House K / Yuji Kimura Design
Architects: Yuji Kimura Design Location: Tokyo, Japan Area: 47 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: Takumi Ota Constructor: Sanryo Komuten K.K From the architect. It is a house of the white appearance of a...
View ArticleHolcim Foundation Announces Jury for 2015 Global Award
The Holcim Foundation has announced the global jury for the 2015 Holcim Awards, its triennial prize which encourages architects, planners, engineers, project owners and students to share their...
View ArticleHigashihayashiguchi / ALTS Design Office
Architects: ALTS Design Office Location: Shiga, Japan Architect In Charge: Sumiou Mizumoto, Yoshitaka Kuga Area: 100 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: Courtesy of ALTS Design Office From the architect. This...
View ArticlePublication: “The Urburb – Patterns of Contemporary Living”
Written to accompany the minimal exhibition of the Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, “The Urburb – Patterns of Contemporary Living” tells the story of the Urburb, a built condition which is...
View ArticleZorlu Center / Emre Arolat Architects + Tabanlıoğlu Architects
Architects: Emre Arolat Architects + Tabanlıoğlu Architects Location: Beşiktaş/Istanbul Province, Turkey Area: 639 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Thomas Mayer Constructor: Akturk construction industry...
View ArticleExhibition: Europe’s Best Buildings / Mies van der Rohe Award 2013
The Mies van der Rohe Award, today one of the most important and prestigious prizes for architecture within the European competition, was first set up in 1987 by the European Union, the European...
View ArticleCulture Complex De Nieuwe Kolk / De Zwarte Hond
Architects: De Zwarte Hond Location: Weiersstraat, Assen, The Netherlands Architect In Charge: Jurjen van der Meer, Tjeerd Jellema Area: 48,000 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Gerard van Beek Contractor:...
View ArticleBomastraat / NU architectuuratelier
Architects: NU architectuuratelier Location: Ghent, Belgium Awards: Bomastraat is nominated for the Belgian Prize for Architecture Year: 2011 Photographs: Stijn Bollaert From the architect. Renovation...
View ArticleRIBA Stirling Prize To Be Renamed As It Regains Cash Prize
The annual RIBA Stirling Prize is set to regain its £20,000 cash prize following a year of no prize money in which Witherford Watson Mann scooped the accolade for Astley Castle. Considered to be the...
View ArticleTienda Camper Palma der Mallorca / Fernando Amat
Architects: Fernando Amat Location: Calle de San Miguel, 17, 07002 Palma (Mallorca), Balearic Islands, Spain Client: Camper www.camper.com Area: 113.0 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Sanchez y Montoro...
View ArticleMultiplan Arhitekti Wins Competition for New Gallery in Zagreb
Multiplan Arhitekti have shared with us their competition-winning design for an art gallery on one of Zagreb‘s most prominent streets. The ALUARTFORUM gallery, designed for the University of Zagreb...
View ArticleBIG Designs Spiralling Museum for Swiss Watchmaker
Swiss luxury watchmaker Audemars Piguet have announced BIG as the designers for an extension to their headquarters in Le Brassus, near Le Chenit. The design includes gallery spaces for a museum, work...
View ArticleLookout / Angus Ritchie + Daniel Tyler
Architects: Angus Ritchie + Daniel Tyler Location: Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, Balloch, UK Collaborators: Darran Crawford, Boris Milanov, MAKlab, Russwood, Gillrick Metalwork,...
View ArticleEvent Highlights from “Towards A New Avant-Garde” at the Venice Biennale
Towards a New Avant-Garde, Superscript’s three-part conversation series during the opening weekend of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition— La Biennale di Venezia, brought together 40...
View Article7 Ways to Transform Studio Culture & Bring It into the 21st Century
In a posthumous 1990 essay “A Black Box: The Secret Profession of Architecture”, Reyner Banham warned of architecture’s corrosive trend toward insulating itself from discussions outside of the...
View ArticleCall for Entries: Pamphlet Architecture 35
Following the success of the inaugural call for entries, which produced the Pamphlets 23–30, Pamphlet Architecture, with renewed support from the National Endowment for the Arts, announces the 2014...
View Article# House # 1.130 / Estudio.Entresitio
Architects: Estudio.Entresitio Location: Madrid, Spain Design Team: María Hurtado de Mendoza, César Jiménez de Tejada, José María Hurtado de Mendoza, Álvar Ruiz Area: 500 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs:...
View ArticleChile’s “Monolith Controversies” – Winner of the Silver Lion at the Venice...
Between 1931 and 1981, the Soviet Union exported a prefab concrete panel system for housing – whose development and exportation embodied the ideals of the modern movement – to countries around the...
View ArticleVIDEO: 3D Printing San Francisco’s Future Skyline
Click here to view the embedded video. The skyline of San Francisco is in the process of significant transformation. Projects such as OMA‘s 550-foot residential tower, as well as developments in the...
View Article4×12 Atelier / USE Studio
Architects: USE Studio Location: Isfahan, Iran Design Team: Mohammad Arab, Mina Moieneddini Area: 70 sqm Year: 2011 Photographs: Courtesy of USE Studio From the architect. Today about 30% of Iran...
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