Penda is planning a modular wooden skyscraper for Toronto that could provide a more sustainable model for high-rise city living. Frances Marcellin talks to Chris Precht, Partner at Penda, to find out more Continue reading Toronto’s Tree Tower (Design & Build Review)
A 19th century mews house in Chelsea, UK, has recently become one of only a handful of PassivHaus properties in the country, thanks to a retrofit by Cadogan. Frances Marcellin speaks to the company to discover the challenges of such a retrofit and how the project was achieved Continue reading Sustainable design: a Passiv retrofit (Design & Build Review)
Co-working spaces aren’t that new, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be innovative. Frances Marcellin speaks to CL3, the architects behind the Gaysorn II office development in Bangkok, Thailand, to find out what its “work, live, play, grow” concept means in reality. Since co-working was introduced in 2005, independent workers’ passion for sharing common, productive spaces has driven the concept into the mainstream market. Now … Continue reading Work, live, play, grow – beyond the modern office (Design & Build Review magazine)
MSC Cruises has broken ground on what will be the biggest cruise line private island in the Caribbean. Being built on a former sand-mining facility, which was originally planned for development into an LNG import terminal, the 95-acre man-made island resort will feature several kilometres of beachfront and a deep-water pier connecting to visiting cruise liners. Frances Marcellin takes a closer look. Many of the … Continue reading Ocean Cay: the world’s biggest private cruise resort emerges (Future Cruise)
St Giles House, the ancestral home of Lord Shaftesbury in Dorset, UK, was transformed from a state of ruin to one of the most celebrated building conservation projects of 2015. Frances Marcellin spoke to the restoration team to find out how they took on such a sensitive project. Continue reading Maintaining heritage: Transforming a ruin into one 2015’s most celebrated conservation projects (Design & Build Review magazine)
Frances Marcellin - Freelance Journalist 