Disaster can strike a community at any minute. Following the most costly earthquake in their history in April, hundreds of thousands of Nepalese residents were rendered instantly homeless. To help these people reorganize and get back to a familiar way of life, Barberio Colella ARC has designed a temporary structure using local materials “to make…
With a new golden skin, the Museum W re-opens with an exhibition by local designers Job Smeets & Studio Job. After closing in 2019 for an extended overhaul project, the Jacob van Horpe Municipal Museum in Weert, Netherlands has been re-christened as The Museum W. Originally the site of Weert’s city hall, the project was…
Clients, architects, and landscape designers collaborate to restore a crumbling shoreline. Where storm-driven trees and brush once tumbled down a 22-foot bluff into Carter’s Creek in Virginia’s Northern Neck, a living shoreline now reduces sediment pollution and introduces new life to the Chesapeake Bay. It’s a cutting-edge landscape intervention that flowed from a collaboration among four forward-thinking…
As an architect, urban planner, designer, or manufacturer of AEC building materials, the responsibility for maintaining our environment is bestowed upon you. As an architect specifically, you’re expected to consider how each decision you make impacts the environment not only physically but also socially. There are numerous considerations to be made during the design process…