Month: October 2018
HENN Selected to Redesign Europe’s Largest Cultural Center
HENN Architekten have been selected to redesign the Gasteig, Europe’s largest cultural center in Munich, Germany. The renovation and remodel aims to bring new life to the center after 30 years of use. Originally designed by the architecture partnership Raue, Rollenhagen, Grossmann and Lindemann, the Gasteig welcomes around two million visitors annually. The new design celebrates the building’s role as a revered cultural hub and introduces a new glazed bridge to connect the existing parts of the building and bring transparency to the complex.
There is “no good Brexit” say Foster, Rogers and Chipperfield in open letter to UK prime minister
Over 1,000 leading architects have signed a letter to the UK prime minister stating that Brexit would be “devastating” to the architecture profession. “We believe that there is no good Brexit,” says the letter, which was organised by Piers Taylor, founder of Invisible Studio and presenter of the BBC’s The House That £100k Built. Addressed to
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Metric turns bomb-blasted banana warehouse in Barcelona into triplex apartment
Crumbling brick surfaces hint at the rich past of this triplex apartment in Barcelona, designed by architecture studio Metric with arch-shaped openings and warm oak floors. The three-floor apartment is set within a former warehouse in Barcelona’s up-and-coming Sant Antoni neighbourhood. Originally built in the early 1900s, the building was first used to store bananas
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the golden soria moria sauna echoes landscape and local mythology
gleaming golden shingles reference a well-known norwegian fairytale about a gold palace in the mountains.
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Synagogue and Community Center NBI / Nicolas Loi
The Project is a Synagogue and Community Center for the NBI Community, and it includes a Synagogue, Offices and Meeting Rooms for religious and cultural activities. It houses all the activities of the Community, generally meetings and gatherings of about 300-400 people.
superimpose wraps beijing’s CO2 pavilion in translucent screens and smoke
the site-specific installation is created as a space for isolation and contemplation from the urban chaos.
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Peter Zumthor’s Rammed Concrete Retreat for Living Architecture Nears Completion in England
Living Architecture has published photographs of the Peter Zumthor-designed “Secular Retreat” as it nears completion in Chivelstone, Devon. The retreat will be the Pritzker Prize-winning architect’s first permanent building in the UK.
CLOU’s concrete spa resort blends into the landscape of chinese mountains
the yuansu resort in the hot springs of the wuyi mountains, the central part of zhejiang province, aims to be part of the local community.
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Apartment in Gracia / Kahane Architects + Maria Alarcón
The project reinterprets the spatial conception of a typical apartment from the beginning of last century in Barcelona. A space full of interior rooms, doors and halls, which does not adapt to the current needs of a living space.