Month: February 2023

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15-minute city an “easy way to explain an old concept” says Edmonton planner

February 20, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

A planner from Edmonton, Canada, has defended its 15-minute city plan after criticism from locals, saying that the plan uses age-old concepts and “will enable the City of Edmonton to support growth more efficiently”. Edmonton’s principal planner Michael Strong has refuted the idea that the city’s plan to re-organise into walkable communities would restrict people’s movements, amid

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Warrnambool Learning and Library Centre / Kosloff Architecture

February 20, 2023 Hana Abdel 0

The Warrnambool Library and Learning Centre replace the existing local library with a much larger, brighter, and more accessible space in the heart of Warrnambool’s CDB. The new space is located on the South West TAFE campus and provides facilities for both the local community and South West TAFE students and staff. The space includes a modern indoor-outdoor café, public computers, exhibition and display areas, places to study and read, meeting rooms, a dedicated children’s area, and games and digital media zone. The project is the outcome of a partnership between the Victorian Government, South West TAFE, and Warrnambool City Council and realizes a vision to bring together education, community, and the arts.

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Alton Cliff House / f2a architecture

February 20, 2023 Valeria Silva 0

On approach, the Alton Cliff House presents a relentless wall of corten steel panels, floating over a steep slope, disintegrating to the north. The patinaed wall turns a corner and continues its march, breaking once at a planted screen, then breaking again to reveal a bright interior. Screens and plants soften edges and turn light to lace. The heart of the house opens on approach to the entry.

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Atkins appointed as delivery partner for The Line in Neom

February 20, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

UK architecture and engineering studio Atkins is the latest studio to have been officially announced as working on The Line megacity in Saudi Arabia. Atkins, which is part of conglomerate SNC-Lavalin, was officially announced as a delivery partner for The Line after signing a five-year contract. “Intent is to radically transform the way major infrastructure projects are delivered” The architecture

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A Home Designed To Make You Forget About Time

February 20, 2023 HD Staff 0

Affectionately named the Forgetting Time House, this 14,000 sq ft home was designed to take you back to that blissful mindset of early childhood when time had no meaning. Created by Architecture + Design, this concept is all about balance. The design alternates between areas of openness and enclosure, lightness and solidity. All in the […]

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House CSS / Seferin Arquitetura

February 20, 2023 Andreas Luco 0

The residence site, located at Silveira beach, has a portion of an environmental protection area on its lands containing a stream, and the house itself is located in the zone of the highest altitude of the lot. The construction’s strategic insertion is designed to present the viewer with better visuals of the surroundings. Applying the same strategy to the ground floor – which contains the house’s social area – it opens up to a balcony that shows – through the length of the facade – the visuals of both the preservation area and the beach. This same facade is headed east, guaranteeing the view for the landscape at sunrise. On the second floor, the same happens in almost all the house’s bedrooms, they are predominantly facing the landscape and receive solar protection by brise-soleil, a mobile shading system, providing this alternative when it is intended to avoid heat and lighting. As a consequence and priority relationship, service areas are located at the access facade, which doesn’t have many interesting visuals as it faces the road.

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The South Harbor of Køge / SLA

February 20, 2023 Paula Pintos 0

Once an industrial harbor that separated the city from its coastline, The South Harbor of Køge is now a resilient, nature-based neighborhood. Planned with a network of lush commons and an encircling promenade, the area is now well-connected, protected, and full of life.

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Ten impressively geometric cube-shaped buildings

February 20, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The simple form of a cube is a popular shape for architects. Following the news that Saudi Arabia is planning a cuboid skyscraper in Riyadh, we have rounded up 10 of the most interesting cube-shaped buildings. Berlin Cube, Berlin, Germany, by 3XN (2020) Aptly named Berlin Cube, this office block designed by Danish architecture studio 3XN stands alongside the

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