The mosque is where men and women and children go to pray. But, according to art historian Christiane Gruber, some make room for other, non-human creatures too.
We spend 90% of our lives indoors, and every building has its own indoor microbiome. Can we learn to manage them in ways that support helpful microbes and suppress harmful ones?
Developed nations like Spain struggled to provide enough hospital beds for coronavirus patients, so what are poorer nations to do?
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COVID-19 is creating overwhelming needs for intensive care and testing facilities. An Australian team is developing purpose-built units that can be shipped and erected quickly, easily and cheaply.
In reacting to the pandemic, architecture can reclaim its impact by conceding its loss of connection with public health, looking beyond Western thinking for its references.
Pretoria’s institutional buildings are majestic, but crumbling. Weskoppies, the first psychiatric hospital in the region, is a good example of the state of the city’s heritage architecture.
Yona Friedman in his apartment at Boulevard Garibaldi in Paris, March 2012.
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Around 1964, at the peak of his fame with the “Spatial City,” Friedman moved away from the drawing board — and instead began using math to prove his structures were products of careful reasoning.
The U.S. Supreme Court building, completed in 1935, is considered a neoclassical masterpiece.
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Federal building guidelines say that ‘development of an official style must be avoided’ – which is exactly what a leaked executive order is trying to do.
Not the hushed or book-filled library experience you might expect.
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In our digital age, libraries are spaces for community and connection. The new State Library Victoria proves libaries have an exciting future.
Sunshine Coast University Hospital uses evidence-based design to provide outside spaces with views that Indigenous people tell us they value.
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Many Indigenous people tell us they find hospitals stressful, uncomfortable and alienating. Here’s how good design can help.
This aquarium at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne helps reframe hospitals as exciting hubs of activity with things to do and friends to meet.
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The design of children’s hospitals and other health facilities for young people have come a long way from the institutions of the past. Now, they’re a place to reduce stress and support mental health.
The grand facade of Sydney’s Rum Hospital did little to improve patients’ accommodation.
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Australia’s hospitals have come a long way from the huts of convict times to the well thought-out spaces we see today.
The Quandamooka Art, Museum and Performance Institute offers a new way of considering the shape of First Nations museums in Australia.
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As musuems are forced to face their colonial past, could a radically re-imagined museum become a place for genuine exchange, reconciliation and restitution?
The Sydney Dance Company’s Ultimo rehearsal studios are the latest cultural space under threat from developers in Sydney – but there is a solution.
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Sydney’s historic buildings are facing increasing threats from developers. But we’re not just losing public ownership of our history – we’re losing our cultural spaces, too.
Old and new in Milton Keynes, UK.
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As climate change intensifies, much of the nation’s building stock will need upgrading to strengthen it against flooding, snowstorms and other weather hazards.