Snøhetta: wooden arches carved in a new library in Philadelphia
The Charles Library has officially opened at Temple University: a four-storey building including an automated storage retrieval system and a green roof on the top.
Massimiliano Fuksas: from Kant to AI architects
The collaboration between Studio Fuksas and Signature, LG's brand of top-notch home appliances, is the perfect opportunity for a talk between epistemology, architecture and art. To the inevitable point: we will soon no longer be needed but in the meantime we can learn many things.
Clay tiles to minimize heat in a house in India
Manoj Patel Design Studio designed a clay facade as a statement for a sustainable approach in Gujarat, western India.
Treetop Cabins suspended on stilts in the Norwegian Boreal Forest
The lodgings designed by Espen Surnevik among the treetops of Finnskogen, in eastern Norway, are sculptures made of steel and ennobled metals in harmonious dissonance with the natural landscape.
Life in the woods: concrete and wood house in New York state
Maria Milens Studio reinterprets local construction techniques with the design of a house integrated into uncontaminated nature.
Tallinn Architecture Biennale: from VR to self-made beauties
Curated by architect Yael Reisner, the event recounts unusual relationships between aesthetics and forms of inhabiting with exhibitions, installations and lectures.
Natalie Mossin: “Sharing must come about on a global level and work at a local level”
The impact of the architect’s work from an economic, environmental and social point of view, and the role of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. A chat with the Danish architect, head of Institute of Architecture and Technology at KADK in Copenhagen.
A Swiss atelier covered in clinker bricks
Stocker Lee architects designed a three-storey atelier in Rancate: partially inserted in the ground, the building seems suspended by a glazed ribbon.
Kaan Architecten completes rigorous institutional building in Lille
The latest building by the Dutch studio is a gigantic block with a square plan and very regular, severe and elegant facades.
How to build a highway for animals
The Wildlife Crossing at Liberty Canyon, Los Angeles, will link again two parts of the same habitat, divided for decades by a ten-lane freeway, dreadful for animals. An interview with its designer, arch. Clark Stevens.
Parasite 2.0 designs a gallery in Albania as a desert
In Vlora, Italian architects continue their research on the Radical Islands with the design of an exhibition space featuring three clearly distinct areas.
In Berlin a cemetery becomes a park and community garden
The cemetery of Neukölln has become a natural oasis within the city where to experiment new ways of using green areas that have escaped cemetification.
Frosted walls and steel latticework to light up a guest house in Guangzhou
kooo architects renovated a 7-storey building in the old city center of Guangzhou, enhancing the restoring qualities of the local subtropical climate.
Aga Khan Award: a few considerations on the winners of the 2019 edition
Six projects were awarded, which are as many clever reflections on public space, historical heritage and sustanaibility.