How can universities provide affordable student accommodation in cities with limited and expensive land availability? BIG architects have come up with an answer for Copenhagen, which could have applications in other countries – use underutilised waterways, in this case Copenhagen’s inner harbour, and cheap cheerful building modules from old containers – they are used for […]
With jazzy-coloured doors along the façade, the latest London project to use shipping containers for economic short-term accommodation has been established along the banks of the Regents Canal in Shoreditch. Last year a “pop-up” retail and business mall created from containers opened in the Elephant and Castle, London. Named “ContainerVille”, this new scheme of 30 […]
Citiq is a property company with an interesting and different view on residential accommodation including student housing which is in short supply in South Africa, with developments such as an apartment block in Windsor constructed from old shipping containers and a student accommodation development in and on top of refurbished grain silos in Newtown, Johannesburg […]
Over the last decade, we have seen the rise of container housing – from smart one-off houses in California to emergency housing for homeless in London to 1000 unit student housing developments in the Netherlands. The latest scheme in London to have received planning permission is a “pop-up” retail and business mall consisting of 50 […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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