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A new wing of the Arctic College on Baffin Island in northern Canada. Authors of the project - Teeple Architects from Toronto

We decided to reward architects with professional business trips on an ongoing basis. This will give architects an opportunity to improve, gain new knowledge and look at the world from the perspective of people who create quality air in architectural spaces

Today, metal-plastic windows are the most demanded due to their excellent performance characteristics. This is a time-tested truth: PVC profile constructions are leading all over the world

Respublika residential complex tends to be a microtown, but at the same time it successfully overcomes most of the problems of mass development. How Archimatika succeeded - we consider the example of the implemented first stage

The Queen's Wharf project received the prestigious buildingSMART International Design Award. This award recognizes the outstanding level of IFC interoperability and implementation of the Open BIM approach at PDC (a division of DBM Vircon)

The curator of the MARSH intensive, the head of the educational programs of the Wowhaus bureau Irina Golovitskaya talks about what one of the most popular courses of the school will teach

A landscaping project that reconciles a historic village near Moscow with utilitarian modern buildings

Sliding soundproof partitions and walls "Norma" - it is easy to manage the space

AGC WILL SPEAK ABOUT SMART GLAZING AT THE 2020 CLIMATE SUMMIT The organizers of the event propose to take a fresh look at the development of ventilation systems: experts will talk about advanced technologies and features of microclimate control in the house. The meeting of representatives of the largest players in the construction market will take place on February 20 in the unique office-mansion of the GOOD WOOD project company. AGC, together with other representatives of the construction and architectural business, will perform at the Klimatichesky Sam

This year's final training course for roofing tinsmiths, which RHEINZINK conducts for roofing specialists every year, has come to an end. The course was devoted to the basics of roofing technology using RHEINZINK material. Photo courtesy of RHEINZINK "> Photo courtesy of RHEINZINK Photo courtesy of RHEINZINK"> Photo courtesy of RHEINZINK Member

TreeHugger, a small pavilion of the tourist information center designed by MoDusArchitects, engages in a dialogue with the architectural and natural surroundings, and itself becomes a new attraction of the town in South Tyrol

A temporary and already dismantled pavilion on the square in front of Zaryadye: ring-shaped, with a wooden structure and a facade made of metal and polycarbonate. Inside there was the same artificial snow, birch trees

The residential complex on Dvinskaya Street is the first case of modern architecture on Gutuevsky Island. Bureau "A. Len" examines the context in detail and creates a benchmark for further transformations of the area

Before the start of the MARCH Re (New) course, whose students will work with the buildings of the Cotton Spinning Factory, curator Daria Mineeva discusses the meaning and ways of reconstruction

In the late 1950s, the theoretical architect Iona Friedman voiced the idea of mobile, self-developing forces of residents and changeable architecture - a kind of spatial network, elevated above a traditional city and capable of covering the whole world

The improvement of the central square of Gavrilov Posad, financed from three sources and designed to help the city become a tourist destination, looks modern and sets the task of comprehending local identity

Two Moscow educational institutions are showing a project dedicated to public spaces in the open workshops of the Bauhaus. Speculative design techniques and sensory urbanism helped raise the right questions and draw serious conclusions

A comfortable life even at a relative distance from civilization requires the appropriate equipment of your home. There are usually no problems with electricity, even in suburban settlements, and with autonomous heating, too

Until recently, buried structures and underground structures were not always thermally insulated. However, taking into account the tendencies for the development of underground space and in order to increase the efficiency of operation, it became necessary for additional insulation. Research at the Research Institute of Building Physics of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Building Sciences in modeling the operating conditions of heat-insulating materials as part of facade systems confirmed the need for deepened insulation

After reading the title, you probably expected to see in this article the abstruse reasoning of techies and a bunch of numbers to persuade you to quickly give your "hard-earned" money for the project of engineering networks in the building of a new private house or apartment. Spoiler alert: most engineering and construction companies develop such projects absolutely free of charge, including them in the cost of further installation work (for example, they). Well, or they do projects for relatively little money. But let's not get distracted