NEWS
21-11-2018
Architecture for childhood: BIG designs the first WeGrow school
BIG and WeWork designed the first WeGrow school in New York City, in which architecture...
20-11-2018
KAAN Architecten Siesegem Crematorium in Aalst, Belgium
KAAN Architecten’s Siesegem crematorium, recently completed in Belgium, is a building...
Architecture and materials
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Livegreen
21-11-2018
Highlights of the 16th Architecture Biennale in Venice, Giardini and Forte Marghera
We conclude our reports from the 16th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, FREESPACE with a look at the Giardini, focusing in particular on two proposals from Scandinavia, the Finland pavilion and the work by Rintala Eggertson Architects at Forte Marghera...
20-11-2018
Architecture Research Office (ARO) New York State Firm of the Year AIA 2018
Architecture Research Office (ARO) has been operating in New York since 1993, distinguished by its relentless pursuit of architectural intellect and design research and the New York State chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) just announced that it was the winner of the 2018 New York State Firm of the Year award...
THE ARCHITECT SERIES
The Architects Series - A Documentary on: Ennead
At SpazioFMG per l’Architettura, the Milanese gallery and showroom operated by the...
PROJECTS
Projects
Takao Shiotsuka Atelier: Public library in Taketa, Japan
Takao Shiotsuka responds to the city of Taketa’s need for a new public library with a project...
Architectural Solutions
The CRC façade of C.F. Moller & MOE’s SDU Technical Faculty
A new glass and CRC (Compact Reinforced Composite) façade improves the energy performance of...
Mood
Wood-effect kitchen countertops: SapienStone’s new Rovere collection
All the warmth of wood and the strength of top-quality porcelain in a single...
Projects
Digit & Associati: Identità Golose, new event space in Milan
The former Fondazione Feltrinelli building in central Milan now contains a new event space with a...
Architectural Solutions
Belzberg Architects’ new slumped glass façade for the Gores Group HQ in California
Renovation of a late twentieth-century building, giving it new life with slumped glass panels and a...
Mood
New FMG collections: Venice Villa brings back all the charm of Venetian terrazzo floors
Eclectic, personal and highly expressive: FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti’s Venice Villa ceramic...
Projects
Saitowitz/Natoma: Hillel House at Drexel University, Philadelphia
At Hillel House at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Stanley Saitowitz addresses the theme of...
Architectural Solutions
The closed double helix of Bjarke Ingels’s EXPO 2010 pavilion
The closed double helix in welded sheet steel of Bjarke Ingels’s Norwegian pavilion for EXPO 2010...
Mood
Ground and Downtown: new IRIS collections for contemporary spaces
IRIS Ceramica was inspired by cement to create the Ground and Downtown porcelain tile collections,...
Architetti
Shigeru Ban
Born in Tokyo in 1957, Shigeru Ban (1957) attended Southern California Institute of Architecture and Cooper Union School of Architecture, graduating in 1984 while working for Arata Isozaki. In 1985 he opened his own practice in Tokyo and began an intense designing, teaching and scientific career. For five years he was an external faculty member at the Architecture Faculty of Yokohama National University, and for four years at the Architecture Faculty of Nihon University. He is a visiting professor at Columbia University and an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (HFAIA) and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (HRAIC). He has taught at Kyoto University of Art and Design since 2011. In 1995 he founded the NGO Voluntary Architects' Network (VAN) and designed the Paper Log House in response to the earthquake in the city of Kobe and won the Architecture for Humanity Award (USA). The construction technique employed in the ....
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19-11-2018
PARK Associati redesigns the Engie Headquarters building in the Bicocca district
PARK Associati planned the renovation of a building constructed in the early '80s in...
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Ken Schluchtmann: Architecture and landscape in Norway exhibition
In a site-specific exhibition installed throughout the Felleshus of the Nordic Embassies...
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In search of the most beautiful architecture of Tuscany
The second Premio Architettura Toscana, the prize for Tuscan architecture presented by...