AKDA is a multi-disciplinary design studio with expertise in handling architecture,interiors, furniture & products.
Only through a rigorous process of decolonisation can design and the creative industries confront the structures of oppression that have influenced their development for more than two centuries.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) January 27, 2019
Icon 188: Designing the Tropical https://t.co/DJrzgbDIcy via @iconeye @Hiyapriya
"While new museums, galleries and beautiful one-off houses grab attention the world over, it is affordable housing that is the fundamental enabler to the future health and vitality of the city." https://t.co/AcTJXH4WrH via @dezeen #PaulKarakusevic
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) January 26, 2019
“It won’t be possible to hit the UN SDGs without using private funding”
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) January 23, 2019
Governments won’t fund sustainable development. Will private finance step in? via @FT
@gilliantett https://t.co/lbnctUEsXZ
Lead juror for Hybrid Futures 2019 - Work x Fly @uniQxyz pic.twitter.com/Fyq1ddZPLy
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) January 21, 2019
The bad news you never hear from Japan after an earthquake is what a sustainable building needs to emulate - to quietly work in the background and to not need rebuilding
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) January 17, 2019
How Japan's skyscrapers are built to survive earthquakes https://t.co/BqjqI3uYte
One person’s masterpiece may be another’s carbuncle. But is there at least some public consensus on what is welcome and what constitutes blight?
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) January 15, 2019
Can we trust the government to judge what's beautiful? In @guardian by @OllieWainwright https://t.co/hma7A4IZ7e
This just in. We are in the Top 50. Again.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) January 12, 2019
We remain steadfast in the belief that architecture needs to be responsible to all stakeholders - buildings have a lasting impact on the environment and a there is a huge positive difference that a well designed building can make. pic.twitter.com/hBJDVU0GwM
Dark! https://t.co/Ca6qubqyJg
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) January 11, 2019
Damn! https://t.co/vQvB0oAmqJ
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) January 11, 2019
“perhaps the most sophisticated, witty and thoughtful new building in London in years”
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) January 10, 2019
And probably getting demolished.
Amin Taha: London’s most controversial architect via @FT
@GRPWK @dominicLut https://t.co/4X7FIACOqe
If greenhouse gas emissions are to be reduced, it will have to be through a mix of technologies including renewables, efficiency, energy storage, nuclear power, carbon capture & others.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) January 8, 2019
Read ‘A Bright Future’ by Joshua Goldstein & Staffan Qvist via @FT
https://t.co/BPDaxB9h2F
It is the irony of our moment that prudence requires the rejection of austerity.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) January 8, 2019
We must prepare now for the likelihood of a recession via @FT
https://t.co/FbL5X4OuUS
An architect’s delight, but perhaps too close to “big brother surveillance” for our comfort.
— AKDA (@akdaoffice) January 6, 2019
Interesting to see lots of roof details, though https://t.co/Fv2f5rkekn
