Month: November 2023

The project focuses on the extension of a mid-century house, on the edge of the Mouzaïa neighborhood in Paris. This construction is typical of the row houses on Beauregard Hill and leans against the slope, the first floor being raised above the garage and the entrance hall. Living areas overlook the street and turn away from the garden below.

The first award winners of the 2023 World Architecture Festival have been announced, following Day One of live presentations at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, in which hundreds of shortlisted projects were presented by practices from around the world. Amongst today’s category award winners of the world’s largest international live-judged architectural event are MAD Architects, Woods Bagot and Nextoffice, Studio of Architectural Research & Design, who won across three individual categories.

The first award winners of the 2023 World Architecture Festival have been announced, following Day One of live presentations at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, in which hundreds of shortlisted projects were presented by practices from around the world. Amongst today’s category award winners of the world’s largest international live-judged architectural event are MAD Architects, Woods Bagot and Nextoffice, Studio of Architectural Research & Design, who won across three individual categories.

The built environment represents, for most of us, the background of everyday life, and yet, when we look at a building, we rarely understand what it is made of. In doing so, we also fail to understand its impact on us and on the larger systems of nature. Office Kim Lenschow aims to draw attention to this and to provoke critical thinking in relation to architecture and the materials that make it. By focusing on small-scale, mostly residential projects, the office seeks to reveal this hidden narrative of materials and cultivate more awareness and engagement with the structures surrounding us. For their involvement in the exploration of materials and sustainable development, Office Kim Lenschow has been selected as one of the ArchDaily 2023 New Practices. Every year since 2020, ArchDaily has curated and highlighted emerging offices that bring a new perspective to the field of architecture and design.

Pandemics, wars, social unrest, economic crises, price hikes, scarce labor, and materials. The construction industry is in crisis. Accessing financing becomes difficult, rates rise, and there’s a deficit in infrastructure and housing. Climate change increases uncertainty, while natural disasters make action more urgent.

In charming Oberneukirchen, located in the Austrian countryside, architect Walter Kräutler and artist Sofie Thorsen have come together to transform the interior of the neo-Gothic village church in episode 10 of Opening up.

As part of the Schools by Circlewood consortium, OMA’s David Gianotten and Michael den Otter, together with Studio A Kwadraat, represented by Jimmy van der Aa, have won the competition to design the Wisperweide school in Weesp. This will become the first school to be built using Schools by Circlewood’s prefabricated wooden modular system, developed in collaboration with OMA. The system has earlier been chosen by the administration of Amsterdam to be employed across the city to provide flexible and sustainable elementary schools.

Making a human district in a global city, There’s a snapshot of an alley in Tokyo, taken two decades ago. It’s unremarkable. It could be a scene from any number of residential neighborhoods, with its familiar tangle of cables, autumn branches, telephone poles, and washing strung across first-floor balconies. On the ground, a vending machine and pot plants are on a flight of stairs. Looking up, a distant skyscraper and a handful of taller buildings against the blue sky. What you can see needs some care. You notice the wall is overtaken by weeds, there are barriers around a garage, and a rusting fence. What you can’t see is the meaning this place holds for the people who lived there, the invisible threads that drew its community together. The story of Azabudai Hills begins with a neighborhood in similar need of renewal, but one that is being stitched together from these threads of memory. It is a new kind of district in the city, made for people and filled with greenery – “a place,” says Thomas Heatherwick “to be cherished.”

The Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) announced yesterday, on Tuesday, November 28, that Riyadh, the capital city of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been selected to host the 2030 World Expo, by securing the necessary two-thirds majority of votes in the first round. Marking another milestone for the Gulf, following Dubai’s Expo 2020 and Qatar’s hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2022, this five-yearly event draws millions of visitors and investments. Under the theme, “The Era of Change: Together for a Foresighted Tomorrow”, Expo 2030 Riyadh will run between 1 October 2030 and 31 March 2031.