A kinetic façade that transforms into a porch
A new architectural proposal that, by means of tensors, turns the façade into a factor of energy efficiency.
World’s first airport for air taxis, in Coventry (+VIDEO)
An example of modular architecture, a multimodal urban airport for vertical take-off and landing craft.
Expansion of a hotel with containers (+VIDEO)
Completed in record time, the annex to the Crowne Plaza Hotel is a unique example of the prefabricated volumetric construction method.
Tensile façade system
Tensile façade system
Visionary architecture: a single city for the entire world’s population
Imagination is one of the sources from which, as a creative profession, architecture draws its nourishment. Precisely, one of the latest proposals with the greatest dose of imagination has caught our attention: Planet City. It is a visionary idea rather than a project, mixing fiction and reality or, more precisely, science fiction and architecture. Los Angeles-based Australian architect Liam Young proposes a Copernican twist in urban planning and architecture: a single city to house the entire world’s population. This is the part of the imagination, or science fiction, whilst the part of reality is provided by the challenges of deforestation, species extinction and climate change facing the world today, to which he intends to [...]
Trends in architecture for a new decade
Advances in technology, together with population growth and the fight against climate change, are factors that will shape the development of architecture and construction in coming years.
Articulated modular prefabricated façade
Through the use of horizontally-moving prefabricated modules, this new building’s skin fulfils three fundamental functions.
A floating ecopark in San Francisco
An "ecological oasis" designed for the San Francisco Bay that will revitalize the city's coastline.
Rotating modular patterns on façades
We explore the possibilities offered by the rotation factor to the reiterative method in architecture.
The world’s highest prefabricated towers
Sustainable architecture, in its prefabricated and pre-finished version, has a new landmark in these towers planned for the Singapore skyline.
