Riverside Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects, Glasgow, UK
Vantage points of the museum open up to reveal the zinc clad five-peak roof profile of Zaha Hadid’s first cultural building in the UK. Photography by Hufton + Crow
View Article2006 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 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
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 ArticleBanquesting 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 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 ArticleSplit house, China by Neri & Hu Design and Research Office
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
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
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
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
Highly Commended: A diaphanous box of translucent glass emerges from Brixton’s brick courtyards as a flexible prototype for sustainable living and working
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?
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