Fri, 18 Dec 2020
The practice established by Ma Yansong in 2004, MAD Architects, which runs offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, Rome, and Jiaxing, was commissioned by the Yabuli China Entrepreneurs Forum to design this venue for its annual summits in Yabuli, in the northeastern part of the country. With a structure resembling a tent of gently sloping lines, the building presents a white...
Luis Fernández-Galiano (Calatayud, 1950). Arquitecto, catedrático y editor de las revistas Arquitectura Viva y AV. Las grandes esperanzas reúne sus escritos del periodo 1976-1992 en dos tomos: Fracturas y ficciones y Empeños sostenibles...
Confronted with the problem of the progressive depopulation of Spain’s countryside, the renovation and enlargement of an early-20th-century casa de roter – a traditional peasant house that incorporates farming activities – showcases…
The Norwegian firm Snøhetta – headed by Craig Dykers and Kjetil Traedal Thorsen – in collaboration with the French office SRA designed new headquarters for the Le Monde Group in Paris. The 23,000-square-meter
The Kunsthaus is a 1910 building located at Heimplatz, in the center of Zürich. After twelve years of planning and construction, its extension is complete and will open to the public in October 2021. Connected to…
Certain years are so eventful they are regarded as pivotal in history, years when wars and slavery ended and deep generational fissures burst into the open — 1865, 1945 and 1968 among them. The year 2020 will certainly join this list. It will long be remembered…
Even as he first made his name with his charcoal drawings in the 1970s and 1980s, William Kentridge resented the limitations of his craft. To the young artist he was then, working on his own in a studio in South Africa felt stifling…
The Gold Medal is the AIA’s highest annual honor, recognizing individuals whose work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. While many were introduced to carbon attributable to buildings…
In 2016 a North Carolina law requiring transgender people to use the toilet of their birth sex upset the nation’s stomach. Companies pulled out of ventures in the state, sports leagues called off games and rock stars cancelled concerts. The law…
Following a letter released November 27, 2020 by The ---- Johnson Study Group calling for all institutions to remove the name of Philip Johnson from "every leadership title, public space, and honorific of any form," Sarah Whiting, Dean and Professor…
Philip Johnson was one of the most influential architects of the past century, chameleonic in each of his roles as a New York power broker, art collector and creator of his “Glass House,” a celebrated landmark of modernist design in Connecticut. He also…
A retrospective on the extraordinary theoretical and practical contribution of an “unusual architect”. On display materials from archives and collections from all over the world. Aldo Rossi – the world-renowned architect…
The Arctic continued its unwavering shift toward a new climate in 2020, as the effects of near-record warming surged across the region, shrinking ice and snow cover and fueling extreme wildfires, scientists said in an annual…
The giant human footprint stamped across the world in 2020 is greater than the impact on the planet of all other living things, research suggests. The amount of plastic alone is greater in mass than all land animals and marine…
The Covid-19 pandemic has put the vital importance of domestic space on the forefront, and the latest double issue of the magazine AV Monographs presents a selection of 24 residences– 12 located within Spain, 12 in other countries – designed by internationally prestigious architectural practices, including those headed by Emilio Tuñón, Harquitectes, OFFICE, Ryue Nishizawa, Aires Mateus, Alejandro Aravena, and Smiljan Radic, with special emphasis on construction details, material quality, and interior designs. A multipart essay by the editor, Luis Fernández-Galiano, throws light on the timeless character of eight spaces of the home.
With the scheme for the competition to extend the Kunstmuseum Basel, Christ & Gantenbein – set up in 1998 by Emanuel Christ (Basel, 1970) and Christoph Gantenbein (St. Gallen, 1971) – became known outside Switzerland, and it has since consolidated a place among leading practices in the Alpine country. With geometric severity and a serene presence, it sets the new in confrontation with the existing, and creates spaces of stark material quality. And the magazine’s dossier looks at Africa through an article and four buildings carried out by Toshiko Mori, Local Studio, Architectopia, and Albert Faus.
Patience is the sister of hope. The philosopher Ernst Block, who wrote the three volumes of The Principle...
In February, as the new coronavirus swept across China and shut down entire cities, a scientist named Sai Li set out to paint...
As the pandemic wreaks havoc on existing structures, we look at some visions for post-Covid cities – and how they...
City centres are likely to see fewer cars in future, but that would have happened...
The Huanggang Port Area in the city of Shenzhen’s Futian District services 300,000 people crossing over to Hong Kong daily. The new masterplan, focused around two large public squares, marks out three interconnected parts: the harbor hub including offices and hotels;…
The firm headed by Benedetta Tagliabue has won the competition for the renovation of Century Square in Shanghai, carrying the day over teams including David Chipperfield Architects. The scheme includes green spaces, a building for holding events that reflects the surroundings, and a wooden…
The firm of Norman Foster has won the competition to design Guangming Hub, a transport-oriented development on the high-speed rail link that connects Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, with three new metro lines incorporated. The latest technological tools are harnessed to make Guangming Hub...
Bjarke Ingels's firm BIG has won the competition for The Village, a non-academic student center in the Homewood campus, in Baltimore, of Johns Hopkins University. Encompassing 13,935 square meters, the fragmented and cascading composition of stacked timber volumes presents flat roofs where...
The creative destruction defended by Schumpeter deserves another name: corrosive destruction. The oxymoron popularized by the Austrian economist describes the gales of transformation...
Dear David, You ask me what we architects should do about the unmistakably impending environmental catastrophe. About social inequality. About poverty. About the degradation...
The history of cities and the buildings that comprise them is inextricably linked to the ever-recurring pattern of disease and issues of public health. There are countless examples. The Cholera outbreak of the 1850s, which decimated the population of London, ...
The coronavirus will hasten three big medical breakthroughs. When historians write the book on the covid-19 pandemic, what we’ve lived through so far will probably take up only the first third or so...
To its Prodex panels of natural wood the firm Prodema adds a film of PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride), thus improving their capacity to protect against external agents, and with this, reducing the need for maintenance.
facade paneling system presents a structure of FSC certified wood and an inner insulation of pressed straw, coming with homogeneous flat surfaces and a standard thickness of 40 centimeters.
Ytong solution of tongue-ingroove panels is made of cellular concrete, which weighs much less and insulates better than conventional concrete. It is obtained in an autoclave on a base of sand, silica, and lime.
Bala-box is a prefabricated modular system of blocks for wrapping buildings of up to two floors, composed of a wooden frame and a filling of pressed straw. This makes for a high degree of thermal insulation.
Politics infused everything that the designer Enzo Mari touched. Mari, who has died aged 88 of complications related to Covid-19,...
The Italian publisher, editor and collector Franco Maria Ricci has died at the age of 82. In sumptuously produced art...
I am greatly saddened to hear about the death of Gerald Hines, an urban visionary and a close friend. Through the sheer force of his unique...
Marc Fumaroli, a leading French historian, public intellectual and defender of the French...
