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Wellness is not a universal concept, it comes down to local factors and individual preferences
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Wellness is not a universal concept, it comes down to local factors and individual preferences
It is a US$43bn market and growing. But is the focus of building developers and designers on wellness entirely healthy?
The Terrapin Bright Green founder explains why natural light and views are so important to the health and productivity of building occupants
By 2030, co-working spaces could account for 30% of corporate office portfolios. If you can’t beat them, join them …
Aaron Taylor Harvey, creative director of Airbnb Environments, explains how the company’s app inspired its immersive office
Is this the end of the office, or the start of its finest hour?
Goodbye “class A” office space, hello “class T”
BDP’s Neil Cadenhead considers comfort, mythology and hospital design in a post-antibiotic world
We need to start looking at the world from the next generation’s perspective, writes Steve Burrows — they’re the ones who will be solving the problems we’ve created
In a circular economy, how could we design a completely recyclable building?
Does bureaucracy hold cities back, wonders Grimshaw’s Keith Brewis
Jonathan Ledgard is seeking to build the world’s first droneport in Africa. By 2030, he predicts, there will be one in every town in the tropical world
The Stanford engineering professor Martin Fisher talks about the challenges of teaching the instant-gratification generation to think
Carbon-neutral alternative uses no Portland cement at all
A sociologist analyzes BIM
Education is booming, the results of a growing global population with a keen thirst for knowledge. But how can today’s schools and universities prepare students for a world that doesn’t yet exist?
Immersive environments, with high-resolution 3D vision and haptics technology to simulate touch are starting to be used in education
CLT can create lighter, less variable structures
There is considerable excitement about high-rise timber — has its time finally come?
ETH Zurich and MIT explore digital casting for complex concrete forms
Completely new materials may not come along very often, but scientists are remixing old ones — and it’s changing the shape of our cities
Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill’s most groundbreaking designs — including the first building to be measured in kilometres
“We’re problem-solvers who happen to be architects. Sometimes the solution is not just a building”
Researchers at Waterloo University use VR to test how dense environments affect mood
By 2050, the urban population will almost double to 6.3 billion. Cities must accommodate 77 million new residents each year
As construction becomes increasingly global, a coalition of New York-based designers and educators has formed to ask one urgent question …
Governments and policymakers are in danger of ignoring one of the biggest threats to the built environment — and to human life, writes Alex Copley
This issue considers a vital question for anyone involved in designing and building cities
In his award-winning essay for New Philosopher magazine, WSP’s Mark Bessoudo explains why engineers should read more philosophy.
The new economy will flock to areas of high “urban capacity”. Teemu Jama and Tuija Pakkanen explain what it is and how to calculate it