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On September 8, Art Omi: Architecture Inaugurates Zoid by LevenBetts and hosts Book Signing with David Sokol, Author of Hudson Modern

On Saturday, September 8 from 1 – 4 p.m., Art Omi: Architecture presents an afternoon celebrating new and experimental architecture in and around the Hudson Valley region, featuring the inauguration of Zoid, as well as a book signing with David Sokol, author of Hudson Modern: Residential Landscapes (Monacelli Press). Zoid is a project of Manhattan-based architecture firm LevenBetts, and the latest pavilion to be included in Architecture Field 01. Hudson Modern is a new book devoted to contemporary domestic architecture in the region, and includes Open House, a home by LevenBetts.

Dwell Development Wins Department of Energy’s 2018 Housing Innovation Award

Seattle home by Dwell Development wins DOE’s prestigious Housing Innovation Award which recognizes the nation’s top builders paving the way to zero energy ready homes.

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced that Dwell Development’s Genesee Park Net Zero home in Seattle, Washington has won a 2018 Housing Innovation Award in the Custom Spec category!

AIA architect pushes for school design best practices in testimony to White House Cabinet officials today

Leading school design architect Jay Brotman, AIA, is advocating for legislation supporting open learning environments with enhanced security.
In testimony today before senior White House cabinet members, leading school-design architect Jay Brotman, AIA, pushed for legislation—being spearhead by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) this week—that promotes the design of open learning environments that enhance safety and security.

David Manfredi and Elizabeth Lowrey to Receive Real Estate Finance Association’s Annual Distinguished Service Award at 30th Annual Gala

David Manfredi, CEO and Founding Principal, Elkus Manfredi Architects and Elizabeth Lowrey, Principal, Elkus Manfredi Architects have been selected by the Real Estate Finance Association (REFA) to receive the Robert S. Swain Jr. Distinguished Service Award at the 30^th Annual REFA Gala, to be held Thursday, October 11, 2018 at the Marriott Copley Place Hotel. Details may be found at https://2018refagala.weebly.com/

The annual REFA Gala, Boston’s premier commercial real estate awards dinner, will honor Mr. Manfredi and Ms. Lowrey for their contributions to the real estate industry and to the Greater Boston community.

Paul Nasser, Douglass Karp, Steven Fischman, Travis D’Amato, Stephen Karp and Lauren O’Neil at REFA’s 29th Annual Gala (2017).

From solitary wool-lined cabin to forest clubhouse

Yearning for a life closer to nature: architects build 7 cabin prototypes
At this year’s Hello Wood International Summer University and Festival students got the chance to build seven contemporary cabins. As part of the week-long Cabin Fever programme, participants were mentored by international architects – Hungarian AU workshop and Marton Low, Czech H3T architekti, Italian ZarCola, Spanish architect Josep Garriga and OfficeShophouse, Argentinian iR arquitectura and Swiss frundgallina – constructing tiny houses in a collaborative process. In the future, these moveable, liveable and unique wooden cabins could even become prototypes for boutique accommodation in popular weekend destinations. Hello Wood is a European offshoot of the Tiny House Movement and makes cabins which give urban dwellers the chance to get away from it all for a while.

Digital Cloisters – A Campus for the 21st century

Porous communal areas, natural oases, maker spaces and robotically- assembled brick facades feature in CRA’s schematic design for the University of Milan’s new Science Campus, developed with Australian developer Lendlease. International design and innovation practice CRA-Carlo RattiAssociati has worked with Australian real estate group Lendlease to develop the schematic design for the University of Milan’s new Science Campus, Science for Citizens. The design proposes a rethink of the traditional university court or cloister, with maker spaces and parametric brick facades assembled by robots.

Lè Architecture by Aedas wins hearts of global design enthusiasts

Aedas-designed Lè Architecture in Taipei, Taiwan, received the most public votes for Commercial-Office – High Rise (16+ Floors) and won Architizer A+ Popular Choice Awards 2018. This year the highly publicised campaign received over 400,000 public votes from more than 100 countries and territories.

Lè Architecture in Taipei, Taiwan by Aedas

Touching the Green: An Award Winning Urban Design Project by PDG Architects

Beylikduzu Municipality Cumhuriyet Street Urban Design Project, designed by PDG Architects, is turning a public space into an open air museum and has aimed to obtain products that are important to humanity and which are not unscaled. Around the idea “Touching the green”, the project has been aimed to create the balance between the green pattern and the settlement. The Kiosk Structure, which has constructed at the first stage of the urban design project, has been awarded with Architect Turgut Cansever National Architecture Awards.

X-Architects Wins BUILD 2018 Architecture Awards

Best Architecture & Urban Design Firm – UAE
Best UAE Mosque Design: Al Dana Mosque
X Architects is pleased to announce that the practice has been named for two awards by the prestigious BUILD 2018 Architecture Awards:

Best Architecture & Urban Design Firm – UAE & Best UAE Mosque Design: Al Dana Mosque

Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) announced 2018 finalists

Six finalist projects in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and the United States
At an event in Detroit, Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) Director Dirk Denison and 2018 MCHAP Jury Chair Ricky Burdett announced the six finalists for the 2018 Americas Prize:

IMS Paulista in São Paulo, Brazil by Andrade Morettin Arquitetos Associados
Completed: September 2017

This multi-level, stacked cultural building with galleries, library, and cinema on São Paulo’s iconic Paulista Avenue brings the public and pedestrian experience into the structure.