Sustainability
How Better Insulation Lowers a Building's Running Costs
Insulation never makes the photographs. It is hidden inside walls, buried under floors and rolled across lofts, invisible the...
Architecture and design writer, page 3 of 9
James has written about architecture and the built environment for over a decade. He covers everything from landmark towers to small residential projects, and is particularly interested in how design decisions affect the people who use a space.
Sustainability
Insulation never makes the photographs. It is hidden inside walls, buried under floors and rolled across lofts, invisible the...
Games
Anyone who has built in a sandbox game knows the comfort of the undo key.
Community
A laminated sheet appears on a fence two doors down, or an envelope from city hall arrives with a case number and a hearing...
Games
Anyone who has built in a game with snap-to-grid tools knows the strange comfort of it.
Games
Every few years someone sends me a concept for a new town laid out as a perfect circle, streets radiating from a central square...
Games
A game camera is the single most argued-over system in level design, because it decides what the player sees and, by extension,...