Tag Iwan Baan

29-08-2012

Steven Holl: Daeyang gallery and house

The Daeyang house and gallery in Seoul was designed by American architect Steven Holl. Unlike many archistars, Holl prefers metaphorical to iconic architecture as his starting point for a concert of materials and forms guided by a superior compositional balance.

08-08-2012

OMA/Rem Koolhaas: CCTV building in Beijing

A ring-shaped building providing a symbol for the new China and for the potential of digital design now stands in Beijing's central business district. A masterpiece by Rem Koolhaas (OMA), the China Central Television building is a landmark revealing the structural tensions that hold it up on its façades, providing the public with enough information to understand how it is built.

09-07-2012

Herzog & de Meuron + Ai Weiwei, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London

The 2012 pavilion by architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese architect Ai Weiwei will be open to visitors until October 14, 2012, when it will be taken apart and added to the collection of magnate Lakshmi N.Mittal, who financed the work.

06-06-2012

David Chipperfield, Common Ground, Venice

The theme of the 13th Biennale, directed by David Chipperfield, architect Luca Zevi - curator of the Italian Pavilion - and Next Landmark, offers young architects an opportunity to experience the Biennale close up.

20-02-2012

Baan, Bitter, Hurnaus - Architecture + Photography² exhibition

The second in the Architecture + Photography series of exhibitions features buildings photographed by Iwan Baan, Jan Bitter and Hertha Hurnaus.

03-02-2012

exhibition 9 Architectes / 9 propositions pour habiter

9 buildings designed by 9 different architects present 9 different ways of living in Europe.

12-09-2011

Mazzanti-Mesa: new stadium in Medellín

Giancarlo Mazzanti and Felipe Mesa have built a community centre in Medellin, Colombia which fits into a series of works sharing the common theme of a focus on social value, on the life of the city and the integration of its people. Characterised by varied repetition of a pattern, the roof is a symbol of the creative standardisation apparent in the two architects’ recent projects.

12-09-2011

Steven Holl: Cité de l’Océan et du Surf

Inaugurated on June 25 2011, Cité de l’Océan et du Surf was built around the symbols of the sea and sports that make Biarritz the top tourist destination in Basque France. Competition winner Steven Holl uses the shape of the coastline as his starting point for creation of an underground museum, the roof of which becomes a plaza from which to admire the ocean.