Global Warming is a term almost everyone is familiar with. It is one of the biggest issues we are dealing with. In the upcoming years, global warming can affect us in many treacherous ways. The first and foremost effect is polar ice caps melting. As the temperature increases, the ice at the North Pole will melt. Once the ice melts, the first effect will be a rise in sea levels because the melting glaciers become oceans. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center “if the ice melted today the seas would rise about 230 feet”. It affects many low-lying areas such as the Netherlands. (more…)

The Architecture Film Festival London announces its 3rd festival edition, which will take place in June 2021. Since its first edition, the Architecture Film Festival London has aimed to discover and promote original ideas, conversations and art forms at the intersection of Architecture + Film. The festival organizers aim to offer a programme that fits personal spaces and shared fascinations without stealing needed off-screen time but rather enriching it. (more…)

Presentation skills are just as important as designing; one of the best mediums to present your architectural designs is through rendering. Architectural rendering aims to create life-like experiences of the buildings before they are built. Rendering aids the designer to convey his or her ideas, an image that represents the designers’ imagination most realistically.

Tromsø, a city in northern Norway, is a major cultural hub above the Arctic Circle. It’s famed as a viewing point for colourful Northern Lights that sometime light up the nighttime sky. The city’s historic centre, on the island of Tromsø, is distinguished by its centuries-old wooden houses. The 1965 Arctic Cathedral, with its distinctive peaked roof and soaring stained-glass windows, dominates the skyline.

We would like to invite you to participate in the first annual Canadian Off-site Construction Student Design Competition. The competition is intended to spark student interest and showcase Canadian student design innovation in modular, prefabricated, panelized, and other types of off-site construction.  The competition is presented by the University of New Brunswick’s Off-Site Construction Research Centre (OCRC), founded by OSCO Construction Company is a research group that is dedicated to optimizing alternate solutions to on-site construction. The competition is presented in partnership with the Modular Building Institute (MBI). (more…)

Heretic is anything or anyone who does not conform to an established attitude or principles. What happens when architecture is demolished and doubted, when it is so fragmentary that it calls for a reinvention of its fundamental categories and practices? In contemporary practice, there are innumerable minor actions able to produce just a chaotic variety rather than a proper direction in the architectural discourse. (more…)

Construction of a country residential complex of 22 homes and common areas that integrates the concepts of innovation, technology, wellness and sustainability, responding to the landscape through strategies that allow mimicry and the use of natural resources. The project must guarantee the thermal, auditory, luminous and psychological comfort that each space requires according to its vocation; handling the same architectural language for all the houses.

On Sunday, February 28, the European Film Center CAMERIMAGE (ECFC) and the Association of Polish Architects (SARP) announced an international competition for architectural concept of the European Film Center CAMERIMAGE building in Toruń. Due to the international nature of the competition and the uniqueness of the planned architectural project realization, please include information about it in your architectural magazine. Our dream is for the information about this project to reach the widest possible group of architects who we hope will enter the competition and present their ideas. More information can be found on the websites of the organizer of the ECFC competition (www.ecfcamerimage.pl) and the Camerimage Film Festival (www.camerimage.pl).

The LEGENDARY BIRD HOME 2021 competition is the second in a planned series of competitions looking to raise awareness for the global environmental crisis. This competition will be a collaboration with Birdly – a socially-responsible startup that aims to support environmental activism worldwide through funds raised by selling bird homes. (more…)

Silk Matters organization is pleased to announce the first Architecture Affiliate Awards 2021. This award aims to promote the affiliated career opportunities for architects who want to do more than architecture, and recognize the many talents architects acquire through the course of becoming one. (more…)