#SwissBuildingOfTheWeek - How do you create community and cohesion in a settlement with 110 apartments? Yves Schihin explains how two row-like volumes in the Waldacker residential complex in St.Gallen create a green common area. WA: What is special about this construction task? YS: The settlement is characterized above all by a warm, comfortable and neighborly atmosphere, which is created by the building material wood in connection with the spacious verandas and the communal interior space. WA: What is the inspiration behind this project? YS: Despite the high number of apartments - there are 110 in total - we wanted to create a neighborhood. That's why we created a green, identity-creating interior space between two row-like buildings. This forms the communal heart of the settlement; every apartment has a spatial connection to it. Read about this project on World-Architects.com by following the https://lnkd.in/egzFnx78 Photos: René Dürr #forqualityinarchitecture #waofficial #worldarchitects #architecture #architects #bestoftheweek #bestarchitecture #bestof
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We are thrilled to announce the publication of the second issue of Urban Corporis "To the Bones". It features Guest Editor Anna Riciputo and Editors Mickeal Milocco Borlini and Andrea Califano; it is published by Anteferma. Find the ebook on the publisher's site and Print on Demand via Amazon. https://lnkd.in/dXRUNtBb "The second volume of Urban Corporis, titled “To the Bones”, compiles reflections from architects, artists, and scholars who have extensively delved into the fundamental themes of contemporary architecture. By navigating a constant interplay between past and future, memory and innovation, and the realms of the natural, artificial, and virtual, these contributions put forth strategies for architectural, artistic, urban, and landscape projects that resonate with the fundamental principles shaping our built and perceived environment. They advocate for design approaches that synchronise with the foundational elements, referred to as “the bones”, that structure the landscape while promoting forward-thinking considerations."
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Check out this article on the Binghamton Fire Department! The station, with firematic design by Wendel’s Mitchell Associates Architects, features a health-focused design. Read more below!
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NEW BLOG ALERT! The integration of nature into urban spaces is key to creating a harmonious relationship between city life and the environment. Read all about biophilic design in architecture: https://ow.ly/h7Io50QA3f4
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The modern movement in architecture was a sweeping and multivalent phenomenon which changed the lives of millions of people across political, cultural and geographical boundaries worldwide. Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture aims to create a more comprehensive history of the movement, by bringing to light the work of a wide range of architects whose significance is being reappraised in contemporary scholarship. The series, co-edited by Tom Avermaete and Janina Gosseye, uncovers the work of 'forgotten' architects of the modern era and demonstrates their critical importance in architectural history, offers a collection of in-depth monographic studies of modern architects, bringing valuable new research to scholarly attention, and broadens the geographical and cultural scope of the history of modernism. The aim is to nuance and enrich our understanding of the history of modern architecture, and explore the breadth and complexity of the global networks that underwrote the modern movement. The latest book of the series by Scott Colman will bring to light the work and influence of the German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer – a central figure of the Weimar Republic avant-garde, an important Bauhaus teacher, and long-standing collaborator of leading modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Will be published next November 2024, pre-ordering is already available here: https://lnkd.in/ewGXvpsV
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Gee whizz - slipped some images by my favourite mad architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser into a presentation yesterday. Always stimulates a reaction! An Austrian artist, architect, environmentalist and social commenter / reformer, his philosophy was that straight lines are inhuman and should have no place in architecture. He was quoted as saying “The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity!”. His most famous creations are the way he beautified the waste incinerator on the Danube in Vienna and the apartment building he designed in Vienna itself. I find his work inspirational, not necessarily because I love it architecturally, but because he actually genuinely challenged convention. Unlike some modern architects who write worthy tomes saying we should challenge convention, but then accept high value commissions that eschew the principles they say are important, Hundertwasser never “sold out”. If you are ever in Vienna, he has a museum in the apartment building - so you can see it up close, and find out more about him. If you do go, make sure you go to the toilets - they are amazing! https://lnkd.in/ec8wat-y If you are interested, you can find out more about Hundertwasser, his life, art and work here: https://lnkd.in/euYzxudc Isn’t what we do endlessly fascinating? We get to make places that people live their entire lives in - I think we owe it to them to be as creative as we can to provide places where everyone can reach their absolute potential. (But I am just a Transport Planner on a bit of a mission, so what do i know!!).
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