NEWS
30-12-2022
ACDF Architecture designs a glass house to rediscover the connection with nature
The "Maison du Pommier" family home, designed by the Canadian ACDF Architecture studio, is a minimalist and transparent glass structure surrounded by the dense Canadian forest, where the residents can rediscover an intense connection with nature immersed in a landscape that changes with the cycle of the seasons
29-12-2022
Luigi Scarpato restaurant and club house Agritur Le Scuderie della Tenuta in Caiazzo
The restaurant and clubhouse designed by architect Luigi Scarpato is nestled in the green Caiatine hills in the province of Caserta and is part of the Tenuta Londi farm complex and the LBS Quarter Horses equestrian centre, dedicated to breeding and training horses for the Reining discipline
28-12-2022
Berger+Parkkinen Architekten designs The Chapel in Styria, Austria
The Chapel is a funeral chapel located on the grounds of a castle in Styria, Austria. The project, created by the Berger+Parkkinen Architekten studio, allowed architects Alfred Berger and Tiina Parkkinen to tackle a fascinating and uncommon theme, moving in what Adolf Loos defined as the boundary between art and architecture
Architecture and materials
Floornature is an international portal about architecture, design and design culture, investigating the contemporary with a special focus on sustainability. Its vocation, from the micro to the macro-scale of creativity, is to present new developments in architecture and design as they happen, with the specific intention of tracking emerging trends. The portal features special focus articles on materials for architecture and interviews with great masters of architecture and design.
Blog
07-02-2023
Architecture Drawing Prize 2022, the overall winner and the exhibition
The overall winner of the Architecture Drawing Prize 2022 was announced yesterday by World Architecture Festival co-curators Make Architects and Sir John Soane's Museum. The hybrid drawing entitled 'Fitzroy Food Institute' by Samuel Wen and Michael Ren combines different rendering techniques. The exhibition with the winning and shortlisted drawings exhibition opens on 8 February at the Sir John Soane's Museum in London.
30-12-2022
Graham Baba Architects designs the new Ballard Food Bank
Sharing, in the true sense of the word, has been the key to the Ballard Food Bank in Ballard, Seattle since it was founded in the late '70s. Following Graham Baba Architects’ expansion, the Food Bank can now offer additional support services under agreements with a series of partners in the community.
29-12-2022
External Reference presents Escaleras y Mirador Vela
"Escaleras y Mirador Vela" is a new project by Carmelo Zappulla’s architectural practice External Reference connecting Passeig del Mare Nostrum with Plaça de la Rosa dels Vents on the Barceloneta waterfront. The project presents an architectural façade accessible via a stairway and a raised waterfront promenade 9.30 metres above the ground.
Podcast
Design&Trends
29-12-2022
Ceramics: Souraya Haddad’s enchanted table
An October evening in Paris: a special banquet is being held in a beautiful high-class apartment, featuring enamelled ceramic dishes and cups in the shapes and colours of clouds, containing foods put together like sculptures, little flowers, candles and crystals.
THE ARCHITECTS SERIES
The Architects Series – A documentary on: Benedetta Tagliabue – EMBT
PROJECTS
23-12-2022
Projects
Neri&Hu: Adaptive reuse project for Lao Ding Feng pastry brand in Beijing
Neri&Hu have provided Beijing pastry brand Lao Ding Feng with new headquarters through adaptive reuse of an old textiles factory, grafting concrete onto brick walls to give the confectionary industry a new look.
20-12-2022
Inspiring Spaces
The seductive power of granite: FMG Maxfine floors, walls and furnishings
Powerful, seductive, highly expressive: the granite effect is the key to a new collection of FMG Maxfine porcelain slabs.
21-12-2022
Projects
ACRC: Xu Wei Art Museum and Qingteng Square, Shaoxing, Zhejiang
ACRC The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University offers a surprising new project in the Xu Wei Art Museum and the adjacent Qingteng Square.
14-12-2022
Projects
Studio Zhu Pei: OCT Art Centre in Zibo, Shandong, China
Studio Zhu Pei designed the new OCT Art Centre in Zibo as a response to the natural setting of the region of Shandong, China.
06-12-2022
Inspiring Spaces
Sapienstone: design ideas for the kitchen of 2023
Kitchens featuring black and white high-tech ceramic surfaces are setting the trend for the new year.
09-12-2022
Projects
Gus Wüstemann: Affordable housing for the Baechi Foundation in Zurich
A project providing simple, affordable housing for the people of Zurich’s Albisrieden district, commissioned by the Baechi Foundation, offers Gus Wüstemann an opportunity to reflect on improvement of spatial quality in living spaces.
06-12-2022
Inspiring Spaces
Sapienstone: design ideas for the kitchen of 2023
Kitchens featuring black and white high-tech ceramic surfaces are setting the trend for the new year.
09-12-2022
Projects
Gus Wüstemann: Affordable housing for the Baechi Foundation in Zurich
A project providing simple, affordable housing for the people of Zurich’s Albisrieden district, commissioned by the Baechi Foundation, offers Gus Wüstemann an opportunity to reflect on improvement of spatial quality in living spaces.
29-11-2022
Inspiring Spaces
New design trends for 2023: practical, versatile Ariostea ceramic maxi-slabs
The new surfaces proposed for 2023 offer a contemporary reinterpretation in high-tech ceramic of traditional surface coverings such as marble and stone.
Biographies
Architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is one of the most important figures in 20th century architecture in terms of his impact on society and the amount of work he completed over the course of his 70 year career. His interpretation of the single-family home (prairie houses) and the community spirit of his work, which is oriented towards the middle class, make him the key figure in creation of a reference model for the American house, far removed from the ....
Architect
Emre Arolat Architects
Turkish architect, Emre Arolat (1963) graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 1986. Having accumulated significant experience at Metcalf and Associates Architectural Office in Washington D.C. (1986-1987), he became a partner at Arolat Architects design studio, managed by his parents Neşet e Şaziment Arolat since 1961. In 2004, he founded his own design studio, Emre Arolat Architects (EAA) alongside Gonca Paşolar, drawing on his experience working in his ....
Architect
Schneider + Schumacher office
Founded in 1988, the German architectural practice Schneider + Schumacher has its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main with a further two offices in Vienna and Tientsin. The founders of the design studio, Till Schneider (Koblenz, 1959) and Michael Schumacher (Krefeld, 1957), graduated in architecture from the University of Kaiserslautern. Continuing their studies, they obtained post-graduate diplomas from Städelschule in Frankfurt on a course headed by Sir Peter Cook. ....