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Park life

Monday, 8th October 2018

A major sports complex has been created in a Netherlands park to provide facilities for professional athletes as well as increase the local community’s health. Russ Davenport from FaulknerBrowns Architects spoke to Jack Wooler to discover the array of contents... View Article

Nine in corten

Monday, 8th October 2018

A row of nine new houses in a south west London street emulates aspects of its Victorian terraces – but adds some contemporary twists, most obviously in the design’s copious use of corten steel. Roseanne Field reports The houses that... View Article

Twisting ‘Green Spine’ skyscraper with glass facades to become Australia’s tallest building

Friday, 17th August 2018

Beulah International has announced that ‘Green Spine’, the design proposal submitted by UNStudio with Cox Architecture, has been selected as the winning design for their latest project, Southbank by Beulah, a more than $2 billion mixed-use tower which will be the tallest in... View Article

Keeping an eye on the past

Friday, 27th July 2018

Architect RO&AD’s timber watchtower project in the Netherlands engaged the community in innovative ways to generate a new enthusiasm for the area’s rich history. Sébastien Reed reports Construction of the defensive West Brabant Water Line was started in 1627 by... View Article

Swimming among the timbers

Friday, 27th July 2018

A competition-level swimming pool has been constructed at a Surrey school, integrating a high level of quality in the design of its timber elements while embracing ancient woodland surroundings. Adam Cossey from the project’s architects Hawkins\Brown tells Jack Wooler how... View Article

DFAB House: the world’s first full-scale architectural project to use 3D sand printed formwork

Friday, 27th July 2018

Researchers at ETH Zurich have fabricated an 80 m² lightweight concrete slab at the DFAB House, making it the world’s first full-scale architectural project to use 3D sand printing for its formwork. Just 20 mm thick at its thinnest point,... View Article

Glazed extension by IBLA transforms Victorian terrace into minimal house

Thursday, 28th June 2018

Inglis Badrashi Loddo Architects (IBLA) have completed a glazed single-storey rear extension of a Victorian terraced house in Highbury. The design adds 10m2 of light-filled space to the home with the addition of pastel colours and timber. For the client,... View Article

La casa del desierto

Wednesday, 6th June 2018

A new house designed by OFIS Architects demonstrates new possibilities in glass specification through a collaboration with glass manufacturers, Guardian Glass. Designed to withstand the Gorafe Desert (Province of Granada, Spain), which is considered one of the most adverse and... View Article

HOK-Designed LG Science Park Opens in Seoul

Tuesday, 24th April 2018

One of the world’s largest corporate research campuses is now open for business. At more than 1 million square metres (the equivalent of 152 football pitches), LG Science Park in Seoul’s Magok District unites staff from eight of LG’s Korean... View Article

Pompejus Tower, Netherlands utilises durable wood throughout

Saturday, 24th March 2018

The aldermen of Bergen op Zoom today officially opened the Pompejus Tower to the public. Named after the first commander of the fortress, the new 25 metre-high landmark is situated on the restored Fort de Roovere in Bergen op Zoom,... View Article

Creating a hive of 3D printed honeycomb pods for NYC’s homeless

Thursday, 30th November 2017

In a metropolis like New York City, the land is scarce and the rents are at a record high. As a result, more and more people are unable to afford a place to live and find themselves homeless. It is... View Article

West Wales contractor GD Harries creates the UK’s first concrete velodrome

Friday, 24th November 2017

West Wales haulage, civil engineering and aggregates contractor GD Harries is celebrating the completion of one of its most unusual projects yet: the creation of a new velodrome in Carmarthen. The £500k structure is believed to be the first and... View Article

FLANK unveils first new timber structures built in New York City in over a century

Wednesday, 22nd November 2017

New York-based architecture and development firm FLANK has announced the unveiling of 320 and 360 Wythe Avenue, two significant new boutique office and retail buildings in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood that will become the first new timber structures built in New York City in... View Article

PegasusLife begins work on UK’s first cross-laminated timber retirement development

Friday, 17th November 2017

Specialist retirement living developer PegasusLife has broken ground on a new development in Falmouth which will be constructed using cross-laminated timber (CLT). The Fitzroy project in Falmouth, available exclusively to people over 55, will consist of a five-storey building designed... View Article

First hardwood CLT structure in the United States unveiled

Monday, 13th November 2017

Design firm IKD has unveiled the first hardwood Cross Laminated (HCLT) structure in the United States at the 2017 Exhibit Columbus exhibition. The Conversation Plinth, which has won the Miller Prize, sparks conversation whilst transforming the cityscape, and is situated in the... View Article

Stretch Metal Ceiling Innovation

Wednesday, 8th November 2017

The Microsoft Innovation Centre in Mons Belgium is a further example of how Hunter Douglas Architectural Projects work with Architects and designers to help realise their vision. The three dimensional installation was based on a large abstract drawing that composed... View Article

12 Warren challenges New York City’s typically modern aesthetics with rough-hewn bluestone façade

Thursday, 2nd November 2017

A newly completed residential building in New York City is turning heads with a striking façade of hand-laid, rough-hewn local bluestone; an eye-catching contrast to TriBeCa’s typically modern glass structures. Developer-designers DDG have chosen the material for how it celebrates... View Article

Rubner Holzbau starts a challenge for modular stadiums in completely environmentally friendly glulam wood

Thursday, 2nd November 2017

Italian company and the leader in glulam timber constructions, Rubner Holzbau has collaborated with Bear Stadiums, a consultancy and design company to conceive and sign the stadiums of the future: modular, made of glulam wood, with a low environmental impact,... View Article

Wasl Tower – at over 300 metres, one of the world’s tallest ceramic facades – now under construction in Dubai

Monday, 30th October 2017

UNStudio, in collaboration with Werner Sobek, was invited by the Wasl Development Group to design a new kind of high-rise for the city of Dubai that would act as a benchmark for both the region and for the Wasl Development... View Article

Among the world’s tallest ceramic facades, Wasl Tower is now under construction

Thursday, 26th October 2017