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The International Design Competition for the Aberdeen City Garden Project has attracted some of the leading lights of the architectural world. An impressive fifty-five submissions were received by the competition organisers, Malcolm Reading Consultants
The Dover seafront has been transformed by artworks that take the form of three waves gently washing up against the sheltered beach.
The City Dune in Copenhagen. Lundgaard and Tranberg have created two remarkable buildings, one being the SEB Headquarters, the other a smaller office building for rent
Locating Public Space, spatial design in architecture article by Joyce Hwang, Department of Architecture at University at Buffalo SUNY, New York, USA – public realm within a controlled, privately-run development project
Chinese Architectural Development: While most designers in the Western world are trying to survive and repair the damage of the economic crisis, and while the architecture profession is searching hard for another paradigm, China continues to build happily enormous amounts of square meters up into the sky.
I bet even Zaha Hadid sleeps on a horizontal bed and walks in a vertical posture – her load centred under the influence of gravity unless a strong wind demands otherwise.
“The teleological argument for the existence of God,” says a Sunday morning preacher this week, “is that the earth is at just the right angle to permit the changing of the seasons.” As if God wants us to have different seasons.
The Angel Building Sculpture, Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness design by Ian McChesney Studio: London installation, Clerkenwell artwork
These marble pieces are treated with various traditional and digital techniques of workmanship that mingle with the inherent material narrations; holes, hidden and visible cuts, two and three dimensional relief, digital and handmade print, imagery from the past and the future, light
The square serves as an entrance gate to the western side of the campus, surrounded by existing buildings and the future Negev Gallery. The square offers an outdoor space for cultural and social activities for students and for the city population.
Invention & Convention in Architecture discussion by Dr. Peter Magyar – article re Inventive Architecture and Conventional Building, current design projects
What is typically left out of our weekly profiles here, or missing from architecture magazines, proposals, competitions and architects websites? People. George MacDonald, Victorian fantasy and children’s lit writer, once wrote: Any man is greater than the greatest of books.”
Carlsberg breweries have moved their production from the historic site in central Copenhagen. The area has been opened up for urban development.
Oxford Street Diagonals, urban development in London, England – West End streetscape design, pedestrian crossing – key London public realm