A Guide to Off-Grid Architectures archdaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archdaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
4 International Civic-Minded Projects
Youth Activity Center in Beijing by Moguang Studio. Photography by Xi Zhi.
Firm: Moguang Studio
Project: Youth Activity Center, Beijing
Standout: The former clothing-factory complex 12 buildings comprising 68,000 square feet maintains its original two-courtyard layout, emphasizing the structures’ interrelationships with elevated metal walkways, corridors, and small transitional squares that link activity and accommodations zones into a three-dimensional, continuous landscape experience.
Chandler Boulevard Bridge Home Village in Los Angeles by Lehrer Architects. Photography courtesy of Lehrer Architects.
Experts Give Their Wisdom On Today s Best Sustainable Building Practices yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Trees are the ultimate multi-taskers. On top of all the work they do keeping our planet a lush and liveable place for its many creatures, the benefits of trees transcend our many forests.
An abundance of emerging research actually shows trees experience a second life when their wood is incorporated into our buildings, furniture, and fixtures leading to a slew of surprising mental health benefits for humans
and the planet we call home.
When it comes to advancing the use of wood in green and clean building technology and pushing for nature-based solutions to climate change, Canada is at the forefront after all, our sprawling country accounts for 40% of the world’s certified sustainably managed forests.
Developing Interests
Developing Interests
Architects who work as developers owning, financing, designing and sometimes even acting as the builder for projects take calculated risks to deliver rewarding projects for their communities and themselves.
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“Show me a wealthy architect,” architect Lloyd Hunt once quipped to his class at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, “and I’ll show you a developer.”
The profits of developers can seemingly outstrip an architect’s fees on a project. But for architects, there’s a way to reap the financial rewards of development by becoming the developer.
The rewards go beyond potential financial gains, though. Architects who enter the development arena are often aiming to make modest, but important improvements to a neighbourhood or city that they know well. They’re gaining valuable knowledge about building from a client-and-owner perspective that feeds back into their architectural practice.