Architectural Solutions

This section looks at architecture and technology in greater depth, bringing you all the hidden details and studies behind each project. Here we take the wraps off architectural and technical approaches and reveal everything there is to know about project design and technology. A new key to understanding the thousand-and-one different facets of contemporary architecture.

Curated by Fabrizio Orsini

30-04-2021

Vector architects’ hotel of cast concrete and concrete blocks

Vector Architects design a hotel made of cast-in-place concrete and concrete blocks next to an old sugar mill...

23-04-2021

Mecanoo’s steel structure for Tainan library

Mecanoo creates a bamboo forest of steel for Tainan library...

16-04-2021

Prefabricated concrete renovation and addition with a perforated aluminium façade

A 1937 Salle des Fêtes in Romainville has been restored and expanded as a multipurpose pavilion...

09-04-2021

Renovation of a concrete, glass and wood hotel by Peter Pichler

Peter Pichler Architecture renovated a hotel in only three months, building a wooden loft and a...

02-04-2021

A GWWO tower in Port Canaveral with an iridescent painted façade

Port Canaveral has a painted aluminium tower built for watching aerospace launches and serving as a...

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...

19-03-2021

Mecanoo’s Kaohsiung station is being completed

Work is in progress on the new railway station in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, designed by Mecanoo: a railway...

12-03-2021

Timber and terra cotta for Lemoal Lemoal architects’ social centre in Cabourg

In Cabourg, France, a big terracotta tiled roof designed by Lemoal Lemoal architectes covers a...

05-03-2021

Peter Pichler’s concrete and timber Oberholz mountain hut

The Oberholz mountain hut, made of concrete and timber, is set in the rock with views over the...