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“Too Radical to Implement Yet Too Relevant to Ignore”: John Hejduk’s...
Click here to view the embedded video. Robert Slinger, a founding partner of Berlin based practice Kapok, narrates the story of a building “too radical to implement and too relevant to ignore.” Having...
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House For Seven People / mnm
Architects: mnm Location: Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan Architect In Charge: Mio Tsuneyama, Madeleine Kessler Area: 78 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Sadao Hotta, Morinaka Yasuaki Construction: N.F.C...
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Landlust ‘Care Farm’ / Architectenbureau K2
Architects: Architectenbureau K2 Location: Diemen, The Netherlands Design Team: Jan-Richard Kikkert, Judith Korpershoek, Peik Li Pang, Surya Steijlen Area: 2,175 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Courtesy...
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Viljandi State High School / Salto AB
Architects: Salto AB Location: Viljandi, Viljandi County, Estonia Design Team: Maarja Kask, Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Andro Mänd, Margus Tamm, Eva Laarmann Competition Team : Maarja Kask, Karli Luik,...
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Weill Cornell Medical College / Todd Schliemann | Ennead Architects
Architects: Todd Schliemann | Ennead Architects Location: 413 East 69th Street, New York, NY, USA Architect In Charge: Craig McIlhenny Project Team: Barrett Brown, Ilya Chistiakov, Margaret Gorman,...
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Ice Rink / OBIA
Architects: OBIA Location: Bansko, Bulgaria Architects In Charge: Nikolay Ostrev, Vladislav Ignatov Area: 336 sqm Year: 2010 Photographs: Courtesy of OBIA Design Team: Nikolay Ostrev, Vladislav...
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Urban Emergencies : Emergent Urbanism – Call for Papers
Cities are developing into increasingly complex systems. This is giving rise to new scales of risk, making preparedness measures and resilience planning more challenging to formulate and implement....
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AD Classics: PPG Place / John Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson
The design of PPG Place, by Philip Johnson and John Burgee, melds the notion of the modern corporate tower with a neo-gothic monument. Clad in almost a million square feet of glass manufactured by the...
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Little House on the House / Studio x Architettura
Architects: Studio x Architettura Location: Tenna Trentino, Italy Design Team: Luca Valentini, Raffaele Cetto, Mattia Giuliani Year: 2011 Photographs: Raffaele Cetto Construction: Self-built From the...
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Sneak Peek: Canal 180 and ArchDaily Present I LIKE Series
Click here to view the embedded video. ‘I Like’ is an original series on architecture and spatial intervention, developed in a collaboration between Canal 180 and LIKEarchitects atelier. ‘I Like’ is a...
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Woesten Community Center / Atelier Tom Vanhee
Architects: Atelier Tom Vanhee Location: Woesten, 8640 Vleteren, Belgium Area: 616.0 sqm Year: 2011 Photographs: Filip Dujardin Structural Engineer: S.C.E.S. nv Contractor : Monument Vandekerckhove...
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The Winners of d3 Housing Tomorrow 2014
d3 has just announced the winners of its annual Housing Tomorrow competition, a competition that urges its participants to “deploy innovative, socially- and environmentally-engaged approaches to...
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Happy Birthday Frank Gehry
Get out your titanium-clad forks and get ready to Deconstruct the cake – Frank Gehry is 85 years old today. Born in 1929, the internationally acclaimed architect has been headlining architectural news...
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The Carreau du Temple / studioMilou architecture
Architects: studioMilou architecture Location: 4 Rue Eugène Spuller, Paris, France Architect In Charge: Jean François Milou Area: 9,045 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: Fernando Javier Urquijo Project...
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The Indicator: The Slum Exotic and the Persistence of Hong Kong’s Walled City
Whenever I see sensational exposes on the supposedly sublime spatial intensity of Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City (demolished in 1994), they strike me as nothing more than colonial fantasies that have...
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Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) 2014 Annual Conference
More than 600 scholars and professionals are expected at the 67th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) at Austin, Texas. For four days between April 9 and April 13,...
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DC Towers I / Dominique Perrault Architecture
Architects: Dominique Perrault Architecture Location: Vienna, Austria Year: 2014 Photographs: Michael Nagl From the architect. When an architect delivers a building it is always an extremely emotional...
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Rafael Viñoly’s Structural Experiment at Park Avenue Armory
New York’s Park Avenue Armory, originally built in 1861 for the Seventh Regiment of the National Guard and restored by Herzog & de Meuron in 2007, is about to be temporarily taken over by Rafael...
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Is Arcbazar “The Worst Thing to Happen To Architecture Since the Internet...
This article on the Orange County Register tackles the sensitive issue of the design crowdsourcing website, Arcbazar, a site described as “the worst thing to happen to architecture since the Internet...
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Haus Neufert / Gatermann + Schossig
Architects: Gatermann + Schossig Location: Cologne, Germany Area: 237 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Jens Willebrand, Courtesy of Gatermann + Schossig From the architect. The task in hand was to...
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