The Cube Dresden Carbon Concrete Building

The Cube Dresden Carbon Concrete Building

Carbon concrete can drastically minimize the resource consumption of traditional reinforced concrete: it is up to four times lighter and four times stronger! Showcase project by HENN from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Royal Hobart Hospital Holographic Construction

Royal Hobart Hospital holographic bricklaying Tasmania

Royal Hobart Hospital holographic bricklaying, Tasmania: Fologram and All Brick have invented an entirely new way of building in augmented reality to improve precision, reliability and control over the construction process.

Retrofitting for Flood Resilience Guide

Retrofitting for Flood Resilience: A Guide to Building and Community Design by RIBA

From surviving to thriving in an age of floods: RIBA’s new title ‘Retrofitting for Flood Resilience: A Guide to Building and Community Design’ – architectural publication news

Off-site wood construction: timber building

Metsä Wood Kerto LVL prefabricated roof and floor elements

Off-site wood construction is the future of building: urbanisation is accelerating and creating pressure to increase housing construction. To answer this global challenge, construction needs to be quicker and more ecological.

Reynaers Training Centre shortlisted in G Awards

Reynaers Training Centre Shortlisted for G Awards

Reynaers Training Centre Shortlisted for G Awards – judges at the G18 Awards shortlist the leading aluminium systems company in the ‘Training and Development inititative of the Year’ category for its new Training Centre.

RCM exhibition at Ecobuild London, ExCel

RCM exhibition at Ecobuild London

RCM exhibition at Ecobuild show in London – Cemboard: rigid, medium density, high-performance cement bonded particle building board – RCM exhibition at Ecobuild show in London, ExCel Stand, wall solutions provider.

University of Leicester Engineering Building Book

University of Leicester Engineering roof

The Herculean task of replacing the iconic roof of one the world’s most revered pieces of 20th-century architecture is captured on the page by its lead designer. University of Leicester Engineering building book

Home shutters, house window coverings

White Z Veranda Shanghai Building

Many homeowners are now installing shutters to their homes. Why? Shutters are becoming more and more popular because of its many benefits. Not only it protects your windows and doors but it adds a personal touch to improve the appearance of your home.

University of Leicester Engineering Department

University of Leicester Engineering Building roof

An ambitious project to replace the diamond-shaped roof of the University of Leicester’s world-famous Engineering Building, with all 2,500 glass panels reconstructed and replaced to exacting standards, is complete.

LUX Virtual Reality Design Tool

VR Design Tool LUX

A key feature of LUX WALKER by Tenebris Lab, is that it enables multiple people to walk through and interact with each other in the same space, from anywhere in the world. Users are fully immersed in a 3D true-to-life-scale project

Tyvek UV façade in Bristol, UK

Tyvek UV façade in Bristol building

An elegant open-jointed façade design demands not only high-performance protection but also a discreet subtlety that will not compromise the aesthetic vision.

McLaren Technology Centre, Woking, Surrey

An extension to the £300m McLaren Technology Centre in Woking is being designed by the original architects. The earlier building is roughly semi-circular, the circle being completed by a formal lake, which forms an integral part of the buildings cooling system.

MEMBRANE dialogue: architecture and textile

MEMBRANE dialogue: architecture and textile

This project inserts itself in the ancient dialogue between architecture and textile. It develops spatialities between the heavy and the light, the hard and the soft, the specific and the general