the restore to impact project will see three eligible concepts in both the professional and under-30’s categories receiving cash prizes, as well as five special mentions, with a total prize fund of €66,000.
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A home is made up of countless pieces. Some, such as certain plumbing items, building materials and HVAC parts, are rarely seen. Others, such as countertops, furniture and decor, are always on display. To see how homeowners rank various home component…
As part of our Timber Revolution series, Dezeen asked mass-timber experts about the ongoing race to build ever-taller wooden buildings. “For most buildings, tall timber does not make sense,” said Arup fellow Andrew Lawrence. “Timber’s natural home is low-rise construction,” he told Dezeen. “The reality that timber is best suited technically to smaller buildings, and
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In the historic center of Vila Nova de Foz Coa, the project focuses on the rehabilitation of a devolved building built at the end of the 19th century, transforming it into a single-family dwelling, where historical architectural features are adapted to a contemporary housing reality.
As part of our Timber Revolution series, we have rounded up the world’s 10 tallest buildings with mass-timber structures, including an engineered-wood shopping-centre extension and a carbon-negative cultural centre. Compiled using data from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the roundup also features apartment towers, hotels and a school, demonstrating the potential of
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A holiday home punctuated by arches in Tulum and a “rugged” home in Argentina are among the projects in this roundup, which centres on brutalist houses in South and Central America. Although brutalism emerged out of western Europe in the 1950s and 60s, the movement spread to countries in Latin America in the 1960s and
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In this week’s comments update, readers discussed Specht Architects’ glass pavilion house in the Berkshires and debated a toilet made from wood chips. Specht Architects has designed a residential, symmetrical glass pavilion in The Berkshires, Massachusetts, as a place to showcase antiques. Commenters saw echoes of Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, a glass house
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Deck-access housing has unfairly become a symbol for urban squalor in the UK, but a new wave of architects is demonstrating its merits, writes Rory Olcayto. As Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius convincingly argue in Tower Block, their 1994 book on post-war housing, there “has probably never been another feature in UK public housing which
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As part of a new initiative of the multidisciplinary laboratory based in Mexico, dérive LAB presents “Shared Streets”, a project with a focus on urban design that seeks to spatially transform the street so that it is governed by human relations, rather than using traffic control devices; this suggests that the street is not only a space for transportation and mobility but one in which many other social, economic and cultural activities take place.
The geometric design and the circular way of energetically performing building that characterizes BLAF is strongly present in this house. The wall structure with a self-supporting facing brick on the outside, a light timber frame on the inside, and filled with biobased dry lime hemp without a cavity is an alternative to the traditional cavity wall.
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