The beauty of the land, from the mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, the fine craftsmanship, the famed Southern hospitality—it’s all ingrained in those who’ve called North Carolina home. Curtis Fentress’ vision for the Terminal 2 replacement at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) bears witness to that. Fentress was born, raised, and educated in North Carolina, and st...
While extensive macro – parks are landscapes that are integrated into metropolitan areas, providing pleasant, diverse and complex spaces, it is not necessary that these parks have to simulate rural pastoral scenes, nor register with the formality of fine arts with their axes and perspectives. These large experimental reserves should be open – air theaters of nature, scen...
Publishers DOM-Verlag recently stated in the form of a new book on airports as a building type: "Airports, as pivotal points and linchpins, are the gateways to urban regions, as well as showcases to the world. They could be deemed flagship places for ambitious urban-development projects. However, rarely do built-reality and design requirements collide with each other as ...
One of Berlin’s most important museums, the Berlinische Galerie, which focuses on modern art, photography and architecture, reopens this week after extensive refurbishment, with a spectacular new exhibition documenting 1960s Berlin. uncube is celebrating the show over the summer, with a series of articles and interviews for which the museum has granted us exclusive acces...
Since moving back to Berlin from Paris in 1992, Stefanie Bürkle has been fascinated by the speed, scale and scope of transformation of the city’s centre in the years since German reunification. Though Bürkle is primarily a painter and scenographer, she started to take analogue photographs of the construction and demolition frenzy around her. Her passion for the subject o...
For the past 20 years, the Austrian photographer Gisela Erlacher has dedicated much of her work to topics of urban and suburban space. Her most recent project Skies of Concrete, has just been published by Park Books in Switzerland. It features a collection of images of spaces underneath highways and flyovers in China, Britain, the Netherlands and Austria. Her images reve...
Like all the cities of the Gulf, known as the Arabian Gulf in these parts (given the geopolitical clout of the peninsula, which steals the thunder from the mouth of the Tigris, the Euphrates and the many other rivers of Ancient Persia), Doha has grown fast and is changing every day. A road used up to yesterday is today barred as a new building site opens. One of the man...
Standing atop a 2.5m-deep concrete pad supported on 16 piles penetrating 13.5m into sandstone, the 12m-diameter reinforced concrete shaft soars 226m skyward. It has been stiffened by eight raking 2m-diameter reinforced concrete legs at the base connected to the shaft via a reinforced concrete collar. Above the shaft, a multi-section mast, constructed of structural steel ...
DnA has converted the abandoned, 260-meter long shimen bridge into a viewing platform for the songyi river and the wuyang dam, and can potentially be used in many different ways such as a weekend bridge market or for a holiday parade. the covered wooden structure features a pitched roof that represents the local building typology with openings that echo the structure rhy...
schmidt hammer lassen architects has won an invited competition to design the maritime knowledge hub. the proposal is a 6,400-square-meter facility dedicated to marine engineering research and development, survival training, business incubation, workspace, and events at the heart of the wirral waters redevelopment project in the united kingdom‘s liverpool city region. th...
santiago calatrava has completed a 140-meter-long (459 ft) vehicular and pedestrian bridge in the southern region of calabria, italy. forming part of an ambitious regeneration plan, the new cosenza bridge connects two important areas of the city that had long been detached from one another on the banks of the crati river. the cable stayed structure features a prominent i...
earlier this year, just weeks before the first major solo exhibition – dedicated to the work of junya ishigami – at the fondation cartier pour l’art contemporain opened, junya ishigami took designboom around his office in roppongi, tokyo and introduced us to the development project / the botanical farm garden art biotop, for a new resort brand collection of niki resort –...
in romainville — a suburb of paris — brenac & gonzalez & associés designed an apartment building complex that changes the living dynamic for its inhabitants. the concept behind the design can be described as a fragmentation of built mass. this is achieved by the addition of a series of tiny exterior satellite spaces made of wood to contrast with the buildings from which ...
mecanoo’s proposal uses the rail line to reconnect the different parts of the city in a sustainable way. as part of the plan, an inviting green corridor will include bike and pedestrian lanes to better cater to the needs of the community. at the same time, the scheme seeks to maintain the area’s strong historical character with a layout that relies on the railway’s conf...
Planned by a king, enlarged by a fascist regime in the 1920s, readjusted by a communist dictatorship in the post-war period, for more than a century Skanderbeg Square has represented the space par excellence for the self-celebration of the Albanian mighty in office. Far too many delusions of grandeur of several political orientations turned it into a huge (40,000 sqm), d...
After the Temporary School created in 2016 by Milanese studio Parasite 2.0, the MAXXI is getting ready to welcome a new temporary structure conceived by a young architectural firm. The Green Gallery project, signed by the German collective STUDIOD3R in collaboration with the Italian researcher Marcello Fantuz, is, in fact, the winner of the YAP MAXXI 2018 (Young Architec...
for the second edition of the chicago architecture biennial, on view until january 7, 2018, françois perrin has developed a series of structures that re-examine traditional climate-responsive construction. the project, titled ‘air houses: design for a new climate’, explores a new kind of architecture that engages with economic and environmental realities against a backdr...
The Municipality of Drechterland’s new, environmentally-friendly town hall, situated in the centre of Hoogkarspel, forms part of the development plan for the new town centre. The essence of this plan was to concentrate the most important village functions around one new, distinguishable village square. Thanks to its striking, durable materialisation and careful harmonis...
Based on a concept by Dr. Barbara Römer, founder of the creative consultancy Studio Römer, the project leverages a new system for high-precision climate control, by which incoming solar energy is partially collected through photovoltaics and partially redistributed among the different seasonal areas, with zero net energy consumption. The project aims at reclaiming a clos...
Using common painter’s buckets as builder’s blocks, the designers connected the buckets using a grid of ropes to hold them in place and to shape the pavilion. The surface functions like a giant carpet, and can be rolled, pulled together or up to a point. Buckets were chosen as the building material to represent the ‘street entrepreneurs’ ( or ‘viene viene’) that use b...
Curved planters filled with ornamental grasses and flowers wrap around the outside of the podium at the base of the pavilion. The exterior of the pavilion has a delicate pattern that’s made from CNC cut wood pieces that meet together to form the overall shape. A section of the pavilion has been left open to act as a doorway to the interior. Stepping inside and l...
The client requested a design that would enable easy boat parking and year-round storage, as well as a space that would capture sunlight and views over the water. The boathouse, which features two cantilevers and is open, has been constructed using steel, with wood used as the finishing material. On the upper deck of the boathouse, a sliding mosquito curtain ensures t...
Smith and Watts were able to easily bring those design innovations into Revit, thanks to Autodesk’s Dynamo software, which brings the power of a graphical algorithm editor to Revit. “Dynamo is unique because it brings the power of visual programming to a BIM environment,” said Watts. “We have a strong history of using software such as Grasshopper to generate and manipu...
The project extends across a 20,000 square-meter (200,000 square-foot) area called Caserma Lamarmora, owned by Italian state fund Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP). The design offers a fresh take on the barracks’ characteristic modular structure, which will be updated and reimagined to welcome a new mix of functions for co-living, co-making and co-working: from labs for Ma...
Having previously designed various projects in the city, such as Astana Arena and Astana Media Center, Tabanlioglu Architects are well experienced about the conditions, needs and goals of the city and the citizens. Astana is in the geographical center of Kazakhstan and having a wide transport and communications network, in interaction with multiple modes of transporta...
Design Team: José Alberto Sánchez, Andreas Alevras, Paul Beck, Paul van Bergen, Miguel de Bernardo Atienza, Roberto Calonge, Maicol Cardelli, Alice Colombo, Jana Culek, Sebastian van Damme, Marta Dyjaczynska, Paolo Faleschini, Di Fang, Ernesto de la Fuente, María García, Jesper Goorden, Jesus Hernandez, José Julián Horcajo, Cristina Jurado López, Kees Kaan, Carlos Lamel...
The textured timber addition to the locally listed 1930’s property references both its physical and historical context. Playing homage with charred timber cladding to the fire that caused its revival into a leisure centre, the first storey rear extension demonstrates a respectful but innovative response to the site. The external impression of the design is both striki...
‘SLOPE-WALK’ Our Eco Bridge proposal is based on a simple and pure concept: to recreate the link that once existed in the current situation of the infrastructural void with a spatial structure that would be atmospherically reminiscent to a pictorial passage through the southern slopes of the two discontinued mountain peaks of Mt. Umyeon and Maljukgeori Parks. The p...
in spring 2016, the european parliament (EP) commissioned a design for temporary creative street furniture and greenery for the esplanade solidarność 1980, the main thoroughfare that links the different buildings of the parliament campus in brussels. with ‘constellations’, instead of designing temporary furniture, city3 in collaboration with atelier starzak strebicki and...
the organization established to build and run the proposed garden bridge in central london has officially announced the closure of the contentious project. although the heatherwick-designed footbridge was strongly backed by former london mayor boris johnson, the project had not received similar support from his predecessor sadiq khan, who had stated that he was not prepa...
mori no terrace‘s kitchen and bathroom structure situates itself near the center of the camping facility in order to be seen from anywhere. the clean and simple design allows campers to enjoy the authentic camping experience, while not having to compromise on personal hygiene. ‘since the campground is a facility used by both men and women from children to adults,’ explai...
in 2006, SANAA — the architecture studio led by kazuyo sejima and ryue nishizawa — completed a ferry terminal on the japanese island of naoshima. supported by thin columns, a large roof shelters a series of glazed pavilions that contain the terminal’s functional requirements. over a decade later, the duo have returned to the island to erect a contrasting cloud-like struc...
when the initial survey site for landau’s ‘suzhou great lakes park’ in china began, the plot was surrounded by the calm lake, rolling hills and fog stretching across — every aspect of nature in sync. landscape is somewhere to place emotions, where regional design is the fundamental. im pei’s suzhou museum, which is the best interpretation of the small venues through the ...
flooding the central alameda park in mexico city, factor eficiencia and 5468796 architecture creates a wave of buckets as a symbol for the liberation of public spaces in the metropolis. the 100.0 m² temporary pavilion uses common painter’s buckets as its building blocks, connecting them together via an expansive grid of ropes. in the mexican captial these objects are typ...
dutch architectural practice MVRDV has unveiled new images of ‘valley’, a 75,000 square meter mixed use complex in zuidas, amsterdam’s central business district. the competition-winning design for OVG real estate was selected by the municipality of amsterdam in 2015 and construction began in august 2017. scheduled for completion in 2021, the green-terraced towers will in...
ball-nogues studio has completed the ‘healing pavilion’, a structure that provides shade and seating within the new garden of a los angeles hospital. the pavilion was created using 2,793 linear feet of 2-inch diameter mild steel tube. in total, 352 individual components were precisely bent with a computer numerically controlled rolling system. together, the tubes form an...
