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Klong Toey is currently the largest and oldest areas of informal dwellings in Bangkok. More than 140.000 people is estimated to live here, and most are living in sub-standard houses with few or no tenure rights or support from the government.
In the fall of 2008 TYIN travelled to Noh Bo, a small village on the Thai-Burmese border to design and build houses for Karen refugee children. The 60 year long conflict in Burma forced several hundred thousand people to flee from their homes. The conflict leaves many children orphaned, with little hope for the future.
The Welcome Centre houses drug and alcohol units, training rooms and drop-in facilities in dramatic double height spaces at ground and 1st floor level. Light and airy residential accommodation is provided in 10 en-suite rooms at 2nd and 3rd floor.
The Marriage Hall project which was designed upon the request of Eyup Municipality, has been considered as a kind of structural landscape component combining the level difference between the pedestrian way and the sea with a walking ramp on the waterfront of Golden Horn, in Eyup.
Merging architecture and landscape, the design of the 20 bed Staff Residence for Village Health Works in Kigutu, Burundi is a romance between east African elemental aesthetics and inventive off-the grid sustainability.
IFRC Community Centre, Sri Lanka. Mathara architecture, Building for Tsunami Effected People design by Chinthaka Wickramage Associates. ar+d Emerging architecture awards, selected amongst 10 highly commended projects
This is one of the first public buildings that were destroyed in the black Saturday bushfires to be replaced by a new building made possible by generous donations and is set to become an icon as its steel mesh exterior will protect it’s timber lined interior from burning in future fires.
Along with four other buildings it has been proclaimed The Building of the Year 2011 by the jury consisting of renowned architects. UFFO succeeded in a competition of 42 other buildings
Multifunctional Center in Sappada – the winning result of the first prize in the International Contest organized by the “Fundacion of Architecture Belluno-Dolomiti”.
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, joined cultural philanthropist Dame Vivien Duffield today at the Groundbreaking Ceremony for the new Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands-designed Jewish Community Centre on the Finchley Road in Hampstead, North London.
In August 2009, the homes and businesses of 19,000 people in Njemanze, Port Harcourt, were reduced to rubble over the course of a single weekend.
Idea Store Chrisp Street was funded by London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Leaside Regeneration, Lloyds of London Charities Trust and UK Online.
Idea Store, David Adjaye London, Whitechapel Building Project, David Adjaye Design Image Idea Store Whitechapel London Community Architecture: Library Building design by Adjaye/Associates post updated 18 February 2026 Location: Whitechapel, east London, UK Dates built: 2001-05 Design: David Adjaye 17 Sep 2011 Idea Store Whitechapel by David Adjaye Photographs © Adrian Welch, taken on 17 … Read more
El Lasso Community Centre Las Palmas, the architectural project always negotiates with the territory, although sometimes this negotiation comes given to us – Las Palmas building in Spain – design by Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos.