NEWS
22-02-2019
Acciaio Sale e Tabacchi La storia industriale della zona "Alfa" di Tortona (Steel, Salt and Tobacco: The industrial history of Tortona’s "Alfa" zone) exhibition
An exhibition of photographs and documents pays homage to the industrial zone in Tortona...
21-02-2019
Farewell Alessandro Mendini
Architect and designer Alessandro Mendini left us on 18 February 2019. Mendini won three...
Architecture and materials
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Livegreen
22-02-2019
The SPOJOVNA brewery in Prague by mar.s architects
The SPOJOVNA brewery in Prague, designed by mar...
21-02-2019
Sino-Ocean Sales Center, a building in Wuhan that brings together past and present
Responding to the loss of identity of many Chinese cities, the developer Sino-Ocean Land and the team from Waterfrom Design decided to craft a building that would embrace the urban landscape and create a link with the millennial history of Wuhan...
THE ARCHITECT SERIES
The Architects Series - a documentary on: Weiss/Manfredi
2019 begins with a new event in The Architects Series, the exhibition...
PROJECTS
Projects
Levitt Bernstein: Vaudeville Court social housing in London
Levitt Bernstein won the London Borough of Islington’s competition for construction of a new...
Architectural Solutions
High-speed railway station with hollow pillars in Changhua by Kris Yao
Kris Yao designed a high-speed railway station in Changhua whose hollow pillars are concrete sails...
Ceramic Innovation
Fiandre Architectural Surfaces: Marmi Maximum for classic and contemporary spaces
The Marmi Maximum line by Fiandre, a pioneering brand in innovative Italian ceramics, explores the...
Projects
PCA-STREAM: Laborde, conversion of the barracks of the royal guard in Paris into office space
Philippe Chiambaretta of PCA-STREAM designs the new headquarters of Gide Loyrette Nouel, a...
Architectural Solutions
Apartments covered with cedar wood in Gärdet-Stockholm for BIG’s 79&Park project
The mountain of wood and glass pixels BIG designed stands out against the panorama of the city of...
Ceramic Innovation
Creativity and harmony: Iris Ceramica’s Litt Wood wood-effect surfaces
Iris Ceramica’s new collection of Litt Wood coverings proposes a palette of warm and cold colours...
Projects
Sketch: renovation of La Moderna in Panama
Sketch renovated the La Moderna house in Panama City, designed in modernist style in 1962....
Architectural Solutions
Nieto Sobejano’s underground Joanneumsviertel museum
An underground building linking two historic monuments becomes a hub for both and a new square for...
Ceramic Innovation
Harmony and naturalness: Maxfine Walk On and Cluster cement-effect maxi-slabs
Cement-effect porcelain surfaces add a refined touch to today’s spaces with their neutral natural...
Architetti
K2S architects
K2S of Finland is known in the world of contemporary architecture for two interesting projects in Helsinki, the manifesto of their poetics focusing on the relationship between new constructions and context. Kamppi Chapel is a parenthesis of religiosity, silence and meditation in the historic city centre of the Finnish capital, in which K2S inherits and expresses the country’s traditional skill in woodwork. The Paasitorni Hotel in Helsinki is the result of an innovative functional conversion of an old building constructed for the city's workers. The studio was founded in Helsinki in 2001 by Kimmo Lintula, Niko Sirola and Mikko Summanen. For the past fifteen years they have focused specifically on residential and public buildings, winning numerous competitions. Their philosophy of functionality focuses on definition of space for human wellbeing and respect for the landscape. This rationalism is combined with study of history, which ....
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Junya Ishigami 2019 Serpentine Pavilion
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19-02-2019
The five finalists for the 2019 EU Mies Award
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18-02-2019
Álvaro Siza’s archives go online
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