If Plan A is to Mitigate Climate Change, What’s Plan B?
This article was originally published on Washington Post, courtesy of Common Edge.
Month: February 2020
Glenn Murcutt on the Fires in Australia, Climate Change, and Sustainability in Architecture
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Sedka Bridal Store / Pablo Muñoz Payá Arquitectos
Industrial areas are places that offer large spaces and easy access, characteristics that now seem to be impossible to find in more consolidated urban areas. It is not surprising that both retail traders and offices are setting up business in these areas, in an increasingly marked transition of industrial space towards the tertiary sector.
How Effective is Laminated Bamboo for Structural Applications?
Mass timber has been hailed as the solution to architecture’s notorious sustainability problem – that buildings account for nearly 40% of global energy use is by now a worn and overcited fact. But timber isn’t the world’s only renewable material, and architects and engineers have begun looking elsewhere for other possible steel and concrete replacements. One such possibility that has recently come to light is engineered or laminated bamboo, a highly sustainable and structurally impressive material. Below, we investigate how laminated bamboo is made, what its primary qualities are, and how it compares to timber.
Magallanes Park / Vázquez Consuegra
The land of the intervention is located on the right bank of the Guadalquivir River, bounded by the Navigation Pavilion and the Chapina Bridge on its north and south sides and west by the new route of the Path of the Discoveries. The edge of the river will delimit the perimeter to the east of the new gardens. These lands, with an area of approximately 40,000 m², formed the sector called Puerta Triana, South access to the grounds of the Universal Exhibition of Seville in 1992. It was a heterogeneous conglomerate of diverse episodes that poorly coexisted in an impassable and inhospitable enclosure, abandoned to their fate after the end of the Universal Exposition. The proposal aims to generate a landscaped public space of quality from the pre-existence of the place: the horizontal esplanade, used today as a large surface car park and the sloping terrain towards the river dotted by the presence of some groups of trees, in an advanced state of degradation and abandonment.
Normal²ab Compound Space / Simple Space Design
Normal²ab is located in the creative park transformed from an old factory, which integrates photography, design, floral art and light catering.
House in Yatsugatake / Kidosaki Architects Studio
Located on a sloping mountain ridge at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains, this house was designed on a piece of land that offers spectacular views that are rarely known.
House in Yatsugatake / Kidosaki Architects Studio
Located on a sloping mountain ridge at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains, this house was designed on a piece of land that offers spectacular views that are rarely known.
renzo piano completes ‘eighty seven park’ residences overlooking the waters of miami beach
the new building is defined by its sweeping, cantilevered volume which seems to float lightly above the ocean and park.
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The Fieldhouse Is A Gathering Place For Friends And Family
Seattle-based architecture firm Hoedemaker Pfeiffer has designed The Fieldhouse, a building that’s designated for family and friends to gather on an island property in Washington State. The garden pavilion draws inspiration from the Pacific Northwest, local materials, and the vernacular stone and timber structures built across the country in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation […]