Tag Glass

30-07-2021

Barozzi Veiga’s glass and aluminium philharmonic hall

The Philharmonic Hall in Szczecin, Poland is a building that puts a contemporary twist on vernacular expressionistic urban figuration, thanks in part to the choice of minimalist colours and materials.

16-07-2021

High energy efficiency in COOP HIMMELB(L)AU’s Mocape

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU has built a twin ecological museum in Shenzhen to high standards of energy efficiency.

08-07-2021

LUO Studio creates Mumokuteki Concept Bookstore in Beijing

The creative designers of LUO Studio have produced a bookshop in an unused underground space in a Beijing shopping centre. The project makes the most of the existing construction, despite the presence of utility installations and all the limitations associated with underground spaces.

01-07-2021

Villa EB: a reclamation project characterised by formal harmony

The architects of Italian studio monovolume architecture + design renovated Villa EB in the province of Bolzano, reclaiming a mid-twentieth-century duplex with a focus on details, from materials to interaction with the home’s natural setting.

25-06-2021

Dekleva Gregoric architects’ university campus of glass, steel and concrete

In Izola, Slovenia, Dekleva Gregoric architects’ Livade university campus is a simple bioclimatic building made of glass, steel and concrete.

24-06-2021

French architecture firm Coldefy has created a new centre for sustainable transport

The architects of French firm Coldefy have recently completed work on two research institutes in Valenciennes, France: the Institut des Mobilités et Transports Durables (IMTD) & the Institut International du Management (IIM) at the Université Polytechnique des Hauts-de-France (UPHF). The building is home to an ecosystem dedicated to sustainable mobility and transport.

18-06-2021

The carbon-absorbing vertical forest by Vincent Callebaut

Vincent Callebaut’s vertical forest in Taipei is an anti-global warming ecosystem

24-05-2021

atelier-r restores a castle in the Czech Republic

Helfštýn castle is the Czech Republic’s second-largest castle, after the one in Prague. Located in the region of Olomouc, it was subjected to a major restoration by Czech architectural practice atelier-r.