A Brick Wall, Quite Literally Montreal is a city built in brick and defined by stone. A clause in many of its municipal design guidelines effectively steers new street-facing facades toward masonry, which, in practice, means clay brick. It is a reasonable rule in a city whose architectural identity is inseparable from its material texture. […]

Like concrete, steel has a carbon problem. The much-discussed energy-intensive cement production accounts for roughly 8% of global CO2 emissions. Steel production is responsible for nearly the same amount. The good news is that steel, just like concrete, is on a path to decarbonization. A new generation of steelmaking processes promises to reduce steel’s carbon […]

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On the banks of the Sanya Haitang River, where tides ebb and flow, the climate is warm, and islands, coconut groves, and dense mangroves unfold in layers. Here, on the wetlands of Haitang Bay, we have woven an organic waterfront village. The Japanese philosopher Tetsurō Watsuji believed that "fudo (wind and earth) is a comprehensive […]

Ramsden is a home for a young family assembled from fragments of memory. The design was heavily influenced by The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald, a reflective travelogue with no conventional plot, yet densely layered with personal and international histories. The work reveals the complexity and disorder inherent in individual relationships to history, […]

A bank is not a building: it is an agreement, an ecosystem of trust. The amoeba is born from this idea: roofs that float, made of thousands of bricks that, together, raise something much greater. An open architecture, without hierarchies, honest and accessible from all sides. A living surface that breathes with the climate, transforms […]