2006 February: Pratt Institute Art School Extension, New York by Steven Holl...
This new insertion balances sensitivity to history with a formal a civic boldness
View ArticleOn the Breach in Biarritz with Steven Holl
On the sybaritic French Atlantic coast, a new museum, the Cité de L’Océan et du Surf, by Steven Holl Architects, evokes the power and sensual allure of the ocean
View ArticleHealthy Circulation
Fluid spaces of the new Maggie’s Centre are a reaction to the institutional nature of hospitals, yet still lack a sense of human scale
View ArticleAlipay Office Towers by WSP in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
After a period of copying Western models, China is now developing its own high-rise approaches more rooted in place and culture
View ArticleBook Mountain: MVRDV's Library in Spijkenisee, Rotterdam
The short shelf life of this Dutch library’s collection enabled MVRDV to turn the spines out to face the town and invite in its inhabitants
View ArticleTokyo Garden and House by Ryue Nishizawa
Designed by Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA, this house of floating concrete planes and glass walls contrives an ascetic domesticity tempered only by nature
View ArticleMusée Du Louvre by Sanaa, Lens, France
Despite its trophy architecture, the Louvre’s new provincial outpost raises questions about its wider mission of decentralising high culture
View ArticleWa Shan Guesthouse, Xiangshan, China by Wang Shu
Drawing on traditions of scholarliness and non-conformity, Wang Shu’s new guesthouse for the China Academy of Art adds to the remote campus neighbourhood that he has been building for over a decade
View ArticleCoq of the walk: MuCEM, Marseille, France by Rudy Ricciotti
Mixing sensuality and gesture, Rudy Ricciottiʼs new museum of Mediterranean civilisation is less about content and more about adding to Marseilleʼs thrilling palimpsest
View ArticleMecanoo's Central Library in Birmingham
Beyond the flamboyance of its facade, Birmingham’s ambitious new public library is a model of enlightened collaboration between architect and client
View ArticleDuelling Partners at the Kimbell Museum Louis Kahn vs Renzo Piano
Expanding the Kimbell Art Museum, Renzo Pianoʼs new lightweight pavilion duels discreetly with Kahnʼs original concrete vaulted masterpiece
View ArticleMemories in Ruins: 9/11 Memorial Museum by Snøhetta and Davis Brody Bond
[Archive] In such a highly charged context, how can architecture sift the powerful currents of memory, myth and meaning to make sense of events?
View ArticleThe Sandcrawler in Singapore by Andrew Bromberg of Aedas
The first in an exclusive series of online-only building studies, LucasArt’s new Singapore headquarters is packed with Star Wars references from air-lock lifts to bronze Yoda sculptures - but these...
View ArticleCleft Bank: Long Art Museum, Shanghai, by Atelier Deshaus
Industry and its aftermath collide on the banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, where a concrete canopy of arches shelters a new gallery full of surprising spaces
View ArticleCarte Blanche: Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France, by Gehry Partners
Tumescently emerging from the Bois de Boulogne, Frank Gehryʼs new Fondation Louis Vuitton is an architecture of perpetual indulgence
View ArticleTaking Root: Joan Maragall Library, Barcelona, Spain, by BCQ Arquitectura
The fragmented, verdant structure of this semi-subterranean library creates a different kind of public space in Barcelonaʼs urban milieu
View ArticleBook Nook: Cultuurhuis Rozet, Arnhem, the Netherlands, by Neutelings Riedijk...
Encompassing a diverse arts programme, Arnhemʼs new Cultuurhuis has a spatial and textural richness that seeks to consolidate the cityʼs diffuse historic centre
View ArticleFlint House in Buckinghamshire by Skene Catling de la Peña
At the Rothschild estate at Waddesdon, a new house emerges from the landscape, inspired by the flint found in the surrounding chalk fields
View ArticleFilharmonia in Szczecin, Poland by Estudio Barozzi Veiga
Wrapped in a gauzily translucent skin, Barozzi Veiga’s Filharmonia is a ghostly and austere insertion in a variegated Polish townscape
View ArticleLRO’s Sparkasse building is a play of unexpected detail, texture and colour
It may be an annexe to an annexe, but this is definitely a case of tail wagging dog
View ArticleBanqueting Pavilion, Restaurant Les Cols by RCR Arquitectes, Girona, Spain
Using banal materials to poetic effect, this dining marquee sits between architecture, landscape art and minimalist sculpture
View ArticleCampus Cool: East Regional Chilled Water Plant by Leers Weinzapfel Associates
Architect of the Year shortlist: material articularion and creative detailing dresses up a university chilled water plant
View ArticleWar of the worlds: Port House headquarters, Antwerp, Belgium by ZHA
AR New into Old Commended: Rearing its woozy head above Antwerp’s sober Port House, the multifaceted extension by ZHA makes a clean break with the past
View ArticleShenzhen Stock Exchange by OMA
OMA’s Shenzhen Stock Exchange performs an impressive levitating trick while raising questions about the meaning of public space in China’s frantic marketisation
View ArticleFan Zeng Art Museum in Nantong, China, by Original Design Studio
Inspired by traditional Chinese paintings, Original Design Office’s Fan Zeng Art Museum is a wash of greys
View ArticleRiver building at Grace Farms in Connecticut, USA, by SANAA
‘Sejima lit up when we said we wanted Grace Farms to disappear into the landscape’
View ArticleSplit house, China by Neri & Hu Design and Research Office
AR House 2013 Highly Commended: A local building type is imaginitively rennovated to reveal diaphanous spaces that reveal furtive glimpes of chinese domestic life
View ArticleLucky Shophouse, Singapore by Chang Architects
AR House 2013 Highly Commended: A silent facade of traditional origins hides spaces where theatrical double heights merge with tropical vegetation and textures veiled by the patina of time
View ArticleRufo House, Spain by Alberto Campo Baeza
AR House 2013 Highly Commended: An ethereal hut towards the sky and a massive cave embedded in the Iberian landscape epitomize Campo Baeza’s sensibility for tectonic and stereotomic architecture
View ArticleSummer house, Sweden by Tham & Videgard Arkitekter
AR House 2013 Highly Commended: Archetypal volumes of a gabled house raised soberly atop a granite bedrock gazing at the horizon of Lagnö’s archipelago
View ArticleManser Medal Winner: Slip house, London by Carl Turner Architects
AR House 2013 Highly Commended: A diaphanous box of translucent glass emerges from Brixton’s brick courtyards as a flexible prototype for sustainable living and working
View ArticleBoundary Window in Tokyo by Shingo Masuda + Katsuhisa Otsubo
Winner of 2014’s Emerging Architecture awards, this modest addition experiments with ideas of physical and perceptual transformation
View ArticleHiroshima Hut in Hiroshima, Japan by Suppose Design Office
Hiroshima Hut in Japan by Suppose Design Office
View ArticleWinter Gardens, New York State, by César Pelli and Gruen Associates
Once an oasis, now a mirage – in the middle of the American city of Niagra Falls the tropical hothouse was an unexpected delight, that then fell into decline as a result of the early ’80s recession and...
View ArticleOptical Glass House, Hiroshima, Japan
A glittering facade of suspended glass blocks veils Hiroshi Nakamura’s winning entry to the ar+d Awards for Emerging Architecture
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