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2 months ago
Time it took to erect Europe’s biggest 3D-printed building — The Wave House, a data center in Heidelberg, Germany — measuring 600 m2 (6,600 sf): 140 hours René Ammann
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on 2/12/24
Rough number of clusters of fast-growing white willows that will graft together to form the Fab Tree Hab pavilion,... René Ammann
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on 11/30/23
Approximate number of people who follow the @african_brutalism account on Instagram, a collection of photos of African modernist and brutalist architecture (with 241 posts, as of today):... René Ammann
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on 10/23/23
Minimum number of birds that were killed on a single day in October, when they collided with a single Chicago building,... René Ammann
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on 10/9/23
Number of elements of the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) building designed by Swiss architect and 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate Peter Zumthor that, he says, René Ammann
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on 9/25/23
Cost of the world’s most expensive building — Islam's most sacred site and the largest mosque in the world,... René Ammann
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on 8/18/23
Number of outside windows an all-white stucco L-shaped single-level corner house in the town of Morelia, in Central Mexico, counts to make the clients feel secure: 0 René Ammann
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on 6/26/23
Size of the Floating Bamboo House 2 by Vietnam's H&P Architects, constructed from bamboo stems, leaves, corrugated iron, and bamboo screens, featuring a flexible interior layout and floating... René Ammann
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on 6/9/23
Share of all the rice straw produced in France, according to researchers at Atelier LUMA, that would be enough... René Ammann
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on 4/23/23
Share of the facade of the Reggio School in the Spanish city of Madrid that is covered by cork, creating a habitat for microbiological fungi as... René Ammann
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on 4/2/23
Price of a flat-pack home for landless people living in Bangladesh’s river deltas who are frequently forced to move to escape flooding, René Ammann
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on 12/1/22
Estimated share of US architecture firm billings so far this year that have come from renovation projects, not new construction: 52% René Ammann
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on 10/2/22
Number of people a bamboo shelter designed by architect Yasmeen Lari can house in flood-stricken Pakistan: 8 René Ammann
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on 7/6/22
Typical thickness of a wall made of mud (banco) that, in a country like Senegal, provides natural insulation from the sun and... René Ammann
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on 5/14/22
Amount paid at an auction for Casa Batlló: Living Architecture, a dynamic NFT (non-fungible token) by Turkish-American new media... René Ammann
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on 4/14/22
Thickness of walls at the base of the Monadnock Building, a landmarked 1891 building in Chicago's Loop, located two blocks away from the Consumers Building (1913) and Century Building (1915), René Ammann
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on 4/11/22
Factor by which the space per person in the Global North is greater than in the Global South: 6 René Ammann
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on 2/14/22
Number of people across the globe living in earthen homes: 1.7 billion René Ammann
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on 12/13/21
Price paid for a plot of virtual land in The Sandbox metaverse: $4.3 million (€3.8m) René Ammann
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on 11/14/21
Price of a salad bowl at Swedish retailer Ikea that served as an inspiration for MVRDV's Depot Boijmans Van... René Ammann
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on 7/5/21
Number of slender stone columns holding up a roof made entirely of patch-like stones in the "All Purpose" installation by Palestinian architects Elias and Yousef Anastas at the Venice... René Ammann
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on 4/26/21
Number of "ultra luxury" flats, each more than 3,000 square feet (279 m2), that sold for 219 million USD at Eden in Singapore, the city-state acclaimed for its attention to biophilia, René Ammann
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on 4/5/21
Number of skyscrapers up to 59 stories containing approximately 6,000 mostly rental apartments in the 12-acre development planned by the Canadian indigenous group Squamish First Nation in Vancouver, René Ammann
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on 3/30/21
Consecutive months architecture billings in the United States were in decline before turning positive in February: 11 René Ammann
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on 3/22/21
Price paid for Mars House, a purely virtual piece of architecture created by contemporary artist Krista Kim that is also the world's... René Ammann
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on 2/8/21
Reduction of the price of 300 homes in the federal state of Maharashtra, India, resulting from the... René Ammann
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on 1/25/21
Approximate number of staff Gensler, the world’s largest architecture firm, currently employing 2,506 architects, shed... René Ammann
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on 12/14/20
Share of United States workers who are employed in an occupation where exposure to COVID-19 occurs at least once per month: 18.4% René Ammann
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on 10/26/20
Share of US residents — of every age, sex, race and class category — who prefer Classical over Modern architecture, according to a recent... René Ammann
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on 9/7/20
Height of Vista Tower in Chicago, which includes 406 ultra-luxury residences over a 191-room five... René Ammann
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on 6/15/20
Percentage of registered architects in the United States who are Black women: 0.3% (just 2% are Black) René Ammann
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on 5/18/20
Year in which the Chinese government decided erecting skyscrapers over 500 meters are "not allowed" and buildings over 250 meters should be "strictly... René Ammann
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on 5/4/20
Width that desks in open-plan offices have shrunk over the years: 40 cm (15.75") René Ammann
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on 4/27/20
Share of U.S. architecture firms expecting revenue losses of 17% on average over the next three months: 94% René Ammann