Month: July 2019

World’s tallest shipping-container building to be built in London

July 2, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
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Patalab Architecture has won approval to build a nine-storey office block from shipping containers, which will be the world’s tallest building made from the modular structures. When built, the office block in Whitechapel, east London, will be 26-metres-high plus a lift overrun. This will make it taller than the Freitag Store in Zurich – the current tallest building made from

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Top 10 architecture and design exhibitions: summer 2019

July 2, 2019 Augusta Pownall 0
Exhibitions guide

We’ve chosen our top 10 summer architecture and design exhibitions from around the world. To find out about industry events taking place in July, August and September, look at our comprehensive month-by-month guide. Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, Kensington, London W8 6AG Until 15 September 2019 Curated by the London museum’s director Deyan Sudjic,

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Museum of London Unveils Expansion into Historic Farringdon Buildings

July 2, 2019 Niall Patrick Walsh 0

The Museum of London has unveiled the design for their new West Smithfield home. Designed by Stanton Williams, Asif Khan, and Julian Harrap Architects, the plans showcase the transformation of a campus of beautiful yet dilapidated market buildings into a 24-hour cultural destination. The scheme celebrates the historic buildings of West Smithfield, while creating a unique, memorable visitor experience.

luigi valente + mauro di bona restore an italian church to create a theater

July 2, 2019 macnadusa 0

situated in the small italian town of rotello, luigi valente and mauro di bona have undertaken the careful transformation of saint rocco’s church to create a permanent theater and multi-purpose hall. the architects were challenged with the functional restoration of the building, which was in need of care and attention after years of small renovation […]

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“Design can’t solve all our problems, so stop pretending it can”

July 2, 2019 Christine Murray 0
Design can’t solve all our problems

Designers can not save the world by themselves, but they can help avert the climatic and social disasters that the world is facing, says Christine Murray. Designers, you know what your problem is? You just don’t know when to stop. You just have to design bloody everything. You get a piece of city to masterplan

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IZUMI Allerød / PAN- Projects

July 2, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

IZUMI Allerød is an interior renovation project for a restaurant locates suburb of Copenhagen. IZUMI is a chain restaurant serves “Nordic twisted” Japanese cuisines that holds several restaurants around greater Copenhagen. Due to the need of rebranding, we were assigned to design a spatial identity which interior expresses the concept of the restaurant. As a response, the studio translated IZUMI’s manifesto into a spatial experience which is a “Nordic twisted” Japanese culture.