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Shigeru Ban designs timber surgical centre for Ukraine’s war-wounded

Shigeru Ban designs timber surgical centre for Ukraine’s war-wounded

Japanese studio Shigeru Ban Architects and local studio AMBK have designed a cross-laminated timber expansion for Ukraine‘s largest hospital, which is located in Lviv. Designed to increase hospital capacity in the country, the surgical centre was announced by the mayor of Lviv at the end of June at the Lviv Urban Forum. Construction of the extension […]

Designing With Users: 7 Projects Where Architects Collaborated With Communities

Designing With Users: 7 Projects Where Architects Collaborated With Communities

There are moments when architects take the design process beyond their practice and engage with potential users as design participants. This expands the design framework and makes the input of future users key to project development. By seeking the knowledge, skills, and decision-making of a communal collective, the project becomes more tailored to their needs, better designed to fit […]

Simon Becks astonishing landscape and snow art illustrates the cold beauty of mathematics-in pictures

Simon Becks astonishing landscape and snow art illustrates the cold beauty of mathematics-in pictures

For the past decade, Simon Beck has been decorating the Alps with his stunning mathematical drawings, created by running in snowshoes across freshly laid snow. Each image takes him up to 11 hours to make and covers an area about 100m x 100m, requiring him to travel up to 25 miles as he marks out […]

New vision for Waterfront Station: A world-class transit hub in downtown Vancouver

New vision for Waterfront Station: A world-class transit hub in downtown Vancouver

What would a world-class, multi-modal public transit hub — fully integrated with a high-density mix of commercial uses — look like at Waterfront Station in downtown Vancouver? This question has long been posed by the City of Vancouver, which first established the Central Waterfront Hub Framework in 2009 to expand Waterfront Station with a transit […]

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