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May 9, 2022
Real estate agents West Coast Modern, has sent us photos of their latest listing, a remodeled 1968 mid-century modern home in Vancouver, Canada. Let’s take a look at the ‘before’ and ‘after’ photos of the home… Before – The Exterior The original home had faded green paint and white framed windows that matched the garage […]
May 9, 2022
Maria Lisogorskaya discusses the collective’s approach to combining bespoke materials and finishes with off-the shelf products. Maria Lisogorskaya is one of the founding directors of Assemble, a collective whose work sees frequent overlaps between architecture, design and art. Assemble, an architectural collective founded in 2010, runs from its self-designed Sugarhouse Studios within a retrofitted school […]
May 5, 2022
Patrick Lewis from the Brick Development Association answers readers’ questions about bricks. A brick loggia blurs the distinction between inside and outside at The Blockmakers Arms, a converted and extended London pub designed by Erbar Mattes Architects. How do you tackle movement when building with brick?All buildings move and brickwork is no exception. Clay brick […]
May 5, 2022
An AT Schüco webinar exploring how we can adapt and improve our existing building stock to meet present and future needs is taking place on Wednesday 25th May. The UK has the oldest building stock in the world and the ways in which we continue to use and adapt it will be crucial to ensuring […]
May 5, 2022
Melanie Whild joined Birmingham-based Weedon Architects for her year out, and never left. She reflects on the way the 100-year-old practice and its projects have evolved. The history of Weedon Architects intrigued me the moment I stepped through the front door. A practice over 100 years old, the old hard-backed construction textbooks in their library, […]
May 4, 2022
Studio Ilk Architecture + Interiors have shared with us their recently completed project, a new house in a semi-rural area of Tasmania, Australia, that includes stone walls. The house is located on a site with challenging bushfire exposure, complex biodiversity overlays, and a rugged cliff-side coastline to the East and South. The exterior of the […]
May 4, 2022
Read about the AT Schüco showroom panel discussion that explored how we balance the carbon cost of demolition, conservation and building performance. Embodied carbon is at the heart of the sustainability conversation and how we use our current building stock will be the key to ensuring a viable sustainable future. At this Schüco Showroom panel […]
May 3, 2022
Radical Rooms: Power of the plan Jessica Mairs2022-05-03T18:06:29+01:00 Source: Architecture Today
May 3, 2022
Together we have raised £45,000 to support the Kharkiv School of Architecture in its efforts to continue teaching a new generation of architects in Ukraine. With just three days of our fundraising campaign to go, can you help reach our £50,000 target? Our fundraising campaign to support the Kharkiv School of Architecture will remain open […]
May 3, 2022
Hannah Brewster from ADP makes the case for using empty retail space to take outpatient services out of the hospital and onto the high street. ADP Architecture’s Shopping for Health concept seeks to repurpose shopping centres to meet the growing need for community-centred outpatient services and other vital healthcare facilities. The Covid pandemic has transformed […]
May 3, 2022
Radmat discusses how the ‘fifth façade’ can help mitigate climate change. In association with A new report from the University of Southampton’s Energy and Climate Change Division, School of Engineering, commissioned by the NFRC Charitable Trust, highlights some key steps that specifiers, building owners and home owners can take to use the roof to help […]
April 29, 2022
RKD Architects have shared with us a house they’ve designed in Park City, Utah, that’s made up of three pods, each with a curved, outward-leaning window wall. The home, surrounded by the Wasatch Mountain Range, includes a variety of natural materials such as cut limestone walls and wood beams. Stepping inside the home, the outward-leaning […]
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