Innovations creating a paradigm shift
OPINION PIECE: Carmen Izquierdo, architect SAR, MSA/arquitecto COAM on how innovations can create a paradigm shift.
OPINION PIECE: Carmen Izquierdo, architect SAR, MSA/arquitecto COAM on how innovations can create a paradigm shift.
ARTICLE The sophisticated Wisdome Stockholm extension has now discreetly settled into Tekniska Museet’s yard.
ARTICLE An office block that was considered exemplary in the 1970s has now been updated for the modern age using softly rounded forms.
INTERVIEW The Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning plans to launch its new ‘Building Regulations of Opportunity’.
The winner of the Swedish Wood Award 2024 was announced at the Wood Award Gala last month, and the prize went to Sara Kulturhus in Skellefteå – a local landmark that has garnered international attention for its sheer innovation, which has advanced the cause of wood construction no end. Every four years, industry body Swedish Wood presents the award to a building in Sweden that represents good architecture in wood and that reflects the times we live in.
ARTICLE A few years ago, a vision of a future society was realised in the southern German town of Bad Aibling.
Swedish property company Fabege wants to significantly scale up the amount of materials the construction sector reuses, which is why the company has opened a reuse hub.
ARTICLE The Hasletre office block in the expanding Oslo neighbourhood of Hasle is built entirely of wood, with the idea that everything can be dismantled and reused. Several parts of the building are themselves also made from reused or recycled materials.
“We must use available and proven methods that we know will result in reduced climate emissions from everything we build,” says Anna Ryberg Ågren.
One in three ships transporting Swedish goods that transits the Suez Canal carries forest products. Houthi rebel attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea are deterring traffic through the canal, resulting in supply chain uncertainty and increased costs.
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