The 13 Most Devastating Architecture Disasters in History
This article on io9 counts down the worst architectural disasters in recorded history, from the failure of Yarmouth Bridge back in 1845 to the horrific collapse of Rana Plaza in Savar, Bangladesh this...
View ArticleSports Valldaura / Sulkin Marchissio SCP
Architects: Sulkin Marchissio SCP Location: Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain Project Architects: Néstor Sulkin, Walter Marchissio Year: 2010 Photographs: Cortesia de Sulkin Marchissio SCP From the...
View ArticleAA Bilbao Visiting School Open Lectures
The AA Bilbao Visiting School will take place from July 22nd to August 1st in the Alhóndiga Cultural Centre, Bilbao in Spain. Together with the academic activities, there are a series of open lectures...
View ArticleDental Club / SANTOSCREATIVOS + E85
Architects: OOS AG Location: Zurich, Switzerland Project Head: Christiane Agreiter Year: 2012 Photographs: Claudia Luperto & Dimitri Semko From the architect. When developing the design concept...
View ArticleArchitecture and the City Festival
Taking place September 1-30, the nation’s largest architectural festival of its kind will be presented by AIA San Francisco and the Center for Architecture + Design, celebrating its tenth anniversary....
View ArticleAD Classics: Habitat 67 / Moshe Safdie
Habitat 67, designed by the Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie as the Canadian Pavilion for the World Exposition of 1967, was originally intended as an experimental solution for high-quality...
View ArticleBritten Pears Archive / Stanton Williams
Architects: Stanton Williams Location: London, UK Area: 520 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Hufton & Crow Building Services: Engineer: Max Fordham Civil And Structural Engineer: Barton Engineers...
View ArticleSuurstoffi / Holzer Kobler Architekturen
Architects: Holzer Kobler Architekturen Location: Risch Rotkreuz, Switzerland Year: 2013 Photographs: Courtesy of Holzber Kobler From the architect. Where pure oxygen was once produced in a centrally...
View ArticleFuture Fitting / Urbanista and Lime Wharf Gallery
“I have a lot of big plans for the gallery, but every idea is an experiment; I don’t necessarily want to enforce what it will be, but rather find out what it wants to be.” This is how Thomas Ermacora...
View ArticleFarmers Fishers Bakers / GrizForm
Architects: GrizForm Location: Washington, District of Columbia, USA Project Team: Griz Dwight, Brooke Loewen, Michelle Bove Engineering: CFR Engineering Area: 9,662 sqft Year: 2012 Photographs: Eric...
View ArticleSkaters Rights to Southbank Will Be Preserved
In the latest twist in an ongoing saga, the skateboarders campaigning to save the undercroft of the Southbank Centre have succeeded in a bid to list the space as an Asset of Community Value under the...
View ArticleLa Casa Della Musica / Geza
Architects: Geza Location: Cervignano del Friuli, Udine, Italy Architect In Charge: Stefano Gri, Piero Zucchi Design Team: Stefania Anzil Structural Engineer: Studio Nuttassociati Area: 750 sqm Year:...
View ArticleAD Round Up: Schools in the UK
In honour of the royal baby’s birth, we rounded up a selection of schools in the UK. If architecture was your only criteria – where would you send the third in line to the throne? Heathfield Primary...
View ArticleKing’s College / Spillman Farmer Architects
Architects: Spillman Farmer Architects Location: Wilkes-Barre, PA Managing Principal: Daniel L. Harrigan Design Principal: Joseph N. Biondo Project Architect: Michael J. Metzger Area: 31,800 sqm Year:...
View ArticleFirst Peoples House / Formline Architecture + Urbanism
Architects: Formline Architecture + Urbanism Location: Vancouver, Canada Architect In Charge: Alfred Waugh Design Team: Ken Wong, Adam Slavinski Area: 1,196 sqm Year: 2009 Photographs: Nick Lehoux...
View ArticleBaan Moom / Integrated Field
Architects: Integrated Field Location: Bangkok, Thailand Area: 550 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Wison Tungthunya & IF Click here to view the embedded video. Interior Designer: PorntidaKruapat&...
View ArticleMessner Mountain Museum at Plan de Corones Proposal / Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects recently announced they are building the sixth and final Messner Mountain Museum at Plan de Corones, South Tyrol, Italy which is set to be completed in the summer of 2014. In...
View ArticleHouse H / Smartvoll Architekten ZT KG
Architects: Smartvoll Architekten ZT KG Location: Hallwang, Salzburg, Austria Area: 170 sqm Year: 2010 Photographs: Courtesy of Smartvoll Architekten ZT KG From the architect. We do not simply plan...
View ArticleElysium Playground / Cox Rayner Architects
Architects: Cox Rayner Architects Location: Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia Client: Pearson Property Group Photographs: Christopher Frederick Jones From the architect. The project consists of a...
View ArticleMiami Beach Convention Center Winning Proposal / South Beach ACE
South Beach ACE, the collaborative team made up of Tishman, a national real estate development firm led by Dan Tishman; international architecture firm OMA, led by Pritzker Prize winning architect Rem...
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