News New entry/junior-level job opportunities in New York City News New NEOM documentary features Thom Mayne, Peter Cook, Reinier de Graaf, and other architects speaking highly of The Line megacity project News OMA, BA Collective, Delson or Sherman Architects, and Joeb Moore & Partners are...
“After signing the contract to elevate a structure, workmen dug near the existing foundation and cut holes into it in order to place heavy timbers or blocks under the building. Next, they set screw jacks in place and adjusted them. The size of the jacks depended on the job; for instance...
I asked no further questions. Why should I have done so; their expressions told me everything. If I were to try today to probe the feelings that stirred me then, if across the span of a lifetime I attempt to analyze what I really felt — pity, irritation, embarrassment, or indignation...
There is light. Ample, even excessive daylight from all directions renders the usually humble interior spaces with an impressive aura. It is by the openings (windows, tunnels, wells, you name it) of light that ZHANG Ke take his boldest adventures into materiality and body space. There is mat...
The site is well served by subsidized commuter rail and it has ebbed and flowed in its relationship to both New York City and New York State over the past half century as a job base or as a social or commercial hub. Our work will explore combining housing with the LIRR Station and the...
engineering feat–but it doesn’t have the aesthetic values that the Pont du Gard does, with its arches that are the same size, on the lower story, and then in the upper story it doesn’t have the appeal aesthetically, visually, that the Pont du Gard does; but it does its job. ...
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News New entry/junior-level job opportunities in New York City News New NEOM documentary features Thom Mayne, Peter Cook, Reinier de Graaf, and other architects speaking highly of The Line megacity project News OMA, BA Collective, Delson or Sherman Architects, and Joeb Moore & Partners are...
With the traditional building methods, it was a hard job for the local masons to cover the dome diameters of more than 15 or 16 m. The dome had the shape of a hemisphere, egg-like, of a cone. The cone-like domes had two kinds of external views: smooth-gradient and stepped [33]....