All articles by Adam Williams

Made in China: the rise of domestic architecture practices

By 2019 developers want to clone Manhattan in the Yujiapu district of Tianjin, China - but it may never happen.…
Shine a light: the advent of OLEDs

It's always the way with technology: you're only just starting to get your head around the newest piece of kit…
The regeneration games: Olympic legacy architecture

The 2012 Olympic Games may be over, but a new-found sense of pride and goodwill lingers within London. Stratford, the…
They live: synthetic biology in architecture

Listen to Rachel Armstrong for a while, and there's a chance your world view will change. A co-director of AVATAR…
Architecture of necessity

In 2008, a small group of architecture students travelled from their home in Norway to a village on the Thai-Burmese…

Sun worshippers: the new solar shading

Sun-shading, solar gain reduction and the harnessing of natural light have been fundamental principles of intelligent design ever since man…
Instant infrastructure: development in Georgia

With the Caucasus Mountains standing serenely in the distance, the SOCAR Petroleum station on the outskirts of Gori, eastern Georgia,…
Matteo Thun on the beauty of ecology and economy

In 1952, the Milanese architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers uttered the famous phrase dal cucchiaio alla città, which means "from the…
A sense of belonging: the role of green space

The North Sea oil boom of the 1970s saw the energy sector overshadow many of the traditional businesses of industrial…