The ecomo home is a compact home designed for modern, simple living in collaboration with nature. The design is based on basic and sustainable green design principles. The ecomo home offers a low-maintenance, modern, well-designed green housing alternative. Add a comment...
A door symbolises a new beginning. For 100 years, Jo’burg Child Welfare (JCW) has opened its doors and offered hope to our community’s most vulnerable children and their families. 100 years. 100 doors. New Beginnings: 100 Doors Project was initiated as the centerpiece of Jo’burg Child Welfare’s (JCW) Centenary Year celebrations. Its goal is to involve the community, increase the pub...
I have to wonder whether architects who design facilities for the disabled have ever considered how their facilities are actually used… As a disabled person myself, I often ponder on this. I know we speak about disabled people being ‘differently abled’ but we don’t have the abilities the architects seem to think we have. Add a comment...
“I am in the best game in town and it has to do with the space inside the building form. The activities in the building form. I personally choose to seek, define, re-define, explore, play hide and seek. Look for doors, look for windows, where are the views? Move around joyously in the space, seeking to express the practical function that brought about the exercise in such a way tha...
What must be one of the most undesirable architectural commissions – the design of a waste treatment facility – has been turned on its head by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group). Located in an industrial area near the city center, the new Waste-to-Energy plant will be an exemplary model in the field of waste management and energy production, as well as an architectural landmark in...
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