Vast grid of filter towers proposed across Delhi to combat toxic smog

August 30, 2018 India Block 0

Dubai-based architecture studio Znera has developed a concept for a network of 100-metre high towers that would absorb smog and clean Delhi’s choking air. Called The Smog Project, the proposal envisions a grid of towers that could absorb pollution from the atmosphere, with each building creating a 1.2 mile radius of semi-clean air. Delhi is the

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Colinas del Sol Park / Francisco Pardo Arquitecto

August 30, 2018 Cristobal Rojas 0

The Colinas del Sol Park was commissioned by CIDS and INFONAVIT — the main Mexican Housing Institutions reshaping Mexico’s mortgage market and promoting sustainable housing development — Parque Colinas del Sol is part of a wider program rethinking public space to revert the poor conditions of social housing over the last 30 years and heal the scars of abandoned properties and social segregation that affect the urban outskirts of the country. 

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Colinas del Sol Park / Francisco Pardo Arquitecto

August 30, 2018 Cristobal Rojas 0

The Colinas del Sol Park was commissioned by CIDS and INFONAVIT — the main Mexican Housing Institutions reshaping Mexico’s mortgage market and promoting sustainable housing development — Parque Colinas del Sol is part of a wider program rethinking public space to revert the poor conditions of social housing over the last 30 years and heal the scars of abandoned properties and social segregation that affect the urban outskirts of the country. 

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“By failing to represent diversity in CGIs, we are normalising whiteness and othering everything else”

August 30, 2018 Margaret Ravenscroft 0

It’s inexcusable for architects to create CGIs that don’t reflect the social demographic of the area they are designing for, says Margaret Ravenscroft. Diversity in architecture is an issue. The surveys show it, the demographics show it and the computer-generated images show it. A recent visualisation published in British architectural press showed 36 people and only

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Modern Open Plan With Refreshing Colour Infusions

August 30, 2018 HD Staff 0

This modernistic apartment is filled with unexpected and refreshing colour infusions coupled with interesting and unique furniture designs. The interior, designed and visualised by Sens Studio, is an airy space with white painted walls and a confetti patterned floor. Areas of light natural wood grain bring relief from the contemporary materials that make up the […]

Material trio forms windowless front of UABI’s Alpha House in Brazil

August 30, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Three rectangular volumes of concrete, wood and stone face the street from this “brutal integrated loft” in Brazil, by local architecture firm UABI. The two-storey Alpha House, in the southern city of Londrina, has no windows on its front facade. Instead, the trio of materials form vertical planes of different proportions, each offset slightly from

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BIG’s Giant Reflective ORB Takes Shape at Burning Man 2018

August 30, 2018 Eric Baldwin 0

Bjarke Ingels Group has built an 80-foot-diameter ORB at the 2018 Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nevada. The ORB was designed as an inflated spherical mirror with a steel mast. A series of photos have captured the ORB from both Burning Man festival goers and BIG partner Kai-Uwe Bergmann. As a landmark in The Playa, the ORB conceptually references mother earth and human expression, designed to leave no trace following its deflation.