Experiments in architecture: the mobile home!

Compiled by Teresa Simon

Photography: Hannah Wu; People’s Architecture Office; courtesy the architects

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How would you like to own a mobile home and add on to it at will, without spending huge sums of money on associated mandates? People's Architecture Office designs a modular home to fulfil this very need...

Reconnecting with our dear departed

By Savitha Hira with inputs from Sonal Mamoowala

Photography: Masao Nishikawa; courtesy the architect

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The Charnel House in Ryusenji Temple, Japan is an ossuary designed to keep pace with contemporary mindsets; without blurring the boundaries of religious sentiments…

Repurposing art and architecture into a new experience

Compiled by TeamIAnD

Renders: Courtesy SHLArchitects

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Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects reveal designs for ARoS "Next Level" in collaboration with renowned American artist James Turrell...

Zaha Hadid Architects design the greenest football stadium in the world!

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Renders: VA; courtesy ZHA

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Zaha Hadid Architects winning entry for the new football stadium in Stroud, UK will be the world’s first all-wood structure with low carbon emittance.

Scenography aboard world’s largest cruise ship!

By Savitha Hira with inputs from Avinash Yadav

Photography: Courtesy the designer

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Installed strategically aboard the world’s largest cruise ship, this interjection between art and architecture is a dynamic installation that captures eye-balls and triggers contemplation...

This water purifier has strong global relevance!

Compiled by Avinash Yadav

Photography: Courtesy Bart Bratke

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Raft Foram, an ecological performative structure, aims to produce fresh water from seawater; its prototype applicable globally to all such areas in need of fresh water…

Embrace: the warmth of sensitive design!

By Avinash Yadav

Photography: Courtesy Carlos Schreib

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Embrace - prototype

German industrial designer, Carlos Schreib has conceptualised a single-module, easy-to-use walking stick that can double up as a restive seat, when needed; especially catering to aged 60 and above...

Unique LED lighting aids surface inspection

Info & Images: Courtesy V2com

Photography: Eisenmann

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Integrating engineering and design, Eisenmann has received the prestigious Red Dot Award 2016 for Product Design in the industry, machinery and robotics category…

Techno-ready urban design!

By Leah Linhares

Photography: Margot Krasojevic; courtesy v2com

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View over helix terminal shell and conductive wire mesh which connects to existing overhead trolley lines

With China already being the first country to test its Straddling Buses, Ar. Margot Krasojevic is one step closer to introducing the world to another futuristic urban mechanism…

‘Left Out’ or ‘Trapped Inside’?!

By Neehar Mishra

Photography: Courtesy the artist

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Artist Maxwell Rushton’s unconventional and thought-provoking installation has confronted people all over the world with a pertinent question: Would you help or move on?

Tidal House: Terry.Terry Architecture’s coastal home of the future

Complied by Leah Linhares

Photography: Terry & Terry Architecture

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Ever dreamed of living out by the sea under the blue skies and a breath-taking view of the big blue? Terry.Terry Architecture’s Tidal House brings us a step close to this vision…

Children learn from surrounding nature at Amanenomori Nursery School, Japan

Compiled by Team IAnD

Photography: Shigeo Ogawa; courtesy Aisaka Architects’ Atelier

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Ar. Kensuke Aisaka designs a nursery school in Funabashi city, Japan, where children get to observe and learn from nature; nourish their responsiveness and ability to think…

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…