The latest entry in the Deans List series, with USC Architecture Dean Brett Steele generated some discussion with Thayer-D and Will Galloway both ultimately agreeing that "North America cities are not being built in the nicest way right now. Lots of...car-dominated planning in general that does not compare well with what we did in the past…Somehow we seem incapable of that kind of outcome with our current planning laws and economy."
Plus, in celebration of International Coffee Day Archinect picked a few favorite examples of new café designs. Bench appreciated the "breadth of projects shown here across cultures. Really lovely work happening in far flung corners of the world that i never would have seen otherwise. Awesome article, more of this".
The new NCARB Competency Standard for Architects outlines 16 key competencies. Donna Sink felt "These all seem reasonable". For their part bennyc thought "16 is a big change and valuable addition" while archanonymous had to admit "I bristle at paying the NCARB dues every year but at least they have some function and value in the profession - seeing something like this come out (basic as it may be) really puts it in contrast to the AIA".
According to Astute Analytica the global market for digital twin buildings will reach a projected market size of $20.2 billion by the year 2032. Yet monosierra wasn’t so sure, as in their experience "Very few developers are willing to pay for a live digital twin. Owner occupied institutions maybe."
ICYMI a Diller Scofidio + Renfro led project will create a "hub for the next generation of artists and musicians to call home at the University of New Mexico’s main Albuquerque campus". Orhan Ayyüce was impressed with the "Beautiful form and engineering" though Gary Garvin and sameolddoctor were skeptical the "massive cantilever" wings would make it to production.
Al-Jawad Pike's Chowdhury Walk won the 2024 Neave Brown Award for Housing. JLC-1 and midland both liked what they saw "beautiful", "charming and subtle".
Folks were given a look inside BIG’s brand new HQ in Copenhagen. Janosh had some quibbles "Characteristic of BIG press releases, this one is a bunch of marketing hooey. As Arun notes, this concrete building has enormous embodied carbon from the unnecessary use of concrete (Bjarke justifies it as necessary because of the marine site - so why put it there?)".
Canyon House in Salt Lake City, UT, by Sparano + Mooney Architecture and 436 Indiana Street House in Lawrence, KS, by Studio 804 are just two of the latest top images (in no particular order) from the Archinect Pinterest board Metal.
R.I.P. Curtis J. Moody, a trailblazing architect and founder of Moody Nolan. poop876 lamented "Huge loss for the community!"
In early October, the superstructure of the Taloyoak High School in Nunavut, designed by Parkin Architects, was completed and the team was working hard to enclose the buildings before winter.
More recently Markus Gröteke was working on photos of an office building in Baloise Park, Basel by Valerio Olgiati.
Architect Charles Bloszies, FAIA and his team proposed NowHouse, a tiny home inspired "by the wood-framed, cedar-shingled ‘earthquake cottages’ created in response to San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake and fire".
Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design runs through January 5th at the Craft Contemporary arts museum in Los Angeles. the show features contributions from Penn State researchers Felecia Davis, Benay Gürsoy and their teams at Computational Textiles Lab (SOFTLAB) and Form and Matter Lab (ForMat Lab) respectively.
Columbia GSAPP shared details of a student-led, temporary inflatable Cloud structure in Avery Plaza. Contra some, Donna Sink thinks "this is a very ambitious project for a group of students to pull off. It's lovely."
jcarch wanted to talk Shop Drawings.
Specifically they were hoping to confirm "it's the builder's responsibility to check that shop dimensions match the dims on our sheets." The short answer is that it is the "responsibility of the Contractor" though the longer answer involved references to B133. The OP had a follow-up "If we're not responsible for shop drawing dimension accuracy, but in reviewing a shop drawing I notice an incorrect dimension, do I"? graphemic and taz weighed in with archanonymous concluding "Anytime I've designed and then seen constructed a truly exceptional piece of architecture, I am operating far outside AIA201 or marking shop drawings as..whatever bullshit the lawyers want to come up with...Or rather, the process is designed for architecture at the level of strip malls and depressing 5 over 1 apartment buildings, not exceptional architecture with design and detailing at the highest level."
samoztan was looking for advice pricing out relatively similar designs for a few 1$ million + custom homes. Contra the OP’s inclinations chris-chitect advised "This isn't the workload of one house being repeated 3 times, in fact I would argue it's significantly more." When based on their own experience Professional Student suggested "Charge % of total construction cost. Don't cut yourself short. You will do CA on 3 properties, not just one" OddArchitect and Wood Guy argued "determining a fee with % of construction cost is problematic when the construction cost is under $2 million."
Finally, Donna Sink started managing a team last year and based on some recent client feedback is looking for strategies "to ensure that my folks consistently" communicate and follow-up. bennyc thinks it works best if you "Assign a project manager who handles client communications…Clients should not be reaching out to team members who are not managers / project managers…there should only be one dedicated person to do that." Others agreed "it's critical to establish the primary contacts from all stakeholders…regardless of scale, type, or complexity."
On a similar note, OddArchitect asked "What stratagems do you implement to engage in active listening to your client and design team?" ghwarton’s starts with "paraphrasing…back to them to make sure you understood…and asking them clarifying questions" What about you?
Turfiction "studies multispecies architecture inspired by the Icelandic turf house…We approach the island’s traditional architecture, which was brutally eradicated in the twentieth century, as a superorganism that consists of turf, complicated root systems, soil, fungi, microbes, water, lichen, stones, wood, insects, cows, sheep and humans. Acting as a wise interlocutor, the turf house impacts thinking about how future architecture can become accountable for forming new relations…The project reflects on the turf house ontology, socio-material entanglements, multispecies relations, time, and space as essential elements for creating architectural complexes of interdependent cohabitation and ecosystem thinking and doing…The project is carried out by anthropologists, ecologists, soil scientists, mycologists, botanists, microbiologists, artists and architects."
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