Tag Hufton+crow

09-02-2021

MAD Architects YueCheng Courtyard Kindergarten, Beijing

MAD Architects’ YueCheng Courtyard Kindergarten is an example of intergenerational integration from China. The kindergarten commissioned by the Yuecheng Group is located next to a seniors’ home in Beijing, a situation permitting integration of preschool education with seniors’ care in a surreal structure that inspires children to think, reflect and pursue endless possibilities.

05-02-2021

McAslan’s King’s Cross Station in steel and glass panels

London’s King’s Cross Station has been refurbished with the specific aim of modernising and expanding it with a grandiose glass and steel mantle-style roof which stretches over the exterior square.

13-01-2021

Greening the City, exhibition at the DAM in Frankfurt

It is evident that green plays a vital role in architecture, and we are all familiar with iconic examples of landmarks adorned with greenery. But it’s time to up the ante and think on a larger scale to make our cities greener in general. The DAM exhibition called Greening the City opens at the end of the month, and there is still time to submit green projects to be included on an interactive map.

27-11-2020

Heatherwick’s EDEN, the studio’s first residential project in Singapore

The architects of Heatherwick Studio have completed their first residential project in Asia. EDEN is a "super-green" skyscraper 104 metres high in Singapore’s historic Newton district inspired by Lee Kuan Yew’s original concept of a "city in a garden". The entire complex contains only 20 apartments featuring crafted details and combining passive climate control with a refined concept of luxury.

27-05-2020

Piercy&Company 25 Savile Row - Derwent London’s headquarters

Piercy&Company has renovated a building at no.25 Savile Row, London’s historic fashion district, with all the care characteristic of custom tailoring. A light-filled atrium and a suspended staircase are the two key elements characterising the project, illustrated in the short film "Making 25 Savile Row" directed by Nick Ballón.

23-04-2020

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners a new building for Copenhagen’s Tivoli Hjørnet gardens

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners’s new building for Tivoli, the amusement park and gardens in Copenhagen first opened to the public in 1843, has won the American Institute of Architects’s 2020 Architecture Award. Hufton+Crow’s images clearly reveal the unusual light effects on the building’s undulated glass walls, making the Tivoli Hjørnet into a sumptuous curtain ready to rise and reveal the fantastic world of Copenhagen’s Tivoli gardens.

17-04-2020

Helen & Hard architects’ glue-laminated timber library in Vennesla

A library with a futuristic look in Vennesla, Norway, made entirely out of glue-laminated timber.

13-03-2020

Zaha Hadid Architects One Thousand Museum: a skyscraper with an exoskeleton in Miami

Hufton+Crow recently produced a beautiful photo feature illustrating Miami’s One Thousand Museum, one of the last projects Zaha Hadid designed before her death. The 62-storey skyscraper measures 216 m in height, with a concrete exoskeleton that frees the surfaces inside of structural elements.

11-03-2020

Kiruna Forever exhibition ArkDes Stockholm

The exhibition called Kiruna Forever, produced by ArkDes, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design examines the relocation of the town of Kiruna in Sweden’s far north, caused by mining activity. How do you move a town and what does this mean for its residents?