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26-11-2021

Inuce’s church with a double concrete frame in Louyuan

A church designed by Inuce in Louyuan, China is designed with a double outer frame of concrete and long windows, which are in turn composed of more than a hundred thousand tesserae in various shades of light and dark blue and yellow.

19-11-2021

Mecanoo’s SNFL: renovation and expansion project on Fifth Avenue

The renovation of New York’s Mid-Manhattan Library by Mecanoo in association with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners has transformed the 1914 building into Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library.

12-11-2021

Studio Return designs the Return Restaurant in Xiamen

The Return architectural studio in Xiamen has designed a restaurant in their city featuring interiors with a strong focus on the materials that characterise the architectural space. The spaces welcome diners in a special atmosphere, which starts from the materiality of the solutions proposed.

11-11-2021

Accessible art, the Depot of the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum designed by MVRDV

Getting closer to art has never been easier and more fascinating: thanks to the new depot of the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, the immense collection of the famous Dutch museum becomes accessible to everyone. The large mirrored "bowl" designed by the MVRDV studio in the Museumspark has already become a popular city attraction, the second landmark created by the studio in its native city.

05-11-2021

Concrete and glass social housing apartments by Atelier Kempe Thill

In Porte Montmartre, Paris, the architects of Atelier Kempe Thill created two social housing apartment buildings of concrete and glass.

04-11-2021

Kastelaz Hof designed by Peter Pichler Architecture

The Peter Pichler Architecture studio has designed a residence which has been conceived and lives in deep symbiosis with its site. Kastelaz Hof is a contemporary solution inserted in a natural context of great value, in the charming town of Termeno in South Tyrol, from which the forms and materiality of the residence take inspiration.

29-10-2021

Los Angeles: steel and concrete chess pieces for High School #9 designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au

A highly energy efficient high school in Los Angeles was inspired by the game of chess and designed by the Coop Himmelb(l)au studio.

22-10-2021

Christ & Gantenbein's Lindt Home of Chocolate in glazed brick and reinforced concrete

In Switzerland, Lindt Home of Chocolate designed by the Christ & Gantenbein architecture firm is a brilliant project characterised by glazed bricks and reinforced concrete.