Effekt's Corten and timber walkway spirals above tree canopy
The Danish practice has created an immersive experience in nature where footbridges wind through the forest, leading visitors to an observation tower that crests above the treetops.
Skinny House in Melbourne fills a barely 4-metre-wide plot
Oliver du Puy designs a minimalist house, conceived as a tool able to relieve the stress of an hectic metropolitan life.
Lina Bo Bardi Drawing: intimacy as active resistance
We spoke to curator Zeuler Rocha Lima about their exhibition at Fundació Joan Miró that re-explores Bo Bardi through the drawings of an entire lifetime.
“The question of rebuilding ‘even more beautifully’ raises as many questions as it answers”
As a contest launches to redesign Notre Dame de Paris’s fire-ravished spire even more magnificently than before, Tom Wilkinson asks whether a monument to truth, rather than beauty, might be more fitting.
Assemble creates “secret garden” within derelict Victorian house in Liverpool
The Turner Prize-winning collective has converted a derelict house into a winter garden in northern England, completing the project that won the group of architects, designers and artists Britain's highest accolade for art.
BIG’s contemporary forms connect society and academia
Circular copper and glass extension creates a unique relationship between the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the surrounding commercial buildings.
Rural house recovers Extremadura’s rich craft tradition
Terracotta floors, rustic plaster and traditional vaults have been restored by Lucas y Hernández-Gil in this vernacular house with contemporary details.
Notre Dame de Paris: raising from the ashes
Flames have burnt the heart of Paris for almost five hours. Now the reconstruction of a national symbol must be promoted.
Simple and intimate Japanese house leans over wooded slope
The elementary pitched roof and the skilful use of wood to define the interiors make the house by Kunihiko Matsuba a welcoming refuge in the midst of nature.
Mirrored pavilion by Pezo von Ellrichshausen reflects its Baroque surroundings
Polished stainless-steel cladding dissolves The Echo Pavilion into distorted reflections of the facades and colonnades of Palazzo Litta in Milan.
The new space race
Light and free like a butterfly, extending and folding like a folding screen, ORIGAMI, designed by Alberto Meda, is an electric plug&play radiator that liaises with its surroundings.
Fitness of materials
Paravan is sculptural in form and architectural in execution, both articulating and creating space. Like parentheses to enclose a conversation, Paravan creates intimacy in open areas with sound absorbing panels to support focus, concentration, and collaboration.
Bauhaus Museum by Heike Hanada opens in Weimar
The museum’s permanent collection is composed of more than 13,000 pieces, also including the original core of 168 objects selected in 1925 by Walter Gropius himself.
OMA and Laboratorio Permanente win competition for scalo Farini in Milan
Two disused railway yards on the outskirts of the city will be transformed into green, “environmental machines” by a team led by the Dutch and Italian studios.
Empty structure in Porto's historic centre revived with a wooden core
Portuguese studio Pablo Pita renovates an existing building that has been completely emptied due to its structural fragility.
Lacaton & Vassal, Frédéric Drout Architecture and Christophe Hutin Architecture win Mies van der Rohe Award 2019
The trio of architects were awarded the prize for their overhaul of 530 apartments in Bordeaux, while an Emerging Architecture award goes to Toulose-based firm BAST for a school cafeteria at the foot of the Pyrenees.