Magazine
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on 27-05-2015
In commemoration of the Vienna Ringstrasse's 150th anniversary, Parabol Art Magazine has published a special edition with photos of Otto Wagner's Postal Savings Bank taken by Hagen Stier and a companion exhibition in the building. John Hill
Headlines
on 22-05-2015
The Ontario-based museum has shortlisted six architects/teams in a two-stage competition as part of their relocation to the Parks Canada Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site on the Trent-Severn Waterway. John Hill
Works
on 15-05-2015
Here we are in the heart of Paris, and in the 21st Century. The people who will reside in this establishment come for the most part from the surrounding neighborhoods; they were born and have lived their lives in Paris. Atelier Zündel Cristea
Beoordelingen
on 11-05-2015
Often the best buildings aren't the most flashy or iconic; they are the ones that fit into a city so well they seem to be forever a part of it. This isn't to say that Mecanoo's design for the offices of the Boston Public Schools Division doesn't have contemporary flourishes...
Film
on 30-04-2015
Bjarke Ingels, one of the speaker's in this week's Bloomberg Businessweek Design 2015, explains the "courtscraper" rising on Manhattan's West Side. John Hill
Headlines
on 28-04-2015
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have selected the "top ten examples of sustainable architecture and ecological design projects that protect and enhance the environment." John Hill
Beoordelingen
on 28-04-2015
The use of hot springs for wellbeing and medical care is an age-old practise in China. The new Ruff Well Water Resort designed by Shanghai-based architects AIM is an outstanding example of how that practise is reflected in contemporary society, particularly in new facilities for the urban...
Headlines
on 27-04-2015
Five months after the jury for the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition selected six finalists from the initial 1,715 submissions, the finalists have developed their concept designs based on site visits and additional briefing. John Hill
Beoordelingen
on 26-04-2015
Parking garages are a necessary evil in cities, particularly in an auto-centric metropolis like Los Angeles. Yet while most garages are bland additions to cityscapes, they can also be canvases for creative expression, as in the case of this colorful structure designed by Behnisch Architekten...
Film
on 22-04-2015
When it opens next month, visitors to the observatory of One World Trade Center will be treated to a time-lapse video of Lower Manhattan's evolution lining the elevator walls as they ascend 102 floors. John Hill
Works
on 22-04-2015
The New Building of the World Health Organization (WHO) will replace a number of temporary buildings at the Headquarters site in Genève. The New Building will be one of three buildings that comprise the WHO Headquarters. LATITUDE
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on 15-04-2015
Snarkitecture, the art/architecture duo of Alex Mustonen and Daniel Arsham, in collaboration with COS (Collection Of Style), have created an immersive environment where visitors to the Salone del Mobile "are invited to relax, interact and recharge among the chaos of the festival." John Hill
Beoordelingen
on 06-04-2015
The 2015 Building of the Week feature on American-Architects is focusing on U.S. architects building overseas, so it's not surprising to see the importance of collaboration coming to the fore. The Melbourne School of Design is a particularly good example of this, since it is the result...
Works
on 02-04-2015
Walters & Cohen have announced the successful completion of Regent High School (formerly called South Camden Community School), a co-educational secondary school on a tight urban site in Somers Town in the London Borough of Camden. Walters & Cohen
Works
on 31-03-2015
Doboz Bar is situated in the heart of Budapest’s entertainment district at the World Heritage site of the Old Jewish Quarter. 81font
Works
on 30-03-2015
Located near the north side of Chicago, Kids Science Labs is a learning and discovery center for children ages 2-12 built on the premise that learning science should be fun. Woodhouse Tinucci Architects
Beoordelingen
on 30-03-2015
Harumi is an artificial island built on reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay that saw the development of office and residential towers starting in the 1990s. That development will no doubt continue as the island is the site of the Olypmic Village for the 2020 Olympic Games. The announcement of...
Works
on 30-03-2015
Brussels Environment is the government authority in the field of environment and habitat in the Belgian Capital Region and is currently settling in one of the capital’s largest and most important urban renewal districts, the Tour&Taxis site on the Havenlaan. architectenbureau cepezed
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on 27-03-2015
Artist Tomás Saraceno explores social and biological complexity through the manipulation of spider webs in a new exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York. John Hill
Products
on 23-03-2015
The facade of SEHW Architektur's design for the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) in Darmstadt, Germany, appears to form some kind of secret code, appropriate given the site's history. John Hill, Thomas Geuder
Headlines
on 17-03-2015
Chicago's tallest towers sells for $1.3 billion, London will see 263 towers over 20 stories, and a proposal for a "No Shadow Tower also in London. John Hill
Insight
on 16-03-2015
Last year saw the most supertall (300 meters or higher) skyscrapers built than in any year (11 of them), most significantly One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. World-Architects is taking a look at it and nine other supertalls under construction. John Hill
Headlines
on 10-03-2015
Tom Pritzker of the Hyatt Foundation announced today, one day after Frei Otto’s death, that the German architect is the 40th laureate of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize. John Hill
Works
on 09-03-2015
Team Mei and Felixx are a prize-winner for the redevelopment of a post war residential area in Munich. Felixx / Mei
Headlines
on 03-03-2015
The University of St. Thomas · Minnesota has announced it will auction off the Frank Gehry-designed Winton Guest House in May, six years after the school relocated the building from its original site. John Hill
Works
on 03-03-2015
Pujalt is a township in l’Anoia region of Spain. The project connects new constructions and existing traditional buildings. Arriola & Fiol
Beoordelingen
on 02-03-2015
Architect Zoka Zola may be based in Chicago, but her roots go back to Croatia, specifically to Rijeka, the country's third largest city. So it's fitting that one of her most recent projects took the architect back to her city of birth to design affordable housing after a competition...
Works
on 02-03-2015
On Saturday 28 February 2015, Delft’s new railway station officially opened to the public. The station sits atop a new train tunnel built in place of the old concrete viaduct that has divided the city in two since 1965.
Beoordelingen
on 01-03-2015
Designed by Hiroshima-based architecture firm Keisuke Kawaguchi +K2-DESIGN, Locomotive Hills is an adult day service center located partway up a gently sloping, forested hill. The shape of the building itself is patterned on a hill and is designed to continue the thread of green through the city....
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on 19-02-2015
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is celebrating Chinese New Year and more than four decades of working in China with the 12-year zodiac calendar illustrated by the firm's Graphics + Branding studio. John Hill
Found
on 12-02-2015
BIG – Bjarke Ingel Group's W57 project, a residential "courtscraper" on Manhattan's West Side, recently topped off, so yesterday World-Architects headed over to snap some photos of the construction progress. John Hill
Works
on 11-02-2015
The project is located in a major and well connected industrial area on the east side of Rome with a focus on advanced research production. The building is a clear and compact volume that has an interesting relationship to its context. Modostudio + Sofia Cattinari Studio
Headlines
on 10-02-2015
The New York Post reports that The Related Companies "has hired Rem Koolhaas to design their new High Line project on West 18th Street." John Hill
Products
on 09-02-2015
A. Zahner Co., the go-to engineering and fabrication company based in Kansas City, Missouri, has worked with Thom Mayne and Morphosis on a number of projects, including the L.A. outpost of Boston's Emerson College, completed last year. John Hill
Works
on 03-02-2015
"The owners brief was to design a flexible contemporary family residence. The site was spectacular requiring a design that could respond to a challenging slopped corner site and its aspects" says Thaabe Ramabina of SAOTA. SAOTA