Head of School of Built Environment at UNSW Sydney and Prof of Architecture. Writer, researcher & teacher, tall buildings, housing, embodied carbon, cities
If we *must* demolish a building, let's do it like the Japanese.
From the bottom up! Meaning less waste, more recycling of materials, less pollution and less noise
France is not fucking around
New legislation demands all *existing* carparks with 80 or more spaces must install a solar roof (in 3-5 years)
This could generate up to 11 gigawatts, which is the equivalent of 10 nuclear reactors
Kowloon Walled City, likely the densest place ever built (est. 1.9 million people per square km)
A team of Japanese researchers spent time until the night before it was demolished measuring and drawing the building, creating this incredible section
Iranian architect Farshad Mehdizadeh is designing some of the most interesting mid-housing anywhere in the world right now
A thread 🧵
Tabriz residential apartments
A remarkable graphic
Frontover fatalities (where drivers accidentally run over small children) have increased 3,800% in the last 30 years in the US
Whatever could be causing this?