Arup’s Latest Solar Panels Produce Energy From Algae
Architects have been experimenting with the potential of building envelopes for years. Now, Arup has an interesting, Zumtobel Group Award-winning proposal: the Solarleaf bioreactor. This thin, 2.5 x...
View ArticleBank of Shanghai Data Processing Center / Silvio d´Ascia
Architects: Silvio d´Ascia Location: Shanghai, China Area: 76,000 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: Yves Chan You Engineering: AREP & ECADI From the architect. Paris-based studio Silvio d’Ascia...
View ArticleLive from Amsterdam: Pritzker Prize Award Ceremony with Shigeru Ban
This video © The Hyatt Foundation / Pritzker Architecture Prize The 2014 Pritzker Prize Ceremony to honor laureate Shigeru Ban is taking place today in Amsterdam at 17:00 UCT. The ceremony will occur...
View ArticleAdministration Extension / CRYSTALZOO
Architects: CRYSTALZOO Location: La Nucia, Alicante, Spain Architect In Charge: José Luis Campos Rosique Design Team: Juan Parra, Francisco T. Espí, Ivon Omar Fernández Area: 165 sqm Year: 2013...
View ArticleShigeru Ban’s “Kooky” Architecture: Just What the World Needs?
British writer Tim Abrahams finds Shigeru Ban‘s architecture ”kooky, Middle Earthy, Hobbity” – an opinion which earns him the title of “idiot” in the eyes of newly appointed Architecture for Humanity...
View ArticleJuulsbjergparken / RAVN Arkitektur
Architects: RAVN Arkitektur Location: Skrænten, Vejle Ø, Denmark Year: 2013 Photographs: Adam Mørk Collaborators: COWI, Hansson & Knudsen From the architect. Juulsbjergparken is a housing complex...
View ArticleHT Apartment / Landmak Architect
Architects: Landmak Architect Location: Nam Trung Yên, Mễ Trì, Từ Liêm, Hanoi, Vietnam Architects In Charge: Ta Tien Vinh, Truong Tuan Chung Area: 83 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: Le Anh Duc Design...
View ArticleVideo: The British Pavilion At La Biennale 2014
Our friends from Crane.tv had the chance to visit the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, where FAT Architects and Crimson Architectural Historians call for a new vision during a time of crisis...
View ArticleCafe Coutume Aoyama / CUT Architectures
Architects: CUT Architectures Location: Minato, Tokyo, Japan Area: 85 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: David Foessel From the architect. Following the flagship café Coutume rue de Babylone in Paris opened...
View ArticlePop Up Studio Explores Participation Design at London Festival of Architecture
As part of the London Festival of Architecture, Cloud Architecture is conducting a participation-based research and design project from a pop up studio in Old Spitalfields Market in central London....
View Article“Visibility (Imposed Modernity)” – Kosovo’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2014
“Poi piovve dentro a l’alta fantasmi.” (“Then rained down within the high fantasy…”) Dante Alighieri (Purgatorio XVII.25) From the Curators. Kosovo has never absorbed modernity. Modernity has been a...
View ArticleJia Du Clubhouse / U10
Architects: U10 Location: Langfang, Hebei, China Area: 2,500 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: Zhang Guangyuan Design Staff: Yu Haiwei, Liu Yanyan, Wei Wei, Liu Binyang From the architect. We call it the...
View Article“Unwritten” – Latvia’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2014
From the Curators. The exposition with the project title Unwritten highlights issues regarding the perception, research, and conservation of Latvian post-War architecture. Unwritten chronicles, in...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Kevin Roche
Today we celebrate the 92nd birthday of Pritzker Prize laureate Kevin Roche. Known for his progressive sense of aesthetic and vast body of work, Roche has headed numerous projects of varying program...
View Article8 Housing in Patin / Benjamin Fleury
Architects: Benjamin Fleury Location: Quatre Chemins, Mancioux, France Architects/Project Management: Benjamin Fleury Area: 574 sqm Year: 2014 Photographs: David Boureau Assistance Of Work Control:...
View ArticleEmerging Practices in India: Indigo Architects
Indian Architect & Builder, through a two-part series titled ‘Practices of Consequence’ (Volumes I and II) delves deeper into contemporary Indian practices that have carved a unique identity and...
View ArticleReflective Concrete, Wooden Textiles And More: Five Materials You Never Knew...
The following post is presented by ArchDaily Materials, our new US product catalog. Recently, Interiors & Sources featured fourteen of the coolest materials they’ve come across in their 30-year...
View ArticleHelmond Station / studioSK,Movares
Architects: studioSK,Movares Location: Helmond, The Netherlands Architect In Charge: Paul van der Ree Year: 2014 Photographs: Ben Vulkers fotografie, Ivo Bastiaansen, Bouwfotografe.nl From the...
View Article2,500 iPod Nano Screens Make Up Cornell’s Discovery Wall
Click here to view the embedded video. Consisting of over 2,500 iPod Nano screens, “The Discovery Wall” at Cornell’s Medical College in Manhattan was a 2.5 year long process in digital art. From a...
View ArticleAustralian Institute of Architects Announces Winner of 2014 ACT Awards
The Australian Institute of Architects have announced 35 awards out of a record 51 entries for the ACT Architecture Awards. The star of the show was Tonkin Zulaikha Greer’s (TZG) National Arboretum,...
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