Integration and segregation in architecture

Social Housing Croatia - 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

Catering College Medina Sidonia - Real or Synthetic Architecture

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 - Residential Architecture in Japan

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

Tall Buildings by the River Thames: Skyscrapers

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.

CIS Tax Refunds, Construction Industry Scheme

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

Chinzombo Bush Camp Zambia, Africa, Material World

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.

Sitting tenants, protected tenancy guide

Sitting Tenants - Protected Tenancy

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 Competition New York design by Zaha Hadid

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

Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, PR China

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

Winged House Singapore Contemporary residential architecture

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