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Industrial warehouses inform Melbourne office block by Carr

September 8, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Australian architecture studio Carr drew on 20th-century industrial warehouses for this office building in Melbourne, which features a stepped frontage of perforated red-brick columns. The office on Bruce Street is the first large building to reach completion in the redevelopment of an “industrial wedge” in Kensington, a suburb defined by brick warehouses and grain siloes

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5 Positively Pleasant New Bedrooms (6 photos)

September 8, 2023 Mitchell Parker 0

Bedrooms are often thought of as private spaces. But sometimes these rooms need to also accommodate kids for story time, pets for nap time or family and friends for overnight stays. Here, designers share details of five stylish bedrooms that feel warm…

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YCON Residential Building / Studioninedots

September 8, 2023 Paula Pintos 0

YCON is a small-scale residential building in our circular urban plan Cityplot Buiksloterham in Amsterdam. Designed from the outside in, YCON features a frontage consisting of outdoor rooms, alternating with staggered stacked gardens. This vertical landscape forms a new, green eye- catcher from the surrounding streets and canals, and creates an environment suited to future-proof living in the city.

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RIBA calls for “urgent audit of public buildings” amid RAAC crisis

September 8, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

The Royal Institute of British Architects has called for an investigation into the condition of public buildings in light of the ongoing RAAC crisis that is impacting schools across England. The institute said that public buildings must urgently be assessed for the presence of ageing RAAC – reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete – due to safety

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Zikzak Architects reveals design for first Ronald McDonald House in Ukraine

September 8, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Ukrainian architecture studio Zikzak Architects has released its design for the first Ronald McDonald House in Ukraine, which will provide temporary housing to children receiving treatment at Kyiv’s Okhmatdyt hospital and their families. Zikzak Architects CEO Alesia Karnaukhova says the Ronald McDonald House in Kyiv “will become a second home for families of out-of-town children

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Expanding the Architectural Prospects of Timber in Its Natural Form

September 8, 2023 Paul Yakubu 0

Timber has been a popular source of construction material for thousands of years. Through sawing, milling, and other engineered wood conversion processes, various wood forms have been created and applied in products, furniture, and architecture. However, these processes can sometimes alter the basic lines of wood structure. The stems can be split, grain patterns changed, and some woods, such as oak and cedar, are easily reduced while others can become intractable. This led to the exploration of whole timber forms in ancient structures, such as log cabins, which layered timber in different cross-sections to form home profiles. Through design, the use of trunks or branches of trees in their entirety can accentuate their innate mechanical properties for structural sustainability. Although these practices are fairly absent in contemporary building techniques, new technological innovations expand the prospects of timber construction in architecture.

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House Wolin / Pankowska & Rohrhofer

September 8, 2023 Valeria Silva 0

House Wolin was built as a holiday retreat for a private client embedded in the pastoral landscape of Poland’s Baltic Sea coast. Its A-frame wooden structure is reminiscent of the so-called “Brda” houses, prefabricated wooden houses that became a common typology for state-sponsored recreational areas during the communist era in Poland and offered a cost-effective solution for holiday facilities.