Tag Architecture And Culture

20-11-2020

MVRDV’s Depot of concrete with a mirror façade

A storage depot for art which is also a museum, made entirely of concrete and covered with mirror panels.

17-11-2020

ONSTAGE: INTERVIEW WITH JING LIU, SO-IL

“The Greeks had two words to mean life and existence. Life is the fact that we move in the world, are in the world and exist in the world. Existence is the form taken on by life: given the external conditions, political conditions, traditional and cultural conditions and so on. I‘m not interested in life at all, I’m interested in existence… As a designer, as an architect and also as an intellectual I do this job: thinking about what existence can be, what it will be or what it has been.”, —Ettore Sottsass

03-11-2020

SO - IL

“The sensory perception of a speech, a person or a work of art is an extremely sophisticated process, which goes beyond the rational attitude with which we have been used to interpreting reality”, —Ettore Sottsass

02-11-2020

John Puttick Associates, architecture and rituals

UK firm John Puttick Associates has designed a rather unusual piece of architecture, a mourners’ shelter on the grounds of the North Watford Cemetery, in south-east England. The cedar shingle clad building is almost sculptural in shape and creates a physical and spiritual gathering place.

30-10-2020

h2o architects’ philological renovation of MAM

The interior renovation of the Modern Art Museum in Paris connects the artworks with outdoor spaces via a big new hall

29-10-2020

Anandaloy by Anna Heringer in Bangladesh wins the Obel Award

Anandaloy, the project in Bangladesh by the German architect Anna Heringer, is a building made of mud and bamboo. The multifunctional building hosts a therapy centre for people with disabilities and a fair-trade textile manufacturing workshop producing fashion and art, and it is this year’s winner of the Obel Award, a new, international prize for architectural achievement presented by the Henrik Frode Obel Foundation.

16-10-2020

Henning Larsen designs a concrete gallery over the lake

Denmark’s Arne Haugen Sørensen Museum dialogues with Lake Videbæk

09-10-2020

Second edition of the Rome architecture festival

The second edition of SPAM, the Rome architecture festival is running from 9 to 16 October 2020. The event is organized by the Rome association of architects. It draws attention to the problems and issues that govern the urban, social and economic transformations of mega-metropolises in contemporary times, with a specific focus on the Italian capital.

06-10-2020

ONSTAGE: INTERVIEW WITH JINHEE PARK, SsD

“Our goal is to become educated and enthusiastic generalists: To not be limited by silos of knowledge but instead further the larger project of architecture and urbanism through creating new links between cultural, technological, and political influences and frameworks.”—SsD