Category: Environment
'The skyscraper is a machine that makes land pay,’ according to Cass Gilbert, the architect of the Woolworth Building in 1913 – an early New York City skyscraper. Clare Snowden investigates this theory and how all types of buildings are devices for generating revenue from once idle plots of pasture.
How do our cultural values manifest in the built environment? ADR questions the role of race, and the subconscious motivations influencing our appreciation of foreign architecture in a local context.
ADR takes a look at architectural design that is both inspired by, and responsive to, the realities of an increasingly volatile natural environment.
ADR takes a look at how the front yard can be interpreted as a meeting place between home and city.
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