Month January 2021

Home Maintenance Goals for the New Year

New years mean new beginnings and this new year is a great time for you to pay some extra attention to your home. It looks like we’re all going to continue to have the opportunity to spend more time in…

CR.IS APARTMENT / A2OFFICE

This is a page turn. The apartment (the house), the one of the last twenty years, was full of memories and objects of memories. Memories have a specific place, inside each one (“nothing is lost, everything is transformed”). The house…

How to Maximize Your Construction Budget

Nothing spells trouble for architects and engineers like a project that has gone over budget. It becomes even more of a nightmare for the building owner who has invested a lot on labor, materials and time.Regardless of the size and…

Tonglu Archives Building, Hangzhou, China / BAU

‘it is the least we could do: minimalism in an environment of expressionism’ —- Steve Whitford (Partner) hybrid typology In China, the perimeter block typology doesn’t usually return the Floor Area Ratio (FAR) necessary to satisfy inner urban densities. This…

5 Common Plumbing Problems to Watch Out For

Plumbing problems come in all types and sizes. They could be relatively minor and inexpensive issues such as running toilets and leaking faucets, or far more serious ones like blocked sewer systems and major pipe leakages. These problems are never…