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Rickley, Architect, Engineer, Building inspector, IHC, Contractors, Vendors and PM. February 2018 Develop architectural design. Deliver final set of plans by January 2019. Building materials George R. Rickley and Vendors, JBI and PM. April 2018 Select building materials and method of delivery in September 2019 Contractor Selection George R. Rickley, Contractors, delivery company and IHC and PM…

Washington DC: 11th Street [The Need] Bridges are no different than any other form of infrastructure, eventually they break down and need to be either repaired or replaced. Inspection occurs at least every two years, yet bridges are often pushed to their absolute limits of usability. In Washington DC, the 11th Street Bridge Project aims to replace two bridges built in the 1960s with three new bridges. With these bridges having been in place for nearly 50 years, there were numerous issues. For…

looks at the tissue or an urban fabric in two major components, namely buildings and spaces. So a complex tissue is analyzed by looking at it in terms of buildings and spaces. These buildings and spaces are further seen as either thematic or non thematic. When spaces or buildings follow certain rules which repeats itself to form a tissue, then those buildings and space are termed as thematic spaces. Those spaces or buildings which are not a part of these rules are then termed as non-thematic…

laws about engineering and architecture. According to a scientific view, as reported in Milliyet Newspaper, Japanese architects design flexible tall buildings. This avoids the building to collapse or break. And also for short buildings they invented a system. This system basically holds the building with giant hooks. At the time of the earthquake, building moves with the ground. This again avoids it to break. These examples show us how essential it is to adapt our structures as per nature…

Theatre. The project consists of a new, modernist building that connects directly onto the existing Episcopal Palace that is situated on the beautiful banks of the river Ness. The palace was originally built in 1878 for Bishop Eden (from which it takes its name) and designed by Alexander Ross, who had previously designed the cathedral adjacent to the site. After much…

the 1980’s the estate had the status of being notorious for crime, poverty and public order offences. This changed when the building Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith designed, Park Hill, became a grade two listed building in 1997. It is the biggest listed building in Europe. By this it shows the complexity of the vision they had as architects. Then Urban Splash took over the building and commissioned architects, Studio Egret West and Hawkins/Brown to re-design the flats and create some offices. David…

civic district and Bunker Hill. Based on the massing and context, we decided to utilize this unique site condition, in order to continue the double face strategy. In this way, we use this kind of double faces strategy to separate the façade of our building to two parts. The L-shape orients the civil district and the small boxes face to the galleries in Bunker Hill. From the precedent analysis, we chose some elements which…

Mexico city was destroyed by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake. The tragedy made the first page of the New York Times on September 20, a day after the disaster happened. According to the article, more than 40 buildings collapsed throughout the city. Many people were trapped under the rubble of the fallen buildings. Mexico was first built on top of a lake. This makes for a slightly different urban structure than we are used to. The soft soil has made it difficult for city planners and geographers…

iconic building of Post-War International Style in Sydney. This masterpiece was designed in 1950, and completed in 1957, by an architect called Felix Tavener of Rudder Littlemore & Rudder, Architects. According to NSW Environment & Heritage, Qantas House is a representative building of the latest technology and urbanised design in Sydney which also showed the ‘moderate’ transitional aspects of 1930s European modernism. It is also a main defining urban space of Chifley Square2. This building is…

Architecture is a thing and an intellectual activity by which we can judge and acknowledge architecture by the presence of these both. Ranging from all types of material culture, architecture is the most expressive and experiencing medium. As a medium, architecture has a language also through which we can identify the culture and society of a particular era. Architecture also discloses the desires, power struggles and material culture of a society along with the aesthetic and formal presence of…