‘Architects and the City’ will be the thematic focus for WAF’s 40 hour seminar programme this year. Speakers will examine the contribution architects can make and the way they affect, and are affected by, politics, infrastructure, planning, communities and technology.
Design: Metropole Architects. Under the leafy canopy of an immense Albizia Tree nestles Aloe Ridge House, a 300sqm contemporary home in the Eden Rock Estate on Kwa Zulu Natal’s South Coast of South Africa.
Summit House, London EC2 office development – design by Astudio Architects – Summit House redevelopment: Wilson Street property, City of London EC2 building
Professor Andy MacMillan OBE FRIAS: GK&C, Glasgow, Scotland, UK – former architect at Gillespie Kidd & Coia, Scottish architecture practice news and photos
Singapore Festival of Ideas for the City, Building, Architecture Event, Architects Archifest Singapore SIA Festival of Ideas for the City: Architectural Event in Southeast Asia 18 Aug 2014 Archifest, Singapore Location: Singapore Archifest, a Festival of Ideas for the City Returns for Eighth Year with New Theme – ‘CROWD’ 26 Sep – 11 Oct 2014 … Read more
The fact that the best potential views are generated towards such a complicated orientation for sunlight at this latitude, results in a volume that not only opens towards the context, but is also protected to the sun incidence, generating a very peculiar volume and personality to the project
Cortes Island Residence, British Columbia home, Canada – design by Balance Associates, Architects – Cortes Island house, BC: Canadian residential architecture
Waiatarua House: The brief was for a new house on a challenging, steep site in a bush clad creek gully. One of the design challenges was to insert a bold intervention into a sensitive bush reserve whilst still maintaining a sense of modesty and poetic.
Window of Guangzhou, Guangdong Office Development, Chinese Architecture Window of Guangzhou, China Chinese Office Building Development – design by Atkins 15 Aug 2014 Guangzhou Office Development Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong, China Design: Atkins Atkins designs the iconic Window of Guangzhou An unusual Atkins-designed office development will become the new icon of Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong … Read more
This pristine contemporary home, Pearl Bay Residence is located on the west coast 90kms north of Cape Town – bordered by a nature reserve adjoining the ocean.
Forward-thinking construction techniques require pioneering solutions. That’s why DuPont™ Tyvek® FireCurb™ Housewrap – an innovative breather membrane designed with both safety and sustainability in mind.
For something to be sustainable it has to be able to continue developing itself. Sustainable architecture is the result of continual dialogue with the client and the understanding of the influences of the context and the characteristics of the site.
The Aldea House’s site is located in front of a golf course. On the first visit to the site the amount of native trees that were in the place resulted very remarkable.
Sunshine Canyon Residence was, in a way, created by the Fourmile Canyon Fire of 2010. The owners, who lost their home in that fire, wanted to rebuild near their original home site. Embracing the beauty of the burned landscape, they chose a steeply sloped southern facing site, also burned by Fourmile fire.