Category: Architecture

The Learning Tree Nursery / Delve

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Text description provided by the architects. Emerging architects Delve complete new nursery The Learning Tree in Romford, for leading childcare and education company, Storal Learning. A retrofit of a former warehouse in East London, the nursery builds on Delve’s experience with early learning education and sustainable architecture with an open, fun and durable design using natural materials of timber, ply and rubber.

The significant transformation of the commercial building into a contemporary nursery was achieved in just six months

Urban October 2022: 31 Days to Promote a Sustainable Urban Future

Urban October is an initiative that was born with the aim of raising awareness, promoting participation, generating knowledge, and engaging the international community in creating a better urban future. Each year, UN-Habitat and its partners organize a month of activities, events, and debates around urban sustainability.

Urban October is an opportunity to bring together people from all over the world, discussing the challenges and opportunities created by the rapid change in our cities and towns, where, by the way, more than half of the population lives, and this number is growing every day.

National and local governments, universities, non-governmental organizations, communities, and other stakeholders in sustainable urbanization

Reading Architecture as a Book

The standards for classifying good or terrible architecture are usefulness and beauty, or what we commonly refer to as practicality and aesthetics. However, practicality might quickly direct us toward functionalism, which is the only viable option, or toward the design of sculptural structures. The architect Le Corbusier once stated, “If you create a house with stone, wood, and concrete, that’s just a building; if you touch my heart, that’s architecture.” However, perhaps the readability of architecture might serve as a criterion for good architecture: Reading architecture as a book with complete words and sentences that stand up to careful consideration.

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Legibility and readability are two different concepts in architecture. Architectural legibility is a term used to describe the degree to which a building facilitates the ability

Edificio AN 867 / CRB Arquitectos

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Text description provided by the architects. AN 867 is a vertical development located in the State of Mexico in a residential area to the west of Mexico City. The project seeks to adapt to the environment with the use of sober materials such as concrete and natural pine wood. The building is located on a 268m2 area of ​​land and has 4 levels of apartments and two basements for parking. The building has an access patio

Fairytale House / Hinzstudio

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Text description provided by the architects. Fairytale is built in a rural area located far from the center of Da Nang city. The house is the dream of a peaceful and poetic home of a young couple and two dogs.

Where the project is located in peaceful countryside with fields and green bamboo bushes. Behind the mountains in the distance, every day you can watch the sunset and sunrise from the house. The disadvantage of the site is the fact that this place often receives annual floods with the water level rising more than one meter. In addition, the small land area