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14 votes
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Elliðaárdalur Valley – WilkinsonEyre designs biodome complex for Iceland
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Using pre-fab datacentres to meet Norway's growing demand for colocation space
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Danish architecture firm COBE has won an international competition for a new science museum in Lund
5 votes -
Sweden's incredible new floating hotel and spa Arctic Bath has finally opened
2 votes -
IKEA is bringing its low-cost modular housing units to the UK
6 votes -
Ghazni's ancient tower collapses in Afghanistan
7 votes -
The forgotten victim of the Salvation Army building collapse
4 votes -
The case for rooms
6 votes -
How we fell for cheap old houses
8 votes -
The Frankfurt Kitchen changed how we cook—and live
8 votes -
Notre Dame: Time to call in the French builders with medieval skills
11 votes -
At home with the embattled owner of the Flintstone house
5 votes -
Froebel’s Gifts
8 votes -
After overthrowing its government and changing its name, North Macedonia faces up to the urban crisis in Skopje
8 votes -
Sixty-six minutes: The frantic race to save Notre Dame
6 votes -
After Notre Dame fire, Philadelphia’s historic Christ Church demonstrates its ‘water curtain’
7 votes -
To build the cities of the future, we must get out of our cars
13 votes -
Skyscrapers are killing up to 1bn birds a year in US, scientists estimate
4 votes -
What termites can teach us about cooling our buildings
9 votes -
Neri Oxman's new glass printing technique could lead to 3D-printed glass building facades
7 votes -
Top ten books about building cities. From Mary Beard’s Roman history to Kim Stanley Robinson’s science fiction, Jonathan Carr chooses the best writing about citizens’ eternal challenges
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'Re-Imagining Paradise' — Making plans to rebuild a town destroyed by wildfire
4 votes -
Can post-revolution Yerevan get to grips with its informal architecture epidemic?
10 votes -
The impossible architecture of video games
7 votes -
Why can’t we have decent toilet stalls?
22 votes -
The International Building Code is changing to recommend gender neutral bathrooms
28 votes -
FIBERBOTS: Design of a multi-agent, fiber composite digital fabrication system
4 votes -
Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: The 'pencil towers' of New York's super-rich
14 votes -
Taking back Taksim: Everyday life vs. top-down redevelopment
6 votes -
Mini Stories: Volume 6
3 votes -
How we lost our ambitions for the tech-enabled home
16 votes -
What should America do with its empty church buildings?
13 votes -
Point of view matters: The scourge of modelitis
9 votes -
A 23-year-old designer has won a top £50,000 ($64,385) prize after creating a low-cost bamboo housing unit to address the Philippines' slum crisis
8 votes -
The all-white house: Where did the trend come from and will it last?
7 votes -
Bursts of stylized flowers by ‘Ouizi’ transform buildings into floral canvases
4 votes -
"Brian Eno's ideas have unexpected resonance for architecture"
5 votes -
Thirteen overlooked and forgotten murals of San Francisco
3 votes -
Robert and Virginia Heinlein's Colorado Springs House
6 votes -
Desire paths: The illicit trails that defy the urban planners
23 votes -
The tallest mural in the southern hemisphere is on a Melbourne commission flat
5 votes -
From skyscraper to 'plyscraper': The towering potential of timber
6 votes -
An inversion of nature: How air conditioning created the modern city
3 votes -
Famous Landmarks, Before They Were Finished
4 votes -
Books about social housing & architecture
I read the book 'Municipal Dreams' a few weeks ago and really enjoyed the history of social housing presented in it. I picked up 'Living in Cities' by Ralph Tubbs which is like a modernist new...
I read the book 'Municipal Dreams' a few weeks ago and really enjoyed the history of social housing presented in it. I picked up 'Living in Cities' by Ralph Tubbs which is like a modernist new town pamphlet style book about the futures of cities & towns. I also have 'Post-Modern Buildings in Britain' which is quite nice for a flip through and some history of these buildings.
I'd definitely reccomend Municipal Dreams for anyone even slightly intrested in UK social housing (and more) and I think the way it is presented is really nice.
I was wondering if anyone knew any particularly good books about architecture (specifically about social housing's architecture), I realise this is quite hard as little has been recorded around some of this stuff.
Further any books surrounding modernist ideals that lead to this would be nice to discuss as well as I've not seen much in the way of primary sources here.
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'Beacon of culture': West Bank's £16m arts centre opens against huge odds
4 votes -
Pre-fabricated timber system to enable modern, self-built homes
2 votes -
A visit to Peterborough cathedral
14 votes -
Inside the mesmerising bicycle parking garage in Utrecht
@lennartnout: Inside the mesmerising bicycle parking garage in #Utrecht. 2 bicycles per second (!) exit the garage at peak hour. Imagine what this would look like if these were cars. https://t.co/useutsgCEQ
15 votes