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"Design professionals can make choices to prove that disasters are not natural"

Deezen

The key lesson for design professionals, based on decades of previous disaster science, was that disasters can be stopped through planning, engineering and architecture connected to other skills and professions. So what to do about the changing environment due to human-caused climate change? The choice has to be made to do so.

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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) Design Iconic External Diagrid for Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank Headquarters

Architizer

Our architectural, structural and sustainable engineering studios worked closely together to emphasize dialogue between nature and technology throughout the building, defining a new world-class benchmark for sustainable wellness-focused design. Stone was also sourced locally, reducing carbon footprint from material transport.

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Prepared to Change

Landscape Architecture Magazine

The team that I joined here at DuBois & King was originally planning, specifically transportation planning. But Vermont definitely seems more engineering-focused to me, which is really surprising coming from Philadelphia, where I did not get that same sense. Vermont has a really strong planning presence. I think that’s part of it.

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University of Brighton Moulsecoomb Campus, Sussex

e-architect

These include a new Business and Law School, Advanced Engineering Centre, the Mithras Student Village and the just completed landmark foot bridge, connecting the Campus and student village to the local neighbourhood and the city. Advanced Engineering Centre. photograph © Jim Stephenson.

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Hybrid Stadium, Hangzhou, China

e-architect

The double curved inner bowl is entirely clad in bamboo with recessed lighting and a skylight above, blending technologically generated forms with vernacular materials that offer a warm and inviting environment. ‘Most stadiums are one-liners; circular buildings that enclose rectangular playing fields,’ says Dubbeldam.

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Serpentine Pavilion 2023, London

e-architect

Considering food as an expression of care, the Pavilion’s design is a space for grounding and reflection on our relationship to land, nature and environment. The Pavilion’s pleated roof is inspired by a structure of a palm leaf and the lightwell in the middle furthers the space’s integration with its environment.

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MBM House, Montreal, Quebec

e-architect

The move was designed to enhance their quality of life, while also adopting a more sustainable lifestyle through easier access to local services and community facilities, reducing their carbon footprint by minimizing commute times, and by utilizing a variety of environmentally-friendly modes of transportation.

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