Category: Environment
The Shanghai Tower, the second tallest building in the world, features significant technological innovations, including a tapering asymmetrical form designed to reduce wind loads and a double curtain wall that creates space for garden atrium sky lobbies. The latest issue of AR explores the intimate elements of this giant, spiralling structure.
Richard Hassell, director of Singapore-based practice, WOHA ā€“ pioneer of sustainable, tall buildings ā€“ talks to AR magazine about liveability, high-rise in the tropics and a new book that explores both.
Architects in Perth are like sailors, taking their tactical cues from the skies and winds, to deliver homes that do more than merely shelter. MEZZANINE explores a selection of homes that are designed to incorporate and take complete advantage of their natural surrounds.
Nine kilometres of the Cranbourne-Pakenham train line will be raised above ground to form a sky rail in a new plan by the Andrewsā€™ Government, set to begin this year. Many are upset by the proposal - but will a sky rail be a positive or a negative for Melbourneā€™s south east?
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