"How do you breathe new life into an old tower?" 3XN Architects cover how, rather than tearing down the existing AMP Centre tower reaching the end of its usable lifespan, the project team set out to instead reuse as much of the existing building and set a new standard for what is possible for adaptive... Continue Reading →
If you've gotten into the Medici series[i] (no show spoilers here don't worry, only architectural ones!), you will have definitely been awestruck by the Florence Dome. Florence Cathedral & its breathtaking Dome [ii] Bringing the whole facade to life, this magnificent dome for the Santa Maria Del Flore Cathedral, was not actually completed until 100... Continue Reading →
The shapes that shape you. I invite you into my mind, let’s take a short journey, close your eyes (figuratively, not literally) and picture your day. This morning, you woke up most likely in your bed. If it’s a work day, you got ready for work, transported yourself in one mode of transport or another,... Continue Reading →
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. “Who now”? you may ask. During 1st century BC, more commonly known as Vitruvius, was a Roman author, architect, civil and military engineer. Most famously known for his work entitled De Architectura [1], today as The Ten Books on Architecture, a thesis on architecture, in Latin, dedicated to the emperor Augustus. The Ten Books of... Continue Reading →
Façade. Let’s take the word back to its root. The origin of the word comes from the French, and the cedilla (the little squiggly c thing) vouches for that. It is a word which means face or, to be fancier, frontage. When you think of building ‘faces’, more commonly referred to as building envelopes or... Continue Reading →
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