John Pauline of HASSELL discusses designing sporting stadiums that are useful to their host city long after the event they were built for is over.
"Good architects think long-term and play the long game.” Creating a balance between form and function has long been the challenge for architects, but now there is a new imperative – closing the loop.
Image above, Westpac Barangaroo by Geyer – winner of the Sustainability award at IDEA 2016. Photo by Richard Glover. Sustainability is a term that gets loosely thrown about; it forms a standard part of the built environment lexicon, but in many cases it is just a feature, not a driving factor. Orientation, solar consideration, thermal […]
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