ARCHITECTURE Munich Provisional2/10/2022The new Volkstheater in Munich by LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei blends subtly into the existing neighborhood while serving as a cultural beacon for an adjacent urban development project.
ARCHITECTURE Minerality for the Spirit of the Place2/7/2022Living, working and shopping in one place: On the status quo of Sauerbruch Hutton's project at Berlin's Alexanderplatz.
ARCHITECTURE Hard shell, soft core2/4/2022The "House For Artists" in London offers not only flexible apartments, but also studios and communal areas that are intended to act as social catalysts in the neighborhood.
MICROLIVING A lighthouse for Paris1/26/2022Java Architecture have redensified a backyard in Paris with a micro-residential tower that cleverly shifts between proximity and distance.
ARCHITECTURE A sign of its time1/19/2022The Senckenberg quarter in Frankfurt/Main by cma cyrus moser architekten is mostly completed.
MICROLIVING Built collage1/17/2022In the project "Six houses and a garden" Fala Atelier has transformed two buildings in Porto into six micro-apartments that convince with a poetic composition.
OBITUARY The Sculptor's Architecture1/14/2022The Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill died at the age of 82. Our obituary.
ARCHITECTURE Three dimensional puzzle12/31/2021The Melopee School in Ghent by Xaveer De Geyter Architects is a typological experiment whose spatial grid creates space for additional outdoor facilities in an unconventional way.
ARCHITECTURE The architect and the legend12/24/2021It doesn’t happen too often that an historical architect like Sigurd Lewerentz is the subject of two publications appearing independently of each other at almost the same time. What’s more, an exhibition in Stockholm’s ArkDes Center for Architecture is dedicated to his life and work. So there must be something in the air prompting the current interest in Lewerentz. But what is it?
OBITUARY On the death of Richard Rogers12/20/2021Richard Rogers was one of the great architects of the 20th century and a pioneer of hi-tech architecture. He has now died at the age of 88.
MICROLIVING In a row12/20/2021In London, Stephen Taylor Architects have designed 3.50-meter-wide terraced houses that exemplify what affordable and architecturally sophisticated housing can look like.
STLEPARK AXOR Charming contrasts12/17/2021The Hotel Fritz Lauterbad in Freudenstadt in the northern Black Forest shows a successful combination of modern and traditional wooden architecture. The latest addition is the Appartement47 by monkey47, which uses AXOR faucets, showers and accessories.
FEATURED Rooms from light12/14/2021In Drogenbos, Belgium, Guillaume Van Moerkercke has developed a new showroom concept for the lighting specialist Light Gallery. HPL panels from Unilin Panels were also used for the spatial implementation.
FEATURED Clear lines12/2/2021The Prime Time Fitness Club relies on a high-quality ambience. A good example is the new Hamburg branch, where Proled lighting technology contributes to the special atmosphere.
FEATURED From large to small12/1/2021The extension for the Ås campus in Norway skilfully mediates between the existing buildings and the adjacent nature. Its facade with bricks from Petersen Tegl convinces with finely tuned details.
FEATURED Luminous landscape11/25/2021The new Volksbank area houses several functions in one large building complex. The homogeneous façade also comes into its own in the dark thanks to the ADO Lights brand luminaires from TTC.
ARCHITECTURE New Stylepark building is one of the exemplary buildings in Hesse11/24/2021The new Stylepark building was awarded first prize in the "Building in Existing Contexts" category in the "Exemplary Buildings in the State of Hesse 2020" award process.
FEATURED Light, Air and Space11/22/2021Guillaume Van Moerkercke has created open, light-suffused premises for graphic and web design practice Wisefools in Ghent. One of the components he used was "Unilin Evola Essential Oak Natural" by Unilin Panels.
ARCHITECTURE Place of exchange11/18/2021The new Aarhus School of Architecture sees itself as an open laboratory that not only wants to create new synergies between students and teachers, but also seeks exchange with the neighborhood.
FEATURED Eclectic mixture11/16/2021For the Hayloft eventspace in Kiev, the owners combined old with new to create eclectic spaces that feature Gira products.
ARCHITECTURE Green Belt11/12/2021Büro B Architekten worked with different spatial layers for the Rain kindergarten in Ittigen, Switzerland. The result: a diverse playscape that skilfully relates interior and exterior
ARCHITECTURE Honored sustainably11/9/2021Opinions are divided over the architecture of Oslo’s Munch Museet and its thematically customized interior. Added to which it is part of the FutureBuilt program, which seeks to use high-quality architecture to create climate-neutral urban areas.
SUSTAINABILITY Tree house 2.011/3/2021Sustainability is trumps in the recently opened “Sara Kulturhus” cultural center in the north of Swedish Lapland. The integrated “Wood Hotel” is one of the tallest wooden buildings worldwide.
FEATURED Place of exchange10/28/2021The Blue Bottle Café in Palo Alto convinces with its interlocking of interior and exterior space, for which the façade cladding "öko skin" by Rieder is also used.
ARCHITECTURE Mail from the Maestro10/18/2021The renowned architect and designer Michele De Lucchi currently provides exclusive insights into his work and thoughts once a week via a newsletter.
COLUMN In the Dior Jungle10/15/2021For five years, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been working on a master plan for the conversion of the Kaufhaus Des Westens (KaDeWe) department stores' in Berlin. Now a first section of this transformation has been opened, with a spectacular escalator at its centre: The Spiral.
FEATURED Announcing the TECU® Architecture Award 202210/1/2021Copper is a very versatile material. This fact is highlighted by KME’s TECU® Architecture Award, a competition for architectural practices and students that has just been launched for the sixth time.
ARCHITECTURE Built desire9/14/2021On 14 September 2021, the Deutsches Romantik-Museum will open in Frankfurt am Main, dedicated to the era of German Romanticism. The matching architecture is by Prof. Christoph Mäckler.
SUSTAINABILITY Dare more green9/7/2021The effort to design architecture that is as sustainable as possible is ubiquitous right now. The book "Evergreen Architecture," recently published by gestalten Verlag, offers a current overview with 44 examples of a connection between nature and architecture.
COLUMN Danes in space9/1/2021With the Mars Dune Alpha Project and Mars Science City Bjarke Ingels seeks to conquer the Red Planet and realize his concepts of Martian architecture.
STYLEPARK AXOR Vertical green8/24/2021How can compact luxury be redefined? The Stealth Building in New York City by WORKac supplies a highly varied answer.
NEW WORK Space as a resource8/20/2021Munich-based Spaciv are aiming to use a digital tool to counter wasted space. We spoke to founder and architect Malte Köditz about the idea behind it.
ARCHITECTURE Room upstairs8/19/2021Atelier 522 has built a stilt house in Markdorf in the Lake Constance district near the Gehrenberg that continues the building tradition of the region in a modern way.
ARCHITECTURE Architectural landscapes8/18/2021The Mexican Tatiana Bilbao exemplifies a young generation of architects. The Architekturzentrum in Vienna is now dedicating an exhibition to her and showing the history of the development of her projects.
ARCHITECTURE A New Manhattan for Amsterdam8/12/2021To cope with the rapid pace of urban growth in Amsterdam, more and more islands are being developed to the east of the city’s old town. There are plans to erect 28 high-rises on one such island, a measure which could transform Zeeburgereiland into a new Manhattan – albeit onewhere the buildings meet strict ecological criteria.