Architecture & Design Community
September 16, 2022
September 16, 2022 Designed and built by two brothers from Repère Boréal, along with the help of an architect, the UHU is a small cabin that sits on stilts allowing for a view of the Saint-Laurence River in Canada. The cabin, which sits 40 feet (12m) from the ground, is accessed via an enclosed spiral […]
September 15, 2022
Ben Brocklesby, Director at Origin, discusses the benefits of internal glass doors in relation to the Future Homes Standard. In association with The introduction of the highly anticipated Future Homes Standard, which aims to make all new homes carbon neutral by 2025, will signify considerable changes for the entire housebuilding industry. Once this comes into […]
September 15, 2022
Photo by Ivar Bastress Photography Architecture and building company BIRDSEYE, has designed a single-story homestead on the shores of Lake Champlain, Vermont. Photo by Ivar Bastress Photography The design of the home consists of four areas that are connected by a central hallway. Photo by Ivar Bastress Photography It also includes standing seam roofing, black-stained […]
September 14, 2022
Once the epicentre of Hollywood’s nascent artistic and architectural scene, Rudolph Schindler’s extraordinary home was a stepping stone to Los Angeles’ great leap into modernity. Garden courtyards with outdoor fireplaces penetrate inwards towards the central node of the pinwheel plan. A snapshot scene of 835 Kings Road in Hollywood, California, in the late 1920s, shortly […]
September 13, 2022
For Martine Hamilton Knight, contributing to a revision of Pevsner’s ‘Buildings of England’ prompted a re-evaluation of the notion of ‘timelessness’ in architectural photography. Clipston Colliery Headstocks and Powerhouse (1953) To an architect, and by proxy, an architectural photographer, ‘Pevsner’ represents a very particular style of documenting buildings: rigid, precise and devoid of physical or […]
September 9, 2022
Architectural and interior design firm FCstudio has recently completed a modern home in Jardim Paulista, Brazil, that includes large steel shutters that cover some of the windows. The front of the house showcases an upper level that’s encased in metal, adding privacy to the home. At the rear of the home, the metal shutters stand […]
September 8, 2022
Market forces and conservatism are driving queer spaces from urban centres. Tom Wilkinson welcomes a new compendium of LGBTQIA+ places around the world as a timely celebration of the spaces that survive. Comparsa Drag’s performative parties in Buenos Aires, an example of the temporary transformation of spaces through performances, parties and parades. Photograph by Julian […]
September 8, 2022
For Shahed Saleem migration, identity, heritage and narrative are the common threads that weave together practice, curation, teaching and research. Over many years of what has felt like being pulled in different directions, it now seems that the various strands of my work are starting to come together. I founded my architectural practice in Bethnal […]
September 6, 2022
An AT webinar with Amtico Flooring and SIG Design & Technology on school design is taking place on Thursday 22nd September. Belvue School in Perivale, West London, was designed by Studio Weave. Photo by Jim Stephenson. As our cities become ever more densely packed, educational establishments often have to occupy an increasing variety of spaces […]
September 5, 2022
Mae has designed a community building that provides well-being and recreational facilities for the later living residents of London’s Morden College in Blackheath. Mary Duggan appreciates a sophisticated, humane design that reflects and anticipates social change. Established in 1695 by philanthropist Sir John Morden to provide support and accommodation to retired widowed merchants, Morden College […]
September 1, 2022
Discharge below the balcony doors will feed wetness into the living accommodation below A Building Regulation requirement that aids gravitational drainage and prevents capillary action, can channel penetrating rain into a building. Part C, page 37.5.32 describes cavity closers having fins. Penetrating rain gravitates between such fins and discharges where the closer terminates. In the case […]
September 1, 2022
Crittall steel fenestration systems have long been synonymous with quality, craftsmanship and visual appeal. The company’s latest offering continues this tradition, pushing new boundaries in performance with T60 – an innovative, thermally-broken steel window and door system combining the aesthetics of the company’s traditional fenestration solutions with 21st century thermal and acoustic performance levels. Incorporating […]
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