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

04-01-2019

AREP expansion of Montpellier railway station using ETFE

The expansion of Montpellier railway station spans the tracks with pointed arches covered with...

28-12-2018

MVRDV’s Crystal House: a glass brick façade.

The glass bricks of MVRDV’s Crystal House unexpectedly blend with masonry bricks, and are even...

21-12-2018

Effekt Architects renovate an industrial building to adapt it for street sports

Effekt obtains a high-impact result converting a recently constructed unused industrial building...

14-12-2018

Exoskeleton prefabricated for Wageningen University and Research Centre by Rafael Viñoly

Rafael Viñoly’s glass cube with a concrete exoskeleton at Wageningen University is a...

07-12-2018

Elizabeth De Portzamparc’s Musée de la Romanité in Nimes and its screen-printed glass facade

Elizabeth De Portzamparc’s Musée de la Romanité in Nimes encloses historic...

30-11-2018

Air China Tower with aluminium cladding by AREP and IPPR

The Air China Tower is a simple building with a double skin of glass and micro-perforated...