Architecture

For 155 Cumberland Quadrangle Architects Limited deservedly won the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s (RAIC) Award of Excellence for Innovation in Architecture.

The winner of the architectural competition to design the new Sedus office building in Dogern, Germany, has been announced: the Munich-based architect’s office Allmann Sattler Wappner.

The book can be read as a kind of continuation of the title, in that it is a monologue by the artist Katharina Grosse about building a house and about her own house, a highly personal description of thoughts and perceptions.

Architectural and competitive practices across Europe: challenged and topically presented by wonderland

Sein Leben erzählt in Briefen, Plänen, Dokumenten (His life in letters, plans, documents)

Eine Villa von Martin Elsaesser für Philipp F. Reemtsma .(A villa by Martin Elsaesser for Philipp F. Reemtsma)

We have not experienced a crisis of this magnitude since 'Black Friday' in 1929, when the stock market crash rocked the world economy. However, times of recession do not necessarily mean stagnation. In the field of public investment they instead

“We have to think big”, said President Sarkozy on 30 April 2009 at the opening of the exhibition at the Palais de Chaillot, where ten of thirty-seven future models for the re-design of Paris are on display.

The big car manufacturers have recently discovered an effective marketing instrument in a new kind of corporate architecture: large museums and car collection centres built right next to the production plant, where the customer can experienced an

Architonic Series 'Investment Stimulus for Public Projects', Article 1

Whereas on previous occasions Milan always proved to be a festival of temporary architecture, this year we had to look hard for innovative concepts.

The Center was designed by the Californian firm of architects Morphosis and named after its generous sponsor Charles H. Cahill, who helped finance a large share of the 50 million dollar building.

Even the most spectacular trade fair stand disappears again as fast as it was set up and remains only an ephemeral memory. However this two-volume photographic record, the result of a cooperation between publishers Frame and Gestalten Verlag.

The program: a house. Our concept: universal need for shelter. Solution: a void.

Drawing inspiration from the form of a sand dune, the pavilion is a reference to this symbolic feature of the desert landscape shared by each of the seven emirates.

Granted aesthetic planning permission in Amsterdam North, The Matchbox is a blend of artistic, creative and commercial spaces tailored to suit this artistic quarter.

Even though for 50 years it has been one of the world's leading trade fairs for the building industry, at first glance all the things which nowadays lie behind the three letters ISH are not immediately obvious.

Science fiction – the world after its destruction in the year 2347. This could be a rough description of the first impression created by the photo-montages of the Canadian artist Dave Trautrimas.

From being known only to insiders Herzog & de Meuron have become megastars, and their awards include the 2001 Pritzker Preis and the 2007 Praemium Imperiale. Volume 4 of their complete work has now been published and covers the years 1997 to

The controversial Tsunami Museum in Aceh will come to represent a fitting place for reflection but at its opening last week a row over the 700 families still to be re-housed overshadowed the event.

Scandinavia's largest public library will be realized on the waterfront of Aarhus in western Denmark

Starting with the concept of 'individual design for living', what forms, themes and tendencies determine the parameters for today's housing design?

It looks like open space, but behind movable walls, this tiny apartment holds surprises.

"It should be possible not just to hear the music but also to see it." - Ben van Berkel

Die Bauwerke und Kunstdenkmäler von Berlin (Berlin's architectural works and artistic monuments)

At the end of the Eighties Jürgen Große began to document street art in Berlin with his camera. This new large-format illustrated volume contains a selection from twenty years of intensive field research.

The Berlin material supplier for architects and designers opens a creative store in Moritzplatz, Kreuzberg

The latest volume in the prestigious 'Edition Detail' is, as the title suggests, devoted to materials for the interior.

At this year's imm cologne Degenhardt presented 'Landed', the prototype of a prefabricated house, in cooperation with Richard Lampert.

Pop!Tech is a yearly conference held in Camden, Maine. Andrew Zolli will tell you, though, that it’s really a community of innovators whose ongoing dialogue just happens to culminate in the annual retreat.

Europe remains the theme. Kem Koolhaas has recently presented a complex master plan for a European energy park in the North Sea.

The new RELAXX Sport Centre ar Bratislava enters the rush locality, harmonizes and directs the noise and chaos. This house is like a sculpture symbolizing the beauty of restlessness and the poetics of velocity.

In the form of a script Kristina Raderschad has put together a collection of annotated illustrations which deal with those aspects of our homes which do not normally form the highlights of books and magazines on home furnishing.

Viewing platforms promise a very special kind of experience. However, in spite of the breathtaking views they provide, these spectacularly constructed platforms themselves are often not noticed.

Exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim / Berlin until 1.2.2009

In order to create centres along the way where the pilgrims can rest and pray the municipalities involved have commissioned eleven artists and architects to develop architectural solutions for this out-of-the-ordinary context.

Let's be honest, which of us has read the 'De architectura libri decem' ("Ten books about architecture") by Vitruvius, or even part of the work? Even though searching Google for 'Vitruvius' will produce no less than a staggering 3.6 million hits.

If not entirely forgotten, so far the oeuvre of the Lausanne architect Jean Tschumi has at least been known for the most part only to insiders. This is no accident, in that post-war modernism has suffered from the popularity of classical modernism

This newly completed sports and leisure complex has a distinctive, sculptural quality, further enhanced by the building’s essential transparency.

B9 Architects design sustainable multi-family project with ArchiCAD

Stuart Kestenbaum is director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

Fresh Water Thanks to «No Man’s Land» for the Dead Sea Region

Industrially prefabricated and modular dwellings have long since established themselves, in the USA, in particular.

There are now a number of companies on the market which specialise in the development of micro wind turbines that enable individual power generation.

In 2015 the world's first carbon neutral city will be ready for occupation near Abu Dhabi. The main role here will be played by pedestrians.

The new land port of entry in Calais, Maine, is designed by Robert Siegel Architects

THOMAS SMALL is an accomplished cook, so it’s important for him to try new and exotic ingredients every now and then. When it came to the construction of his eco-friendly house, that’s exactly what his architects gave him.

In many countries there is a long tradition of living on the water, and even today many people feel the desire to live close to it. For them the solution is a houseboat or floating home, a boat which is anchored in a specific berth and is their

Students from the University of Utah planning for and with families who live below the poverty line

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.

The film derives its humorous scenes more from the impact which results when two worlds collide with each other.

Cordula Rau has collected the answers to this question given by 100 architects and designers, acquiring in the process an impressive collection of signatures.

For the future hotel showcase room -part of the Inhaus2 research project- the Fraunhofer IAO (Institute for Work Organisation) approached LAVA to become a project partner responsible for the design and realisation.

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.

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.

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.

R. Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Dwellings and Other Domestic Adventures

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".

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

Like most LAVA projects the Schumacher Tower represents a form of architecture which integrates complex construction technology and novel digital design methods.

The Joubert Park Project is an attempt at artistic intervention in the most difficult district in Johannesburg.

UNStudio builds at Meiji dori, a boulevard well known for luxury brand flagship stores

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

HOK has commissioned Squint/Opera to produce a film about the stadium for the London Olympics in 2012.

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.

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.

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.

schmidt hammer lassen architects win sports and leisure complex and overall plan

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.

Twisted geometry by Jürgen Mayer H.: Villa MRMM near Ludwigsburg, Germany

The impulse for the creation of 21_21 Design Sight originated during the Isamu Noguchi exhibition in New York. Designer Issey Miyake, architect Tadao Ando and sculptor Noguchi talked about the need for a place where Japanese design could be

Buckminster Fuller’s work at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Imagine a museum, instead of travelling far to see it, will stand temporarly in your home town.

Romanian artist Alex Dragulescu creates artwork blending traditional art and new media.

He gives the impression of wanting to tidy everything up and clear away any unnecessary visual ballast. Meticulously and with surgical precision Richard Galpin breaks down the fine top layer of large-scale architectural photographs.

The former workers' district of Zurich is undergoing large-scale rehabilitation. After the renovation and conversion of a number of buildings such as the Volkshaus and the Hotel Rothaus, there are now further plans for a new development: an area of

As if their indestructible presence wanted to make sure that we don't forget the past. As if they wanted to tell us that war is present everywhere – for many years now the bunkers.

Written by Maya Jordan, Photos by Nelson Kon and Fran Parente

The concrete structure, which at first sight looks rather awkward and monumental, reveals itself at a closer look as a walk-in sculpture which.

U-Bahnhöfe der klassischen Moderne (Underground stations in the classical modern style)

We are architects, and during the last few years we have been reading and commenting on several architectural websites. As many of you do, we love to watch, learn and discuss about architecture online.

The photos are all by Gigi Cifali, who originally trained as a topographer, from a series called "Absence of Water." The images document the disused pools of London.

Inspired by the shape of water in endless motion, The Blue Planet is shaped as a great whirlpool. The new Denmark’s Aquarium is situated

The Baumraum team, which is made up of architects, landscape designers, innovative craftsmen and tree experts, plans modern tree house designs which are constructed to the individual specifications of the client.

Christine Killory and Rene Davids examine the influence on architecture of high-tech engineering on the basis of 25 buildings erected in the USA.

The plan extends our research into the notion of ‘abstract verandah’ to include a barcode motif in the plan. A series of discrete spaces, organised in a way to suit the client’s particular requirements, results in a coded arrangement that is

The design for a mixed-use development on the shores of Straume, near Bergen

The time has finally come and the Indian elephants in the Copenhagen zoo have finally taken up residence in their new home. Compared with the old enclosure.

Frederic Chaubin, photographer and chief editor of the French magazine Citizen K, is searching for places, that have a story to tell and whose unique character he can document with his camera.

The architects Blocher Blocher Partners, who specialise in corporate architecture, have developed this by converting the texture of the moss to an abstract motif and then vectorising it.

Swimming bath architecture has recently been making a comeback and is now manifesting itself in entirely new contexts.

This year's European Championships, which are taking place at four venues each in Switzerland and Austria, have also been the occasion for the development or redevelopment of a number of stadiums.

Flare is a pneumatic building facade system, manufactured by WHITEvoid. The system consists of metal flake bodies.

It's an unusual thing to find a book on architecture with hardly any pictures, almost total reliance on text and taking as its subject a series of crucial questions relating to 31 buzzwords.

The interplay between graphic art and architecture is a discipline in itself. Visitor orientation and guidance systems require a detailed analysis of the architecture of the building, and the operational and movement sequences of the building's

Because our attention is fully focussed on new products and old acquaintances we frequently overlook the architecture of the stands themselves, which is often of high quality and great elaboration.

The architect Keiichito Sako was one of the first to recognise the potential for his architecture in the growing giant China. 2004 he opened his studio.

The organic parkway by Plan B Arquitectos and JPRCR Arquitectos

In the autumn of 2005 the Lower Ninth Ward, a multi-cultural precinct in the east of New Orleans, was flattened by the force of the hurricane Katrina.

Apocalyptic sentiments. The abandoned futuristic housing complex San Zhi is situated close to the Taiwanese capital and was planned in the early 80s.

Thom Mayne's studio Morphosis wins the Zumtobel Group Award for sustainable architecture for its Federal Building in San Francisco

Ingrid Buron and Gregory Namberger "export" the spirit of Berlin to the island of Rügen

At the imm cologne we our fifth anniversary and we had a big party at the Architonic Lounge and later at the SIDIspot. Thanks everybody who joined us.

The younger generation of japanese architects, including Kengo Kuma, who was born in 1954, has taken a new directions, by using more natural materials.

Entre 1969 et 1970, l’architecte, artiste et théoricien Oskar Hansen construisit sa datcha d’été à Szumin, près d’un lac d’oxbow pittoresque et la rivière Bug, en Pologne centrale. Après 45 ans, cette maison discrète – conçue et