Month: April 2020

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Wicksteed Park Learning Space / Lathams

April 22, 2020 Andreas Luco 0

The new Learning Space complements the existing pioneering concrete cottages, designed and built by Charles Wicksteed in the early 1920s as prototypes for what was intended as mass-produced prefabricated houses. The Brief called for a large flexible multi-use space, with the ability to cater to a wide range of learning scenarios and a gallery space, enabling artwork to be displayed. A light and airy environment was a pre-requisite, with a stated ambition that the building should be an inspirational learning space for both young and old.

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Peter Belsey uses pale bricks and thick mortar to create monolithic facade of Brisbane’s Couldrey House

April 22, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Couldrey House by Peter Besley

Mortar oozes between the off-white bricks that clad this house in Brisbane, which architect Peter Belsey has designed to look “immensely heavy”. Couldrey House measures 320 square metres and is situated west of central Brisbane, nestled in the foothills of Mount Coot-tha. Besley wanted the house’s heavy materiality to contrast vernacular residential architecture in Australia,

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Everyone in the creative industries is “wondering what our role is” says Beatrice Galilee

April 22, 2020 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Beatrice Galilee has curated an online design symposium for Virtual Design Festival, which will be broadcast from 1:00pm UK time later today. In this video message, she questions the role of the creative industries during the coronavirus pandemic. Galilee is a co-founder and curator of The World Around, an architecture and design conference, which had

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Open Resources to Become Knowledgeable in the Field of AI

April 22, 2020 Andreea Cutieru 0

As Artificial Intelligence has become one of the most significant forces driving innovation and economic development, this societal transformation requires new knowledge and an additional set of skills. Just as knowing a BIM software has become a prerequisite for most architecture jobs, understanding or even knowing how to use AI-related tools would become a desirable asset, if not a requirement in the future. However, with a vast array of information available, how does one begin to venture into this topic? The following is a compilation of online resources, lectures, and courses, that could provide a better understanding of the field and how to incorporate it into the practice of architecture.

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On Earth Day, We Reflect on Architecture’s Relationship with the Planet

April 22, 2020 Niall Patrick Walsh 0

As we recognize the 50th Earth Day, it is difficult to think of a time where our relationship with the Earth has been so different from normal. As we grapple with the worst health crisis in one hundred years, attention turns to the future of how we will live with each other, how global systems will operate, and in some cases, how profoundly positive it can be for the natural world when our exponential demands for oil, transport, and energy are curtailed.

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Maria Montessori Mazatlán School / EPArquitectos + Estudio Macías Peredo

April 22, 2020 Rayen Sagredo 0

Mazatlán is a city in the Pacific Coast that maintains a humid and high temperature climate great part of the year, invites to think about an architecture that in principal faces climate and consider the high degree of salinity of the site.The strategy for this school should aim to both minimize the impact of heat in the classroom;  this without losing natural illumination and relation to the outside, as well as the use of materials and constructive system that were little prone to corrosion.