In Alsace, an 11 km long trail follows forgotten traces
On the tracks of an ancient railway, the path designed by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter reinterprets the signs and memory of the landscape and crosses stone quarries and forests.
Shy facade in Buenos Aires to sell falafel
With a neutral grid, architects Juan Campanini and Josefina Sposito elementarily design the front of a small delicatessen.
Moroccan Modernism: a project to promote the legacy of modernist workers’ settlements
The Italian Cultural Association NOSTOI launched Cités Ouvrières, a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter to value and protect Moroccan architecture built between the 1920s and the 1960s.
A corten cube hosts the offices of a green company in Denmark
In Helsingør, Eastern Denmark, Danish studio CCO designs an eco-sustainable sculpture-building that dialogues with the facilities of an industrial site.
Calatrava’s structures as huge sea-creatures in Arnaldo Abba’s photography
I love to sail forbidden seas is a series of pictures taken in the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia: the cultural centre becomes a promordial environment inhabited by mythological monsters.
The 10 (+1) tallest buildings in the world
The ranking of the highest skyscrapers on the planet includes constructions in China, USA and UAE. But in 2020 the current record will be broken with a skyscraper one kilometer high.
The New Museum for Western Australia is a stratification of stories and architecture
The New Museum by Hassell + OMA offers a multi-dimensional framework which interacts with Western Australia’s culture, nature and history combining historical heritage and contemporary architecture.
Lina Ghotmeh
Wouldn’t be absurd to build a glass skyscraper in Beirut?
Paris-based and Beirut-born architect Ghotmeh introduces us to Stone Garden, the soon-to-be-completed first project in her hometown. We asked her about how her geography has shaped her methodology, named “Archaeology of the Future”.
Arter, the art gallery that will change the last working-class neighborhood in Istanbul’s centre
The new cultural center designed by Grimshaw Architects sits like a spaceship in the Dolapdere district, between inclusion and gentrification.
A fortress house in Puerto Escondido as a break from the megalopolis
Ludwig Godefroy’s Zicatela House, in Puerto Escondido, is an introverted architecture, involving its inhabitants in a complex game of crossing perspectives.
MASS Design Group: “Architecture needs to be the locus of the reconstruction of community itself”
Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks talk about the monograph “Justice is Beauty”, the first by MASS Design Group, showing off their research and philosophy of an architecture of justice and dignity.
Eclectic anomalies in a renovated villa in Biarritz
Zyva studio introduces formal and constructive anomalies on a traditional villa in the French city of Biarritz, in order to activate new forms of appropriation and connection between the user and the architecture.
The capsule hotel by Alphaville Architects is a village
Suiden-ann is a guesthouse in Kyoto made of private and semi-public spaces.
Burj Khalifa
The tower, designed by SOM - Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in 2002, opened in 2010 and became the tallest building in the world, iconizing the real estate explosion of Dubai in the 2000s.
A 110 metre long building blends into Australia’s wildest landscape
Contrasts of materials, spaces and atmospheres define the Longhouse, a 110m long building designed by Partners Hill in Daylesford, Australia.