Architecture Fiction: Article by Brian Carter
Architecture originates in fiction – a mix of responses to people, places, things and ideas combined with the beliefs of designers and aspirations of clients – which precedes a building.
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Fire Safety in Stadiums, Fire-Rated Systems
A leading UK steel glazing company has supplied fire-rated systems to several Olympic, FIFA and other major stadiums. Wrightstyle’s technical director Lee Coates reports on fire safety.
Architectural Symbolism in Age of Instability
Architectural Symbolism in an Age of Instability – article by Joyce Hwang, Buffalo SUNY – Symbolic Architecture, Architectural Comment, Building Symbolism
Integration and segregation in architecture
The spaces are configured to allow for multiple views of the encompassing landscape. Inspired by the complex topology of the site, the development endeavors to weave the design with its natural surrounding.
Real or Synthetic Architecture: Brian Carter
However it is encouraging to discover this real material, made from the earth and showing traces of the hand, used to reclaim buildings for education in Cadiz and Granada and lining civic space in Almazan.
Residential Architecture in Japan, Homes
House in Yamasaki, by Tato Architects, is one more example that shows us the vitality of the recent residential architecture of Japan; a freshness associated with a recurrent play with tradition, a careful, quasi-clinical display of furniture and small objects
White Architecture: Timeless Buildings
This week’s selection of projects is simply driven by the color white. Associated with Classicism as well as Modernism, white has the allure of timelessness.
Tall Buildings by the River Thames: Skyscrapers
On a recent visit to the City of London I was bowled over by the rising ‘Walkie Talkie Building’. There are two major problems with this building. Firstly it just looks odd, in fact let’s not beat about the bush, it is ugly.
Mexico City Architecture Design, Mexican Buildings
Architecture has been a very important ingredient of my life. I am part of a family that has 4 generations of architects that have been importantly involved in the development of Mexico City
Burkina Faso Schools: African School Buildings
Construction starts on prototype school in Burkina Faso, West Africa. After a delay of a year and a half, construction will at last start this month on a £170,000 school building extension
CIS Tax Refunds, Construction Industry Scheme
While it may not be known by a lot of us in the United Kingdom, many Brits are owed money through a form of tax refund under the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS). Here is all you need to know about CIS Tax Refunds.
Material World, Architecture: Nigel Henbury
The Chinzombo Bush Camp in Zambia, Africa by Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens for an established eco-tourism client uses modernist and contemporary structures as skeletons for the ‘organs’ of enclosure, party and utility using raw recycled local materials.
Chinese City Planning: Masterplans China
Chinese City Planning, Architecture Masterplans in China article by Dimple Soni, Oct 2012: Chinese Urban Planning, Masterplans in China, building new cities
Sitting tenants, protected tenancy guide
As an architect, you should take a great interest in the current value of any building which you have helped to design and seen through the construction process. Who wouldn’t want to have such financial successes on their CV?
425 Park Avenue Competition: NYC Design Contest
425 Park Avenue Building, New York Tower Building Design Competition, NY Skyscraper Contest 425 Park Avenue Manhattan : NYC Tower Contest New York Architectural Competition – article for e-architect by Carlos M Teixeira architect, Brasil Dec 12, 2018 425 Park Avenue Topping Out 425 Park Avenue Building Topping Out News Oct 23, 2012 425 Park … Read more
Modernism Architecture Urbanism: Masterplan
The Bruce Plan of 1945 by the City Engineer reflected the utopian arrogance of the time by proposing the phased replacement of every single building in the city centre, which was to be surrounded by a box of new highways.
Contemporary residential architecture, houses
K2LD Architects’ Winged House is a single family home situated on a hill atop the botanical gardens in Singapore. The two-story structure is split into two volumes embracing the site with a sculptural roof tying the building together and back into the ground