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MuseLAB Wins Coronavirus Design Competition
MuseLAB has won the Coronavirus Design Competition hosted by GoArchitect. The competition's challenge was to design a way to help people stay healthy, both in body and mind. The competition was made to recognize that COVID-19 has affected billions of lives, of every nationality, if not physically than economically and mentally.
How Will Digitalization and Remote Construction Change our Habits as Architects?
Architects don’t make buildings. Architects make drawings of buildings. But of course, someone has to make the building. The construction industry is one of the largest economic sectors and we all interact with the built environment on a daily basis, but the actual work of getting a building from drawing to structure has barely evolved over the decades. While the rest of the world has moved into Industry 4.0, the construction sector has not kept pace. Architecture has begun to embrace some digitalization. After all, not many of us work with mylar on drafting tables anymore. So with the architecture industry’s everlasting link to the construction industry, will the latter pick up some new technological tricks by association? And when it does, how will that change the role of the architect?
Cities Should Allow People to Shine
Feeling free and safe in the city. How many times have we felt fully free when walking through our neighbourhood, when returning home, when sitting in the park? Some urban spaces give us more autonomy than others. Some areas seem more comfortable and calm. But, to keep that calm, to what extent do we express ourselves and to what extent do we hold back? What safeguards do we take to feel as good as possible when inhabiting our environment?
The Upshot of Sidewalk Labs’ Canceled Toronto Project
In May, Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs announced that it would cancel its high-profile Quayside project because of “unprecedented economic uncertainty.” The statement marked the end of a three-year initiative to create a living, urban “testbed for emerging technologies, materials, and processes.”
Reversing the traditional order of city planning, Sidewalk Labs imagined building a new urban district on Toronto’s waterfront from the internet up, with sensors and other data collection infrastructure embedded in the fabric of a large city block. The ambitious development—with an area of 2.65 million square feet, including 1.78 million square feet of residential space—was to be built entirely from mass timber; indeed, the extensive use of modular cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glue-laminated timber (glulam) was a chief selling point of the design (by Heatherwick Studio and Snøhetta, using a kit-of-parts developed by Michael Green Architecture).
Xige Estate / Udopartners + Saussure Architects
- architects: udopartners
- architects: Saussure Architects
- Location: No.1, Xige Road, Qingtongxia, Wuzhong, Ningxia, China
- Project Year: 2019
- Photographs: Feng Shao
- Area: 25000.0 m2
Town House Renovation in Hanoi / i.House Architecture and Construction
- architects: i.House Architecture and Construction
- Location: Hanoi, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Project Year: 2019
- Photographs: Hoang Le
- Area: 279.0 m2
Alley in the House / FHHH FRIENDS
- architects: FHHH FRIENDS
- Location: 437-9 Yeonhui-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea
- Project Year: 2019
- Photographs: Roh Kyoung
- Area: 180.0 m2
Filtered Light House / CRS SDN BHD
- architects: CRS SDN BHD
- Location: Bukit Indah, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
- Project Year: 2019
- Photographs: Raynce Tan
- Area: 1700.0 ft2
Secret Garden House / Scapearchitecture
- architects: Scapearchitecture
- Location: Paros 844 00, Greece
- Project Year: 2019
- Photographs: Ioanna Roufopoulou
- Area: 400.0 m2
AD House / Estudio M3
- architects: Estudio M3
- Location: City Bell, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Project Year: 2017
- Photographs: Luis Barandiarán
- Area: 345.0 m2
Remisenpavillon / Wirth Architekten
- architects: Wirth Architekten
- Location: Bergstraße 48, 27257 Affinghausen, Germany
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Christian Burmester
- Area: 42.0 m2
I93 Building / Wolff - Yapur
- architects: Wolff - Yapur
- Location: Avenida Irrigacion 93, Col. Irrigation, Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
- Project Year: 2019
- Photographs: Herman Schumacher
- Photographs: Mauricio Salas
- Area: 670.0 m2
PP Apartment / Nildo José
- architects: Nildo José
- Location: Vila Nova Conceição, Sao Paulo - State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Project Year: 2017
- Photographs: Marco Antonio
- Area: 95.0 m2
Park Hoog Oostduin Apartments / Cepezed
- architects: Cepezed
- Location: The Hague, The Netherlands
- Project Year: 2019
- Photographs: Lucas van der Wee | cepezed
- Photographs: Léon van Woerkom | cepezed
- Area: 49380.0 m2
Alphonse Apartment Renovation / Match, bureau d'architecture
- architects: Match, bureau d'architecture
- Location: XX Distrito de Paris, 75020 Paris, France
- Project Year: 2019
- Photographs: Antoine Bonnafous
- Area: 42.0 m2
LGBTQIA+ Experience in the City and the Architectural Field, According to our Readers
In general, architects like to talk about how much their designs influence communities, and it makes perfect sense for them to do so. In the end, physical spaces and different social factors influence how each individual feels when they inhabit the city or occupy a building. But do all projects respond to all users the same way? We set out to question the way in which architecture approaches the LGBTQIA+ community, through an open call on our social networks, collecting the testimony of our readers on how they inhabit these spaces and how it would be possible to represent the community in the architectural field.
Labour in the Documedia Age
In 2013, Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey ranked 702 occupations according to their probability of computerisation in the near future, from least probable (“recreational therapist”) to most probable (“telemarketers”). "Architectural and Engineering Managers” was ranked seventy-third, and “architects” eighty-second, while “architectural and civil drafters” ranked three-hundred and fifth. Clearly, technological advancements in fields such as machine learning and robotics are rapidly confronting us with issues of changing professional demand and qualifications. In this essay, Maurizio Ferraris turns the table on us: what if what we should be concerned with is not maintaining the human element in labor as production, but rather recognising human labor as consumption? Expanding on the arguments of his 2012 book, “Lasciar tracce: documentalità e architettura,” the author sees in automation an extraordinary opportunity in defining a renewed centrality of the human element, as the production of value associated with digital exchange is read through the three concepts of invention, mobilization and consumption.
Our House / Peak Studio
- architects: Peak Studio
- Location: Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
- Project Year: 2019
- Photographs: Katsumasa Tanaka
- Area: 110.0 m2
A Classic Guide to England’s Cathedrals
The most recent edition of The Cathedrals of England brings to a new generation the classic 1930s Batsford guide to England’s religious architecture. Concisely written and speaking to a broad readership, the book serves as a practical guide today as it did almost a century ago, acting as a reference catalogue for every Church of England cathedral in the country at the time.
Peninsula Residence / Richard Beard Architects
- architects: Richard Beard Architects
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Project Year: 2019
- Photographs: Paul Dyer
- Area: 12000.0 ft2