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09-09-2020

David Chipperfield Architects design the Carmen Würth Forum in Künzelsau, Germany

On June 28, the "Carmen Würth Forum" cultural and congress centre opened its doors to the public. The complex was designed for the Adolf Würth firm in the town of Künzelsau, Germany, by the Berlin office of David Chipperfield Architects. The intervention that was recently concluded is a "second phase", an extension that includes a congress area and an art museum which completes the concert and event halls inaugurated in 2017 and also designed by the Berlin-based David Chipperfield Architects firm.

11-08-2020

SOA Architectes: the La Fab. building for the agnès b. collection, Paris

Parisian firm SOA Architectes has designed a new multipurpose building in the heart of the 13th arrondissement of the French capital. The building contains 75 residential units, a kindergarten and, on the lower floors, “La Fab.”, which the architecture firm itself has also designed as an interior for agnès b., a stylist, patron and collector who has spent many years supporting artistic creation in all its forms. Her initiatives are also aimed towards social solidarity and safeguarding the environment, and SOA Architectes’ design has provided a home for all of the patron’s various activities under one roof.

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.