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  1. FlatPak FlatPak
    Industrially prefabricated and modular dwellings have long since established themselves, in the USA, in particular... Read
  2. 104 104
    CENTQUATRE is a place of artistic creation and production. Open to all forms of art, this 39,000 m² (419, 792 sq. feet) space is an original architectural whole in which art meets the public head-on. Read
  3. Fuller Houses Fuller Houses
    Richard Buckminster Fuller and the Dymaxion House – the names are as inseparable as Siamese twins. Starting with the last Dymaxion version of 1946 these residential machines, icons of utopian 'dynamic-maximum-ion' experimentation... Read
  4. August House August House
    The Joubert Park Project is an attempt at artistic intervention in the most difficult district in Johannesburg. Read
  5. Torstrasse 166 Torstrasse 166
    An entire house over a number of floors in the heart of the city has been turned into a work of art – yes, it's obvious that we're in Berlin. Read
  1. Wooden shacks and delusions of grandeur Wooden shacks and delusions of grandeur
    Katrin Greiling currently lives and works as a designer in Dubai, where she constantly tours the city with her camera, recording in her photographs everyday life in this unique cosmopolitan metropolis within the Arab world. A world of contradictions. Read
  2. Timeless doesn’t necessarily mean boring Timeless doesn’t necessarily mean boring
    When in 1981 Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager hit on the idea of converting a New York flophouse into a luxury hotel, the world was still a very different place. Read
  3. Westside Westside
    The history of the shopping mall as we know it today began in the Nineteen Fifties. In Los Angeles Victor Gruen, an architect who had emigrated to the US from Austria, felt the lack of the traditional European city centre with its pedestrian infrastructure. Read
  4. Parisian Pyramides Parisian Pyramides
    Parisians really seem to like pyramid shaped buildings. After the Eiffel Tower and the Pyramides du Louvre there will be a third major building with a pointed roof. Read
  5. The Best Kitchens The Best Kitchens
    The traditional 'domain of the housewife', in which nowadays more and more men are to be found playing with high-tech equipment, has for some time now been a central place... Read
  1. Koolhaas Houselife Koolhaas Houselife
    The film derives its humorous scenes more from the impact which results when two worlds collide with each other... Read
  2. Winter bathing ship Winter bathing ship
    At the moment the bathing ship in the East harbour of Berlin, one of Berlin's most attractive open-air pools, is being made ready for the winter. Read
  3. Schumacher Tower in Abu Dhabi Schumacher Tower in Abu Dhabi
    Like most LAVA projects the Schumacher Tower represents a form of architecture which integrates complex construction technology and novel digital design methods... Read
  4. DreamHaus DreamHaus
    DreamHaus is a design game which uses architecture as the basis for the study of mathematics, technical planning and physics. It uses the possibility of displaying buildings as systems and enables players to experience architecture by manipulating the systems. Read
  5. Everland Everland
    When artists design hotel rooms their focus is very different from that of the architect. Their curiosity, visions, objectives and their implementation are influenced by other factors than architectural ones. Read
  1. Why Do Architects Wear Black? Why Do Architects Wear Black?
    Cordula Rau has collected the answers to this question given by 100 architects and designers, acquiring in the process an impressive collection of signatures... Read
  2. Conversations with Mies van der Rohe Conversations with Mies van der Rohe
    In the series "Conversations with ..." published by the Princeton Architectural Press, which also includes conversations with Le Corbusier, Louis Khan and Rem Koolhaas, the latest addition is "Conversations with Mies van der Rohe"... Read
  3. Omotesando Commercial Complex 2008 Omotesando Commercial Complex 2008
    UNStudio builds at Meiji dori, a boulevard well known for luxury brand flagship stores Read
  4. After Bird's Nest After Bird's Nest
    HOK has commissioned Squint/Opera to produce a film about the stadium for the London Olympics in 2012. Read
  5. UNStudio for Louis Vuitton UNStudio for Louis Vuitton
    UNStudio was commissioned to draw up a concept for the new Louis Vuitton Flagship Store in Japan which would unite the modern and classic qualities of Louis Vuitton and express their essence in architectural form. Read
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