Tag Public Buildings

08-11-2017

Brutalist architecture, from Europe to Le Vele in Naples.

Brutalist architecture is enjoying a huge revival, at least on the web and in publishing.

04-08-2017

Fibreglass cloth in Fuksas’ The Cloud

A look at the technical details and materials of the congress centre in Rome, a building as iconic as the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana or Square Colosseum

28-07-2017

Curved façade with aluminium hexagons – Soumaya Museum in Mexico City

Fernando Romero has built a museum in Mexico City with a plastic shape and a façade made up of aluminium hexagons

21-07-2017

Sustainable building by Tchoban Voss Architekten

The architect Sergei Tchoban and Tchoban Voss Architekten have designed a mixed use building in the heart of Berlin that combines sustainability and a contemporary aesthetic that responds to the urban backdrop.

05-04-2017

r2k architectes: Groupe scolaire Pasteur in Limeil-Brévannes

r2k architectes' Groupe scolaire Pasteur project is part of the city of Limeil-Brévannes’s urban planning project for redevelopment of the town centre. One of France’s biggest school campuses, Groupe scolaire Pasteur is a prefabricated timber construction.

14-12-2016

Giancarlo Mazzanti: Marinilla Educational Park Colombia

Giancarlo Mazzanti’s Marinilla Educational Park has won the Next Landmark 2016 award. Mazzanti continues his research into the use of public space as social space in Marinilla Educational Park, an evolving urban space that goes beyond the classic definitions.

01-07-2016

ANMA: Hexagone Balard defence department, Paris

The French Department of Defence has a new home, Hexagone Balard: a 163,000 square metre complex in the 15th arrondissement in Paris. Designed by ANMA, Agence Nicolas Michelin & Associés, the complex brings together parts of the defence department that were formerly scattered around the city in a monumental building with a green heart.

09-03-2016

V+ e Bouwtechniek: expansion on Montigny-Le-Tilleul town hall

V+ and Bouwtechniek won the competition for expansion of the town hall in Montigny-Le-Tilleul (Belgium). Their project has adapted the old town hall to suit its new functions and used the green area behind the existing 18th century building to create a new wing, a lightweight construction which clearly stands out from the old town hall.