Building uniqueness

Looking back over his long career, architect Moshe Safdie delves into four of his design projects and explains how he labored to make each one truly unique for its site and its users. Moshe Safdie’s buildings — from grand libraries to intimate apartment...

Architecture at home in its community

When TED Fellow Xavier Vilalta was commissioned to create a multistory shopping mall in Addis Ababa, he panicked. Other centers represented everything he hated about contemporary architecture: wasteful, glass towers requiring tons of energy whose design had absolutely...
GFBS is going strong …

GFBS is going strong …

Another wonderful website going for over 2 years now under the sofaDEVE umbrella … Have a look yourself and check out one of Edinburghs most qualified and interesting builders. Gordon Forsyth Building Services provide a professional and experienced all trades...

The tradeoffs of building green

In a short, funny, data-packed talk at TED U, Catherine Mohr walks through all the geeky decisions she made when building a green new house — looking at real energy numbers, not hype. What choices matter most? Not the ones you think. >> Play Video
Kolumba

Kolumba

Extraordinary architectural building combining new and old and spirit and space … Definitely worth a visit when in cologne. Kolumba is the art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, originally founded in 1853. Since 2004, the museum has borne the name of its new...