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HDR | Dragonboat Pub | Skaha Lake Over on Skaha Lake, you'll find the Dragonboat Pub nestled oh-so-perfectly into the scenery. The architects really outdid themselves with this one, seamlessly blending it into its surroundings. #edwhitephotographics #architecturephotography #architecturalphotographer #architecturedaily #vanarch #interiorphotographer #archiporn #architecturephoto #architecturephotos #hospitalitydesign #restaurantdesign #restaurantdesigner #landscapedesign

Day 20 of World Landscape Architecture Month reflecting on creating objects with multiple functions in urban public spaces. #wlam2024 American Society of Landscape Architects The best public spaces provide variety, joy and flexibility, allowing people to determine the function of objects based on how they interpret them. What if a sculptural form was also a seat, a play opportunity and public art? We need more playable landscapes as well as play spaces. It was a joy seeing the #sculpturalseats at #strandaldwych transformed into a playable landscape because it was interpreted as an object of play. LDA Design Millimetre Makes MUF ARCHITECTURE / ART LLP says it well, “Can we make spaces for more than one thing at a time? Where you’re not fixing the meaning but making something that can be appropriated?” #digitalfabrication #accoya #ldadesign

"As little as possible, as much as necessary." 💫When lighting #heritage architecture, our mission goes beyond illumination. It's about #preserving the soul of a monument and its historical #significance ⛪️ For this heritage church #facade, the main components of the architecture are emphasized giving viewers a true sense of its grandeur and #scale 💡Lighting applications are designed to indicate the #hierarchical importance of different functions. This balanced approach means lighting is #minimal yet #effective, perfectly embodying the principle: as little as possible, as much as necessary. 👤Supervisor: Jan Blieske , Architectural Lighting Professor and Lighting built heritage expert #ArchitecturalLighting #HeritageFacade #LightingDesign #LightPollution

#Composition of buildings We architects love ordering space, like puzzle masters with bricks. But sometimes, even simple questions about putting buildings together leave us scratching our heads! How do we make them fit in with the big open area around them, look welcoming to people walking up, or chat across a plaza without yelling?.Composition of structures. When a structure is to be related to a given area or space, both the shape and the character of the area or space will be affected by the positioning of the structure.

What if no one ever considered placing benches in parks, adding little water fountains here and there, or designing arches in alleys to frame a view? We would be left with very ordinary cities, much like the ones we live in today. "Who has the time for that?" is our greatest excuse. An architect from New York decided to dedicate his time in Rome to explore and study its many "places of rest" – the small architectural features that often go unnoticed but actually contribute to the humanistic urbanism that makes Rome so welcoming to those who wander on foot. He plans to understand these sites through detailed sketches, photographic documentation, and notes on their composition, design details, and relationship to the larger built environment. His goal is to apply lessons from these studies to help improve walkable infrastructure in the United States. We often overlook smaller details in the grand scheme of things. However, the value of these small contributions is immense if we learn to see how they shape our experience of a place. These little details ultimately define the city itself. Pay close attention to where you take pictures when you go on tours. It's most likely in areas that offer something unique and detailed. We need more architects like him—those who pay attention to detail and bring more humanity to architecture. Those who can give us what we want even when we don't know what we want. #architecture #architecturaldesign #rome #architects #classicalarchitecture #architecturalwriting

Controversial thought: Architects are often asked by clients if they follow VASTU when they design buildings. But being a Landscape architect, I ask: If we care so much about VASTU inside buildings, why do we forget about it outside? There are specific TREES recommended by VASTU to bring success, yet we often overlook them because we don’t want to leave any open spaces in our plot. Shouldn't we fully commit to VASTU beliefs, even if it means sacrificing some indoor space to make room for Trees?

Animated Forms, Harare Edition House SM Snippet of the proposed renovation of a residential house in Harare, Zimbabwe for a private concrete enthusiat client. What if the buildings we design and live in dancing buildings, with forms that are both grounded fluid. Animated forms have always been the trademark of African Architecture, defying the mundane while embracing craftmanship. I have always believed that giving form to spaces that humans live and work in, a great responsibility that requires something more than what is in the mind of the one who gives form (architect), something ethereal. Life is movement and the animated forms edition is the attempt to give life to stagnant forms through a series of house designs. #architecture #hararearchitecture #zimbabwearchitecture #animatedforms

Frank Lloyd Wright change the phrase "From Follow Function" to "Form and Function area One" by using nature as the best example of its integration. The Famous FLW Organic Architecture base on reinterpretation of nature’s principles as they had been filtered through the intelligent minds of men and women who could then build forms which are more natural than nature itself. Organic Architecture involves a respect for the properties of the materials, and a respect for the harmonious relationship between the form/design and the function of the building. Organic architecture is also an attempt to integrate the spaces into a coherent whole: a marriage between the site and the structure and an union between the context and the structure. The Falling Water House designed by FLW is the best example of his Organic Architecture. This is one of the iconic buildings of modern architecture history, in my opinion. https://lnkd.in/gBrsKK2A

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Did you know Wallace Design Collective added landscape architecture to the list of services offered in 2021? We have an incredible team of landscape architects and we're looking for more to join our team. Learn more at wallace.design. #WeAreWallace #NationalLandscapeArchitectureDay