Agustín Ferrer Casas, in collaboration with the Fundacio Mies van der Rohe, has published an illustrated comic book charting the life and work of the renowned architect Mies van der Rohe. Featuring texts by Anatxu Zabalbeascoa and Norman Foster, MIES is a biopic inspired by Ferrer Casas’ reading of Mies van der Rohe: Menos es más by Anatxu Zabalbeascoa.
Mexican architect Michel Rojkind has been named the vice president of architecture at WeWork. A native of Mexico City, Rojkind founded the Rojkind Arquitectos office in 2002 focusing on design, tactical and experiential innovation, maintaining an architectural vision that will shape integral experiences, connecting the complexities of each project to a deeper level to positively impact society and the environment. This vision was what led him to connect perfectly with the WeWork approach.
Fritz Hansen has opened a showroom designed by Jaime Hayon in Xi’an as part of its ambition to become “the biggest Danish brand in China”. The 1,000-square-metre store is the Danish furniture brand’s biggest ever and its first in China. Dario Reicherl, the brand’s Asia CEO, said the store was a statement of its ambitions
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Human population is increasing by almost 2% a year. The need for shelter to develop our daily activities ends in a built environment. This must give good living conditions, like comfortable space, natural light, acoustics, etc. But the built environment also starts a dialogue with the preceding one, the natural environment, which must be sustainable.
We, the curators of the Carlo Ratti/South China-Torino Lab (Politecnico di Torino-South China University of TechnologyCUT) team, are pleased to announce the Open Call for proposals to participate in the “Eyes of the City” exhibition section in the framework of the 2019 Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB). We invite international architects, planners, designers, philosophers, thinkers, scientists, companies, educational institutions, research laboratories, think-tanks and students to submit their proposals from April 1st to May 31st, 2019. The Open Call will accept proposals for design projects, research projects and critical essays that will form the core of the “Eyes of the
austria-based studio innauer-matt architekten presents the ‘house with three eyes,’ a home situated on the edge of a forest outside the center of a nearby village. the new house replaces a derelict farmhouse, abandoned half a century ago, which had been deteriorated beyond repair by wind and weather. the resulting project, a house for four people, comprises […]
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daylight enters the room through three large, circular windows, each of which faces a different direction, inviting different landscapes into the room.
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The new Élancourt Music School has taken up residence in the former ecumenical center of the Sept Mares neighborhood, one of the focal points founding the new town of Saint-Quentin en Yvelines. The building was originally a house of worship, a simple, without ornament and inward-looking construction owing to the peace and quiet required by its function. Philippe Deslandes built it between 1974 and 1977, with the desire that it embody the qualities of simplicity, modularity and anonymity.
John Wardle Architects‘ Ian Potter Southbank Centre for the University of Melbourne’s Conservatorium of Music has opened to faculty and students. The $109 million project was designed as part of the larger Southbank campus transformation in Australia. Made to house more than 1,000 music students, the project includes a series of performance areas, studios and rehearsal spaces. The Southbank Centre also features one of the world’s largest oculus windows.
Amin Taha and his studio Groupwork’s block at 168 Upper Street is a misremembered copy of a lost four-storey pavilion, reconstructed in terracotta-coloured concrete to complete a terrace in London. The block was designed by Groupwork to be a deliberately distorted version of a previous building that was destroyed during the second world war. It contains a showroom
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