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Architects’ Guide: 18 Ways To Make Your Designs More Sustainable

Architizer

Every step toward sustainability, no matter how small, contributes to a larger impact on our environment and communities. A well-lit, clean-air environment is crucial for both health and comfort. Design structural elements and junctions to be bolted rather than welded, which facilitates easier deconstruction and reuse.

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Architects Guide: 18 Ways To Make Your Designs More Sustainable

Architizer

Every step toward sustainability, no matter how small, contributes to a larger impact on our environment and communities. A well-lit, clean-air environment is crucial for both health and comfort. Design structural elements and junctions to be bolted rather than welded, which facilitates easier deconstruction and reuse.

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Mansion XĂšN Restaurant, Chengdu, China

e-architect

In Zumthor’s book “Atmospheres: Architectural Environments, Surrounding Objects,” he emphasizes that “atmosphere” is a responsive interaction between the user and the space. The construction of the poetic environment. Life’s flavors are seamlessly integrated into these poetic environments.

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PURE NFTEA Tea House, Shenzhen, China

e-architect

In this way, an asymmetrical yet balanced frame was constructed on the horizontal plane, defining a new space in a deconstructive manner. 2 Deconstruction Chinese Lego blocks — mortise-and-tenon structures, a flexible joint in architecture “The Sun (tenon) and Mao (mortise) represent the Yang and Yin elements in Chinese philosophy.

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Cutting-Edge Innovations in Wood-Frame Construction

Santa Cruz Architect

Components of wooden structures are manufactured in controlled factory environments and then transported to the construction site for assembly. Digital Design and BIM Advancements in digital design tools and Building Information Modeling (BIM) have empowered architects and engineers to optimize wood structures in unprecedented ways.

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6 Rousing Retail Spaces That Subvert the Shopping Experience

Architizer

Sign up for key information about the 12th Annual A+Awards, set to launch this fall. In the most reductive sense, retail structures are zones of transaction — environments that facilitate the sale of goods and services. Consequently, the modern demands on our brick-and-mortar stores are high.

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Haiweiguan Restaurant, Huangpu District Shanghai

e-architect

By the design of Daniel Qiao, Haiweiguan Restaurant located on Fuxing Road in Shanghai has integrated the ancient and the modern with innovative interior design. The entrance keeps the lines of Shanghai Gate, a traditional structure, then deconstructed and reconstructed with a black frame, therefore the tension booms.