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C.F. Møller Wins Vendsyssel Hospital Competition
Danish firm C.F. Møller has won first place in a competition to design an extension and renovation of Vendsyssel Hospital in Hjørring, Denmark. This winning proposal will add 14,000 square meters to...
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Toomath’s Legacy: Defining Modern New Zealand Architecture
“What makes us New Zealanders different from, say, Australians?” William Toomath, the late modernist architect, asked himself this question at the onset of his career. In this article published by the...
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Roman Catolic Church / Tamás Nagy
Architects: Tamás Nagy Location: Gödöllő, Hungary Area: 1,340 sqm Year: 2007 Photographs: József Hajdú Collaborators: Tamás Lévai, Ildikó Bujdosó, Anna Meditz From the architect. The three elements of...
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DM House / Studio Guilherme Torres
Architects: Studio Guilherme Torres Location: São Paulo, Brazil Area: 350 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Denilson Machada From the architect. It took six months for the architect, Guilherme Torres, to...
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Pavilion Hacienda Matao / LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA
Architects: LEGORRETA + LEGORRETA Location: Matão, São Paulo, Brazil Executive Architect: Ricardo Lemus Design Team: Ricardo Legorreta, Víctor Legorreta, Noé Castro, Miguel Almaraz, Adriana Ciklik,...
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Garcias’ House / Warm Architects
Architects: Warm Architects Location: Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico Architect In Charge: Carlos Armando del Castillo A Design Team: Carlos Armando del Castillo Huerta, Adriana Diaz Santin, Joaquin...
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Minha Casa, Nossa Cidade: Brazil’s Social Housing Policy & The Failures of...
In 2009, the Brazilian government launched the social housing program “Minha Casa, Minha Vida” (“My House, My Life”), which aims to build 3.4 million housing units by the end of 2014. Minha Casa—Nossa...
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AD Classics: World Trade Center / Minoru Yamasaki Associates + Emery Roth & Sons
A New York City icon that once rivaled structures such as the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center, colloquially known as the Twin Towers, was one of the most...
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North Lake Wenatchee House / DeForest Architects
Architects: DeForest Architects Location: Lake Wenatchee, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, Washington, USA Architect In Charge: John Deforest, Rosie Donovan, Brett Smith Area: 2,890 sqft Year: 2010...
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NBRS Proposes to Extend High Line Vertically
In response to New York City’s rapidly expanding population, NBRS + Partners has proposed a 40 story tall skyscraper that could help the city embrace its rapidly shifting demographics and size....
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The Observatories: Micro Living for UK Artists
Five young design graduates based in Britain have recently won a competition to design an artist’s residency in the south-western region of the United Kingdom. Titled “The Observatories,” these...
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Shortlist Released for D.C. “Bridge Park”
Six teams have been invited to form interdisciplinary teams in Washington D.C.’s 11th Street Bridge Park competition. Envisioned as a “21st century play space,” the project intends to unify two...
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Terunobu Fujimori’s Soft-Hard Aluminum House Opens Near Tokyo
A new private house designed by an exceptional Japanese architect, Terunobu Fujimori, has opened. The new building is located in a small provincial town near to Tokyo. Neighbored by typical one-family...
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Toro Canyon House / Bestor Architecture
Architects: Bestor Architecture Location: Santa Barbara County, CA, USA Partner In Charge: Barbara Bestor Project Team : Selena Linkous Project Architect: Daniel Rabin Area: 3,949 sqft Year: 2012...
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JA 94: KAZUO SHINOHARA – Complete Works in Original Publications
From the publisher. JA93 Spring 2014 issue features 55 works by Kazuo Shinohara, one of the most influential architects in the generation after the Metabolists. The issue consists of photographs and...
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Great Gulf Active House / Superkül inc
Architects: Superkül inc Location: Thorold, ON, Canada Architects In Charge: Andre D’Elia, Meg Graham Project Architect: Wendy Wisbrun Area: 3,290 sqft Year: 2013 Photographs: Torben Eskerod General...
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A New Way to ‘Make Architecture Happen’
In recent years, crowdfunding websites have taken the world by storm. Sites like Kickstarter have been used to fund books, films, products, and even been used to fund architecture projects, with...
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Sereine / SEPTEMBRE
Architects: SEPTEMBRE Location: Loire, France Project Manager: Lina Lagerstrom Area: 240 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: Linus Ricard Proyect Team: Memia Belkaid , Sami Aloulou, Dounia Hamdouch, Emilia...
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Happy Birthday Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind, international artist and architect, turns 67 today. His work, which is recognizable for its angular form and use of intersecting planes, consists of over twenty completed buildings –...
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AD Interviews: Andreas G. Gjertsen / TYIN tegnestue
Click here to view the embedded video. A young, cooperative architecture practice based in Trondheim, Norway and founded in 2008 by Andreas G. Gjertsen and Yashar Hanstad, TYIN tegnestue has already...
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