According to an article of GloucestershireLive, the 5,000-seat wooden stadium, which aims to be carbon neutral or carbon negative, received planning permission by six votes for and four votes - which was held on December 18, 2019. Zaha Hadid Architects first released its concept design in 2016 and the new stadium, with its sinuous form, aims to be the world's greenes...
Called MARe - The Museum of Recent Art, the 1,580-square-metre museum is situated on a corner plot - and from far away, it is perceived like a small apartment but when you come closer, its irregular facade gives an intimate feeling to enter the building. To form its concept, the studio benefitted from this question: "How to produce architecture in a city described by ...
Called Forum Groningen, the 17,000-square-metre building serves as a multifunctional building in the center of Groningen. NL Architects' building, also described as a cultural department store that is filled with books and images, offers exhibition spaces, movie halls, assembly rooms, restaurants. The forum aspires to become a platform for interaction and debate, a "...
Named Architecture Library Chulalongkorn University, the library, covering a total of 1,260 square meters, is located at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The aim of the project is to reinterpret learning spaces in libraries by adapting them in the digital age. In this regard, the architects asked: "In the near future, will we still read physical boo...
The new redevelopment plans will transform the 1970s administration building into a church campus in Nuremberg, Germany. The new church campus will generate space for encounter, communication, research and education. The transformed external architectural language creates a more public and civic identity for the new building. The 38,000-square-metre new development o...
Designed by The Design Institute of Landscape and Architecture China Academy of Art, Wangwei studio, the school was designed to address to China’s rural schools which are disappearing with the rapid speed of urbanization process. Covering a total of 2,604-square-metre area, the school, named Fuwen Primary School Reconstruction, is one of disappearing schools in China....
Named Fantasy Forest / Meitao Ceramics Sales Center, the 2,000-square-metre center is located in Foshan, Guangdong Province. The designers explain the project: In this age with increasing sameness, It's time for us to make difference! Let's have a romantic, fashionable, and fantastic dream! The design of this project is inspired by the natural beauty, vegetation...
Throughout the warehouse-style building’s three levels, these striking display rooms mingle with fully-glazed research laboratories, workrooms, and interactive learning alcoves, giving visitors visual access to the preservation process, and encouraging a more accessible educational environment. According to the museum’s director, Julie Stein, transparency was central ...
It was revealed by Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga, president and director of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC), on December 11 that WEISS/MANFREDI has been selected to lead the master planning team. “We are excited to move forward with Marion [Weiss], Michael [Manfredi], and their remarkable team,” said Bettison-Varga in a press release, “as we work tow...
Leading the charge in this new adaptive reuse application is Balbek Bureau. The Kyiv-based interior architecture firm recently completed 906 World Cultural Center, a multifunctional startup incubator, events space, and co-living concept that occupies a former church in the heart of San Francisco. The complex serves as a launchpad for the development of young companies, e...
On April 2+3, Facades+ is returning to New York in a robust two-day dialogue focused on the materials and techniques driving the next generation of enclosure design and engineering. This year, CetraRuddy founding principal John Cetra collaborated with The Architect’s Newspaper to develop a robust program featuring architects, contractors, engineers, and fabricators. T...
One such destination is the Seattle Aquarium, a nonprofit and marine research center along its Western shore that has been delighting over 800,000 visitors a year since 1977. In 2015, the city council supported an ordinance to contribute $34 million to add a significant addition to the aquarium in the form of an “Ocean Pavilion” dedicated primarily to the exhibition of s...
The Wiki Tribe Park complex was planned and designed by architects, but the project was organized in a way that would let entire families take part in the construction process. Using a modular system enabled not only the adults to take part in building the cabins, but it even allowed young children to learn the basics of green building. The cabins’ walls were cut thro...
The undulating shape of the organic building would also reflect site-specific conditions so as to optimize passive solar conditions and use of sustainable systems such as rainwater collection and tidal wave energy generation.The international design competition, which was hosted almost a decade ago, was created to address the need for tsunami research and preparation in ...
The BZB saunas are the ultimate DIY project for those needing to unthaw during the freezing winter months. Costing between $5,000 and $14,950, the ready-to-assemble sauna kits come in a variety of styles, such as barrel, oval and igloo-shaped. The kits also come in different sizes, from a tiny, two-person sauna to a larger structure that fits up to eight people. The s...
The installation comprises 2 almost identical red ribbons which are carefully bent in order to create an artificial and continuous topographical profile providing activities such as seating features, swinging objects, sliding ramps, slopes and mini amphitheaters among others. Taking advantage of the highest bends of the ribbons, green & blue functional boxes were pl...
The Cinéma les VARIETES, the historical temple of art and essay cinema, has revived its spotlight on the Canebière in Marseille. The architectural concept focused on the theatricalization of the city’s public’s journey to the halls. The façade has been refurbished, with new wood joinery matching the 19th century style that saw the birth of this place dedicated to th...
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is a uniquely located cultural institution that hosts audiences of over 1,200 people each night during the summer. Reed Watts’ designs respond to the woodland setting with subtle contextual architecture that works with and celebrates its surroundings. The structure is constructed from a prefabricated, cross-laminated timber (CLT) panel s...
The new building, which will give the accident and emergency department further 170 beds, will lie at the foot of the Ulriken mountain, with the river Møllendalselven in front.In contrast to traditional hospital buildings, there are no long corridors. The wards are located around two large covered atria, which provide the setting for two different kinds of common areas: ...
the new intervention, measuring 115,000 ft2 (10,683.85 m2), will be built in the heart of the city and intends to become a new cultural landmark for the area and the community. with a diverse program over five floors, the building is envisioned to create a ‘new public commons and knowledge center’ for a contemporary urban context. the new library is positioned at the ...
built using timber, the project showcases the structural possibilities of the material in an effort to encourage a new era of environmentally-friendly construction.biobasecamp has been designed by studio marco vermeulen as a starting point of exploration for designers and clients towards the possibilities that this ‘concrete of the future’ offers. the pavilion gives arch...
as previously reported, the institution will show a series of exhibitions in collaboration with paris’ centre pompidou as part of a cultural collaboration between china and france. located on the shanghai corniche, an 8.5 kilometer (5 mile) frontage on the northern bank of the huangpu river, the new art gallery forms part of a larger cultural district for china’s biggest...
the project is composed by CROX in two parts: the undulating green hills and the ‘floating’ architecture that rests on top. within the latter volume, the space contains exhibition halls as well as a rooftop garden and viewing terrace, allowing visitors to enjoying panoramic views across the lake. the lower part of the museum, or ‘mounatins’, blends and extends into the s...
slated to open in 2023, the infinity loop-shaped building comprises of three levels that will accommodate 1600 students, bringing them together upon the backdrop of a continuous landscape that merges both inside and out.LAVA based the structure on the spatial typology concepts of american futurist david thornburg and takes into consideration the educational paradigms of ...
designed by trace architecture office (TAO), ‘haikou huandao middle school’ seeks to create a nurturing environment that celebrates creativity and interaction rather than examination-oriented objectives.as the site is surrounded by high-rise residential buildings in haikou’s city center, TAO developed a somewhat introverted design. the playground is placed centrally, whi...
designed by heatherwick studio, the project is located in a residential area 20 minutes from the city center, in close proximity to the M50 arts district and a public park. the development is split over two plots of land connected by a narrow government plot and incorporates several historic buildings. designed by heatherwick studio for the developer tia...
the 26,000 square meter project, which is the first to be realized as part of the site’s redevelopment plan, contains a large central common space, or ‘city room’, designed to reflect the changing social nature of the workplace. ‘the science park model of the 1990s, with buildings isolated from one another by un-utilized landscape is no longer adequate f...
They are used to accompany the story of the Lampedusa objects, brought from the numerous trips that Dorothée Thébert and Filippo Filliger have done to the island. These “objects of mediation” put a material distance between the found objects, and the own bodies of the performers. They are presented as a kit of parts ready to be utilized in a more or less free manner by...
We will fully use it, and protect it simultaneously. So without touching the rock is the fundamental design attitude. The perception of the space inside of the pigsty is like someone embracing the rock. It’s purely the place to great with the rock. This perception indicates that it will be an introvert space, no necessary to flow outside into inside.
To achieve this, the existing historical building from 1605 was extensively renovated in a first construction phase and the permanent exhibition was redesigned. Phase two comprised an extension building, located on the directly adjacent, 45-degree sloped lot which leads down to Ruhrstrasse and the Ruhr River. This new sculptural construction, whose ground floor lies near...
Here the sun and the stone become measurable physical colors. They reveal a richness and a sensuality witch the children witness. The slope is an essential element of the school's inscription in the landscape and the History. By a simple game of cuttings - embankments, the school poses itself gently on the ground. The view is released from the courses on the Great Landsc...
Designed to blend in with the pitched rooflines of the surrounding rural structures the pool was built as part of an upgrade of a former 1980s water park by Ljubljana-based studio Enota. Named Termalija Family Wellness, the pool is the latest in a series of developments at the spa with the overarching aim of better connecting the centre with the surrounding natural la...
Nike unveiled the track on National Coming Out Day on 11 October as part of their Be True campaign. The running field is dedicated to Gilbert Baker, the artist who designed the rainbow flag that has become a symbol of Pride. "At Nike, we believe in the pursuit of equality for every athlete.," said Nike. "We honour every voice advocating for equality — those standing u...
The Stormwood benches are made from timber slats cut from some of the nearly 1,000 trees felled during the storm that wrecked havoc across Eindhoven in June this year. The studio cut the tree trunks in half lengthways, then sliced these again to make long planks. The resulting timber lengths were stacked, with wooden pegs creating a a small space between them to allow...
The building, which stands in a densely populated area of the city, is described by Hong Kong-based Rocco Design Architects as "a vertical skyscraper church". The 11,000-square-metre church is situated on a small 800-square-metre plot on the corner of two major roads near the Hong Kong Jockey Club Happy Valley Racecourse. Due to the small size of the site all of th...
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) designed The Heights public school on a tight plot in the Virginia city just outside of Washington DC, which is surrounded by three roads and the edge of the city's Rosslyn Highlands Park. "The density of the urban Arlington neighbourhood became the inspiration for the school – we fanned the classrooms to allow each and every floor to be conn...
