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20-04-2021

Black and green, the trendiest new colours in the kitchen, in SapienStone’s Black Diamond and Alpi Chiaro Venato

SapienStone high-tech ceramic surfaces stand out in the world of kitchen design for their unique technical properties, including resistance, versatility and easy cleaning. The vast SapienStone catalogue with its great variety of refined hues includes two of the most popular colours for kitchens in 2021: black, as in Black Diamond, and the deep green of Alpi Chiaro Venato, particularly appealing solutions adding character and elegance to kitchens in traditional or contemporary style

26-03-2021

Young Projects’ zinc-clad house in New York

Renovation of an early twentieth-century townhouse produces a building with an inner patio and a zinc-clad façade.

19-03-2021

Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize

On March 16 Tom Pritzker, Chairman of the Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the award, announced that French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are the winners of the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize, known internationally as architecture’s highest honour. The announcement, enthusiastically welcomed by the public, acknowledges Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal’s merit of creating architecture that improves people’s lives and responds to the social, climatic and ecological emergencies of our times.

26-02-2021

Curved steel façade for BIG’s The Smile building

BIG has constructed a building on 126th Street in Harlem, New York, with a façade made of interlocking blackened steel panels. The building’s curved shape has earned it the nickname “The Smile”.

19-02-2021

Studioninedots’ brick and concrete Westbeat

Westbeat is a building arranged around a courtyard containing apartments, offices and a new kind of common area featuring concrete arches and brick cladding.

16-02-2021

BRUCE ALONZO GOFF

“Honest Architecture is not the result of warmed over ideas. It is very important that we learn in Architecture not to follow just because something is good or great or style. We need very much to look into it, and inquire into what we can do with it, and study Architecture as a principle bigger than anyone, or anyplace, or anytime. We should try to re-evaluate this concept, always, in terms of our materials, methods and civilization that we are part of."- Bruce Goff

12-02-2021

UNStudio and Bauwerk new Van B residences in Munich

UNStudio has unveiled a new residential project in Munich. The Van B residential units under construction in the city’s new “Kreativquartier” have been described as "analogue smart" homes, in which the architects create highly flexible, comfortable living spaces that reimagine the future of urban living and multiply useable indoor space.

05-02-2021

449 Architectural projects submitted for the Mies van der Rohe Award

The list of 449 architectural projects submitted for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2022, located in 279 cities in 41 countries, was announced on February 2. 514 architectural practices compete for the European Union’s most important award for architecture, presented by the European Commission and Fundació Mies van der Rohe. For the first time, the current edition also includes works built in Armenia, Moldavia and Tunisia.