Wilo / Benthem Crouwel Architects
Architects: Benthem Crouwel Architects Location: Zaanstad, The Netherlands Area: 1,300 sqm Year: 2009 Photographs: Jannes Linders Wilo Nederland’s core business in manufacturing water pumps inspired...
View ArticleGreen Square Library & Plaza Proposal / Gus Wüstemann Architects
The proposal for the Green Square Library & Plaza in Syndey rethinks a common emphasis on new technologies and the transformation of a reading room in a library being an inside storage space of...
View ArticleHaagsche Zwaan / ZZDP Architecten
Architects: ZZDP Architecten Location: Den Haag, The Netherlands Architect In Charge: Joris Deur, Adam Smit Design Team: Ramon Gianotten, Danny Honhoff Area: 27,500 sqm Year: 2010 Photographs: Michel...
View ArticleWoldya Maternity Center / Xavier Vilalta Architects
Located in Woldya, a town in the Amhara region in northeast Ethiopia, the new maternity care center is placed at the entrance of the Woldya hospital becoming a new gathering area for future mothers....
View ArticleThe Communicating Vessels / Victor Gonzalez Marti
Architects: Victor Gonzalez Marti Location: Rambla Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Architect In Charge: Victor Gonzalez Marti Year: 2012 Photographs: Courtesy of Victor Gonzalez Marti PROJECT SUMMARY: The...
View Article2012 Worldwide City Rankings Reveal Important Regional Trends
Mercer, a consulting leader that helps other organizations around the world advance the health, wealth and performance of their employees, releases a survey annually that helps multinational companies...
View ArticleThe New York Times Wants Your Images of High-Rise Life
When one thinks of the stereotypical “American” life, images of Suburbia, of small homes with white picket fences, immediately come to mind. But beyond the stereotype is the lived experience of...
View ArticleCelebrate National Architecture Week with the AIA
From April 7th through the 13th, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) will be hosting National Architecture Week in an effort to increase public awareness on the role architects play as a force...
View ArticleUpdate: Facades+ Performance Symposium
Taking place April 11-12 in New York, the Facades+ Performance Symposium will focus on cutting through the jargon to consider the heart of high performance building envelopes. Presented by The...
View ArticleWaterloo Lane / Grafton Architects
Architects: Grafton Architects Location: Dublin, Ireland Architect In Charge: Grafton Architects Area: 325 sqm Year: 2008 Photographs: Ros Kavanagh, Aiden O’Reilly A pair of interdependent mews houses...
View ArticleNational Library of Israel Winning Proposal / Rafi Segal, Matan Mayer,...
The challenge of the National Library of Israel competition was to replace the library’s current location within the Hebrew University Campus with a new larger building better fit for the Library’s...
View ArticleC House / Sommet & Asociados
Architects: Sommet & Asociados Location: Santa Cruz, Bolivia Architect In Charge: Sommet & Asociados Design Team: Sebastián Fernández de Córdova Frerking Area: 520 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs:...
View ArticleVideo: Basket Apartments / OFIS architects
Click here to view the embedded video. Located on a long and very narrow site, on the edge of Parc La Vilette in Paris’s 19th district, the major objective of the Basket Apartments was to provide...
View ArticleThe Prémont Lantern / DMG architecture + Bourgeois Lechasseur Architectes
Architects: Bourgeois Lechasseur Architectes, DMG architecture Location: Québec, Canada Structural: Axys Consultants inc. Mechanical / Electrical : Génécor experts-conseils Civil : Axys Consultants...
View ArticleFaculty of Cellular and Genetic Biology / Héctor Fernández Elorza
Architects: Héctor Fernández Elorza Location: Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain Project Area: 3,540 sqm Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Montse Zamorano Gañán Collaborators: Raúl García Cuevas...
View ArticleAn Interview with Rocio Romero, Pioneer in Pre-Fab
It’s not everyday that Peter Goldberger, former New York Times architecture critic, says an architect’s work stands out for its “clarity, simplicity, and grace.” And it’s even rarer that Goldberger...
View Article‘Up-Downtown’ DawnTown’s 2012 Competition Winning Installation
Up-Downtown, the prize-winning installation in DawnTown‘s competition for the creation of a temporary installation on the theme of the “Evolution of Miami”, is taken literally to present an...
View ArticleRoskilde Dome 2012 / Kristoffer Tejlgaard
Architects: Kristoffer Tejlgaard Location: Roskilde, Denmark Engineer: Henrik Almegaard Area: 148 sqm Year: 2011 Photographs: Courtesy of Kristoffer Tejlgaard A geodesic dome, like the one put up by...
View ArticleThe Debate Over Making It Right in the Lower Ninth Ward
Ever since the New Republic published Lydia DePillis’s piece entitled “If you Rebuild it, They Might Not Come” - a criticism of the progress of Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation – numerous blogs...
View ArticleMaizières Music Conservatory / Dominique Coulon & Associés
Architects: Dominique Coulon & Associés Location: Maizieres-les-Metz, France Architect In Charge: Dominique Coulon Project Directors: Steve Letho Duclos, Sarah Brebbia Project Architects: Arnaud...
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