Blank Canvas: Can We Make A Totally Recyclable Building?
How do we recycle a building or materials in a way that we could really benefit from? Three WSP engineers responds to this question with no constraints.
The Creativity Enigma
Ping pong tables, pod chairs, beach huts and giant slides – is this really what it takes to make us more creative at work?
Five Ways To Boost Creativity*
A research shows that creativity flourishes when workers move outside their comfort zone, broaden their knowledge and do something they’ve never done before.
Interview With Gordon Gill: Searching for Better Answers
“We’re problem-solvers who happen to be architects. Sometimes the solution is not just a building”
‘Superdensity’ in Hong Kong
Vertical urbanism could be a solution to increasing densification in Hong Kong, where much of the inhabitant’s life will be lived well above ground.
Peak Megacity
Crowded conditions, inflated property prices, public health disasters, low fertility rates — Joel Kotkin asks whether it’s time we gave up on super-sized cities.
The Pursuit of Wellness
It is a US$43bn market and growing. But is the focus of building developers and designers on ‘wellness’ entirely healthy?
The Smartest Place I Know: Coor Service Management’s HQ
Architect and workplace strategist Kay Sargent on a smart office that skilfully balances the high-tech and the human.
Interview: Bill Browning On Health And Wellbeing
The Terrapin Bright Green founder explains why natural light and views are so important to the health and productivity of building occupants.
Marvellous Mutations: Advances in Materials Science
Completely new materials may not come along very often, but scientists are remixing old ones — and it’s changing the shape of our cities.
Three New York Skyscrapers That Wouldn’t Exist Without High-Strength Concrete
One World Trade Center (2013), 432 Park (2015) and 56 Leonard (2016) were all made of high-strength concrete.
ISSUE 03
In this issue: the pursuit of wellness, the future of workplace, digital modelling and developments around transport hubs. Swedish Green Party politician Johan Edstav talks about building a new city over a field in Uppsala, and our contributors discuss designing an answer to the loneliness epidemic, envisioning the all-electric city, transforming our cities with smart technology and how cities are becoming the new battleground of the global economy.
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ISSUE 02
In this issue: the limits on city density, the future of education, next-generation construction materials and totally recyclable buildings. Kingdom Tower architect Gordon Gill talks about his responsibilities and regrets, and our columnists take on drones in Africa, Asian megacities and earthquakes, post-antibiotic hospital design and why engineers should read more philosophy.
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Issue 01
In this issue: designing cities for an ageing demographic, modular construction, creativity at work and the future of real-world shopping districts in an online world. Bioengineering inventor Professor Heinz Wolff rethinks society, and contributors puncture driverless myths, predict the death of the megacity and lose themselves in the urban wild.