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Design Like You Give a Damn {2}: Building Change from the Ground Up

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Design Like You Give a Damn [2] is the indispensable handbook for anyone committed to building a more sustainable future. Following the success of their first book, Architecture for Humanity brings readers the next edition, with more than 100 projects from around the world. Packed with practical and ingenious design solutions, this book addresses the need for basic shelter, housing, education, health care, clean water, and renewable energy. One-on-one interviews and provocative case studies demonstrate how innovative design is reimagining community and uplifting lives. From building-material innovations such as smog-eating concrete to innovative public policy that is repainting Brazil’s urban slums, Design Like You Give a Damn [2] serves as a how-to guide for anyone seeking to build change from the ground up.

Praise for Design Like You Give a Damn [2]:

“No community is immune to the forces of climate change. If we have learned anything from Hurricane Katrina, it is that we must adapt. Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas-and this book shows us how.”
Brad Pitt, Jolie-Pitt Foundation

“It is not just about putting bricks to mortar. It is about taking the vision of
creating a better world for others and making it tangible”
Auma Obama, Sauti Kuu Foundation

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​The 6 Least Glamorous Buildings from Big-Name Architects

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Architects are often known for their more high-profile projects: skyscrapers, museums, chapels, destination buildings. Yet the glamorous projects aren’t the only ones that big-name architects put their stamp on. When they’re not creating the buildings that make it to the front pages, they’re working on projects that might be less suited for Instagram, but are nevertheless essential to urban infrastructures — like parking garages, wastewater treatment facilities, and power plants. Here’s our roundup of some of the least glamorous projects by starchitects. 1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron, Miami, FL This white beauty — a parking garage with retail space at the bottom — is conceived as “all muscle with no cloth,” leaving its exposed, sculptural structure visible with minimal guardrails and dividing walls. This also fills the garage with natural light and gives visitors unimpeded views outward to Miami Beach’s spectacular surroundings. Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant by Ennead, Brooklyn, NY This treatment plant includes sculptural forms, striking materials, and color in addition to perimeter fencing as well as aerial walkways and bridges, forming a unique visual composition. Digester eggs are the star of this show, and glass walls …

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The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond

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Aspiring architects will be in their element! Explore this illustrated narrative history of buildings for young readers, an amazing construction in itself.

We spend most of our lives in buildings. We make our homes in them. We go to school in them. We work in them. But why and how did people start making buildings? How did they learn to make them stronger, bigger, and more comfortable? Why did they start to decorate them in different ways? From the pyramid erected so that an Egyptian pharaoh would last forever to the dramatic, machine-like Pompidou Center designed by two young architects, Patrick Dillon’s stories of remarkable buildings — and the remarkable people who made them — celebrates the ingenuity of human creation. Stephen Biesty’s extraordinarily detailed illustrations take us inside famous buildings throughout history and demonstrate just how these marvelous structures fit together.

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5 Brilliant Backyard Sheds Built from Recycled Materials

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recycled wood, tiny garden shed, recyced materials, old tires, cocoon space, recycled umbrellas, kengo kuma, refunc, platform 5, shed office, brendan callander, gerteussen, recycled plastic yogurt containers, Architecture, Art, DIY, Sustainable Building, Recycled Materials, Green Materials,
recycled wood, tiny garden shed, recyced materials, old tires, cocoon space, recycled umbrellas, kengo kuma, refunc, platform 5, shed office, brendan callander, gerteussen, recycled plastic yogurt containers, Architecture, Art, DIY, Sustainable Building, Recycled Materials, Green Materials,
recycled wood, tiny garden shed, recyced materials, old tires, cocoon space, recycled umbrellas, kengo kuma, refunc, platform 5, shed office, brendan callander, gerteussen, recycled plastic yogurt containers, Architecture, Art, DIY, Sustainable Building, Recycled Materials, Green Materials,
recycled wood, tiny garden shed, recyced materials, old tires, cocoon space, recycled umbrellas, kengo kuma, refunc, platform 5, shed office, brendan callander, gerteussen, recycled plastic yogurt containers, Architecture, Art, DIY, Sustainable Building, Recycled Materials, Green Materials,

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