Let’s play with coloured sand!!

Colour Special

By Team IAnD

Info & Photography: Adam Kalinowski

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Polish artist and prolific writer, Adam Kalinowski works with coloured sand to make participatory art installations that sensitize people to simple actions of touch and sight in a profound introspective process…

Virtual Reality and Architecture

Info & Images: Courtesy NBBJ

User Looking Up - Project stakeholders can provide immediate feedback to designers via their mobile device.

Making headway in implementing emerging technologies with processes of design, NBBJ architects work on using virtual reality for effective and inclusive communication and decision-making... 

Glifo – empowering the neurologically challenged!

By Leah Linhares

Photography: Courtesy Sarah Monacchi &Andrea Pelino

 

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A team of designers collaborate to give children suffering from neurological impairments a second chance at life...

Manchester’s Maggie Cancer Centre: where built form fosters healing!

Compiled by Team IAnD

Photography: Nigel Young;courtesy Foster + Partners

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Cancer patients across the UK will now have one more support system in terms of free practical, emotional and social support at the new Maggie’s Cancer Centre that has opened its doors in Manchester earlier today...

New York Horizon – will “sidescraper” be the new skyscraper?

Compiled by Team IAnD

Photography: Jianshi Wu, Yitan Sun; courtesy V2com

 

New York Horizon - aerial rendering

Try envisioning a sunken Central Park surrounded by a horizontal "sidescraper"? The winner of 2016 eVolo Skyscraper Competition re-imagines the future of New York City's skyline…

Out-of-box product display!

Compiled by Team IAnD

Photography: Eliot Postma; courtesy the designers

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Bureau de Change Architects transform an old run-down book store into the crisp, spacious and inviting MADE.com’s flagship store in central London… 

The archive studio: an exercise in plausibility!

By Ar. Jonathan Tuckey

Photography: Dirk Lindner; courtesy the architect

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The Archive Studio located within Grade I listed Royal Festival Hall building (1951), may well set a precedent to facilitating exciting, live encounters with one’s archives. Ar. Jonathan Tuckey, the brain behind the project, enlightens...

Are hybrid typologies the answer to contemporary lifestyles?

Compiled by Team IAnD

Info &Photography: Courtesy the architects

   

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Architects rethink typologies and inspire varied versions based on individualistic design. Here is yet another hybrid typology by LAN architecture, challenging the typical housing idiom…

The Time Stairs at Markthal - winning historical beats!

Complied by Leah Linhares

Photography: Bas Czerwinski; courtesy Kossmann.Dejong 

 

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Take a trip through time on The Time Stairs at the Markthal and experience the birth of Rotterdam - the Gateway to Europe!

Retirement Housing: Adopting a healthier lifestyle!

By Nitika Agarwal

Renderings & Infographics: Courtesy Spark

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Spark Architects’ striking approach to ‘Retirement Housing’ for the next generation wins the best future-experimental project at the 2015 World Architecture Festival, held in Singapore earlier this year.

The humane touch!

Compiled by Pari Syal

Photography: Adrien Williams; courtesy the architect

 

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Designed by Jean de Lessard creative designers, the Uniprix pharmacy on the outskirts of Montreal, challenges accepted notions of generic pharmacy typology… 

Intangibility of Time wins Jury Award at Festival of Lively Architecture!

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Photography: Courtesy V2com

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Jury Winners of the tenth edition of the Festival des Architectures Vives at Montpellier, France, architects Mickaël Martin, Margaux Rodot, Benoît Tastet narrated a balloon story to vivify the transient essence of time…

Temporary housing for Nepal earthquake victims

Compiled by Savitha Hira

Photography: Courtesy Shigeru Ban Architects

  

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IAnD traces Ar. Shigeru Ban’s project in disaster-affected Nepal and his solution for lack of supply in temporary housing that could be adapted to in developing countries, including India… 

Fluid as Creative Juices

Compiled by: Team IAnD

Photography: Courtesy LAN

  

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Deeply rooted within contemporary creation and at the crossing point of performing arts, Le Maillon theatre aims to reach outside of its walls and extract the performing arts world from its occasional elitist position...

Urban Farming System.

By Beverly Pereira

Photography: Courtesy Architect Kidd

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Holcim Silver Awards 2011 Asia Pacific winner - Urban Farm Urban Barn is a concept that integrates agricultural beds, commercial area and community market to rejuvenate a deteriorated urban environment.

Seoul’s Proposed Skygarden

By Team IAnD

Renders: Courtesy MVRDV

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The proposed transformation of Seoul’s 938 metre section of elevated highway into public space transcends its function as a mere public space to a meaningful giving-back to society...

Towards an Earthquake-Resistant Reconstruction of Nepal

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Info & Illustration: Courtesy EDA

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Architects have a very significant role to play in society. Emergency and Development Architects, who are gearing up to work towards the integrated and sustainable earthquake-resistant reconstruction of Nepal make a mass appeal...

Community Bonding - Rehabilitation Architecture

Compiled by Pari Syal

Photography: Courtesy the architect

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'Small Project of the Year 2014' award by World Architecture Festival goes to the new library building designed by architects Olivier Ottevaere and John Lin - as a rehabilitation response to China’s 2012 earthquake that doubles up as a community centre and a physical memorial…

Integrating Art with Architecture

Compiled by Savitha Hira

Photography: Marc Cramer; courtesy Linda Covit

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Addressing social issues, reviving cultural elements, building key dialogue... are only some of the multi-faceted points-of-contact that foster public art projects. Quebec-sculptor Linda Covit is all set to bring on a pseudo-emotional member for a new hospital coming April'15...

Social Dimension of Architecture

Info & Images: Courtesy the architect.

Photography: AllesWirdGut Architektur/ Guilherme Silva Da Rosa

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Would you like to share your holiday dwelling with a refugee? In a novel attempt at combining social responsibility with commercial gain, Caritas and architecture firm, AllesWirdGut collaborate on the design of magdas Hotel in Vienna.