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Taipei, Taiwan – As the investigation into the deadly crash of Jeju Air Flight 2216 stretches into its third day, aviation experts are raising questions about what role a concrete structure at the end of the runway at South Korea’s Muan International Airport may have played in the accident, among other factors. The Boeing 737-800 […]
Studios WORKac and Ignacio Urquiza Architects have completed a green-tinted concrete building as part of the PILARES programme, which works to build supportive public facilities in vulnerable and impoverished areas across Mexico City. Located in Azcapotzalco, a borough in the northwestern part of the city, the building was designed as part of the government-backed PILARES programme, […]
For forty-plus years, forestry scientist Jim Chi-yung has been helping transform Hong Kong’s skyline into a greener, more sustainable space. #GLOBALink Source link
Local studio Gabriel Rivera Arquitectos has designed a concrete house with a large overhang and spaces designed to adapt to the varying needs of its residents near Quito, Ecuador. Known as the Binocular House, the 564-square metre (6,070-square foot) house is located on a residential development called Puembo. It is oriented with a western view […]
CLAB Architects’ concrete structure Evolves Through nature CLAB Architects presents LUXURIANT RELICS, A Tower of Vertical Nature, a micro art museum situated on the lake at Yugeng Yueyun Art Park in Foshan City, China. Lead architect Xu Lang conceptualized the tower as a natural monument, merging the permanence of the built form with the […]
The Elf-Freunde-Kreisel in Kaiserslautern is a traffic circle that’s basically a concrete pep rally for 11 footballers who are forever stuck in their game poses, cheerfully reminding everyone that if you want to win, you need to hang out with your buddies—unless you’re the goalkeeper, in which case, you might want to just keep an […]
Villa Cerro Corá House / ArquitecTava + Grupo Culata Jovai . Image © Leonardo Méndez Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https://www.archdaily.com/1024259/unpolished-narratives-exposed-materials-in-latin-american-affordable-housing What makes a building architecture? The eternal debate over what distinguishes architecture from mere utilitarian construction has often included affordable and social housing as an influential topic, sparking different points of […]
Belgian studios Archipelago and NU Architectuuratelier have created Broydenborg, a cluster of brick and concrete housing blocks for assisted living in Antwerp. Comprising three colonnaded blocks and a glazed community building, Broydenborg provides 60 residences in place of a former sawmill in the southwestern district of Hoboken. Archipelago and NU Architectuuratelier transformed the site not […]
How worried should we be about bird flu? The past few months have seen some potentially worrisome developments in the US, including the continued spread of the virus among dairy cattle, the detection of the virus in a pig as well as cow’s milk, and—most concerning of all—the growing number of human infections. We don’t […]
Architecture firm AtelierM, has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Pilar, Buenos Aires, whose design is inspired by the terrain and surrounding area. The house is conceived as a living element in the landscape, with gentle curves and fluid lines that adapt to the terrain and merge with the surrounding vegetation. The […]