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WeWork names BIG’s Ingels as its Chief Architect

BD+C

WeWork, the global network of cosharing workspaces with office locations in 65 cities and 21 countries, announced today that Bjarke Ingels, the Founding Partner and Creative Director of the architectural firm BIG, is now its Chief Architect.

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Russian Quintessential: Cantilever Pipe-Shaped Holiday Home

The Constructor

Moscow’s chief architect, Sergey Kuznetsov, designed a cantilever pipe-shaped holiday home named “Russian Quintessential” on the edge of a slope in.

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Ed Feiner, Driving Force Behind GSA's Design Excellence Program, Dies at 75

ENR Construction

Ed Feiner, who was instrumental in elevating the architecture of federal buildings as GSA's chief architect from 1996 to 2005, succumbed to a brain tumor at age 75.

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Harvard debuts HouseZero as a possible response to making existing buildings more efficient

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Snohetta was this project’s chief architect, and Skanska Teknikk Norway its lead energy engineer. The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) has completed the retrofitting of its 4,600-sf headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.,

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Harvard debuts HouseZero as a possible response to making existing buildings more efficent

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Snohetta was this project’s chief architect, and Skanska Teknikk Norway its lead energy engineer. The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) has completed the retrofitting of its 4,600-sf headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.,

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Can Bamboo Homes Help Solve the Climate Crisis?

Natural Building

Bamboo Living co-founder and chief architect David Sands is at the forefront of modern sustainable bamboo construction. His Hawaiian-based company specializes in creating bamboo homes. The giant bamboos are the fastest-growing woody plant on the planet.

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Civil Engineering Marvels- 5 Tallest Skyscrappers

The Constructor

Commissioned by Sears, Roebuck and Company, it was designed by chief architect Bruce Graham and structural engineer Fazlur Khan of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. It surpassed the World Trade Center, which itself had surpassed the Empire State Building only a year earlier.