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
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Philip Oldfield
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Philip Oldfield
@SustainableTall
Head of School of Built Environment at UNSW Sydney and Prof of Architecture. Writer, researcher & teacher, tall buildings, housing, embodied carbon, cities
- 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
- This is *also* what European cities looked like a century ago (London 1925)
- Street in Macau. Photograph by Paul Tsui, National Geographic travel photographer of the year contest
- Air conditioning units at the SMDC Shore Residences, Manila, Philippines themindcircle.com/concrete-waste…
- Another banger of an apartment design in Iran! This time in the city of Birjand, designed by Sahar Kamaleddin and Nima Safdari
- Architects Sahar Kamaleddin and Nima Safdari are designing some wonderful mid-rise apartments using brick and tile in Iran This is in Urmia
- More expressive Iranian brick and tile work Designed by Sahar Kamaluddin and Nima Safdari (render by Behnam Hosseinzad)
- This is the ‘missing middle’ I want to see… Vert apartments, Akimoto, 1982
- New apartments in Isfahan, Iran Not brick this time, but an elegant combination of ceramic tiles and timber Architects are Masih Fazile Studio
- Iranian architect Farshad Mehdizadeh is designing some of the most interesting mid-housing anywhere in the world right now A thread 🧵 Tabriz residential apartments
- New architecture style just dropped … mass timber brutalism By Charlap, Hyman & Herrero, Montana
- 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?
