STYLEPARK AXOR Conscious luxury6/20/2022Villa Copenhagen combines luxury and resource-saving action. Various AXOR products in the hotel bathrooms also contribute to this, convincing through their interplay of aesthetics and sustainability.
ARCHITECTURE Alpine Grandeur6/13/2022A modern "village in village" is currently taking shape on land formerly used by the military in Andermatt, Switzerland. The project is a brainchild of entrepreneur Samih Sawiris and one element of it is "Mira", an apartment house designed by Ilg Santer Architekten and atelier 522, containing 18 duplex apartments. It is scheduled for completion by 2023.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Tatiana Bilbao6/10/2022In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Tatiana Bilbao, whose credo is “Planning together, building together, living together”.
STYLEPARK DOPPELMAYR/GARAVENTA Ride into the future5/30/2022Floriade Expo 2022 in Almere sees itself as a showcase for a green, healthy and livable city. Part of the concept is a ropeway from Doppelmayr/Garaventa that not only provides access to the exhibition site but also gives a preview of future urban mobility concepts.
ARCHITECTURE Future model5/11/2022MVRDV designed the pavilion "Fuggerei NEXT500" as a reminiscence of the Fuggerei in Augsburg, which carries the concept of the oldest existing social settlement into the present.
ARCHITECTURE From Another Age5/6/2022With its sculptural vigor, Oscar Niemeyer’s posthumously realized pavilion in Provence provides yet another example of the Brazilian architect’s prowess.
FEATURED Five times purist5/3/2022The Ca l'Amo residential building on Ibiza brings nature and architecture together in a spectacular way. Products from Gira were also used for this, contributing to the purist appearance of the building.
ARCHITECTURE More than a café4/29/2022Robert Stadler, an Austrian whose adopted home is Paris, has enriched the tradition-steeped KWM Krefeld with a coffee house that thoroughly lives up to the famed Viennese model. As an “gesamtkunstwerk”, it carries the spirit of productively combining art, craft, and industry forward into the Modern Age and playfully melds design and life, tradition and innovation.
SUSTAINABILITY Dead end concrete4/13/2022In a current episode, the science series "Leschs Kosmos" on ZDF focuses on the fatal effects of cement production on the environment and shows which alternatives can effectively contribute to climate-friendly construction.
ARCHITECTURE Architectural twin4/1/2022With the "Brugge Diptych", American architect Jon Lott has designed a pavilion that takes up the historical layers of Bruges and integrates them into its architecture.
FEATURED The courage to reduce3/30/2022For the design of a semi-detached house in Hamburg, the office of Architekt Reichwald GmbH was inspired by classical modernism. The approach to reduction is also evident in the bathrooms, where Geberit products were used.
ARCHITECTURE Visible3/24/2022The publication "Frauen Bauen Stadt" from Birkhäuser Verlag and the 3sat documentary "Frauen bauen. Wie Architektinnen die Baukunst erobern" show the work of female urban planners with international examples.
ARCHITECTURE Make school3/21/2022With the renovation of the Enrico Fermi School in Turin, Italy's BDR bureau is providing an example of what a successful educational building can look like.
ARCHITECTURE Quarter in quarter3/17/2022In Tokyo, Masashi Miyamoto Architects/ mmar have designed a residential building that takes up the structure of the surrounding neighborhood and continues it in its interior.
FEATURED Modern church vault3/15/2022For the extension of Drayton Green Chapel in London, Piercy&Company added a brick structure to an old chapel that skillfully interlocks with the existing building. Bricks from Petersen Tegl were used for this project.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Marlene Moeschke-Poelzig3/10/2022In our new series "Spotlight on Women Architects" we will regularly present the work of female architects – starting with Marlene Moeschke-Poelzig and the construction of the "Villa Poelzig" in Berlin that ended up being demolished.
FEATURED Light, air and sustainability3/8/2022The renovation of the Walter Höllerer secondary school by Coplan AG convinces with its sustainable concept. For the façade, the architects opted for "öko skin" by Rieder, a cladding made of glass fiber concrete in lath format.
HOTEL The right blend2/28/2022Buckle Street Studios: Grzywinski+Pons have integrated no fewer than 103 studio apartments, a co-working space, a café, meeting rooms and a concept store in a building in London. In addition to the architecture, the New York design studio is also responsible for the interior design and most of the furniture.
ARCHITECTURE Living in San Riemo2/11/2022The DAM Prize 2022 goes to the cooperative housing project "San Riemo" in Munich, which impresses with its participatory housing model and flexible floor plans.
ARCHITECTURE Munich Provisional2/10/2022The new Volkstheater in Munich by LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei blends subtly into the existing neighborhood while serving as a cultural beacon for an adjacent urban development project.
ARCHITECTURE Minerality for the Spirit of the Place2/7/2022Living, working and shopping in one place: On the status quo of Sauerbruch Hutton's project at Berlin's Alexanderplatz.
ARCHITECTURE Hard shell, soft core2/4/2022The "House For Artists" in London offers not only flexible apartments, but also studios and communal areas that are intended to act as social catalysts in the neighborhood.
MICROLIVING A lighthouse for Paris1/26/2022Java Architecture have redensified a backyard in Paris with a micro-residential tower that cleverly shifts between proximity and distance.
ARCHITECTURE A sign of its time1/19/2022The Senckenberg quarter in Frankfurt/Main by cma cyrus moser architekten is mostly completed.
MICROLIVING Built collage1/17/2022In the project "Six houses and a garden" Fala Atelier has transformed two buildings in Porto into six micro-apartments that convince with a poetic composition.
OBITUARY The Sculptor's Architecture1/14/2022The Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill died at the age of 82. Our obituary.
ARCHITECTURE Three dimensional puzzle12/31/2021The Melopee School in Ghent by Xaveer De Geyter Architects is a typological experiment whose spatial grid creates space for additional outdoor facilities in an unconventional way.
ARCHITECTURE The architect and the legend12/24/2021It doesn’t happen too often that an historical architect like Sigurd Lewerentz is the subject of two publications appearing independently of each other at almost the same time. What’s more, an exhibition in Stockholm’s ArkDes Center for Architecture is dedicated to his life and work. So there must be something in the air prompting the current interest in Lewerentz. But what is it?
OBITUARY On the death of Richard Rogers12/20/2021Richard Rogers was one of the great architects of the 20th century and a pioneer of hi-tech architecture. He has now died at the age of 88.
MICROLIVING In a row12/20/2021In London, Stephen Taylor Architects have designed 3.50-meter-wide terraced houses that exemplify what affordable and architecturally sophisticated housing can look like.
STLEPARK AXOR Charming contrasts12/17/2021The Hotel Fritz Lauterbad in Freudenstadt in the northern Black Forest shows a successful combination of modern and traditional wooden architecture. The latest addition is the Appartement47 by monkey47, which uses AXOR faucets, showers and accessories.
FEATURED Rooms from light12/14/2021In Drogenbos, Belgium, Guillaume Van Moerkercke has developed a new showroom concept for the lighting specialist Light Gallery. HPL panels from Unilin Panels were also used for the spatial implementation.
FEATURED Clear lines12/2/2021The Prime Time Fitness Club relies on a high-quality ambience. A good example is the new Hamburg branch, where Proled lighting technology contributes to the special atmosphere.
FEATURED From large to small12/1/2021The extension for the Ås campus in Norway skilfully mediates between the existing buildings and the adjacent nature. Its facade with bricks from Petersen Tegl convinces with finely tuned details.
FEATURED Luminous landscape11/25/2021The new Volksbank area houses several functions in one large building complex. The homogeneous façade also comes into its own in the dark thanks to the ADO Lights brand luminaires from TTC.