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Architecture’s creative struggle

Architecture’s creative struggle

4/18/2014

Architecture as a non-artistic discipline struggles between being a creative process and functional parameters. How could architecture transcend its eternal dilemma: the obligation to be critical in the face of inescapable submission?

Enter the third dimension

Enter the third dimension

4/9/2014

Going local: Tatiana Bilbao

Going local: Tatiana Bilbao

4/3/2014

Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao makes buildings that sensitively engage with the specifics of the locations where they are erected. The result is an architecture that is pleasantly bemusing.

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Light and yet precious

Light and yet precious

4/1/2014

Van Cleef & Arpels has been a first class address on New York’s Fifth Avenue since the 1930s. Following necessary renovation work, the designers at the Jouin Manku Studio set about refurnishing the legendary jewelry store, drawing inspiration from New York Art Déco in their planning.

Smart Cities – Big Data, Civic Hackers, and The Quest For A New Utopia

Smart Cities – Big Data, Civic Hackers, and The Quest For A New Utopia

4/1/2014

In the cities of tomorrow high-tech networks are expected to make everyday life a lot easier. But the more complex the systems become, the more error-prone they get. Anthony M. Townsend confronts us with the extremely fragile systems of permanent enhancing efficiency.

Architecture with an encore: Rojkind Arquitectos

Architecture with an encore: Rojkind Arquitectos

3/31/2014

In a previous life Michel Rojkind played the drums for “La Gente Normal”, one of Mexico’s hottest rock bands. Luckily for us, he didn’t stay in music but decided to make architecture instead.

Museum with a hair-do

Museum with a hair-do

3/30/2014

The new Jumex Museum in Mexico City by Chipperfield Architects speaks a pleasant, restrained architectural language.

Alpine cabin 2.0

Alpine cabin 2.0

3/28/2014

Derek Dellekamp’s fine feel for interspace

Derek Dellekamp’s fine feel for interspace

3/26/2014

Derek Dellekamp is one of the group of architects who helped rebuild the architectural scene in Mexico following the economic crisis there in the 1980s and 1990s. A portrait of one of the protagonists in Mexican architecture who is still successful today.

Producing architecture

Producing architecture

3/26/2014

Productora – stands for unusual yet pragmatic furniture by four young architects from Argentina, Mexico and Belgium, respectively.

Book treasures in the Tobacco Factory

Book treasures in the Tobacco Factory

3/26/2014

The “La Ciudadela” is an example for a sensible restoration of an historical building, showing the flexibility of its use – and how wonderful it is to be surrounded by books.

More space for moving images

More space for moving images

3/26/2014

Rojkind Architectos’ National Cinematheque in Mexico City offers not only new spaces for the film museum and film archive, the architects also created a new public space for open air film events.

10 of the over-40s

10 of the over-40s

3/21/2014

Anyone visiting Mexico City should put aside some time to visit the marvelous buildings erected in the megapolis before 1980. We’ve compiled a hit list of the ten most interesting buildings aged over 40.

Book machine

Book machine

3/20/2014

The Vasconcelos Library by the architect Alberto Kalach combines a library and a botanical garden – and looks like a version of Cedric Price’s Fun Palace.

Culture in Construction

Culture in Construction

3/20/2014

Javier Sanchez Arquitectos and Arquitectura 911sc have modernized a building in Mexico City which dates from the 18th century and is now used by the Spanish Cultural Center.

Mextropoli

Mextropoli

3/18/2014

Mexican architecture journal Arquine is hosting a conference for the 15th time. This year it centers on the Mexico City metropolis and is accompanied by a highly diverse festival program.

Mexico City’s Gordian knot

Mexico City’s Gordian knot

3/18/2014

Almost everything is a challenge in this megalopolis with over 20 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area that includes 40 municipalities of the State of Mexico. Alejandro Hernández Gálvez, chief editor at the mexican architecture magazine Arquine, explains why.

London's change of things

London's change of things

3/7/2014

London engages modernity on its own terms: hosting modern architecture without ever really entering into the obligation to modernize as a city.

The mastermind of building shells from Rügen

The mastermind of building shells from Rügen

2/26/2014

The exhibition “In Beton gegossen” (Cast in concrete), on show in Stuttgart’s Architekturgalerie am Weissenhof from February 27 to April 6, pays tribute to the oeuvre of Ulrich Müther, whose extraordinary reinforced concrete shell structures were a cut above East German architecture at the time.

Missing Link

Missing Link

2/26/2014

A waterfront sullied by Frankfurt Airport’s oil tank farm and a gap in the network of cycling routes that begged to be closed precisely at this spot: Raunheim’s new oil harbor bridge is a structure that self-confidently stands out in what is otherwise a surreal environment.

Bad weather pool

Bad weather pool

2/12/2014

In the Netherlands the number of days with strong precipitation increased to 85 percent. What to do with all the water in a sealed city like Rotterdam? With their concept for Rotterdam’s Benthemplein square, the architects and planners at De Urbanisten demonstrate how water management can be incorporated into urban square design.

Campus Kramer

Campus Kramer

2/11/2014

An exhibition in the Frankfurt Museum Angewandte Kunst focusing on the furniture of designer Ferdinand Kramer. But his product designs remain tied to his architectural legacy, which is well worth taking a look at.

The selfie façade

The selfie façade

2/6/2014

“Selfie-ism”, the well-known phenomenon of uploading cell-phone photos onto social media platforms, is now also possible on building façades. Architect Asif Khan has created a façade that portrays three-dimensional faces.

Good illumination

Good illumination

2/6/2014

Media façades tend to be viewed with a critical eye – at least by architects. Indeed, many are just a glowing, in the worst case, flashing form of decoration for mediocre architecture. But is everything that flashes instantly bad?

AfE-Tower 1972 – 2014

AfE-Tower 1972 – 2014

2/4/2014

The tower of Goethe University Frankfurt’s Educational Department has been demolished. The building was just 42 years old. An obituary.

Holidays with Tito

Holidays with Tito

2/2/2014

The legendary statesman had a penchant for luxurious hotel complexes. These and others are now featuring in the illustrated volume “Holidays after the Fall”: A photographic journey to the architectural legacy of the heyday of tourism in socialist Croatia.

Locomotive Breath

Locomotive Breath

1/29/2014

Wildau Technical University of Applied Sciences stands on the grounds of what was once Europe’s largest locomotive factory. The old and new buildings together form a highly attractive campus on Berlin’s doorstep.

N minus X – to read is to learn, part 3

N minus X – to read is to learn, part 3

1/23/2014

The stack’s getting smaller, but the work of remembering what was left lying is not yet at an end. Because quite a lot has accumulated as regards architecture and the museum.

N minus X – to read is to learn, part 1

N minus X – to read is to learn, part 1

1/15/2014

Each time a new year begins, one is beset by a strange sense of disquiet. As though we needed to fight off a virus, we start tidying up. And in so doing, come across piles of books that deserve to be ignored no longer. So, here we go – let’s take a look at what we’ve got.

Efficient light in Geneva

Efficient light in Geneva

1/14/2014

The new WTO building is a persuasive mix of transparency, clarity and a lot of light. Stuttgart’s wittfoht architekten chose energy-saving LED luminaires by Nimbus for the job.

NAUKOGRAD

NAUKOGRAD

1/8/2014

A mysterious client in Kazakhstan, a well-known architectural firm named OMA and a so-called science campus are the protagonists in "Naukograd" - a piece in seven acts on the experiences of an international architectural firm.

Laptops instead of gas heaters

Laptops instead of gas heaters

1/6/2014

Anyone who thinks winter’s too cold to keep the brain working should simply check out life on the ground in Manhattan.

Living in a merchant’s house

Living in a merchant’s house

1/3/2014

Monomade in Tokyo

Monomade in Tokyo

12/25/2013

In Tokyo “urban manufacturing” is not just some post-economic crisis slogan, but lived practice day in day out. In Taitō, one of the oldest districts, furniture, bags, paper lanterns and silver tea-ceremony vessels are being made in tiny workshops – and often by craftsmen seated on the floor in the traditional Japanese style.

Cantina Florio

Cantina Florio

12/19/2013

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