Blasted buildings and bombs, tsunamis, tornadoes and typhoons highlight ‘cities in trauma’ in our daily news. Urban spaces bear the bruises and scars of these disasters. How are the reverberations of trauma to be understood in urban terms?
Ground was broken Thursday for Vietcombank Tower, the Ho Chi Minh City headquarters of Vietcombank and Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects’ first building in Vietnam.
The single granite monolith will be sited in the Darwin Centre garden at the Natural History Museum thanks to a £550,000 grant from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). It is expected to be completed next spring
Bruce Graham Architect, SOM Buildings, America, Design, Chicago, Sears Tower, Office Bruce Graham, Skidmore Owings & Merrill : Information Contemporary Architecture Practice in Chicago, USA 28 Oct 2010 Bruce Graham Tribute Late SOM Architect Bruce Graham Honored after Forty-Year Career in Chicago Tribute to Mastermind of the Willis (Sears) Tower and John Hancock Center Included … Read more
House for a musher is situated on a 20 acre plot at the edge of a small town surrounded by small lakes and meadows. The site is on a hill, left behind by the forces of the glacial moraine landscape.
The Danish building situated in Bjerringbro far away from the capital Copenhagen even went as far as getting cited by the World Architecture Community Awards
Designed for a young couple with two children, the house addresses the formal and informal needs of the family while taking advantage of the Southern California climate and views.
The refurbishment and extension of Scotstoun House may have been a relatively small project but it included many of the design issues which are particularly relevant today.
The starting point in the derivation of this house for an aquarium shop owner is the 600 sq-yard plot and the east sun. The program asked for four separate fish breeding tanks, an observatory which could double up as weekend living space, a private sleeping area and a caretaker’s suite.
Man’s obsession with marking out his land is not new. Even the World Bank currently has a program dedicated to assigning land tenures to vulnerable populations.
This project lays bare two secrets of the New Dutch Waterline (NDW), a military line of defence in use from 1815 until 1940 protecting the cities of Muiden, Utrecht, Vreeswijk and Gorinchem by means of intentional flooding.
Offering an in-depth consideration of the impact which humanities have had on the processes of architecture and design, this book asks how we can restore the traditional dialogue between intellectual enquiry in the humanities and design creativity.
This house was designed by Tran Tien Khoa as architect of Sai Gon Bach Khoa Architectural Design company in Vietnam. The client’s required the design of a small area in her area accommodating a single family with two children.
Due to the redesign and recovery of the Historic Center of Mexico City, Paseo de la Reforma, one of the most important avenues of the city, reemerges as the most beautiful commercial, cultural and historic avenue of the metropolis.