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Three innovative projects set to be completed this year are geared toward strengthening communities that have been left out of the economic recovery.
An innovative collaboration between government, a non-profit group and philanthropists has found a way to provide urgently needed housing on land that would otherwise be left vacant for years.
From a heritage perspective, the transformation of Cape Town’s grain elevator into an art museum delivers an innovative and creative solution to retaining and reusing industrial heritage sites.
A community-led development has been officially declared the UK’s best new building.
Digital media on building facades are changing the appearance of our cities. This creates a need for new urban policy guidelines to retain architectural quality and promote social engagement.
Vancouver may be one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but the president of Emily Carr University says the city could benefit from the discipline of design.
Tall buildings are an increasing feature of Australia’s city landscapes, although they’re still relatively small compared to overseas. But is there a limit on how high we can build?
Cities aren’t just a male creation, but women’s contributions have been sidelined. There are ways we can rediscover and restore these women to their rightful place in the stories of our cities.
By putting the users of buildings – people – at the centre of the process of designing buildings and infrastructure, we can create healthier, more human-centred spaces.
We asked five architecture experts to name one building or structure they wish had been preserved, but couldn’t resist the tides of decay, development and discrimination.
Pop-up parks and tiny houses are just a few of the innovative solutions that can help post-industrial cities across Europe and North America adapt to the future.
Bio-inspiration takes cues from natural structures that do certain things very effectively. One example: the strong but flexible fibers that sea sponges use to anchor themselves to the ocean floor.
Cities have always been more than a dense collection of people. They are labs of innovation, hotbeds of crime and inequality, architectural stunners, decaying ruins and everything in between.
Research shows that bringing nature indoors, in the form of movement created by light, wind and water, makes occupants calmer and more productive. It also could promote interest in sustainable design.
People in visually creative professions have their own way of seeing the world.
There are three key principles: prevent risk, evacuate users and minimise damage – in that order.
Massive damage and suffering was caused when a London tower block became an inferno.
When the young Wright moved to Chicago to work for the architect Joseph Silsbee, he was introduced to Japanese prints. It changed his career, and very possibly the course of American architecture.
Repetitive patterns from windows, blinds and stairs are really uncomfortable to look at.
Top contributors
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Director of the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT, RMIT University
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Chair Professor of Architecture, UNSW Sydney
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Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of History of Art, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Urban Design, Lancaster University
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Architectural Technologist and Urban Designer, Nottingham Trent University
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British Academy Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Adjunct professor of architecture, University of Adelaide
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Visiting Scholar, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Practice, University of Technology Sydney
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Head and Professor of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art
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Professor, Head of School, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, The University of Melbourne
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Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence and Professor of Architecture, University at Buffalo
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Transformation Fellow + Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
