Together with Cassion Castle Architects, London studio Pearson Lloyd has designed and retrofitted a Victorian workshop to house its own studio as well as workshops, meeting rooms and an exhibition space.

Yorkton Workshops is set on Yorkton Street in east London and comprises two distinct buildings a warehouse structure next to a Victorian workshop which the studios retrofitted to suit Pearson Lloyd's vision of its headquarters.

The designers came to the decision after initially looking at constructing a new building for the site.

"Before commissioning Cassion Castle, we spent a year looking into the feasibility of building a new building on the site," Pearson Lloyd co-founder Tom Lloyd said.

"However, we finally made the decision that we wanted to make the absolute most of the existing fabric of the building from both a sustainability point of view," Lloyd added.

"Over the long term, the embedded energy within the existing fabric far outweighs any reduced efficiency in its thermal performance where we have not been able to upgrade its performance through insulating."

When the studio acquired the 560-square-metres (6027-square-foot) Yorkton Workshops in 2017 it was "a mess," it said, but it worked to keep much of the original design.

"Working with the existing fabric of the building, the ambition was to express the old and new in as honest a fashion as possible," co-founder Luke Pearson added.

"We have left as much of the original fabric exposed as we can and wanted to maintain the sense that we are working in workshops, as this was the original function of the buildings."

Elements that were kept from the external envelope were updated, including the concrete ground-bearing floor slabs, and new roofs were added. A large industrial-steel staircase now welcomes guests into the entrance area.

"The environmental impact of all design decisions was prioritised from the outset," Cassion Castle Architects founder Cassion Castle told Dezeen.

"This started with the early decision to retain as much of the existing structure as possible to reduce embodied carbon," he added. "In addition a range of measures were employed in order to reduce the energy consumption in use including super-insulation and air-tightness, photovoltaics, and passive user comfort."

"We also recycled many of the materials from the demolition back into the finished building."

Yorkton Workshops had a number of constraints that Cassion Castle Architects, which was also the main contractor, worked around.

"In some cases the existing material was very uneven, but structurally sound and full of character, so we retained and worked with it, instead of just removing it for the sake of ease," Castle said.

"As a company we often work as both architect and main contractor as we did on this project. This combined role enabled a more reactive ongoing design process whereby we would continually uncover something unexpected and re-detail around it."

The Victorian part of the building now houses meeting and events spaces, while the warehouse space holds workshops and studio space.

Pearson Lloyd wanted to retain a sense of being in a workshop and chose the materials for the project accordingly.

"Key choices include the wood-fibre acoustic ceiling, the steel stair, the workshop floor (made from the same material as stage floors and haulage trucks) and the reclaimed and refinished pitch pine floor," Pearson said.

"The orange staircase colour is drawn from the colours that tools and industrial equipment use to signal their function. Practical and universal and direct."

Yorkton Workshops also contains an outdoor garden, a roof terrace that bridges the Victorian and warehouse wings, and a gallery space.

"We are very interested in the idea of an event space that we can use to engage with the wider community of East London whether creative, social or educational," Lloyd said. "Hopefully this will emerge as a reality after Covid 19."

Pearson Lloyd moved into the studio in September of this year and is currently occupying it at reduced density because of Covid-19. The studio's recent work includes a tubular steel flat-pack chair for Danish brand Takt.

Cassion Castle Architects also worked with Tom Lloyd on a garden workshop that embraces "timber and craftmanship".

Photography is by Taran Wilkhu.

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Urban context of Shenzhen Science & Technology Museum Zaha Hadid Architects. Visualization by Slashcube

In true parametric fashion, the design team atZaha Hadid Architectsreveals their plans for a new museum located in Shenzhen, China. The new Shenzhen Science & Technology Museum will be the "pearl" of the city's technology and innovation corridor in the Guangming Science City. The latest visuals showcase voluminous forms and eye-catching undulating terraces, and U-shaped volume.

According to the team at Zaha, "The design is a volumetric response to the distinct conditions of the site. Responding to the city to the east, the design is defined by its solidity and dynamic curvilinear geometries that express the many urban circulation routes."

The museum is approximately 1,345,483 sq. f (125,000 sq.m) in size and is set to be a focal point for the area as a physical hub for Shenzhen as a leader in innovation and technology. According to the museum's design team, the new design exudes an "intuitive orientation and navigation" that focuses on the visitors' experience as they explore the site's interior and exterior.

The atrium courtyard opens out to the site's natural landscapes of Guangming Park. The building's layered terraces and curved facade are familiar staples to many of Zaha's designs. Its sleek and shiny exterior is complemented by its interior details, sustainability efforts, and building performance.

"Detailed computer modeling and wind tunnel testing have provided extensive analysis of thermal performance, natural lighting, wind levels and air quality to maximise the effectiveness of the buildings envelope in reducing energy consumption while ensuring visitor comfort and the preservation of its collection."

The museum has already generated responses from the public as on-site construction is now underway. Many celebrate the new museum design, while others express concerns about its carbon footprint and how it will respond to the area's climate. However, according to the project's official release, the museum's "full life-cycle performance and adaptability for future configuration are also evaluated and assessed to reduce embodied carbon and achieve the highest Three-Star rating of China's Green Building Evaluation Standard."

This year, the firm announced another Shenzhen project that aims to add to the city's expanding urban landscape, theOPPO Shenzhen headquarters.The museum is planned to be completed in late 2023.

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7 Louisiana Channel Interviews Exploring the Architecture, Thoughts and Design Values of Renowned Architects

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As a platform for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana Channel has been stimulating conversations around architecture, art, and the creative world at large. The architecture series provides fascinating insights into the thought process of distinguished architects and their work. Discover seven of the most inspiring interviews created over the past year, discussing a wide array of subjects from exemplary projects, to cities, to architects' design philosophy.

German architect Anna Heringer talks about the recently inaugurated Anandaloy centre in Bangladesh, a social space that became a catalyst for local development. The architect shares her commitment to sustainability and touches on the importance of the transfer of know-how to local communities through participatory building processes.

Junya Ishigami talks about Tokyo and what he sees as the defining traits of the vibrant and diverse metropole. Discussing what he likes about the city, the Japanese architect underlines Tokyo's polycentrism and explains how being made up of different small town allows the city to preserve its very local characteristics.

The architect speaks passionately about time as the most important human resource and why this notion should be applied to architecture: "Architecture outlives the human life." Anupama Kundoo reflects on the sense of urgency governing the current design process and urges architects to take time to rethink their work and refine their designs.

"Architecture, I believe, is necessary to mark collective memory." One of the leading contemporary American architects, Peter Eisenman, here shares the thoughts that went into building the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, and how he sought to transform a feeling of "being lost in space in time" into the memorial.

Jens Thomas Arnfred and Sren Nielsen, co-founders of the award-winning Danish practice Vandkunsten Architects, talk about nurturing the sense of community through design and reflect on the studio's preoccupation with planning in a way that gives the residents "a chance to meet each other and be together about something."

"If things created by humans should function next to natural things, the passing of time is necessary. Only the passage of time will bring forward the kind of landscape I want to create," says Junya Ishigami when talking about his award-winning project, the poetic landscape Water Garden.

Indian Pritzker Prize-winner Balkrishna Doshi narrates how he became an award-winning architect, his traditional Hindu beliefs and culture, and why he considers a building a living, growing organism.

To see more architecture videos, check ArchDaily's full coverage of Louisiana Channel's series of interviews.

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Many nations around the world are currently on a mission to reduce their carbon emissions within the next few decades. While one method is to rely more heavily on renewable forms of energy generation, some researchers are searching for ways to remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere altogether.

That's where strategies like carbon capture and storage could come in handy. However, most CSS solutions are pretty utilitarian and designed for industrial applications.

A French architectural firm has come up with an interesting concept for a "carbon eating" residential tower that might just be a vision of the future of city living.

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You've probably heard the term "carbon capture" before, but what exactly does it mean? More accurately called carbon capture and storage, CCS for short, is any use of technology that draws carbon dioxide from the air and storing it, for example, inundergroundgeological formations. The aim is to prevent the release of large quantities ofCO2into the atmosphere.

It more usually refers to capturing carbon dioxide at the source from fossil fuel-powered sources. but can also be applied to other post-emission technological solutions like "artificial trees" and carbon scrubbing towers, etc. When referring to other methods of capturing carbon dioxide, not from the source, the process is more commonly known as carbon sequestration.

For the former, some such technologies are capable of removing up to 90% of carbon dioxide from combustion gases in electrical generation and other industrial processes, such as cement production.

Carbon capture is achieved using various methods, including post-combustion, pre-combustion, and oxyfuel. The former, as the name suggests, removes carbon dioxide from flue gases from industrial processes.

Pre-combustion methods are those that occur prior to the fossil fuel actually being burned. This usually involves the conversion of the fuel into a mixture of hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

The latter, oxyfuel, involves the production of lower amounts of carbon dioxide through the use of almost pure oxygen during the combustion process. Post-combustion and oxyfuel technologies can be fitted to new plants or retrofitted to older ones.

Pre-combustion, on the other hand, requires large amounts of modifications to the existing plant in order to be installed. This makes it more viable for new builds.

Carbon capture and storage is, as you might imagine, an economic and technically challenging process. In fact, the IPCC has estimated that carbon capture and storage is likely to increase the cost of electricity generation by between one and five percent kilowatt-hour.

These estimates are, of course, entirely dependent on the fuel involved, technology, and location of CCS solutions.

As previously alluded to, carbon sequestration is, as defined by the USGS, "the process of capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide. It is one method of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere with the goal of reducing global climate change."

It is normally used in reference to the long-term storage of carbon in plants, solids, geological formations, and the oceans. This process can occur both naturally and also via some human activities.

The concept has received much interest over the last few decades in an attempt to increase the rate of carbon withdrawal from the atmosphere, through changes in land use and forestry, but also through some geoengineering techniques too.

One of the most common ways to sequester carbon dioxide is through the planting of trees and other vegetation, especially in urban areas.

There are various buildings and concepts for buildings that have the aim ofreducing carbon in buildings at their heart, but one of the most interesting is Mandragore.

One of the latest in carbon-free projects, the idea comes from the French architecture firm Rescubika. The firm proposes an enormous "green" residential tower building cited in New York City's Roosevelt Island. This ambitious building really pushes the envelope for sustainable design and also hopes to change the meaning of living in a dense urban environment.

The building is very bold in its design but it is also pretty easy on the eye. Mandragore was designed for the "City of Tomorrow Project," which envisions a carbon-neutral New York City by 2050.

To help achieve this, and fit the remit form carbon-free buildings for the city, Rescubika settled on using a carbon sink concept for the tower. This would mean going beyond simply being carbon-neutral, and making the building carbon negative building -- meaning it will absorb more carbon dioxide than it produces over its lifetime.

The building's design is, by all accounts, inspired by the human-like form of the mandrake plant.

While a nice idea in concept, could this building actually be made a reality?

The idea is to combine the very latest thinking in sustainable architectural techniques, such as maximizing the use of passive heating and cooling (e.g. stack ventilation), use of natural materials where possible, and incorporating a massive amount of vegetation.

According to the designers, the2300 feet+ (730+ meter) building would include somewhere in the region of 1,600 trees and almost 300,000 square feet of living plant walls over its 160 floors.

But the design goes much further than that. The architects also envisage the building following a concept of "energy sobriety". This concept calls for a shift in mindset when it comes to people's use of energy.

It would involve making different lifestyle choices to minimize a person's carbon footprint, and ultimately, impact on the environment.

For example, the building will be mixed-use, but not in the traditional sense. The design includes home offices that have been included to encourage residents to ditch the commute and enable them to work from the comfort of their own homes.

While the building is still in the conceptual phase, it may be a brief glimpse of the future of city living. Who knows, it may become the template for many future urban developments in the not too distant future!

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Charlotte Worthy Architects, a high-end residential Architecture firm in Manhattan, is seeking an Administrative Assistant for a part-time to full-time position. The Administrative Assistant would begin his/her role in a part-time capacity and transition into a full-time capacity.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

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* The ideal Administrative Assistant would be willing to learn AutoCAD to assist the Architects and Principals with various drawing tasks

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* In-office responsibilities will resume when the firm returns to the office.

Applicants should have strong communication, organization, time-management, and interpersonal skills. Proficiency in Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Adobe is required. We are looking for a professional, detail oriented, and energetic candidate to fill this role and are eager to fill the position with the right person. Please be willing to learn new skills and adapt to the demands of the position as they change and grow.

Interested parties should send a cover letter and resume toesther@charlotteworthyarchitects.com

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A WWE Hall of Famer, Pat was legendary for his contributions to the industry dating back to the late 50s. The first-ever WWE Intercontinental Champion, Pat was also the man who came up with the idea for the first-ever Royal Rumble, which has been one of the most legendary and memorable events in WWE for over three decades. In his book titled, Accepted: How the First Gay Superstar Changed WWE, Pat explained how he came up with the concept for the first Royal Rumble. The difference between WWEs Royal Rumble and a traditional over-the-top-rope battle royal is that the participants come into the match at two-minute intervals not all at the same time at the beginning of the match. I wanted to create something special. You did indeed, Pat.

I remember Pat being there for my very first match against Charlotte Flair at NXT Takeover in 2014. He was there all day backstage reminiscing with anyone who would let him share old stories. I specifically remember Pat with an iPad in his hand, sitting with Bret Hart at a table watching one of Brets matches. Pat was saying he wasnt great with technology, but someone helped him pull up a match of Brets on the iPad, and Pat was marvelling at Brets in-ring work. In any conversation Ive ever had with Pat, he expressed to me how much he loved watching Bret perform. The image of Bret Hart and Pat Patterson sitting together, laughing, reminiscing about the industry they both love, stuck in my head. I remember thinking of how legendary it was to see two of the greatest Superstars this industry has ever seen, from two different generations, talking about the sport they loved. It also reminded me of how WWE brings people together in the best and most unexpected ways.

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IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the first time ever, USC Architecture will recognize five honorees during next weeks 61st Annual USC Architectural Guild Awards. Among the distinguished honorees and selected to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award is Art Danielian, FAIA of Danielian Associates Architects + Planners.

This years honorees represent exceptional architectural thinking and business acumen that combine incredible design projects with thoughtful social impact. They are united in the local focus yet global reach of their work, said Milton S. F. Curry, dean of USC Architecture. We are so pleased to honor these talented professionals at our annual event that helps support student scholarship and programming, directly benefiting the next generation of architecture and design leaders.

Art Danielian is the founder and chairman of Danielian Associates Architects + Planners, an international architecture and planning studio with multiple office locations. Since its inception the firm has designed over one million units of housing and amassed nearly 700 awards on over 5,500 project sites around the world.

I am extremely honored to be the recipient of this years Lifetime Achievement Award, said Art Danielian, FAIA. The USC School of Architecture, Professors, and Deans truly shaped my career and my passion for the built environment. The strong foundation I received there was the springboard for my 50+ year career in the field of residential architecture.

Art received his bachelors degree from the USC School of Architecture in 1963. Opting to specialize in residential housing, he became a true pioneer in the field by integrating market research and the principles of market-driven design into his architecture and planning studio. He went on to introduce many residential design innovations throughout the course of his career, including the wide and shallow lot concept and combo-condos. Among his many accolades, Art Danielian became the first architect to be inducted into the California Building Industry Associations Hall of Fame.

About Danielian Associates

Led by a new generation of architects, Danielian Associates is an award-winning architecture and planning studio celebrating over 50 years of delivering extraordinary design. The firms culture celebrates its passion, creativity, and commitment to an art and science that is the foundation of the built environment. For more information, please visit http://www.danielian.com.

About the USC Architectural Guild

Founded in 1958, the USC Architectural Guild provides guidance and insight into real-world experiences for students beyond the classroom. The Guild encourages their alumni and non-alumni members and peers leaders in architecture, design, construction, engineering, finance, and real estate development to give back and lead the way in career development and mentorship. Through knowledge, networking, and know-how the Architectural Guild enriches and amplifies the USC education, inspiring architectural students to find purpose, meaning, and fulfillment in their pursuits.

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A thunderstorm raged in the background as I spoke to the architect Sumayya Vally over the phone from her hometown of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Luckily, the 30-year-old architect knows how to weather a storm. She has dedicated her career to pushing against conventional architectural practices in an effort to carve out a new design language for the African continent that celebrates its varied textures and cultures.

Vally is the brains behind this years prestigious commission to design the pavilion for Londons Serpentine Galleries. Its an honor that has been accorded to famous architects from Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid; shes the youngest to take up the mantle.

Vallys firmwhose name, Counterspace, expresses her interest in elevating the quotidianhas designed a pavilion focused on the theme of community gathering. The pavilion will include detachable components that will be placed in marginalized neighborhoods across London. Following community events at these locations, the parts will be returned to the central structure.

The projects aesthetic is inspired by gathering spaces common to those neighborhoods, fromopen-air markets to religious centers.It is really important for me that architecture not just includes people who are generally excluded from the discipline or from the profession, Vally says, but also draws on the workings of other places and the intelligences in those spaces.

Serpentine Pavilion 2020/2021 designed by Counterspace, Design Render, Interior View, Counterspace.

In this extraordinary year, the opening of the pavilion has been postponed to summer 2021. The delay has been a challenge for Vally, but she also sees value in having the extra research time and space to engage more deeply with the communities involved in the project. She hopes that the environment brought about by this years reckoning over racial justice will make audiences more receptive to her ideas.

When we touch on the critical attention she has received as a result of being tapped for the prestigious commission, Vally begins tearing up. She is finally being taken seriously, which she sees as a glimmer of hope and affirmation on a journey that has not always been easy.There are natural obstacles that come with being a woman and of color and being in the profession that Im in, she says.

The architect is Indian South African; she grew up in an Apartheid township in Pretoria that was previously an Indian-only area. Her grandfather was a migrant and a store owner in inner city Johannesburg, and she describes the long walks she took from his store to the Johannesburg Public Library as formative parts of her childhood. She recalls feeling struck by the juxtaposition between the imposing Italianate structure of the library and the rich textures of the citys streets.

A slice of London that inspired the design forms of the pavilion. Image courtesy Sumayya Vally.

Vallys home city has played a central role in shaping her understanding of land, place, and the power of architecture to connect people. But she gained this hard-won knowledge by seeing architectures potential as a weapon. She internalized the toxic infrastructure of Apartheid city planning, which used everything from radioactive mine waste dumps to sewage plants and industrial zones to segregate the races.

I think that all cities to a degree are like this, but Joburg is a really extreme example, Vally says.

Before the Serpentine commission, most of Vallys work has been closer to home, including a project for theBrixton mosque in Johannesburg in which Counterspace transformed the structure of an old Dutch church with a minaret of light that appears five times a day.

The architect will touch on the social impact of architecture and urban planning in a part-performance, part-lecture in the Serpentines art and ecology festival later this week. She will also take part in a conversation about zero-carbon architecture with architect Yasmeen Lari. Vallys design for the Serpentines pavilion includes bricks made from recycled rubbish; inventiveness and reuse are second nature, she says, given her roots in an area where resources are scarce.

Vally formed Counterspace with a group of students back when she was still a student at theUniversityof theWitwatersrand and the University of Pretoria. She had grown weary with the curriculum.

We were learning stuff that was about a first world or a developed world, and I just really felt the hunger to be working through things that were more in sync and in tune with what was happening around me in the city, Vally says.

Counterspace began as a side project alongside her full-time job as a researcher at established firms in the city, as well as various teaching responsibilities. Even in the most boring or the conventional work, I did try to push my own agenda and expand the brief as much as I could and weave in a lot of research themes that we were working on, Vally says, adding that being able to easily code switch and inhabit multiple worlds at once became a particular strength.

I think for the most part conventional practices didnt really understand what I was doing or working on, she observes. We were perceived as outliers and a lot of the time people didnt understand how it was architecture or related to the architectural profession.

Serpentine Pavilion 2020/2021 designed by Counterspace, Design Render, Exterior View Counterspace.

Today, Vally is more confident in her own position as an outlier, and she is optimistic about how architecture can be a force for change, particularly within her own context in Joburg, and more broadly across the Global South. There is so much richness that is waiting to be translated into new design forms, she says.

Today, she is inspired by architecture that is not static, or interested in memorializingthinking about design as an expression of embodiment is what lights her up. Architecture, as she sees it, can be akin to performance and ritual; more expression than edifice.

Other architects often ask me if I have aspirations to build, she says. I absolutely have aspirations to buildI just want to build differently.

Sumayya Vally will be in conversation with architect Yasmeen Lari on December 6 as part of the Serpentines free online arts and ecology festival. Her filmIngesting Architectureswill also be screened as part of the event.

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The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features the conversion of an abandoned hospital in western Germany into an office.

David Chipperfield Architects has turned the former St Vincenz Hospital in Paderborn into a new headquarters for Tap Holding a family-run company in the DIY-craft market.

Originally built as a monastery, the building's hidden historic walls were revealed during the renovation and three new office wings built.

One reader said the office is "so beautiful it takes my breath away".

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Ukraine is seriously considering the imposition of sanctions on the Viennese Coop Himmelb(l)au architecture firm and its director, Wolf Prix, for involvement in the Kremlin's project on construction of an opera house in the occupied Sevastopol.

"For some time now, rumours have been circulating about Coop Himmelb(l)au's involvement in Putin's flagship project in Crimea: the construction of an opera house in the occupied Sevastopol. In early October, I called the firms director, Wolf Prix, and tried to persuade him not to ruin his reputation by participating in this indirect and yet unequivocal legitimization of the annexation," Ambassador of Ukraine to Austria Oleksandr Shcherba posted on Facebook.

As the Ambassador noted, the director of Coop Himmelb(l)au, unfortunately, rejected his arguments.

"At the present stage, when the rumours are vividly confirmed by the Russian media, I have no choice but to express my regret and inform architect Prix that Ukraine is seriously considering the imposition of sanctions on him and his bureau. Our partners around the world will be informed that once respectable architecture firm now concludes dubious agreements with Putin," Oleksandr Shcherba stressed.

Earlier, director of the Coop Himmelb(l)au Viennese architecture firm, Wolf Prix, confirmed in a comment to the APA Austrian news agency the fact of his bureau's involvement in two projects in Russia: construction of a museum and theatre complex in Russias city of Kemerovo and construction of an opera house in the occupied city of Sevastopol, Crimea.

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