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🌏 Sydney Opera House is the world's most iconic building, right?  🤔 Or can you change our mind? We're calling all the architecture enthusiasts out there to help us decide. Do you agree or do you have another building in mind that deserves the title of "most iconic"? Share your thoughts in the comments below, and let's settle this debate once and for all! 🏆 Which building will come out on top? #changemymind #iconicbuilding #debate #architects #specifiers 

Trying out organic growth support for the facade of the building using a tension force factor. conceptual. #rhino3d #grasshopper #3dvisualization #architecture #experimental #twinmotion #theatre #design #architecturaldesign

https://lnkd.in/gy8RP-CM As one of the first trauma-informed design consultants in the UK’s built environment, I’m excited to share that I’ll be speaking at The Academy of Urbanism’s Quality of Life: Remaking the Post-Industrial City conference on October 4th 🎤 This is a massive opportunity for me to finally get out there and start sharing publicly some of the research I’ve been working on over the past few years—research rooted in both my professional journey and lived experiences. What makes this even more meaningful is that it allows me to highlight some of the tragic events we’ve witnessed recently, especially what happened in Southport , which has shook communities and sparked global outrage. It's clear we need to do more to make our cities safer and healing spaces for everyone. We now have the research, tools, and people to start creating environments that support safety, resilience, and connection. I can’t wait to jump into this conversation and show how trauma-informed design can be part of the solution. Really excited to see everyone there and to start creating real meaningful change in how we think about the spaces and communities we are designing for 💡 For now here is an insight into the type of work I have been doing, a video that was the turning point in my own research and journey of sharing my personal experience curated with the talented Raven Maguire and Leela Maguire. Lets Design for Healing No more disguise ✨

A perceptive and powerful analysis of the importance of the Old Rep, the Electric Cinema, and Crown pub and of the architectural and cultural significance of Station Street. Councillors and developers take note. https://lnkd.in/ekkehRSA

I do believe that street art adds #value to a property. We need more #publicart, we need #art and #optimism in the streets, in the neighbourhoods. https://lnkd.in/ddW3XNH6

From time to time it's good to take a critical look at everyday places and how they are designed. They tend to be shaped by the culture and time in which they are built, sometimes including the shortcomings or otherwise outdated ideas of that time. A theater, for example, often follows similar design principles, but are the spaces really accessible to everyone? As I perceive it, many have been designed with a dash of white normativity and internalized ableism. With my friend Heini we dream of more accessible cultural venues, and if you have access to ARK magazine you can read about our thoughts from here:

Graham McKay on starchtects: "rchitecture has history of following the money. In the distant past it pandered to the agendas and egos of rich rulers and property developers, and in its recent past panders to rich property developer rulers whether in Shanghai, Doha, Baku, Mexico City or New York. This has had the effect of skewing the definition of architecture in the direction of projects of dubious economic, environmental and ethical foundation." https://lnkd.in/eBchi_W

The lively integrity of metropolitan culture is advanced by its budding street art. Notwithstanding, the contemporary STATE has become a hazard to the peculiarity of this authentic picture. It is, though, an obligation to reinforce the preservation of these masterpieces in the wake of their expected decline. It has assisted the execution of strategies that have morphed from the nucleus of our society to prevent the falloff of this precious pinpoint in time. Also, an extraordinary way of categorizing, classifying, and collecting these golden periods has led to provocative viewpoints on the cultural importance of street art. It is this veracity, which solemnly implies the safeguard of this wonderous environment, driving the preservation of these futuristic turnarounds.

GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, USA (1983) https://lnkd.in/esSAhwYC This proposal revitalizes the city's downtown area by reusing a distinguished, but now vacant, former government building and by adapting a number of abandoned or underused neighboring structures for additional cultural functions. The main 1908 Beaux-Arts building is upgraded to meet codes and programmatic requirements. A relocation of the entrance from the closed side of the U-shaped building to the open court-yard establishes a direct physical relationship between the museum and its surroundings while creating a single, unified entrance. Covering the court-yard, a translucent inclined plane of stairs has an opening at its center that leads to the Grand Foyer which is a shared space for the different departments. Water descends slowly and evenly from the top of the stairway along a channel carved into the plane, leaving a clear pedestrian path for those walking up the stairs. This water is, in fact, the very water used for the air-conditioning system. In this way, the need for an unsightly cooling tower has been eliminated and this silent cascade becomes the focal point of the city's newest public space. Greenroofs.com, LLC. #ambasz #emilioambasz #architecture #greeninfrastructure #greenroofs #landscapearchitecture #nature #greenarchitecture #design