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An five-storey office building built with timber instead of steel. This makes it less carbon-intensive than steel frame, and the timbers are designed to be unpegged and reused when the building is no longer needed.
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A breezy lecture on the chaotic formation, merging and splitting of colleges that has lead to Oxford's chaotic urban architecture, in the form of a Twitter thread.
‘Oxford is an architectural disaster because the colleges keep cannibalising each other. The University has, over a millennium, had a couple hundred colleges and halls. There are now 45.’
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A bridge made from 3D-printed wedge-shaped hollow concrete blocks held together by gravity and compression—no mortar or reinforcement required
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Photos of the concrete façade of the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum in Japan.
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Eco housing has to be deisgned differently depending on the local climate. I am used to thinking of green houses as carefully sealed boxes with triple-glazed windows to retain heat during winter. This one, designed for Costa Rica, is the exact opposite.
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TV series of How Buildings Learn (1997) by Stewart Brand
(Via @asajeffrey on Twitter)
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Honext boards are a construction material made from the sludge at the end of paper mills.
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Building a catenary-arch soda kiln. A catenary is the optimum shape for a self-supporting brick arch and hence the basis of a free-standing brick kiln.
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Cross-laminated timber and other innovations make large-scale wood buildings increasingly attractive.
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Traditional architectural styles use largely forgotten tricks to regulate their internal climate with little expenditure of energy.
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