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Powerhouse Company completes Europe’s first mass-timber academic building

March 14, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Dutch studio Powerhouse Company has created the Marga Klompé Building at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, is “the first college building in Europe to be entirely constructed from solid wood”. Situated on a forested university campus in Tilburg, the cuboid building has a mass timber structure and facades clad in Portuguese stone. The main structure and internal

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Construction commences on world’s “tallest 3D-printed structure” Tor Alva

March 7, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architects Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger are creating a 30-metre-tall tower in the Swiss Alps, which is being 3D-printed with concrete by technology university ETH Zurich. Named Tor Alva, or White Tower, the building will become the world’s “tallest 3D-printed structure” once complete in Mulegns later this year, according to Hansmeyer and Dillenburger. ETH Zurich

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“More good architects should get involved in social housing” says Daniel Libeskind

March 6, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architects with creative flair are needed to overcome stigmas around social housing, urges Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind in this Social Housing Revival interview. “More good architects should get involved in social housing,” Libeskind told Dezeen. “We need creativity to overcome the social-housing stigma and we need architects who can invent new ways to create housing

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OMA juxtaposes orange-steel cylinder with modernist building for Singapore restaurant

March 4, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Dutch studio OMA has transformed a modernist building in Singapore into the Air Circular Campus and Cooking Club, adding a cylindrical orange steel frame encompassing a bar and kitchen. Aiming to create a dining experience that encourages visitors to think about food and its connection to the environment, OMA altered the 1970s building and added outdoor

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Eight inviting breakfast nooks for easy-going mornings

March 3, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

For our latest lookbook, we’ve rounded up eight kitchens with welcoming breakfast nooks of different shapes and sizes that provide a relaxed place to enjoy a meal. Typically tucked into a corner in or near the kitchen, breakfast nooks offer compact dining spaces that are more casual than a formal dining room and cosier than

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Australia’s largest architecture firms fail to meet gender pay gap

February 28, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

First-time data on Australia’s gender pay gaps has revealed the country’s 22 biggest architecture firms pay men between five and 27 per cent more than women, failing to meet the government’s target pay gap range. Published yesterday in an online tool by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), a federal government agency, the data included

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Álvaro Siza expands his Serralves Museum in Porto with angular gallery

February 26, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has expanded the Serralves Museum in Porto, which he completed in 1999, with an angular extension housing some of his archival works. Named the Álvaro Siza Wing, the three-storey extension has a geometric shape that branches out from the existing museum and slots in between the trees in Serralves Park. The Álvaro

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Peter Pichler Architecture encloses geometric office block with pleated facades

February 22, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Italian studio Peter Pichler Architecture has designed the angular headquarters for manufacturing company Bonfiglioli in Bologna, with a slanted roof covered in pleated mesh. Located in Bonfigliolo’s industrial site in Calderara di Reno, the building has a rectangular form punctured by a central outdoor courtyard and a series of terraces on the sloping roof. According

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Studio Egret West to transform former Heinz HQ into London housing

February 21, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

UK architecture firm Studio Egret West has shared its plans to create housing within two concrete 1960s buildings in London, which were formerly the headquarters of food company Heinz. Studio Egret West has received planning permission to create 124 apartments across the two office buildings while preserving their external concrete frames. Named Hayes Park Central

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UK’s “most sustainable” neighbourhood the Phoenix receives planning approval

February 19, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Development company Human Nature has received planning approval to transform a former industrial site in Lewes into a sustainable 685-home neighbourhood that will be the UK’s largest made from timber. The Phoenix, which was granted planning permission last week, will be built from engineered timber and be the most sustainable neighbourhood in the UK, according

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