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Like any other specialty industry, ventilation has its own terminology, definitions, and abbreviations. This important ventilation glossary brings together the most common terms you are likely to hear and is essential to understanding if you want to better understand ventilation. Air Change per Hour – The amount of air leakage into or out of a building or room in terms Read More …
Postmodern architecture is a style of architecture that emerged in the late 1960s in response to modernism. The architect and architecture theorist Robert Venturi wrote a doctrine for movement in his 1966 book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. Taking a more experimental and hybrid approach to architecture, the style flourished in the 80s and 90s, and in Contradiction and Complexity Read More …
Windows and doors are some of the most important elements when it comes to giving a house a makeover, and their value should not be underestimated here. Doors and windows play an important role in the beauty of your home. Doors and windows create the perfect balance between style and function. They offer both privacy and escape. Privacy, security, and Read More …
What if the built environment could be a solution to the climate crisis and not part of the problem? What if buildings could act like trees: capture carbon, purify the air, and regenerate the environment? Inspired by natural processes and ecosystems, Urban Sequoia envisions “forests” of buildings that store carbon and produce biomaterials to create a new carbon economy and Read More …
Foster + Partners’ Tulip tourist attraction project was rejected by the UK government due to concerns about the built-in carbon and the quality of its design. A decision letter on behalf of the UK housing secretary Michael Gove rejected a request to plan the planned 305-meter tower for the City of London and called it a “mixture of architectural ideas”. Read More …
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