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The Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) fused nature and technology in their Research Pavilion 14-15, based on the nests of underwater spiders.
Consisting of primarily collective and social housing, the urban development project accommodating roughly 10,500 people and 50% of Lormont's population is now complete.
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have announced the over 60 new buildings from 26 countries as winners of the Interational Architecture Awards for 2015.
The Paleisbrug is a raised park and pedestrian and cycle bridge in one. The bridge forms a 250-meter-long link across the railway tracks between the historic center of 's-Hertogenbosch and Paleiskwartier.
The IGN and Météo France Geosciences Center is a major renovation operation permitting the transformation of a 1980s block into a Very High Energy Performance (VHEP) building with a surface area of 15,900 sm.
The European Parliament has rejected the plan that would have restricted the so-called Freedom of Panorama, the right to use pictures of public buildings and sculptures without restriction.
PSA Publishers Ltd., the publisher of the World-Architects platform, announces a change of management as Renato Turri, Charles Ganz and Falk Romano accept, as part of a management buyout, the shares of majority shareholder and company founder Hans Demarmels.
As part of the activities of the Abierto Mexicano de Diseño 2014 (Mexican Open Design 2014), we presented Octágono as a prefab approach, in collaboration with Pirwi. It is a space cell, able to join other non-hierarchical, which makes it flexible, with the ability to react to...
The 10th edition of the Lively Architecture Festival (Festival des Architectures Vives) wrapped up last month, having attracted 15,000 visitors. Five of the FAV installations in Montpellier and La Grande Motte were given awards.
The complexity of the site called first of all for a detailed constructibility review. All constraints were modeled on the current PLU (plan local d’urbanisme – local urban development plan) – building heights, street alignments, distances from buildings on neighboring plots...
The Studio Museum in Harlem has announced that David Adjaye is designing a new building for the museum on the site of the 1914 building it has occupied since 1982.
The principal idea in the site of the high school Honoré de Balzac de Castelnau-le-Lez was to reconquer space by a better distribution of constructions in order to create a scale of user-friendliness, as well in the buildings as in the outdoor areas.
Vector Architects from Beijing have designed a new library situated right on the beach on the north Chinese coast. The solid concrete block looks surreal in its natural environment. The site at Nandaihe is south of the established resort of Beidaihe, where in colonial times foreigners established...
With the evolution of technology in the industry, it puts into question the role of artisans in the construction of the design space to the extent that the trades are disappearing.
REX's design of a building for two companies – Vakko and Power Media – in Istanbul is built upon two projects: one, an old design by the Brooklyn-based architects, and two, the physical concrete frame of an unfinished hotel on the site. The architects explain the complex yet...
The third and last leg of the exhibition Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio opened at the Cooper Hewitt in New York on 24 June, running until 3 January 2016. eMagazine Editor in Chief John Hill got a look at the exhibition and filed this report.
The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) in Flushing Meadows Corona Park has reopened its Great Hall designed by Wallace K. Harrison for the 1964 World's Fair and recently restored by Ennead Architects.
Our clients wanted a glass house. The difficulty was that they wanted this house placed on a visually exposed 50’ x 100’ city lot that they owned in NE Portland. This posed the challenge of designing a glass house with privacy.
With beaches a few hours away from Washington, DC, the National Building Museum is bringing one to the city in the form of an "ocean" of nearly one million translucent balls courtesy of Snarkitecture.
Born from an extreme transformation of a typical 90s bungalow, the “Maison Terrebonne” is located on a vast wooded plot of land.
New York's Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP) has announced plans for two residential buildings designed by ODA New York for developer RAL Development Services and Oliver's Realty Group adjacent to the park's Pier 6.
A project to transform the 13,700-square-meter of both buildings in Travesera de Gràcia and Amigó St into offices to rent, luxury apartments and a hotel for the British company Travelodge.
Two years after Anthony Vidler stepped down as Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, the New York school has named Nader Tehrani of Boston's NADAAA to the position.
Eight months after rejecting it, Paris city councillors have voted in favor of the "Triangle Tower" proposed for the Porte de Versailles area, what would be the city’s first skyscraper since 1973.
Architect Kazuhiko Kishimoto of the Kanagawa-based firm acaa designed this wood-framed ranch-style home in the snowy city of Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture. In order to adapt the home to the region’s harsh winter climate, Kishimoto says he took particular care in designing the structure and...
In one of the latest films from the Louisiana Museum of Art's Louisiana Channel, Dan Stubbergaard of COBE takes viewers around Copenhagen "to show and discuss what motivates their exciting socially conscious and highly innovative projects."
On Saturday, July 11, Open House New York and the Architectural League of New York are opening up more than forty New York architecture studios in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, all previous winners of the League's Emerging Voices awards.
An innovative reconsideration of school buildings and their role within the urban realm and the community, can provoke different ways of inventing the present and of planting seed for a better future.
On the occasion of the Making Africa exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum, architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has designed and installed a pop-up store for Camper within the Buckminster Fuller Dome on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany.
NEXT architects and Rudy Uytenhaak architects worked together to design a new town hall for Bloemendaal municipality. Their design builds on the history of the property, the Bloemenheuvel country estate.
In Münster, Germany, HPP Architects have realized, together with Duk-Kyu Ryang, an office building for LVM that adds character to the city's skyline. Inside, employees can look forward to seasonal moods of color that emanate from the flooring.
Paris's Atelier 37.2 has installed New Horizon, an inhabited sculpture for the 4th annual Sculpture by the Sea Aarhus festival that frames the landscape as "two monochromatic, ever-changing Rothko paintings."
Yalla Yalla! - studio for change creates with 1200 green vegetable crates the design for the exhibition Helden der Stadt (translates as Heroes of the City), which is on display at the Ernst-Bloch-Centre in Ludwigshafen, Germany, from 20 May to 31 July, 2015.
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has adapted Jean Prouvé's 6x6 Demountable House, adding a satellite bathroom and kitchen, and service trolleys providing hot water and solar powered electricity. Watch a timelapse of the house's assembly.
The Sailing Center, recently completed by Woodhouse Tinucci Architects, is Northwestern University's (NU) most direct connection between the campus and its advantageous location on the shoreline of Lake Michigan.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has named the four regional winners of the Best Tall Building Awards as part of the organization's annual awards.