Amid the climate crisis, food and water scarcity are two of the biggest threats to societies. Once predominantly agrarian societies, Bangkok and other cities across Southeast Asia, have succumbed to unregulated and rampant urbanisation.…
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Architecture Landscape architecture Sustainable design Urban design
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Architecture Design Installation
French architect Emmanuelle Moureaux’s colourful public installation goes on permanent display in Tokyo
French-born and Tokyo-based architect Emmanuelle Moureaux, known for her large-scale colourful installations, has unveiled her first public art sculpture in the new wellbeing district Green Springs in Tokyo. The sculpture titled ‘Mirai’, meaning ‘the…
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Architecture Transport Urban design
UNStudio completes Doha Metro project combining state-of-the-art elements and traditional design features
Dutch practice UNStudio has completed its work on the Doha Metro. Qatar Railways has created one of the most advanced and fastest driverless metro systems in the world. Phase one of the project involved…
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Architecture Residential design
Fujiwara Muro Architects designs circular house in Tokushima to create space for climbing wall and outdoor areas
This 168m² circular house by Fujiwara Muro Architects, led by architects Shintaro Fujiwara and Yoshio Muro, is located in a residential neighborhood in Tokushima on the island of Shikoku in Japan. It faces streets…
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Architecture Interviews Sustainable design
Anarchitect, Studio Toggle and Binchy and Binchy discuss the complexities of designing for arid desert region
Designing for the desert terrain is not only a matter of expertise and technical know-how from the point of view of the site topography, structural and building materials knowledge, but it requires an innate…
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Architecture Art Culture
Shuyang Art Museum by Zhejiang University design team draws upon its town’s calligraphic heritage
Located in the hometown of traditional calligraphy, Shuyang in China’s Jiangsu province, Shuyang Art Museum by The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co. Ltd is positioned as the calligraphy art museum…
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Architecture Residential design
Studio Symbiosis designs Hyderabad residential villa with cantilevered terraces that are tailored to counter hot climate
New Delhi-based practice Studio Symbiosis, led by principal architects Amit Gupta and Britta Knobel Gupta, has designed a modernist private residential project called the Floating Terraces in India’s Hyderabad city. The villa has been…