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In the past decade, the idea of building ‘green’ has sprouted globally. Gradually it has turned into one of those temporary trends set up to support marketing of related fields of construction activity.
Yes, this site is global. And not only do we have projects from Russia to South Africa, from Abu Dhabi to Montreal, along with five-star office towers and football stadiums to spas and small homes, but there is also a strong human element this week in terms of how the public responds to architecture.
Nature Architecture: Inviting Nature back to Town. It’s always fun to see what themes emerge when a diversity of buildings are put together in one weekly list. This week’s run-down of architectural happenings could be said to be about two things: creating views and inviting nature back to town.
Fundamentally this is an issue that is directly related to climate change. Not in the sense that a changing climate will impact on species choice, forest pests or increase incidences of storm damage or forest fires.
Biomass, Timber Supply Issues – article by Alastair Kerr, Director General – Biomass issues, Wood Panel Industry, climate, energy: man-made carbon emissions
I was lucky enough to visit the slope in construction in November last year, encouraged by my hosts in Oslo, proud of their living heritage.
An icon is the snapshot of the Eiffel tower that pops in your head when someone mentions Paris. Or is the graphic on your desktop that is instantly recognizable and needs no words. It is what symbolizes ideas and beliefs.
Looking back over the past year it is clear that major events provided a generous stage for architecture. We had the World Cup in South Africa, then the Shanghai Expo. From August to October we had the Venice Biennale.
The duality of positive-negative spaces, following the terminology of the Gestalt, is inevitably linked to the projection of buildings in any environment that is more transcendent than its aligned location in a road subject to rigid bylaws
Modern life seems to dictate a pace of living that is fast with instantaneous needs and responses and with little time for stepping off the treadmill and making more meaningful connections with who we are and our relationship with nature
It started with a wartime kiss and ended in the deaths of 492 people and marks, arguably, the moment when modern fire safety started to get serious. It was 1942 and a young US soldier had taken his date to the Coconut Grove nightclub in downtown Boston.
After several decades, far too many to admit, I still remember, as my professor in the University lovingly drawn up window-details, one after the other, till in a fifty minutes lecture he “wallpapered” the blackboard across the width of the lecture hall!
Architecture Aura. Interesting to slow down with the flow of the bombarding information overload, and concentrate our thoughts for a few moments on the idea of the living earth.
Based on the design strategies exhibited by two of last week’s projects, this editorial is a reflection on an ever present architectural problem in master plan design: how do designers balance out requirements for homogeneous sizing with ambitions for clearly defined urban identities?
Performance is increasingly a focus of architecture. Prompted by genuine curiosity and an increasing urgency to know how the design of buildings can help to improve environmental conditions it is an interest that is also being fuelled by new technologies that enable spaces and systems to be monitored more effectively
Being Canadian, it’s tempting to view this week’s buildings through a hockey lens. What is the gold medal architecture around the world? Is there tough competition against traditional rivals? Are there any youthful architects stunning the world with their passion and skill?
Time is no longer a linear condition, instead we can postpone, edit and cut our immediate recognitions, creating buildings whose identities along with our observations are no longer definiteive, by replacing symbolic gestures with sequential design. Ephemeral space reflects evolution and ever-changing contexts