Suppose that you would like to insert a label that displays the area of an enclosed figure. While the AREA command can show you the area, it doesn’t create a label in your drawing. If you insert the area at the end of a leader, that area doesn’t change if your object changes in size.
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Black architects are forced to be palatable in order to be successful, says New York architectural designer Naila Opiangah, who shares her experiences of racism within the industry. For months now, the discourse on race and equity has been predominant in every setting of our lives. Non-black people have had another series of introductions to
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Xpace Digital Park recycles a compound of unused old factories in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, China, into a new Startup Campus for Tech companies. The project updates the existing buildings supporting a new identity for the site transforming it in an urban attractor. The property has several large buildings and is surrounded by a very differentiated perimeter, with heavy traffic roads and one water stream. The design proposal focuses on two strategies: The first one builds a campus from many buildings. The intervention unifies color and material treatment through façade transformation, painting, and landscape interventions.
In this week’s comments update, readers are critiquing a Japanese home designed by Suzuko Yamada and sharing their views on other top stories. A house in Tokyo has caused a stir thanks to a scaffold of steel pipes and platforms, which connect the house to its garden and can be adapted according to the owner’s
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A fusion of Japanese and Mexican architectural techniques feature in this restaurant on Mexico’s Pacific Ocean, designed by TAX Architects for Hotel Escondido. Called Kakurega Omakase, the restaurant is for Hotel Escondido near the lively Mexican port town of Puerto Escondido that is famous for surfing. Based in Mexico City, TAX Architects created the architecture of
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In a property located in one of the many hills of the city of Tijuana, originally planned for single-family housing, a three-unit horizontal condominium complex was proposed with the intention of increasing the density of the area and giving young people the possibility of acquiring a home in this central neighbourhood. After clarifying the feasibility of re-densifying the lot, and maintaining a low sale cost, the biggest challenge was to achieve natural lighting and cross ventilation in each apartment, since each of them would be only 5 meters wide, but 18 meters deep. To achieve this, the project was resolved mainly in section, playing with changes in heights, which allow openings at different levels, which ventilate and illuminate the houses on an East-West axis.
“We have been working on recycling and renovations for some time, and one of the things that animate us regarding these commissions is the act of creating a tension between the old and the new… The typologies of the standard houses or traditional “Patio House” of Montevideo, with high ceilings, load-bearing walls, vaults, joists, and small compartments do not usually adapt spatially to the demands of contemporary living. However, these houses do have heigh ceilings and materials of great aesthetic value. Combining the old and imperfect with the new, fine and delicate is what it is all about… Finding a tectonic balance that allows a certain rusticity, warmth and material nakedness, in contrast to the minimalist sobriety and synthetic perfection of the machine-made. We believe that there is much to explore in the fusion of old and new and that this project is a beginning for us…
The Royal Institute of British Architects plans to regularly test architect’s competence as part of an overhaul of architectural education and continuing professional development in the UK. Published in a document called The Way Ahead, RIBA’s Education and Professional Development Framework outlines “a new direction for architectural education and continuing professional development, with a greater emphasis
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While rectangle dining tables aren’t exactly groundbreaking, they are a go-to for many interior designers for a reason—they are the optimal shape for most rooms and they provide plenty of room for seating. Plus, since they are the most common table shape, it is easy to find one in the exact color and style you […]
in 2007, rogers was awarded the pritzker prize, cementing his status as one of the world’s most respected and admired architects.
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