Tag Bricks

14-09-2016

Herzog & de Meuron: Expansion of Unterlinden Museum in Colmar

By expanding Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, Herzog & de Meuron make space for the museum’s modern art collections and for temporary exhibitions. The city of Colmar obtains the reopening of the Sinn canal and the new Unterlinden Square through a project that establishes continuity with the forms and proportions of the historic Unterlinden Museum.

10-05-2016

Parma follows the Banana

The centre of Parma has gone bananas. Follow the Banana is an open cultural event featuring an ensemble of artists and musicians from the local area and elsewhere in a series of independent events.

04-11-2015

Interview with Shigeru Ban

Winner of the 2014 Pritzker Prize Shigeru Ban talks about his recent projects at the “Archi-Depot Tokyo” exhibition at Triennale di Milano. Shigeru Ban discusses his intuition of mobile screens for the Oita Prefectural Art Museum and his contribution to reconstruction after the earthquake in Nepal in April 2015.

03-06-2015

ZAO/standardarchitecture: Micro-Yuan’er in a hutong in Beijing

An art centre and a library designed by ZAO/standardarchitecture in a converted hutong in Beijing. Micro-Yuan’er is the name of the project ZAO/standardarchitecture implemented in the Cha'er Hutong, without betraying its historic architecture.

31-12-2014

Rafiq Azam and the Mamun residence in Chittagong (Bangladesh)

The Manum Residence recently completed by Rafiq Azam is located in Chittagong, in southeast Bangladesh. As in all his buildings, in the Manum Residence Rafiq Azam uses concrete and brick, water and greenery in unusual ways to represent his idea of sustainability.

08-10-2014

Early Childhood Development & Family Centers by ASA for UNICEF

The finalists in Next Landmark 2014, the architecture contest held by Floornature, include ASA studio’s Early Childhood Development & Family Centers. ASA or active social architecture designed and built Early Childhood Development & Family Centers sponsored by UNICEF in 9 districts of Rwanda. The first two centres were built by the local people under ASA studio’s guidance.

26-06-2013

PTE architects: redevelopment of The Granary

An accurate functional restoration and new constructions by Pollard Thomas Edwards architects characterise The Granary, the building at the heart of the masterplan for the Creative Industries Quarter in Barking, London. The British architects’ vocabulary gives a new identity to an industrial complex which was shut down some time ago on the River Roding, creating a unique work of contemporary architecture.

20-02-2013

Boonserm Premthada: Kantana Film Institute

Contemporary architecture with strong roots in the past, by Boonserm Premthada, a finalist in the first “Next Landmark” international architecture contest. Kantana Film Institute in Thailand’s Nakhon Pathom province uses handmade brick to design monumental walls and perspective spaces.