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Creating a personal connection to the heritage of the client, the house on Cassell Street is referential of an ancient Byzantine building. The strong rectilinear form, made from natural stone, has a quality of looking older than it is – as though it ...
This seems an obvious truth, but we need to say it loud and clear. Urban intelligence is more than information processing. “What should a city optimize for?” Even in the age of peak Silicon Valley, that’s a hard question to take seriously. ...
Deforestation and climate change have triggered a housing crisis in West Africa but an ancient technique of earth-building could provide relief to millions Millions of households in the Sahel region of West Africa live under a growing ...
Our buildings can make us sick. In Google, the movement for healthy architecture may have gotten its most powerful ally yet The Mississippi River’s 85-mile course between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, snakes past 150 chemical plants and ...
From the architects: The architectural vision is integrated throughout the whole structure: 1. The house's geometry is regular, while the architectural concept of tempting the guest entering the house ("peeping through the keyhole") is achieved ...
People keen to explain architectural beauty usually take some building already thought beautiful and go on to describe how its various parts create qualities such as harmony, proportion, rhythm, scale ...
Maintaining a bright and healthy lawn isn't always as easy. These efforts require a lot more than regular watering and the occasional application of fertilizer. Unfortunately, however, many consumers ...
Ecocor is a construction firm that designs, manufactures, delivers and assembles high performance buildings throughout North America. Ecocor’s patent pending foundation and wall designs reduce ...
Seeing New York's new Second Avenue Subway, it can be hard to believe it’s actually real. That’s due in to part to the fact it’s taken almost a century to happen, yes, but also because of how, well, ...
Toronto-based development company baukultur/ca just recently completed the transformation of a 110-year-old house into a contemporary, highly sustainable home and, even though strictly modern, its ...
More than a year ago, the New York City Parks Department inaugurated the program Parks Without Borders. The idea? An obvious one: There are thousands of forbidding, disused, gated corners, squares and ...
On January 18, 1963, architect Minoru Yamasaki appeared on the cover of TIME magazine, his disembodied head floating amidst the neo-Gothic tracery, delicate tenting, and flower-shaped fountains of his ...
This alts and adds project involved converting an existing 1920’s duplex apartment into a house. The internal planning was modified including all new bathrooms, kitchen and fit out. The ...
Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava is loved for his striking designs and loathed for cost overruns. Will his £1bn project for Greenwich Peninsula stay on course? The Star Wars theme tune was ...
I’ve been writing about the relationship between political protest and the design of cities for more than 20 years, beginning with the senior thesis I produced as a terrifically naive undergraduate ...
House Justice involves alterations and additions to a two storey, semi-detached, Edwardian Queen Anne/Arts and Crafts style house listed on the state heritage inventory. The project begun with our ...
Genre-blurring vocalist Gaika teams up with director collective Factory Fifteen for a dreamlike world tour of the urban experience A dynamic study of four extraordinary cities is the latest film in ...
C.F. Møller Architects, artist Conrad Shawcross and developer Knight Dragon have completed a major new art and architecture collaboration for the Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy ...