Tag Public Buildings

16-04-2021

Prefabricated concrete renovation and addition with a perforated aluminium façade

A 1937 Salle des Fêtes in Romainville has been restored and expanded as a multipurpose pavilion

25-03-2021

Faithlie Centre, transformation by Moxon Architects in Fraserburgh, UK

Moxon Architects completed the restoration of two buildings in Fraserburgh, Scotland, joining them with a new addition to form a single architectural complex housing Aberdeenshire Council. The project plays a key role in the 2021 plan for regeneration of Fraserburgh’s urban heritage and conservation area.

12-03-2021

Timber and terra cotta for Lemoal Lemoal architects’ social centre in Cabourg

In Cabourg, France, a big terracotta tiled roof designed by Lemoal Lemoal architectes covers a social and cultural centre with a timber frame.

19-02-2021

Studioninedots’ brick and concrete Westbeat

Westbeat is a building arranged around a courtyard containing apartments, offices and a new kind of common area featuring concrete arches and brick cladding.

15-02-2021

Roland Baldi Architects, Ritten Civil Defence Centre

Roland Baldi Architects designed the new Civil Defence Centre in Ritten, also known by the Italian name Renon, in Alto Adige: a sculptural building housing the Fire-fighters, the Alpine Rescue Service and the White Cross.

08-01-2021

A micro-museum of Russian Impressionists made of concrete and perforated aluminium

The courtyard of a former chocolate factory in Moscow is now home to a museum about the Russian Impressionists

30-12-2020

Brick architecture: the winners of Brick Award 20

The University of Silesia, Faculty of Radio and Television designed by BAAS Arquitectura, Grupa 5 architekci and Maleccy biuro projektowe has won the Grand Prize in the Brick Award 20 competition. The prize for innovative brick architecture was awarded for the 9th time this year, in the first online awards ceremony in the history of the competition.

17-11-2020

ONSTAGE: INTERVIEW WITH JING LIU, SO-IL

“The Greeks had two words to mean life and existence. Life is the fact that we move in the world, are in the world and exist in the world. Existence is the form taken on by life: given the external conditions, political conditions, traditional and cultural conditions and so on. I‘m not interested in life at all, I’m interested in existence… As a designer, as an architect and also as an intellectual I do this job: thinking about what existence can be, what it will be or what it has been.”, —Ettore Sottsass

30-10-2020

h2o architects’ philological renovation of MAM

The interior renovation of the Modern Art Museum in Paris connects the artworks with outdoor spaces via a big new hall