Architecture
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How to create better homes for autistic people with significant additional needs
Access to outside space is at a premium, and housing trends are leading to lower square meterage, smaller windows and noisy open-plan home environments. Joan…
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The 2,700-year-old rock carvings from when Nineveh was the most dazzling city in the world
Featuring war scenes and trees, these rock carvings add to the bounty of detailed stone panels excavated from the 1840s…
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Keep buildings cool as it gets hotter by resurrecting traditional architectural techniques – podcast
Now some architects are resurrecting traditional techniques to help keep buildings cool. Authors The Conversation From western Europe to…
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Diébédo Francis Kéré: how first Black winner of architecture’s top prize is committed to building ‘peaceful cities’
Kéré’s work has consistently highlighted the role of design in creating what he calls “coherent and peaceful cities”. Authors The Conversation…
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How anarchist architecture could help us build back better after COVID
But since anarchism emerged as a distinct kind of politics in the second half of the 19th-century, it has inspired countless alternative…
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Cuba’s post-revolution architecture offers a blueprint for how to build more with less
Construction and buildings account for more than one-quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions. M. Wesam Al Asali The Conversation Meanwhile, according…
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We can’t afford to just build greener.
As the built environment takes centre stage at COP26, the scale and urgency of the climate crisis and of the industry’s responsibility…
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What ancient Chinese roofs can tell us about climate change
A new study, published in Science Advances by researchers at Nanjing University in China suggests that there may even be…
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Ancient Greeks and Romans got a surprising number of things right about the spread of disease
But our ancient ancestors were much more used to using airflow and space to guard against disease. Barbara Zipser The…
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Design makes a place a prison or a home.
The Royal Commission into Aged Care left organisations that provide housing for aged care wondering how they will put its…
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Zaha Hadid: even more than her buildings, it’s her mind that left its mark
Thinking about what she started, though, is more instructive. Lakshmi Priya Rajendran The Conversation Born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1950,…
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This is how we create the age-friendly smart city
Given the choice, that’s what most would prefer. Authors The Conversation The smart city can provide the digital infrastructure for…
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These extreme buildings are hanging on at the ends of the Earth
Around the world, scientists and researchers are tackling some of the planet’s biggest problems – such as climate change, environmental…
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Young children are intuitive urban planners — we would all benefit from living in their ‘care-full’ cities
And yet, important voices are missing from urban planning debates — the voices of those who will one day inherit…
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Preserving cultural and historic treasures in a changing climate may mean transforming them
But imagine that you finally arrive in Venice and the “floating city” is flooded. Erin Seekamp The Conversation Would you…
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We’re at a fork in the road: do we choose neighbourhoods to live, work and play in?
Yet this goal has been elusive. For most of us, our daily activities are segregated into one-dimensional precincts. Halvard Dalheim…
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