Berlin, Germany
The city of Berlin is characterized by the overlapping of layers of its history, and the different periods are clearly legible in its built fabric, still marked by the scars of World War II, the postwar, and its division into two. Because of all that
KAAN Architecten was commissioned to design a visitor center for the Netherlands American Cemetery (NEAC), the only World War II U.S. graveyard on Dutch soil. The new building blends respectfully into the premises, partly sunken into the sloping hill
Upon the death of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands in 1962, Het Loo – the summer residence of the House of Orange-Nassau – became a property of the State, and some time later it was turned into a museum. Through an extensive renovation, KAAN Archi
The Préfecture de Paris, a building that originally constructed in the 1960s that housed the city administration, was situated on the banks of the River Seine. The existing ensemble comprised a 16-storey tower flanked by two 9-storey wings, which for
The commission involved the extension of the old home of the Bündner Kunstmuseum in Chur, an eclectic Palladian-style building raised in 1876, known as Villa Planta. The design is a double exercise in maximum integration within an urban ensemble, mak
The Design District on the Greenwich Peninsula is a one-hectare riverside site with 16 new buildings that will provide an affordable base for creative businesses. Eight emerging architectural practices from across Europe were each given a pair of bui
A new wing has been discreetly added to the complex of brick industrial buildings that were originally transformed by the studio in the 1990s into a museum of contemporary art. Aligned with the rest of the industrial constructions near Duisburg’s Inn
An outpost of the Centre Pompidou rises on the banks of the Huangpu as part of a project to transform the industrial margin of the riverbed into a new cultural district. The museum takes up three volumes clad in iridescent recycled glass, which stand
The firm of the British architect David Chipperfield has finished refurbishing the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, and it will reopen to the public on 22 August 2021. One of the icons of 20th-century architecture, the museum is the only building buil
The former St. Vincenz hospital, situated in the medieval town center of Paderborn, has been converted by the firm of David Chipperfield into a new headquarters for the company Jacoby Studios. Originally a 17th-century Capuchin monastery, the ensembl
Located along the river Limmat, on the spot occupied by old building, destroyed by fire in 2012, the Tanzhaus Zürich stands as an important cultural institution, a school of dance that has become the symbolic center of the neighborhood. The project a
The inauguration of the James-Simon-Galerie marks the endpoint of the redevelopment of Museum Island, which began with the Neues Museum renovation project.
The new art district of Lausanne is an urban regeneration plan that includes the construction of venues for the city’s most important museum institutions and the regeneration of a run-down area by the train station. The new cultural facilities are or
This project is situated in Midtown Manhattan, facing the New York Public Library and overlooking Bryant Park. The building, rising 32 floors, consists of a hotel that extends to the 13th floor, with a further 18 floors of private residences. Both pr
This residential project is located at the south-west corner of the Colville Estate, a housing development in Hackney, east London, built in the 1950s. The project by David Chipperfield Architects and Karakusevic Carson Architects, won in a competiti
The residential complex One Kensington Gardens is located on a prominent central London site facing the southern edge of Kensington Gardens. The project, comprising 97 residences, involves the internal reorganization of the site and the construction
This family house is located on a large plot in the Chiltern Hills, between the villages of Skirmett and Hambleden. The Chilterns are part of the system of chalk downs that run through eastern and southern England, with over 20% covered by woodland,
The new MBA Building for the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) is located on the prestigious school’s campus, close to the historic Paris suburb of Jouy-en-Josas. The visionary original 1964 design of the campus had been compromised over the
Founded in 2003 by Bassel, Firas, and Rami Atallah, SSENSE is a Canada-based online fashion platform and clothing e-tailer with a global presence, serving more than 100 countries worldwide. Its online platform curates a selection of over 400 fashion
Selfridges is a central London department store housed in a grand, Beaux-Arts style building on Oxford Street, which opened in 1909. By the end of the 1930s, Selfridges had expanded into a new building to the north, built in a sober Art Déco style. I
This office building is located on the south side of the King’s Cross mixed use redevelopment, between King’s Cross and St Pancras International stations. Situated on a new public square, the volume is visible from all sides calling for a strong visu
The Adolf Würth company is one of the world’s largest retailers of assembly and fastening materials, with its headquarters situated near the small town of Künzelsau, in southern Germany. Surrounded by open fields and at a little distance from the mai
The Zhejiang Museum of Natural History is the centerpiece of a new cultural area near Dipuzhen in eastern China, an area renowned for its extensive bamboo forests. The new museum is set on a sloping site in a large natural park overlooking rice field
The West Bund Museum is a major new art gallery on the northern bank of the Huangpu River, and forms a key part of the West Bund Master Plan, which envisages a new cultural district on former industrial land. The museum occupies a triangular plot at
Monumental and material, bold and abstract, the work of Barozzi Veiga combines the autonomy of the building’s form with the specific dialogue with the context.
We usually think about classicism as a figurative language, but the work of Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga shows how classicism and abstraction can reconcile. If the classic is not associated to columns and pediments but to consistency between th
Among young Spanish practices, the studio set up in Barcelona in 2004 by Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga is one of those that have most gone international, and the recently finished Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland, is the lar
Buildings need not be isolated, independent, autonomous objects. Nevertheless, we tend to see them as such when they are canonical works, like Greek temples, Gothic cathedrals, or Renaissance palaces, or when we think of the notion of type. Architect
The always restrained and generally judicious British architect David Chipperfield has in Berlin just completed the James Simon Gallery, which serves as a gateway into the German capital’s famous Museum Island. Embedded into one of the walls of the S
Among Spain’s young practices right now, Barozzi Veiga is one of those most present in the international spotlight, and it has just wrapped up a music school in Brunico, a town in Italy’s South Tyrol region. Respect for the urban fabric, with its con
The British architect David Chipperfield has not exactly been a prophet in his own land, but the commission to intervene in the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which is the very heart of Britain’s art establishment, has helped give the lie to the cl
Besides the Pritzker, the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – or simply the Mies van der Rohe Award – is the only trophy that gets hype in the more generalized communications media. Thus the great expectation surrounding the announcement of the
