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Curzon Camden Cinema / Takero Shimazaki Architects

June 28, 2022 Andreas Luco 0

Camden’s new cinema represents the adaptation and renewal of the once industrial infill lining its viaducts. The ambition for our second Curzon location sought to retain as much of the landlord’s pre-existing shell as possible, re-purposing the building fabric installed as part of the larger Hawley Wharf regeneration. Working with the inherited materials, we inserted new architectural elements with their own language which now define the public spaces of the cinema.

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Nao Iwanari models inward-facing Aquarium House in Kanagawa on a fish tank

June 28, 2022 Ali Morris 0
View from kitchen to elevated terrace in Aquarium House in Kanagawa by Nao Iwanari

Japanese architect Nao Iwanari has designed a house in Kanagawa Prefecture with split levels and an open-plan interior designed to emulate the free-flowing layout of a fish tank. Located on a small rectangular plot next to a parking lot in the city of Yamato, Aquarium House appears like an almost windowless concrete block from the street,

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Video captures Heatherwick Studio’s jewel-like Glasshouse unfolding

June 28, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0
Aerial view of Glasshouse by Heatherwick Studio

The glass and metal “sepals” of the sculptural Glasshouse by British designer Thomas Heatherwick can be seen unfolding in this short video filmed at Woolbeding Estate in England. Located in the gardens of the historic property in West Sussex, the Glasshouse is a sculptural and kinetic greenhouse filled with 300 species of subtropical trees and plants.

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House MM / a2o2 arhitekti

June 28, 2022 Andreas Luco 0

The house from the beginning of the 20th century was one of the few remaining characteristic houses in the neighborhood. Despite many new developments in the surroundings the owners decided to renovate the house and adapt it to modern living.

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Winners of the UIA 2030 Award Announced: Acknowledging Architects’ Contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals

June 28, 2022 Christele Harrouk 0

Today, at the eleventh session of the World Urban Forum in Katowice, Poland, the International Union of Architects (UIA), together with the UN-HABITAT, have announced the laureates of the UIA 2030 Award. Seeking to acknowledge the contributions of architects to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and New Urban Agenda through built interventions that demonstrate design quality and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this first edition of a biennial awards program, selected winning projects from Germany, Hong Kong, Argentina, Bangladesh, and China, from 125 submitted projects in 40 countries.

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FLUGT Refugee Museum of Denmark / BIG

June 28, 2022 Paula Pintos 0

Located at the site of Denmark’s largest Refugee camp from World War II, FLUGT, gives a voice and a face to refugees worldwide and captures the universal challenges, emotions, spirits,s, and stories shared by displaced humans. FLUGT is BIG’s second museum for Vardemuseerne: a local institution dedicated to archaeology, dissemination, and collection of historical knowledge about the region. BIG has adapted and extended one of the camp’s few remaining structures – a hospital building – into a 1,600 m2 museum.

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Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners drawing up plans to turn Lloyd’s building into hotel

June 28, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0
The Lloyd's building in London by Richard Rogers and Partners (now Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners)

UK studio Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has reportedly been hired to investigate turning its seminal Lloyd’s building in London into a hotel for owners Ping An. The studio, which designed the Grade I-listed building in the early 1980s as the headquarters for Lloyd’s of London, has been hired by the building’s owner to assess

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350 Bird Houses Cover This Suspended Hotel Room In A Swedish Forest

June 28, 2022 Erin 0

Architecture firm BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) in close collaboration with Treehotel and Swedish ornithologist Ulf Öhman, has designed ‘Biosphere’, a hotel room in Harads, Sweden. The new hotel room is suspended in the Harads pines, with BIG’s experiential design being the eighth hotel room on the property. Key to the design of the hotel room […]