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Kengo Kuma’s Japan National Stadium is “definitely not iconic” says Martin van der Linden

April 19, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0
National Stadium by Kengo Kuma one minute architecture video

Architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden visits Kengo Kuma’s new Olympic stadium in Tokyo in his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival. “Here behind me is the new Olympic Stadium designed by Kengo Kuma,” says van der Linden. “The project was rather controversial, as the international competition was initially won by Zaha Hadid.” Officially

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Maternity Waiting Village / MASS Design Group

April 19, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

Maternal mortality due to complications during childbirth remains a major global problem. In 2010 in Malawi, about one in thirty-six women had a lifetime risk of dying during pregnancy or delivery, largely from preventable causes. Maternal waiting homes have been used to increase access to skilled professionals located adjacent to health centers. These facilities provide a monitored space for expectant mothers starting from their thirty-sixth week until their delivery. The president of Malawi initiated an effort in 2012 to build 130 such facilities across the country.

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Lemoal Lemoal Architectes builds translucent half-timbered tennis pavilion

April 19, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Garden Tennis Club of Cabourg by Lemoal Lemoal Architectes 

Paris studio Lemoal Lemoal Architectes has completed a half-timbered changing pavilion at the Garden Tennis Club of Cabourg on the north coast of France. Built to contain changing facilities and toilets needed by the tennis club, the pavilion is designed to be a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional half-timbered buildings found in Normandy. “Half-timbered architecture is

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Zagal Loft / Tangible

April 19, 2020 Andreas Luco 0

The project is located in the city of Medellín, a valley where its inhabitants are permanently interacting with the hillside, going up and down several times a day. This is why the landscape that the mountains allows us to have is deeply rooted in the local idiocincracy.

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Original beams and brickwork add warmth to pared-back Madrid apartment

April 19, 2020 Ali Morris 0
Apartment in Lavapiés by Leticia Saá

Architect Leticia Saá has woven historical features such as exposed brickwork and wooden pillars into the minimal interior of this open-plan apartment in Madrid. Located in Madrid’s Lavapiés neighbourhood, the two-bedroom apartment is spread across the top floor of a three-storey residential building that dates back to 1900. The apartment had been unoccupied for 35

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