ARCHITECTURE Architecture to be6/25/2021"TinyBe" seeks a dialogue between art, science, architecture and business with residential sculptures and offers visitors the option to stay in them temporarily for an individual experience of space.
FEATURED Elegant journey back in time6/25/2021Petersen Tegl provided the cladding for a new skyscraper in Manhattan with hand-crafted bricks that lend the concrete building an unusual elegance.
SUSTAINABILITY Greener densification6/24/2021With “Carré Belge” ingenhoven architects working in collaboration with Proximus Real Estate AG have created a new quarter in Cologne’s downtown area that should improve the city’s microclimate through densification and urban greening.
ARCHITECTURE Melancholic euphoria6/23/2021Lina Ghotmeh’s Stone Garden is a synthesis of architecture and archaeology, of rocks and flora as well as a highly emotional homage to the inhabitants’ will to survive in the architect’s catastrophe-ridden home town Beirut.
FEATURED Constantly reliable6/16/2021With his new Axel-Springer building Rem Koolhaas has created a landmark in Berlin that thanks to its radically modern architecture stands for the move towards a new way of working. The comprehensive supply and drainage system in the heart of the building is courtesy of Geberit.
FEATURED Surfaces with depth6/8/2021Italian manufacturer Cleaf seeks to spur the creativity of architects with its "Shaping Surfaces" competition. The prize in the first edition went to Campos Costa Arquitetos whose design for a concept store in Lisbon invites people on a journey of discovery.
FEATURED Golden sound boxes6/8/2021The fact that rehearsal rooms need not be drab boxes despite their sound insulation is demonstrated by two pavilions in Berlin. A contributory factor here is the facade made of KME’s “TECU(R) Gold” which transforms the two buildings into glowing sound bodies.
MICROLIVING The final days6/7/2021It was meant to be demolished back in 2007 but was saved by the global economic crisis. Now, though, its days are truly numbered: Anyone wanting to take a last look at architect Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo will have to hurry. The 1972 tower, one of the masterpieces of Japanese Metabolism, is just about still standing.
ARCHITECTURE A Metabolized Storage Space6/3/2021With the new Kunsthaus in Göttingen Atelier ST has finally helped old plans for an even older context to come to fruition.
FEATURED A journey into the past6/1/2021The "WaterWorks" in Hamburg is an exemplary demonstration by BiwerMau Architekten of how an old building can be put to a new use. Switches and power outlets from the Berker "1930" series also play a role in the conversion.
ARCHITECTURE Art Meets Church5/31/2021Together with H Architectos, Christ & Gantenbein are extending the MACBA in Barcelona and providing it with a new exhibition space. This will be accessed through a 15th-century church.
ARCHITECTURE Cooking for aesthetes5/28/2021With the kitchen as the programmatic centrepiece of the design, architects Daniel Schütz and Georg Windeck remodelled a Manhattan penthouse. The new floor plan celebrates the architectural heritage, the view and the passion for good food.
ARCHITECTURE Staying flexible5/17/2021Not far from Osaka architect Kohei Yukawa has designed a house for his family in which the traditional doma entry room assumes a key role.
OBITUARY Reaching for the skies right up till the end5/12/2021No, not all the buildings that Helmut Jahn built in his long and extremely successful career were high-rises. And yet they are his best-known designs by far and the name Jahn became inextricably linked with that of towers. Helmut Jahn recently died at the age of 81 in his chosen home country, the USA.
ARCHITECTURE Layers of learning4/21/2021The “College of Forestry” at Oregon State University has been expanded. The two new building complexes integrate the teaching ideals in their architectural concept and thus become sustainable places of learning.
FEATURED Learning from the forest4/20/2021In Luxembourg, a new school takes up the surrounding forest in the design of its facade. Its panels were provided by perforated metal specialist RMIG who also acted as a consultant for all aspects of the project.
ARCHITECTURE The architectural desire to travel4/7/2021OOAK architects have designed a holiday home on the island of Karpathos. The building stages the surrounding landscape and with its patios creates complex spatial relationships.
SUSTAINABILITY Building with future4/5/2021For the Zumtobel Group's current annual report, civil engineer and architect Prof. Werner Sobek formulated 17 theses on the subject of sustainability.
ARCHITECTURE The fascination of opposites4/2/2021Not a whole: Berlin photographer Andreas Gehrke has explored his home town. His new illustrated book “Berlin” is also a farewell.
ARCHITECTURE Circular4/1/2021Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen has designed an artful footbridge that connects two buildings in Brussel’s government district. Named “Tondo” the structure references the Renaissance.
FEATURED PROJECT A Symphony in Brick3/30/2021With diamond-shaped bricks in a hue specially designed for the project, Petersen Tegl is outfitting the extension to the Z33 House for Contemporary Art in Hasselt, Belgium with a façade that is exceptional in every respect.
ARCHITECTURE Three questions to Weng Ling3/29/2021For the urban development project "Pavilions by the Seaside" in Haikou, China, curator Weng Ling combines architecture and art from a total of 20 international creatives, including famous names such as Bjarke Ingels and Anish Kapoor. The concept she explains to us in an interview.
ARCHITECTURE At One with the Forest3/26/2021With the Tofino Beach House on Vancouver Island and other projects, Olson Kundig show how architecture can create a feeling of oneness with nature.
COLUMN Everyday Architecture3/25/2021Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal have won the Pritzker Prize. And it’s well overdue, as our author sees it, once again casting his gaze over the work and impact of the French architect duo.
ARCHITECTURE Jörg Brüggemann – Autobahn3/24/2021Jörg Brüggemann captured the German autobahn with a camera and created a contemporary document that raises questions about both the past and future of Germany’s national concrete structure.
ARCHITECTURE The human being in focus3/18/2021With her office Nickl & Partner, Professor Christine Nickl-Weller builds hospitals, research facilities and nursing homes nationally and internationally. She explains why flexible floor plans are important and what urban planning and hospital construction have in common.
FEATURED Sustainable fun with façades3/16/2021In Bochum, ACMS Architekten have designed a student residence based on the “Variowohnen” flexible housing concept. For the façade, they made use of “öko skin” courtesy of Rieder, a form of cladding comprising slatted wall panels made of fiberglass-reinforced concrete.
STYLEPARK WAGNER LIVING Redefining Boundaries3/9/2021In WAGNER Design Lab, architects Titus Bernhard and Andreas Weissenbach have recently realized a giant display window for Wagner. Thanks to Stefan Diez’s flexible “D2” system, its interior can be used flexibly for anything from a showroom to a work environment.
ARCHITECTURE A funky old-timer3/5/2021LOT Architects have given an old townhouse in Brooklyn a radical rejuvenation treatment. The result is one thing above all: blue.
ARCHITECTURE Estrangement of the familiar3/3/2021The two architectural firms of Young & Ayata and Michan Architecture joined forces to design a residential building in Mexico City. The result features an expressive concrete façade that provides for subtle agitation.
SUSTAINABILITY Stick, twist – live2/26/2021There are many facets to sustainable construction. This house sounds the way it looks – the Wikkelhouse (twisted house) by Amsterdam-based studio Fiction Factory is manufactured as a modular lightweight construction made of virgin-fiber paperboard that can be put up on site quickly without problems or complications.
COLUMN Less for More2/24/2021The “Van B” residential building in Munich hopes to provide answers to the housing questions of our time. Our author took a closer look at the concept behind it.
ARCHITECTURE New Stylepark building receives the German Brick Award 20212/16/2021NKBAK's new Stylepark building in Frankfurt am Main has been awarded the renowned German Brick Award.
ARCHITECTURE Super landmark for Germany2/16/2021Architecture can be beautiful. It can impress, influence and frighten, it can be serious – but above all architecture can definitely be fun! Take WERK12 by MVRDV and N-V-O in Munich’s Werksviertel-Mitte that was named best new building in Germany and awarded the DAM Prize 2021.