“Integrated Fire and Smoke Door Systems: Specifying Your Own Safety Net"
In 2021, local fire departments responded to an estimated 1.35 million fires in the United States. These fires caused 3,800 civilian fire deaths. How many of these losses could we be preventing?
Across Europe, more and more companies are investing in refurbishment. Hoteliers are increasingly seeking out creative design solutions to develop more creative, unique offerings. Airports and train stations are hiring passenger experience experts to create more human centric design solutions. Companies are downsizing physical offices, while exploring ways to enhance remote workplace culture. Employees are prioritizing meaningful work, smaller teams, and opportunities to collaborate, coach, develop skills and get inspired.
And as the line between the physical and digital world is increasingly blurred, a future of interacting in virtual spaces like the Metaverse is quickly becoming a reality.
Austria – Designed by Büro Wagner – Made by Bau- und Möbelschreinerei Leutenbauer / Photography by Florian Holzherr . Image
This year saw another round of amazing submissions for the FritsJurgens Best Pivot Doors 2022, with an astonishing amount of high-end pivot doors collected – both for interior and exterior doors, movable walls, hidden passages, and more. After a period of deliberation, the jury has made their decision: take a look below at the winners of FritsJurgens Best Pivot Doors of 2022.
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An exhibition based on the studies of Los Angeles Chinatown will be on display at 949 Chung King Road from 01/14/2023 till 01/22/2023. The exhibition showcases different series of work done by Chieh-Ting Chuang. Chinatown is a recognizable architectural style that has been copied in every major city. This strong adaptive trait of Chinatown can not only be transformed into exterior spaces but also can be carried to interior domesticities. While the creation of the original Chinatowns is all based on the autonomy of the builder and owners of the era, this project explores the autonomy using modern technology and media.
Building Black Success Through Design (BBSD) is a FREE 12-week mentorship program offered through the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. This program is for Black high school students (Grades 9 to 12) who are interested in Architecture and Design. The goal of the program is to inspire Black students to pursue excellence and innovation within design industries and academia, enhancing diversity within the field and therefore building Black success through design.
Cross-border guests catch up Cross-border guests catch up at the forumat the forum. Image Courtesy of Shaoxing Jianhu Planning and Design Competition
From October 29th to 30th, 2022, the Final Review Meeting, Award Ceremony and Cross-border Forum of the 「Beyond YUE｜Jianhu Revival」Shaoxing Jianhu Planning and Design Competition were successfully held at Jianhu in Keqiao. After 11 months of international competition, gathering talents from all over the world and global wisdom, the design and cultural event was held in October to kickstart the transformation of Shaoxing's Jianhu.
The WAPW Academic Association together with the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology invite you to the next lecture in the "About Architecture" series. Our guests will be architects Wojciech Mazan and Bartosz Kowal from the PROLOG studio. The studio was founded in 2017 in Wrocław. PROLOG engages with architecture through design projects, research, writing, exhibitions and workshops. PROLOG aims to frame each project from a design and theoretical perspective. PROLOG is thought as a formative period, therefore its focus lies in the exploration, speculations and experiments. PROLOG is scattered around Europe with a base in Wroclaw, Poland. More information can be found at https://www.prlg.pl The lecture will take place on Tuesday, December 13 at 6:00 pm at the Faculty of Architecture. More information will follow soon, so stay tuned!
JAPAN BUILD Tokyo, Asia’s leading trade show for the building and housing industries, will be held at Tokyo Big Sight from December 5–7, 2022. With a staggering total of 430 exhibitors, 60 other seminars with top industry speakers, and thousands of visitors in its past edition, JAPAN BUILD Tokyo is unquestionably Japan’s leading trade show.
Data are constantly flowing around us. By capturing signals, we can weave data into sceneries. In the digital era, massive data are continuously analyzed and sorted out. Then, they are computed and used to create an order from certain perspectives to become readable information, just like what the protagonist in Matrix sees—everything comprises data flows. Even though we can never be the savior, artists can now use algorithms to tease out data and propose their own viewpoints, converting information into fuels that drive their works and visualizing data into sceneries of light and sound.
Black title text on all-white background. At center, three simply drawn staircases in orange, yellow, and green, from different perspectives.
Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access, but The Architecture of Disability calls for a radical reorientation of this perspective by situating experiences of impairment as a new foundation for the built environment. With its provocative proposal for “the construction of disability,” this book fundamentally reconsiders how we conceive of and experience disability in our world.
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Hotel Vincci Gala Barcelona / TBI Architecture & Engineering. Image Courtesy of Corian® Design
In hospitality, first impressions count. Corian® Solid Surface – an exclusive product of Corian® Design, a division of DuPont company – has become a more and more regular guest in hotels over the past decades as designers and architects look to create highly hygienic and adaptable interior designs. designboom and ArchDaily conclude its three-part webinar series with the material producer, this time to explore the future of hospitality design. Leading architectural and design experts join the live conversation, including TBI Architecture & Engineering, JOI-Design and Ultraspace – Register for this webinar.
The ”European Bamboo Expo” is the first bamboo trade exposition in Europe and aims to be Europe’s leading fair, open to the general public, and a meeting platform for professionals, stakeholders, and decision-makers from the bamboo sector in Europe and around the world. This trade exposition is designed to initiate new projects, showcase products, close deals, and establish contacts with customers, business partners, and governmental entities. Very important issues like integrating bamboo into carbon markets, investment opportunities, EU regulations standards for imports -exports, structural building requirements, and the importance of bamboo to mitigate climate change and protect the environment will be addressed by leaders of these sectors.
"Green Obsession. Trees Towards Cities, Humans Towards Forests"
As part of the Fall 2022 Lecture Series and coinciding with Miami Art Week, the Department of Architect in collaboration with STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI (SBA), present the Lecture “Green Obsession. Trees Towards Cities, Humans Towards Forests,” by Stefano Boeri, on Thursday December 1st at 5:30pm in the Design Gallery at FIU’s Miami Beach Urban Studios.
Bioclimatic Community Mosque, Indonesia, RAD + ar. Image Courtesy of Abdullatif Alfozan Award for Mosque Architecture
The international master jury of the 4th cycle (2020-2023) of the Abdullatif Alfozan Award for Mosque Architecture had their second and final meeting at Kuwait last 11-13 November 2022. The meeting was chaired by Architect Rasem Badran (Saudi Arabia and Jordan) and attended by all jurors: Architect Emre Arolat (Turkey), Architect Kashif Chowdhury (Bangladesh), Artist Ahmad Mostapha (United Kingdom) and Sociologist Sari Hanafi (France).
