NEWS
20-03-2023
The colours and atmospheres of the Alpine landscape inspire the interior design of the 5-star Falkensteiner Hotel Montafon
The new Falkensteiner Hotel Montafon is a 5-star resort among the woods and mountain slopes of Montafon, a protected area in Austria. The architectural project by Snøhetta of Norway is complemented with interior design by Italian studio Vudafieri-Saverino Partners, who draw their inspiration from the traditions, colours and atmospheres of the Alps
17-03-2023
Labics, a contemporary museum space for Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara
The Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara has been reopened to the public with an exhibition dedicated to two great Renaissance masters, following the completion of the complex restoration and refurbishment project designed by the Labics architecture studio founded by architects Maria Claudia Clemente and Francesco Isidori
13-03-2023
Architecture and the climate crisis, Yasmeen Lari's works and commitment on display in Vienna
Vienna's Architekturzentrum explores the relationship between architecture and the climate crisis and does so through an interesting exhibition dedicated to Yasmeen Lari, Pakistan's first female architect and founder of a zero-carbon self-build movement for refugees and those forced to migrate due to climate emergencies
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
22-03-2023
PULO Market di a9a rchitects creates a sense of community
The Chinese a9a rchitects studio has designed PULO Market in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, a new multifunctional complex for The Ideal Land developer. The project serves as a reference point for new neighbourhoods to promote interaction between inhabitants and to help create a sense of belonging.
15-03-2023
Circular design for a reversible shop in Milan
Flexible circular design for retail, a scene that is continually changing in response to new trends and demands, is the key to the new store opened by multibrand retailer ON-OFF in Milan, designed by bloomscape Architecture with Francesca Perani Enterprise.
01-03-2023
Creating new relationships with context: a pedestrian bridge over the Thames
The Dukes Meadows Footbridge is a new pedestrian bridge in Chiswick, West London. The infrastructure designed by Moxon Architects with structural engineers COWI, located below the Barnes Bridge, a historic railway bridge, establishes a new urban relationship with a section of the Thames Path and improves safety, access and pedestrian flow.
Podcast
Design&Trends
08-03-2023
The fifties in Madrid: design meets ceramics
An exhibition set up for the Madrid Design Festival, currently under way, focuses on a little-known period in Spanish creativity between the fifties and the late sixties, when a handful of designers decided to import the forms of modernity to a nation that was still anchored to the past.
THE ARCHITECTS SERIES
The Architects Series – A documentary on: Benedetta Tagliabue – EMBT
PROJECTS
02-03-2023
Projects
Stitching a building together like a rag doll
In a surprising solution for renovation of a protected heritage home in the Het Zoute district of Knokke-Heist, a renowned holiday resort on the Belgian coast near the Dutch border, Delmulle Delmulle cut the volume into parts and replaced the ground floor with a new transparent level.
27-12-2022
Inspiring Spaces
Creative freedom and customised design: DYS - Design Your Slabs
The latest new technological solutions and the versatility of ceramic materials have allowed decoration to return to a role of prominence in interior design.
28-12-2022
Projects
Studio Vincent-Space Encounters: BD house in Bergen, the Netherlands
A partnership between Vincent Architecture and Space Encounters Amsterdam integrates the renovated and expanded BD house into the coastal dunes and polders of Bergen, in the Netherlands.
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.
13-12-2022
Inspiring Spaces
Fiandre Architectural Surfaces Il Veneziano: all the attraction of contemporary classic style
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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.
13-12-2022
Inspiring Spaces
Fiandre Architectural Surfaces Il Veneziano: all the attraction of contemporary classic style
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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.
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.
Biographies
Architect
Herman Hertzberger
One of the leading Dutch theorists and architects of the modern age, Herman Hertzberger (1932) graduated in Engineering and Architecture in 1958, as a student of Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999) and opened his own Practice in Amsterdam that same year. During his studies, Hertzberger had already won a competition to design a student residence (1959-1966) in Amsterdam. This project, like the expansion of the LinMij factory (1964), already contained numerous recurrent ....
Architect
Diller, Scofidio + Renfro
The Diller Scofidio + Renfro design studio based in New York was founded in 1981 by architects Elizabeth Diller (Lódz, 1954) and Ricardo Scofidio (New York, 1935), the husband and wife team who have worked together professionally since 1979. Charles Renfro (Baytown, 1964) has been with the company since 1997, becoming a partner in 2004. Benjamin Gilmartin became the Practice’s fourth partner in 2015. Recognized as one of the most influential and ....
Architect
Henning Larsen Architects
Henning Larsen Architects focuses on social responsibility and environmental sustainability. Since Henning Larsen founded his practice in1959 he has worked on projects of all kinds with the involvement of prominent personalities offering expertise in different areas, permitting innovation and progress in research. The starting point of his work has always been the state of the art, inspiring architectural visions in a variety of sectors. From private homes to school buildings, from ....