The timing for this project was perhaps ideal; people gripped by years of pandemic- driven uncertainty, people sought the comfort of the past. A yearning for simpler times, when problems were smaller, choices less complicated and perhaps also a chance to reminisce about long car trips with parents who are long gone from this mortal coil. There is a place for concrete walls, cavernous spaces and minimalist chic – but you can’t build a beloved history.
A mixture of curved, pitched and sawtooth roofs creates different spatial qualities in this school in Deyang, China, designed by Trace Architecture Office.
TWO entrepreneurs believe their plan to build modular houses could help address the affordable housing crisis and climate emergency. Giles Lovegrove, an archite.