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 the original building by an undergrou
The project seeks to give coherence to the multipart hospital by means of a base that serves to channel circulation and hold up a ten-story block containing the new ICU area. Composed of brick panels that are anchored to cables of steel, the facade i
This hybrid construction of timber frame and concrete floor slabs steps away from the ‘white cube’ with a structure that expresses its materiality. The bays of ceramic tiles afford a decorative and painterly quality harmonious with the historic conte
The prominent location, in a charged historical context, advised to stack the program in a slender tower that connects with its surroundings via a sun-filled terrace separated from the neighboring buildings by a garden, and with panoramic rooftop vie
The proposal consists of a volume of two parts: a pedestal that matches the grain of the street and the scale of passerbys; and a tower that acts on the scale of the city and joins the skyline; both are connected by the folds and colors of the facade
On a concrete slab, various geometrical figures are stacked to offer different spaces – museum rooms and terraces –, creating an addition to the existing facade on the courtyard side and giving a dynamic and interactive face towards the city of Ghent
The project reconsiders the original plan, the connection of the buildings and the presence of the museum in the city; a sculptural new volume with large glazed openings and crowned by a public events hall will become a new urban landmark...
The volume breaks up into a series of stacked arms slightly rotated to ensure visual continuity between the urban fabric and the beautiful banks of the Garonne River. While the building is fragmented into volumes and wings, it uses a single essential
Through a careful restoration, the project transforms the old mill complex into the new headquarters of Bombay Sapphire distillers. Located by the River Test, in Laverstoke, the site had become a cluttered and confused mess, with Grade II listed stru
The building is part of a project to revive an old industrial complex in the east part of Heilbronn, harboring a museum promoted by a foundation that supports science and technology... [+]
Taking inspiration from the palaces in the city, the refurbishment project adds a four-story building and a volume of 2+2 floors, giving it a new image and composition, and replacing the ceramic of the facade with limestone and bronze frames.
The Australian architecture firm Hassell has in collaboration with the Dutch studio OMA finished renovating the Museum for Western Australia in the heart of the city of Perth’s cultural precinct. Its new aboriginal nickname, ‘Boola Bardip’ (many stor
Desde su apertura, el Museo de Bellas Artes de Houston se ha nutrido de colecciones legadas por pudientes benefactores que han tenido que acomodarse en sucesivas ampliaciones del edificio neoclásico original. En la estela de las adiciones de Mies van
After twelve years of planning and building, the office of David Chipperfield has completed the new Kunsthaus Zurich extension, the fourth in the history of the neo-Greek building raised in 1910 by Karl Moser, who would be the first CIAM president. U
A wit in the publicity department of the Museum of Modern Art suggested that the new MoMA was like a favourite golf course to which, to your surprise, nine holes had been added. At a cost of $450 million, the distinguished New York architectural firm
If we were to pinpoint an emblem for Spain’s successful public healthcare system, one sure candidate would be La Paz Hospital in Madrid. At least that is the opinion of the institution’s authorities, who, faced with a dire need for more space, found
A currently fashionable theme – and real-estate attraction – in the world of Chinese architecture is the renovation of hutongs, those alleys of popular dwellings of yore, closely huddled around a courtyard, especially in the country’s capital. Ma Yan
New York has just seen the opening of the Museum of Modern Art renovation and expansion, carried out by the local firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Since Goodwin and Stone raised the original building in 1938, this is the fifth enlargement to be carried
The British architect Norman Foster and the local office of Luis María Uriarte are the winners of the competition to renovate and enlarge the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao, lately one of the most coveted projects in the context of cultural buildings
Headed by Jeanne Gang (one of this year’s 100 most influential people in the world, according to Time magazine), Studio Gang – in collaboration with three other architecture and engineering companies – has won the competition to carry out the renovat
From the great greenhouses of the 19th century to the ‘climatops’ proposed by Richard Buckminster Fuller in the mid-20th century, taming nature to reproduce it in artificial environments has been one of the major impulses of modernity. So has it been
The renovation and expansion of the museum in West Palm Beach (Florida) has added new galleries and much needed facilities for its visitors, while reinstating the axial arrangement and clarity of circulation of the original 1940’s building. Above all
