsuhiko Construction

House FG / DIPA Arquitectos

  • Architects: DIPA Arquitectos
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  420
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2020
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  GRAPHISOFT, Ariston, Canteras del Mundo, Carpeal, Grupo MSH, +1

Refurbishment Holiday Home / dolmus Architekten

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Reichenbach im Kandertal, Switzerland
  • Architects: dolmus Architekten
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  130
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  GRAPHISOFT

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