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Process: Erlenmatt East District in Basle
On a former German Railways goods station in Basle, the Habitat Housing Foundation has developed a heterogeneous new building district that is also m...
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Essay: Translucent and Transparent – Metal Facades
From mesh fabric to perforated sheet or cladding profiles: metal facades can be rigid, durable and safe as well as sensual, fragile and airy. These cu...
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Cabins in the Rocky Mountains
At a height of 3,000 metres above sea level near Leadville in the Rocky Mountains lies the Colorado Outward Bound School. This non-profit educational ...
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Discussion: The Lightness of Brickwork
As a durable and natural building material, brickwork is enjoying something of a renaissance at present. For a long time, it had lost much of its form...
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Journal: Terraced houses in Cape Town
Khayelitsha is situated in the Cape Flats, east of Cape Town and is one of the largest informal settlements in South Africa. Together with the local N...
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Specialist know-how: Segmented Granite Vault in Cambridge
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings of 2013, police officer Sean Collier was killed on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Techn...
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