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16-03-2016

Odile Decq and Jeanne Gang are among the winners of this year’s Women in Architecture awards

The Architectural Review magazine has announced the winners of this year’s Women in Architecture awards. Jeanne Gang has been named Architect of the Year, while Gabriela Etchegaray has been awarded the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture, architect Odile Decq has won the Jane Drew Prize, and Julia Peyton-Jones, co-director of London’s Serpentine Gallery, has won the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize.

11-03-2016

BIG unveils plans for the 2016 Serpentine Pavilion

Only a couple of weeks after being appointed as designer of the 2016 pavilion, architect Bjarke Ingels, founder of Danish studio BIG, unveils the studio's plans for the 2016 Serpentine Pavilion, the temporary pavilion constructed annually to host summer events at London's Serpentine Gallery.

08-03-2016

Savage Architecture Gian Piero Frassinelli and 2A+P/A exhibition

The book and exhibition entitled Savage Architecture, curated by Davide Sacconi, presented on February 26 2016 at the Italian Cultural Institute in London, presents research by Gian Piero Frassinelli of Superstudio and his recent partnerships with the architectural practice 2A+P/A.

01-03-2016

Serpentine Summer Houses 2016 London

Architects Kunlé Adeyemi – NLÉ (Amsterdam/Lagos), Barkow Leibinger (Berlin/New York), Yona Friedman (Paris) and Asif Khan (London) will design the first four Summer Houses with which the Serpentine Gallery amplifies its summer programme.

26-02-2016

Temporary constructions: the Serpentine Gallery pavilions

The Serpentine Gallery pavilions are temporary structures that last only one summer. They are always designed by an architect or architectural practice that has never before built anything in the United Kingdom. Let us take a look at recent pavilions presented in Floornature.

22-02-2016

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group designs the 2016 Serpentine Pavilion

On February 10 the Serpentine Gallery announced that the 16th Serpentine Pavilion would be designed by BIG, Bjarke Ingels Group. This year’s Pavilion will be accompanied by four "Summer Houses" designed by four more architects.

18-02-2016

Lisbon Architecture Triennale The Form of Form

The fourth Lisbon Architecture Triennale opens on October 6 2016 under the title “The Form of Form”. Curators André Tavares and Diogo Seixas Lopes recently announced the 14 events selected to complete the Architecture Triennale programme through an international open call.

12-02-2016

The most popular architectural projects for sports

We take another look at architecture for sports, focusing on the stadiums and sports facilities most popular with Floornature's readers!