Tag Retraining

22-07-2016

Marseilles and the waterfront: urban conversion strategies.

A pedestrian itinerary starting out in the centre of Marseilles, beginning with Norman Foster’s mirror pavilion, and taking us to the outskirts of the city to see Zaha Hadid’s skyscraper. A walk along the city’s converted waterfront, a wide-ranging urban project including buildings and public spaces.

18-03-2016

Calatrava The Oculus World Trade Center Transportation Hub

Oculus, the new World Trade Center Transportation Hub designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, was inaugurated on March 3. The new station is located to the east of where the Twin Towers used to stand, and will be the third most important station in the city of New York.

17-03-2016

Yoshio Taniguchi wins the Piranesi Prix de Rome

The "Piranesi Prix de Rome" for life-long achievement, an award presented by the Adrianea Academy of Architecture and Archeology with the support of prominent institutions and enterprises, including Graniti Fiandre, will be presented to Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi on March 18, when he will hold his first Lectio Magistralis in Italy.

11-03-2016

Foster + Partners' most recent projects

Carmaker Nissan and architectural studio Foster + Partners presented their vision of the future of mobility together at the Geneva International Motor Show. We take this opportunity to look at some recent projects by Foster + Partners presented in Floornature.

07-03-2016

Barcelona, MESURA’s Borne Apartments

Catalonian architectural studio MESURA was appointed to renovate the top floor of a historic building in the district of Borne in Barcelona for Borne Apartments, a local tourism organisation.

04-03-2016

Vita Nova, the restoration days explore architecture

The event called “VITA NOVA – gli Edifici industriali e il riutilizzo a fini culturali” (NEW LIFE - Industrial Building and repurposing them for cultural use) or the Restoration Days, an initiative promoted by the Ligurian association for craft enterprises and small- and medium-sized enterprises (CNA Liguria) in the former industrial facility of Vaccari in Santo Stefano di Magra gave a broad overview of industrial cultural assets in Italy.

02-03-2016

Budapest Architecture Film Days

“You can’t escape architecture!” is the title of the eighth Architecture Film Festival held in Budapest by the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre – KÉK.

29-02-2016

TACO's Pabellón 3E: time and architecture

Mexican architects TACO (Taller de Arquitectura COntextual) were appointed to redesign a home built in the '40s which has since seen changes in the functions of the spaces included in it, evolving along with the owners and their family.