Architecture news

• The parched metropolis: can eco architecture save LA from megadrought?

  27-02-2023 17:57
  
  Storms and floods do little for the sprawling, paved-over city, as every drop runs off into the sea. But ingenious water-capturing parks are now helping it soak up the precious rain – and breed rare fishAfter weeks of record-breaking rainfall have seen freeways flood, hillsides collapse and the dry concrete gutter of the Los Angeles River transform into a raging torrent, you may have assumed that California’s water-shortage woes were beginning to ease. With many areas receiving their
  
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• Design news: could you live in a skip? Plus Collect craft fair and a cool walking frame

  27-02-2023 14:06
  
  The latest answer to London’s housing crisis: move into a skip, plus faking it for Instagram and Toast’s new collectionThere are two stories in this month’s news that illuminate the strange relationship we currently have with housing. One is about an artist who’s decided to live in a skip for a year to raise awareness of the terrible cost of living in London and the other is the story of a designer who created a fantasy flat in Stockholm that existed only on Instagram. Fo
  
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