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Library research

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Nick Birchall, University of Sheffield, MArch

Emerging from the void in civic provision left by the closure of Sheffield Central Library, this thesis project proposes the conception of the ‘Living Library’, an evolution of the public library typology for the age of mass information, a physical space for information to touch down, for people to engage with it, contribute to it, and bring it to life. Located in Castlegate, Sheffield’s historic but overlooked quarter, the Living Library will play a crucial role in bringing a sense of pride, purpose and citizenship back to the area. The proposal forms a porous urban block, mediating between the city centre and the green corridor beyond.

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Artist Rachel Whiteread wins 2017 Ada Huxtable Prize

The prominent artist Rachel Whiteread has been revealed as the winner of the third Ada Huxtable Prize

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Lam Tuck Lone, Universiti Putra Malaysia, MArch

Vertical Dialogue

This scheme focuses on its design, planning and features that create dialogue VERBALLY, VISUALLY AND PHYSICALLY to engage the living habitants to the public community through the social participation in the variety of programmes and spaces. Hence, the term of ‘Inclusivity’ as an approach of architecture has profoundly created the conversation in this housing scheme, however, the exclusiveness for the inhabitants can still be maintained by integrating the communal spaces in between the development and different level of public space with the theory of Proxemics. This scheme also aims to break the typical barrier of social isolation that occurs in the current vertical living. By staggering the units vertically inward from to bottom, the internal courtyard acts as communal living space that is visually comforting the residents in the units above and it also creates the visual dialogue from one unit to another.

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Catherine Wheater , Leeds Beckett University, MArch

The Masters Thesis Project, ‘Voices of Yanesen’ is an architectural investigation and outcome to the changing landscape of the area known as Yanesen, in Tokyo, Japan. Through research into the local histories of the community and the threat to the changing landscape ; the design of the project integrates three key aspects in to the larger architectural strategy in preserving the areas locality. Through the uncovering of a lost river network the introduction of washi paper production and application of Japanese interstitial spaces, the key programmatic outline integrates a new commons through the local memory of Yanesen’s people.

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Ross Kirker, Diploma Unit 12, CASS

Living Room as Collective Space

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Mayor nips Foster's Tulip

Mayor nips Foster’s Tulip

Proposed Tulip observation tower at center left. (Architects’ Journal)

On July 15, London Mayor Sadiq Khan nipped Lord Foster’s proposed Tulip in the bud. Fine. But why? It does not “represent world-class architecture,” quoth the mayor. “Mayor rejects ‘unwelcoming, poorly designed’ Tulip,” opined Architects’ Journal. One study declared it looks like “a surveillance tower,” which it was to have…

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EKM’S RA (work in the) AJ

The ARCHITECTS JOURNAL have published a little book which focusses on the architecture work in this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and… I am featured! My piece THE AUGMENTED INSTRUMENTALIST is featured on page 33 – if you are a subscriber you can see the whole thing HERE – and a big wh00p to my friends too who also made it into the publication! :) If you are lucky enough to be in London during the next 2 weeks, you can still see the piece and catch the summer exhibition HERE – enjoy!