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10 new architectural student projects we liked this week

2024-08-24T08:00:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Student Work.

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↑ Play Sculpture by Thea Lin

↑ Artificial Climates and the Agile Conservatory by Wei Wang

↑ "Crafting Identity", Community Cultural Center by Maria del Carmen Copacati Orocollo

↑ Resilience Amidst Ruin: Exploring Human Destruction, Cultural Loss, and Museum Decolonization by Faraz Khojasteh Far

↑ The Instrumentality of Borders by So Yeong Eom

↑ Build to Heal: Supportive Housing For Ex-mentally Ill Patients by Rico Kwok

↑ Club Remomar - A3 fadu uba by Florencia Medina

↑ Ama de Casa by PeiJu Lin

↑ Ribbon by Eda Tarakci

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Instagrammer creates architectural AI designs inspired by food

2024-07-05T18:23:00-04:00

Fatih Ekşi, the popular Istanbul-based architectural designer, has shared some thoughts on the creative process behind his work, which has garnered over a million combined followers on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

His followers were recently treated to some playful, food-inspired architectural creations made using AI tools by his visualization studio Blick 3D.

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The latest series combines software with the principles of biomimetic architecture to produce designs whose form, structure, and building program utilize the natural geometries found in fruits, vegetables, and meat.

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"I studied Architecture for five years at the Vienna University of Technology, where I was nearing graduation but had to return to my hometown due to family matters," Ekşi tells Archinect of his background. "I have been working in archit...

Architects develop new AI visualization tool for architectural rendering

2024-07-03T06:23:00-04:00

Gendo, a new AI visualization platform, has launched today following a $1.1 million investment into the product created by London-based architectural designer George Proud with the help of his colleague and software engineer Will Jones.

The platform claims to convert 2D drawings, sketches, or text-based inputs into life-like visualizations.

Image courtesy Gendo

Zaha Hadid Architects, David Chipperfield Architects, and Benoy are among the beta testers of the software. It is being promoted as a way for firms to reduce costs and labor and gain an advantage in project and design competitions.

George Proud stated that, unlike mainstream generative image platforms such as Midjourney and DALL-E, Gendo allows generated visualizations to be edited, offering architects greater detail and precision.

The announcement follows closely last week's launch of another AI-driven platform called Treasury.

The Motorist Won: Envisioning a vehicle-centric UK with Archinect Generative Futures finalist Kyle Branchesi

2024-02-13T19:32:00-05:00

Designer Kyle Branchesi has shared images from his latest creative experimentation with generative AI tools, a visual commentary touching on the debate over pedestrianism and motor vehicles happening currently within the UK.

For 'The Motorist Won,' Branchesi imagined a far-off dystopia plagued by vehicle traffic where historic streets and all visible landmarks are besieged by the hum of engines and blur of lights, making cities like London or Edinburgh the all-too-unfortunate casualties of what PM Rishi Sunak says is a "war" against cars.

The Motorist Won by Kyle Branchesi

Branchesi describes: "Amidst a political landscape where the 'war on motorists' is wielded as a populist tool, this series captures a future where this rhetoric has prevailed. The transformation of UK landmarks like Stonehenge into vast vehicular realms underscores the absurdity and danger of prioritizing short-term political gains over sustainable urban planning. These images mirror the contentious debates in the ...

10 new architectural student projects we liked this week

2023-08-12T08:00:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Student Work.

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↑ Green Paris: The Urban Forest by Cristina Mock

↑ A Different Domain: Live-Work by Tamim Aljefri and Yunha Choi

↑ Accessible Art by Junyi Zhou

↑ Oakland Metamorphasis by Weiyu Xu

↑ Filum by Sean Meng

↑ 410 Ribbion by Farouk Fares (lead designer)

↑ Irregular Pavilion by Yunong Li

↑ Motorcycle Diaries by Zhikang Liu

↑ Field Leaps - Feldsprünge by Stephan Gräbner, Claudia Hermann, Christoph Wendland

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Creating a 3D Project With Enscape

2023-03-13T09:00:00-04:00

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Enscape’s in-house architect and 3D artist, Samir Mujovi, explains that a big part of his job is creating projects for the company's product releases. These projects get used in Enscape's promotional materials, including the videos that have become synonymous with each new release.

In this article, Mujovi walks us through his creative process of creating the Enscape 3.3 project. He includes a sneak peek into how he uses its real-time visualization plugin.

Conceptualizing the project

The first part of the process is to form a concept. The new features of the release influence the content created. They help me and the team decide where and how they will be showcased in the promotional video and renders. Enscape 3.3’s hero feature was the Site Context, and other features developed for this release were education-themed assets and materials and the Material Overwrite.

The video was to start with a maquette model to set the scene, then move on to ho...

10 new architectural student projects that stood out this week

2022-09-17T09:00:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

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↑ Co-Construction Library by Zhiyuan Zhou

↑ Secret Oasis by Ling Lin and Yujing Jiao

↑ Portfolio Work by Chenglu Xue

↑ Collecting Housing by Shaoshuai Jiang

↑ Moving Pictures by Rob Leising and Di Liang

↑ Metabolism Community by Lich Tong

↑ Cuba Cultural Center in Vietnam by Trang Ha

↑ Tear Down The Rail by Chenyang Li and Zhang Yuqian

↑ Solar Carve (Graduation Project) by Porus Vakshoor

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Now Google Maps can see inside buildings thanks to AI

2022-05-13T12:06:00-04:00

Google launched a new mode for Maps on Wednesday, designed to give users a more real-life look at the places they’re going before they even go. The new Immersive View is sort of a Street View in the sky: you can look over a location from above to get a sense of the neighborhood and then drop to street level to see the specific spots you might want to hit up.

The feature was revealed at Google’s I/O 2022 Keynote address in which CEO Sundar Pichai also introduced a new flood forecasting feature and expanded capabilities of the 15-year-old Maps project made possible through advancements in AI technology. Pichai says the company now has 1.6 billion buildings and over 60 million kilometers of road to date as part of the project.

The Immersive View feature will now allow the interiors of a good portion of them to be seen using a machine learning technique called neural rendering. Pichai used London's Westminster area as an example and said the feature is useful in providing pedestrian and vehicle congestion information to users in real-time.

Real-time architectural visualization receives a boost with Enscape 3.3

2022-04-13T20:09:00-04:00

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Architects and designers can enjoy a more refined design workflow thanks to the creators of the popular real-time visualization plugin, Enscape. New features including Site Context and Alpha Channel Export plus support for SketchUp 2022 have just been released with the latest version, Enscape 3.3.

A recognized leader within the AEC industry, Enscape is renowned for being a fast and simple rendering plugin for modeling software such as Revit and Rhino. The tool supplements the design process, empowering architects to rapidly test ideas, walk through their rendered project, and show clients exactly what is being proposed in a comprehensible format. With Enscape 3.3, the new features and functionality are set to improve both the design and the client experience.

“We’re always looking for new ways to support our customers’ design workflows,” said Petr Mitev, VP of Visualization Product Group at Enscape. “With our latest release, we’ve automated s...

Artist Nick Relph is turning New York’s development boom into digital art ‘scans’

2021-11-20T09:00:00-05:00

Relph’s collection might be described as the first post-internet expression of the genre. The images mostly show buildings that are, in one sense, real or in the process of becoming so. But the rendering posters, created by design firms and developers, are also highly fictive, cinematic branding documents created to comply with a city law requiring public images of buildings under construction.

The arch flaneur Nick Relph has been documenting the city’s whirlwind transformation since the Gulliani administration and, for the past seven years, incorporating a VuPoint digital scanner into his work to produce a physical record of the changes that first made its debut in 2015 in MoMA PS1’s Greater New York survey.

Relph’s new book, called Eclipse Body & Soul Syntax, hit the shelves this month from publisher Pre-Echo.

“It was really about just having the scanner with me in my bag when I was walking around,” the 42-year-old Relph told the Times’ Randy Kennedy. “I’m a walker. That’s how I make work, generally speaking. I just couldn’t ignore these posters, these very stark images. I pay attention to images. And the purpose of these is in one sense clearly defined and in another not at all.”

Image courtesy Pre-Echo Press

10 new architectural student projects for your Friday inspiration

2021-10-15T15:24:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Student Work.

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↑ PROT/MAD_[VN+CL+NN]_XX.X: an urban-logistical experiment for the center of Madrid by Ismael Medina Manzano

↑ Through Thick and Thin (Thesis Project) by Maneh Tahmasian (learn more about this project here as part of Archinect's popular Thesis Review series)

↑ VOF - The design of an observatory and its "shell" (Thesis Project) by Francesco Flore

↑ Building Project Proposal by Shelby Wright, Chris Cambio, Kate Fritz, Hiuki Lam, Isabel Li, and Michelle Qu

↑ District 2-Thu Duc city - Ho Chi Minh City by Tram Huynh Nguyen

↑ CIUDAD CASA DE ARTE by Mariam Aramyan

↑ EXTRA ATRIA (Thesis Project) by Armida Isabelle Saspa

↑ Museu...

Studio update: 10 architectural student projects that stood out this week

2021-07-16T19:10:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

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↑ The Slab Tower by Myriem Rhmari Tlemcani with Yongki Sunarta and Gyuhyeon Choi

↑ Urban Moss Garden by Chenyang Yu

↑ OUROBOROS CITY : THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF MAANSHAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT by Hao-Yeh Lu

↑ Puzzled Assemblies by Victoria Carvajal with Blake Minster and Liu Quiao

↑ Institute of Power and Subversion - Covert and Tactical Architecture by Gerald Titus

↑ Schaulager by Megan Adam

↑ WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT by Dharsini Kalaiselvan

↑ Nature is Nature by Khalid Alharbi

↑ Catastrophe by Michael Marun

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10 architectural student projects we liked this week

2021-03-12T14:08:00-05:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

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↑ Datamoshing Tower by Xiaonan Yang

↑ Master Thesis: Manifested Tectonic--In Search of Theatricality by Ching Huen Leung

↑ Spider Behaviour by Settawut Leenavong

↑ Boyant Ecologies. The cultural extension by Hardik Bhimani in collaboration with Vaidehi Davda & Carlos Miranda

↑ The Stellar City by Donna Simon in collaboration with Kayla Soler and Ellin Minogue

↑ Maquetas by Gilberto Villalobos II

↑ Metaplas: 3D Printed Multi-Polymers by Prapatsorn Lertluechachai in collaboration with Betty Chavez Angeles, Marwah Osama, and Wisnu Hardiansyah

↑ Saint Christina School by Jorge Sobrevilla Cruz

↑ Rhizcity by Jon Mar in collabo...

From the studios: 10 architectural student projects for your Friday inspiration

2021-01-15T17:22:00-05:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

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↑ Museum of London by Xiaonan Yang

↑ Re-Urban: Multi-Family Modular Housing by Raphael Montoya

↑ Resurrecting Rander by Kartik Shah

↑ Interior Troposphere by Marques Fallejo

↑ CORPORATE URBANISM: TIME FRAMING OF CYBERNETIC CITY_ NEO-SUWON-SAMSUNG by Rico Kwok

↑ Stripscape by Ching Huen Leung with Margaret Mary Frank

↑ light instrument by Xinzhi Chang

↑ Spatial Implications of COVID-19 by Christina Brown with professor Nida Rehman

↑ Un-massed Monument by Ngoc Ma

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Studio update: 10 new architectural student projects for your Friday inspiration

2020-10-30T16:40:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

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↑ Arts District Multiplex by Joe Mihanovic

↑ Sur-otic, Ecotherapy by Dominique La France

↑ BLURRED BORDER by Zixuan Zhang

↑ Zero Energy High Rise by Diastika Lokesworo

↑ A Basilica for Italian Syncretism by Allen Bell in collaboration with Julian Chow

↑ Bronx Housing by Morgan Parrish

↑ TERRAIN FLATS by Christina Drexel

↑ Archipelago of Autonomy by Jason Macarlino

↑ Baltimore Museum of Art Installation in Baltimore, MD by Collin Kroll in collaboration with Morgan State University architectural design students

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From the studios: 10 new architectural student projects for your Friday inspiration

2020-07-17T14:10:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

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↑ Urban Stair by Ling Sha and team; Professor: William T. Cannady, Douglas Oliver

↑ Ma: Healthcare Design by Andrea Porras

↑ Inhabiting The Abstract by Louiza Chilian

↑ The Oneiric House Concept Studies: The Attic & the Cellar by Javier Benavides; Studio Advisor: David Ruy

↑ WORKING WHILE LIVING by Shuang Yan

↑ Growing Curiosity by Javier Martin de la Fuente in collaboration with Jan-Niklas Klein

↑ A Sanctum of Narratives and Memories by Ujjayant Bhattacharyya

↑ Reformative Modernity by Jingyuan Zhang in collaboration with Chun-Chang Tsai; GSAPP Instructor: Mimi Hoang; TA: Eugenie Bliah

↑ Urban Acupuncture: Community For...

10 architectural student projects for your Friday inspiration

2020-05-08T07:00:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

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↑ /'sooper/ Market by William Kim and Jihae Jeon

↑ Hybridizing Typologies by Elena Echarri Myers and Paige Burke

↑ Follies in the Postindustrial Garden Halic Imperial Shipyard, Istanbul by Wenhao Xu

↑ 57 Blecker Street: NYU Student Housing by Emily Mason and Amanda Herring

↑ Temporary City by Teo Biocina

↑ Light Therapy Chambers in Seattle Public Library by Mai-Anh Doan

↑ Cybioc Morphologies by Abdurrahman Baru

↑ TRAVELOGGED by Madhubala Ayyamperumal

↑ Master of Architecture Thesis: Chicago Mobile Makers by Maya Bird-Murphy

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10 new architectural student projects for your Friday inspiration

2020-03-06T15:17:00-05:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

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↑ Sharing Architecture by Ogulshat Amanova

↑ This is [Not] a Hive by Wenhao Xu and Nikos Kalantzopoulos

↑ Art, Trash, Island by Wonhee Cho, Byung-uk Lee, Phillip Hood

↑ Concrete Kindergarten + Playscape by Sophya Vega

↑ Analytic watercolor painting by Hymavathi Vennapusa

↑ 21st Century Pier by Kevin Takenaka

↑ Light and Wind Reflection by Kyungyoon Bae and Ha Brian

↑ Revitalizing Jefferson by Adina S. Banayan with two partners

↑ Thesis: Gangster's Paradise by Simone Salame

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10 architectural student projects we liked this week

2019-11-15T03:00:00-05:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

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Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Student Work.

↑ Thick Facades by William Maya

↑ San Francisco Recreation Center by Xiaoyu Ma

↑ Legazpi Market Revitalization by Sulgi Cho, Ariana Diaz, Chabeli Rodriguez

↑ The Corner of the North Sea by Raya Shaban

↑ BFA Thesis - Perpetual Mechanism of Change by Mollybeth Ferari

↑ Havana Food Port by Gonzalo Nicolau

↑ Hyper Hook by Yu-Te Chiang

↑ Comata by Bartlett Urban Design students; Programmer: Anthony Alvidrez

↑ Destabilized Control by Alexander Brown, Saina Xiang, Kyunghyun Kim

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10 fresh architectural student projects for your Friday inspiration

2019-07-26T07:00:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles.

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↑ Tuttle Creek Interpretive Center by Wanqing Zhao

↑ Beyond same surface by Yu-Te Chiang

↑ Hand Sketches by Martha Marban

↑ ELECTRIC RUSH: A Monastic HydroPower Plant by Khushboo Gupta

↑ Vortex_Innovative modular housing project by Mengyu Yu

↑ TETRIS by Camille Rabany

↑ Snake on the water by Alessandro Puglierin

↑ The Equalizer Shelter by Edward Munthe

↑ Hybrid Plastiglomerate by Apoorva Tadimalla with Jainika Shah

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10 distinct architectural student projects for your Friday inspiration

2019-03-29T09:00:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

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Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Student Work.

↑ Broad Channel Recreation Center by Emily Yuen in collaboration with Brandon Conrad

↑ DDBC Residence 7: Sentinel House in Tucson, AZ by University of Arizona, CAPLA Design Build Studio students (team members: Diya Hu, Farhaan Khan); Photo: Valen Chan

↑ Childhood spaces - an open system of components by Guillermo Gómez

↑ Montessori Kindergarten School by Junru Xu

↑ Aurum by Francesco Presutti with Ismini Kavallari

↑ Community Center in Lisle-sur-Tarn, France by Nastasia Giraud

↑ 2018 Winner of NJIT Design/Build Masonry Competition by Henry Ricatto with collaborators

↑ Atlas of Overexploited Territories – Baltic Sea by ...

This AI converts simple sketches into photorealistic landscapes—and architecture will be next

2019-03-20T15:10:00-04:00

Today at Nvidia GTC 2019, the company unveiled a stunning image creator. Using generative adversarial networks, users of the software are with just a few clicks able to sketch images that are nearly photorealistic. The software will instantly turn a couple of lines into a gorgeous mountaintop sunset. This is MS Paint for the AI age.

The GauGAN image creation system Nvidia presented this week is an impressive foreshadowing of AI's rapid advancement into creative fields, like art and architecture—and a frightening example of the increasing ease of producing (nearly) photorealistic inauthentic imagery.

Screenshot of the GauGAN app. Image: Nvidia.

The possibilities of this crude demo tool for future, more sophisticated architectural application are hauntingly plentiful, and the company already hints at exactly that in its announcement: "GauGAN could offer a powerful tool for creating virtual worlds to everyone from architects and urban planners to landscape designers and game developers. With an AI that understands how the real world looks, these professionals could better prototype ideas and make rapid changes to a synthetic scene."

Demonstration of Nvidia's GauGAN system. Video via Nvidia on YouTube.

Since neural networks generate creations based on the set of images they have been trained on, will the creative r...

Render vs Reality: Mecanoo nails it. Take a look.

2019-02-12T15:38:00-05:00

We've all seen them: photorealistic, high-gloss architectural renderings of new, flashy projects, and then—a few years later—the actual, built reality looks nothing like the too-good-to-be-true visualizations the public was sold on. Natural light, the lack of natural light, dust, humidity, material changes, shoddy construction, and (yikes!) human interaction can drastically widen the gap between the commission-winning, highly publicized, sometimes even iconic renderings and the real building we're left with for eternity.

The team at Mecanoo is all too aware of the phenomenon and has created the Pinterest board "Render vs Reality" where the Dutch firm proudly shows off an array of its completed projects from around the globe side-by-side with the architectural illustrations of these buildings, such as the National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts, Library of Birmingham, Tilburg LocHal Library, and the brand new Shenzhen Longgang Cultural Centre.

↑ Interior Design of LocHal Library in Ti...

How VR may be the bridge firms and educators need to share architecture

2019-02-08T10:37:00-05:00

Thanks to Hugo Gernsback and his influence on science fiction and technology, his 1963 TV Glasses invention was a stepping stone for the evolution of virtual reality. Fast forward 50 years and VR is now an accessible and viable option for almost everyone, especially architects and designers.

According to the AIA's 2018 firm survey, The Business of Architecture, it has been recorded that 67 percent of large firms are utilizing VR technology within their practice. With relatively affordable VR options like the Oculus Rift, Google Daydream, and Samsung Gear, almost anyone can purchase the technology to integrate virtual reality into their design process. However, with its apparent accessibility, has VR become a critical factor in successfully communicating architectural ideas to groups like clients and students? Only so much can be seen in drawings and renderings. Architecture must also be felt to be understood, and perhaps leaping into virtual reality is a viable step.

Samsung’s Mobi...

10 crisp architectural student projects for your Friday inspiration

2018-11-16T13:39:00-05:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

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Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Student Work.

↑ Farnsworth House ~ Visitors Center by Adam Ballard; Professor: Sarah Lorenzen

↑ DESIGN OF CITIES by Zhifei Chen

↑ The Space Between: A Momument to Displaced by Deborah O'Connell

↑ UTOPIA by Raluca Uner

↑ Flexible High-Rise by Rok Perme

↑ The Dream Chamber by Genesis Li

↑ Defencing Gracie Mansion by Mengxi Gao; Instructor: Ziad Jamaleddine

↑ Combinatory House by Fanghui Ge; Instructor: Thom Mayne, Eui-sung Yi

↑ Abstract Objects with Character by Yujue Wang

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Disappear Here: architecture and video games

2018-11-13T13:24:00-05:00

North London video game developer, Shedworks, have developed a specially commissioned film for our exhibition Disappear Here: On perspective and other kinds of space, in collaboration with Sam Jacob Studio. We spoke to Greg Kythreotis, co-founder of Shedworks, to find out more about how the video came about and the processes behind it.

RIBA interviews Greg Kythreotis, co-founder of video game studio Shedworks; talking about his involvement in the current Disappear Here: On perspective and other kinds of space exhibition at the RIBA Architecture Gallery in London, the collaboration with Sam Jacob Studio, and potential overlaps between architecture and video games in respect of the 'perspective' theme.

"Whilst the history of perspective and architecture are incredibly intertwined," Kythreotis explains, "I also think that, by virtue of historically being rendered on a screen, video games also have an incredibly rich history of exploring perspective. Whether orthographic, more realistic renderings or complete distortions and warpings of perspective, I would love to see the overlaps between mediums be explored in even more depth."

Central Park's long forgotten design alternative

2018-11-09T19:03:00-05:00

The iconic landscape of New York wouldn't be complete without a view of Central Park. But, what if the beloved New York staple could have looked different? It's hard to envision Central Park any other way, but after the uncovering of a long forgotten park plan was rediscovered renderings could prove otherwise.

In 1858, a design competition invited individuals to submit their ideas for the construction of, at the time, an area of unused space. For a prize of $2000, submissions had to include various features ranging from a fountain, skating arena, parade ground, four major cross streets, and a room for an exhibition hall.

After reviewing 33 potential park designs two individuals by the name of F.L. Olmsted and C. Vaux and their plan, "Plan Number 33," was selected. Thanks to their submission Central Park loo...

Fresh from the studios: 10 architectural student projects for your Friday inspiration

2018-07-20T09:00:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

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Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Student Work.

↑ The Test Bed by Carolyn Tam

↑ C SOFA by Salman Basharat

↑ Collaborative Galleries in Chelsea by Xinxin Li with Ran An

↑ Organic Elegance by Annabelle Roper with Jasmin Goldberg

↑ Toronto Mixed Use Mat-Typology by Levi Mullan

↑ JERICHO [Art Center] by Nayef Mazraani

↑ Architecture After the End of Work by Jason Minor

↑ Architecture Portfolio by Joseph Young

↑ Textile Workshop + Co-working space by Hoi Yee Lim

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Studio update: 10 fresh architectural student projects for your Friday inspiration

2018-02-23T09:00:00-05:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

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Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Student Work.

↑ Heterotopia - Loose Space for an Edge City by Volodymyr Babii

↑ The Grid by Kevin Welch

↑ Sceneries by Luca Gamberini

↑ Studio 603_ UNM by Hirbod Norouzianpour

↑ Denver Mixed-Use by Kevin Takenaka

↑ Apple_Wall_ by Rachel Martinez & collaborators

↑ Thesis by Hanxi Wu

↑ III. ART/FORM STUDIES by Michiel De Houwer

↑ Newtown Coop by Trisha Arts

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Fresh from the studios: 10 new architectural student projects for your Friday inspiration

2017-11-03T04:00:00-04:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding student projects on various Archinect People profiles.

(Tip: use the handy FOLLOW feature to easily keep up-to-date with all your favorite Archinect profiles!)

Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Student Work.

↑ Generational Land by Luca Gamberini (Luca was one of the top winners in Archinect UK's recent Portfolio Competition 2017, ranking among the judges favorites and earning the coveted title 'Best Archinect Profile')

↑ Inside Out by Begum Baysun

↑ Shake Pavilion by Edgar Eduardo Moreno with Daniel Ivan Garcia

↑ Floating on water by Yue Zhang

↑ Huailai Winery by Valerie Hill and collaborator

↑ Transportation Hub - Train Terminal + Bus Terminal + Boat Terminal by Alberto Barbetti

↑ Beer Workshop by Paul-Andrei Burghelea

↑ anti-junkyard by Hannah Miller

↑ Student Design Build in San Anselmo, CA by Academy Of Art University ...