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03-04-2020

Kentaro Yamazaki: Hakusui Nursery School in Sakura, Japan

Architecture as an educational tool is the message conveyed by the Hakusui Nursery School in Sakura, Japan, designed by Kentaro Yamazaki. A nursery in a glass pavilion with steps that follow the contour of the hillside, with finishes made from Japanese woods and a water-based cooling system on the roof.

03-04-2020

MAD’s Wood Sculpture Museum is made of glossy steel

The Wood Sculpture Museum in Harbin, China is a building clad in glossy steel

13-03-2020

Façade with concrete sunbreaks for the V&A Dundee Museum

Kengo Kuma’s first building in the United Kingdom is the V&A Dundee Museum, inspired by Scotland’s famous cliffs, but made of concrete in a contemporary formal idiom.

31-01-2020

Barozzi Veiga’s brick Lausanne Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts

Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Lausanne’s Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, is a dust-coloured brick building with a front wall marked at regular intervals by vertical fins that break up its 350-metre façade.

13-09-2019

Prefabricated concrete facade for MÉCA by BIG & FREAKS

MÉCA by BIG & FREAKS is a bridge-shaped structure clad in sandblasted reinforced concrete panels

07-01-2019

David Chipperfield Architects James Simon Galerie Berlin

James Simon Galerie, designed by David Chipperfield Architects of Berlin, was completed on December 13, concluding the Museumsinsel masterplan providing a new gateway for the German capital’s Museum Island. The museum is due to open in the summer of 2019.

01-11-2018

O&O Baukunst Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, Berlin

October 26 saw the inauguration of the new Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin named after actor Ernst Busch. The project by O&O Baukunst architects has made the building into an urban landmark that cannot go unnoticed and preserves the memory of the site.

31-10-2018

C.F. Møller Architects The Heart in Ikast, Denmark

C.F. Møller Architects designed the Hjertet – The Heart, a multi-purpose building with a park for leisure and cultural activities, to complete their Ikast-Brande International School campus.

26-10-2018

Tadao Ando, Le Défi exhibition in Paris

October 10 saw the inauguration of a major retrospective of the work of Japanese architect Tadao Ando at Centre Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition casts light on the principles underlying Ando’s architecture: simple volumes, bare concrete, and spaces modelled by light and water.