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the bloom architects’ tile-wrapped house regulates vietnam’s tropical and temperate climate

designboom

the versatile use of tile forms a roof, a wall, a protective shield, and an avenue for fresh air to permeate the home. The post the bloom architects’ tile-wrapped house regulates vietnam’s tropical and temperate climate appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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"So confident, so fluid, so good" says commenter

Deezen

The spaces created stimulate imagination and surprise, instead of simply following the rules and regulations," Beijing-based Trace Architecture Office told Dezeen. The building, which features a green roof and a swimming pool, was designed for an unspecified urban site and contains retail, office, residential, hotel and library space.

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Grenfell Tower in West London: Fire Inquiry

e-architect

After the fire at Knowsley Heights, Merseyside in 1991, a handwritten government note from the Department of the Environment, which at the time had responsibility for building regulation, to the Building Research Establishment, asked them to “play down” the issue of the cladding fire at Knowsley. This was in breach of building regulations.

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RO54 Residence, Bel Air, Los Angeles

e-architect

It proposes an alternative model within the confines of stringent regulations. sf Zoning: Residential Estate (RE15-1-H-HCR) Height: 26ft (max) Program: New Single-Family Residence. The concept set out to reduce the massing of a rather large project in order for it to lodge within the neighborhood proportionally.

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Wolf Prix is the deconstructivist architect who said "architecture must burn"

Deezen

The practice was formed during a particularly exciting time for more experimental architectural thinking in Vienna, exemplified by the avant-garde magazine Bau, whose editors included the Austrian architect Hans Hollein. The UFA Cinema Centre is a crystal-like block. Photo by Duccio Malagamba. Illustration by Jack Bedford.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Anita Lara Bulloni is a Founder and Architect at the Italian office, LOKOMOTIV.arches – LKMV , where her projects have ranged from church restoration to commercial interiors to residential design. Studio SUMO works include an array of project types, including residential and institutional to exhibitions and installations.

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Building Science, Climate Change and The Pretty Good House (Transcript)

EntreArchitect

He gave that up to pursue his vision of creating energy efficient healthy homes, first as operations manager at a high performance panelized building manufacturer, then as a residential designer and passive house consultant. Now, as co owner of a design build construction company, Maines Brothers Incorporated, based near Portland, Maine.