Canal
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about canal
Project • By GRID architects and GRID interiors • Residential Landscape
Snow Hill Wharf
This development has regenerated an under-utilised, contaminated brownfield site, and brings life to the city’s ‘inner ring’ of former employment land. Once the centre of the world’s gun manufacturing industry, Birmingham’s Gun Quarter was identified as an area of opportunity following its 20th Century decline, when a large part was demolished by post-war town planners. The key site issues were the detached location from the city centre, a lack of public spaces, poor quality walking routes, and industrial warehouses with no active frontages. The canal shortcomings included poor lighting, towpath access, and buildings which turn their backs on the watercourse. The site is located opposite St Chads, the cit... More
Project • By zuloark • Concert Halls
Casa delle Arti di Comacchio
How do you measure the quality of a piece of architecture? What parameters could establish whether a building is a good example of architectural practice?
Photography: Lourdes Cabrera
The "Casa delle arti di Comacchio" has been a perfect case study in the analysis of these questions—a public work, of significant social importance, made with a reduced budget and the need to satisfy highly-technical acoustic standards, while also being located in a context of great historical and monumental value— a true commitment to low-profile local architecture with a high impact on the community.
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Comacchio is an ancient town in the province of Ferrara in the north of Italy— a small Venice in the Po Delta... More
Project • By LANDPROCESS • Parks/Gardens
Chong Nonsi Canal Park
The Chong Nonsi canal: The first canal as the blue-green infrastructure public space at the heart of Bangkok.
Once known as the Venice of the East, the city of Bangkok was famous for its vast interconnected network of canals rich in life, brimming with culture and spiritual significance. When the first settlements in Bangkok were created, important communal hubs like temples and markets were built into the canal banks utilizing the canals as a primary means of transportation making them the lifeblood of the city.
LANDPROCESS
Being in the tidal zone, the water levels in the Chao Phraya River and subsequently the connected canals frequently change in height, traditional Thai homes were built on stilts on the canal banks as the peop... More
News • News • 28 Jan 2022
Water is the key element in URBANA’s design for 2021 RIBA International Prize winner Friendship Hospital
Set in a water-laden area of south-west Bangladesh, the remote hospital aims to bring relief to the cyclone stricken communities of Satkhira. The low-cost structure responds innovatively to the challenging environmental conditions of Bengal.
Asif Salman
The area of the coast was once filled with grain fields. With the rising of the sea the land had to be converted into shrimp fisheries. NGO Friendship commissioned the project to strengthen and empower the remote rural area.
Asif Salman
Because of its importance in the area, water became the central theme for Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA. A canal runs through the length of the site separating inpatients and outpatients and at the same time help with cooling during the brutal summers.... More
Project • By Mirck Architecture • Offices
Canal House K522
When the first floor (bel-etage) and the basement of landmark canal house Keizersgracht 522 were recently vacated after many decades of intensive use, both floors were in obvious need of a complete overhaul. In addition, the building’s foundation needed comprehensive repair. Mirck Architecture was commissioned to take on the reconstruction and, along with interior architect Hayo Waisfisz, to design a new interior.
Additions that in the past had been built in the inner court between the front house and the back house are removed. As a result, the basement of both the front and the back house will benefit from the additional daylight. In the new configuration, the front house will offer on the connected basement and first floors about 120 m2... More