Williamson Chong Architects have designed the Blantyre house for a family in Toronto, Canada. Project description In Toronto, the Victorian working class neighbourboods provide average lot sizes of 20’ wide by 120’ long. While there is light available on each narrow end, the interior spaces are inevitably quite dark. The site for the Blantyre House presented …
The ‘Sky Habitat’ two-tower residential building in Singapore is a new project designed by Canada-based architect Moshe Safdie. At 38-stories high, it is able to accommodate 574 apartments, but the most incredible feature of this building is its dramatic sky pool which serves as a bridge between the two towers. The 38-story sky habitat housing complex …
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Nitsche Arquitetos Associados designed this house in Iporanga, Brazil. From the architects Iporanga House is located in Iporanga, a condominium for summer houses on Sao Paulo’s coast, approximately 120km east from the capital. This condo is inside a very well preserved and protected area of the original Atlantic Rainforest. The exuberance of this native forest …
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Bark Design Architects designed the Maleny House on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. Project description The ‘Glass House Mountain House’ in Maleny, celebrates its site, perched on the edge of the remnant rim of the Glass House range, as well as the essence of its place – ‘sky and mountains’. Translated into a place of ‘glass and stone’ …
Drawings are prepared by structural engineers acting as consultants as part of the tender documentation. The architects are involved in the preparation of the site and other general arrangement plans. Drawing to Scale A 1:50 and 1:100 scale can be used for the floor plan of a building, both in architectural and structural layouts. A …
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Surveying is the technology of making scientific measurements on the earth surface in order to have desirable end product such as earth and various kinds of maps. Surveying measurements are essential to layout any construction work such as roads, railways, canals, underground structures (tunnels, pipelines, cable lines) overhead system (Electric transmission, light communication lines), mining …
You might not realize it, but this house in Graceville, Australia was built from 31 shipping containers. The large freights are typically used to send goods overseas, but in this case they form a unique and modern living space. Todd Miller of the architecture firm ZeilgerBuild designed the three storey, 6,000 square-foot home whose backyard …
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Barrette pile is a type of drilled and cast-in-place pile, the distinctive characters of which are the shape and way of drilling. Grab-bucket or Hydrofraise type drilling tools are used for barrette pile construction. The size of these tools determines that of the piles. The simplest piles are made with one stroke of a …
Texas-based firm Poteet Architects, a company that strives to continue a sustainable revitalization of downtown San Antonio, developed this Container Guest House using an old blue storage container and some innovative design ideas. The large 8 by 40-foot interior has been converted from an old steel box into adorable lodging for guests. The modern concept …
Cost Planning is a statement of how the design team proposes to distribute the available money among the elements of the building. The cost planning can be adjusted to design requirement. In practical sense, the CP starts with the development of a figure (or cost) to allow client to decide whether the project is feasible. …