Philip Oldfield
@SustainableTall
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Head of School of Built Environment at UNSW Sydney and Prof of Architecture. Writer, researcher & teacher, tall buildings, housing, embodied carbon, cities
Sydney
Joined February 2012
Demonstrating many of the qualities of Iranian apartment architecture here A celebration of local brickwork (a cool vertical stack bond), recessed balconies and shading to protect from excess heat. Vafamanesh building in Tehran, by Zima Design Studio
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Architecture is one of the ways Iranians have been seeking to express themselves at a time when they're being increasingly silenced. Like cinema, architecture isn't something that can be easily ignored or erased. #Iran
Architects Sahar Kamaleddin and Nima Safdari are designing some wonderful mid-rise apartments using brick and tile in Iran This is in Urmia
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2 beds…. and 11 sinks… I don’t know what these people are going to be doing…
Architects are cooked. AI is coming for you. Prepare accordingly.
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We can grow our future building materials. Thatch facade. Sundby School, Denmark. By Henning Larsen Photos: Rasmus Hjortshøj
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The kind of apartments I’d love to see more of across Sydney… and in fact could work in cities around the world! NSW Pattern Book design by TZG Architects
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Awnings are back! Enjoying the NSW Pattern Book mid-rise apartment design by Neeson Murcutt Neille Architects https://t.co/hbRo8KSuFT
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This part of the graph is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting!
On housing Labour talk the talk, but they don’t walk the walk, and they definitely don’t build baby build. Their “promise” on housing is a pathetic joke.
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Cool apartment design in Mashhad, Iran, with terracotta shutters that can be opened and closed Designed by Ali Naseri and Sajjadi Shahab
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It’s that time of year again where people get confused between the ‘climate’ and the ‘weather’
Global warming is hitting England hard today ☀️ I'm waiting for the 'DON'T GO OUTSIDE - IT'S TOO DANGEROUS' @BBCNews report 😂😭
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Cool apartment design in Mashhad, Iran, with terracotta shutters that can be opened and closed Designed by Ali Naseri and Sajjadi Shahab
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As kids in many places learn in temporary and portacabin classrooms, here’s how Germany is managing the need for more schools. A beautiful timber primary school, being built on the edge of Hamburg. By Infabric Architects
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I wrote more about how Barcelona and Spain in general achieves this here https://t.co/0kWxoWLG5p
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Yes it is a bit strange in the bottom apartment that you have to walk through the winter garden to get the third bedroom! But the plan does seem to be highly efficient while providing flexibility.
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Barcelona continues to build *incredible* social housing 35 apartments in a 10-storey timber tower. Each home is a corner unit, and has access to a winter garden. Designed by Metronom
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What a sustainable supermarket might look like ➡️ Timber structure which took just 8 weeks to build ➡️ Roof top farming that can produce 20,000 tilapia a year ➡️ Rainwater recycling
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Reminds me of the YouTube tutorials on painting granite kitchen benches….
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Trump proposes painting the 137-year old granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building bright white I’m sure painted granite will age well in the coming years
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