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Architecture Foundation battles council to save Antepavilion structures from demolition

September 11, 2020 India Block 0
The Potemkin Theatre by Maich Swift Architects in Haggeston London is the third Antepavilion

Organisers of the annual Antepavilion commission in London are fighting to prevent “oppressive” Hackney Council from demolishing a series of subversive canalside pavilions. The local authority is demanding the removal of a series of architectural structures at Hoxton Docks on Regent’s Canal in east London, built as part of the annual competition run by arts

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Network of Architecture perches Ötzi Peak 3251m viewpoint above a glacier in Italian Alps

September 10, 2020 India Block 0
Ötzi Peak 3251m is a viewpoint made of Corten steel

Ötzi Peak 3251m is a viewing platform made of weathering steel built by architecture studio Network of Architecture at the peak of Schnals Valley Glacier ridge in South Tyrol, Italy. Perched 3,251 metres above sea level – hence its name – the viewpoint looks towards Austria over an alpine landscape. Network of Architecture built the

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Welcome to The Jungle House has an aquaponic system connecting a pond for edible fish and rooftop garden

September 10, 2020 India Block 0
Welcome to the Jungle House renovation in Sydney, Australia, by CplusC Architectural Workshop

CplusC Architectural Workshop has built a house in Sydney with recycled materials, a rooftop vegetable garden and an aquaponics system containing edible fish. Welcome to The Jungle House, which has been shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2020 in the Residential rebirth category, is a home for the studio’s director Clinton Cole and his family. The project,

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Schemata Architects updates traditional Japanese bathhouse with tiles and Towada stone

September 6, 2020 India Block 0
Koganeyu by Schemata Architects renovation in Japan

Schemata Architects has renovated a traditional sento, or public bathhouse, in Tokyo adding modern touches including a bar serving beer. Named Koganeyu after the famous Koganeyu Onsen baths in Sapporo, the project involved refurbishing a public bathhouse that was originally built in 1985. Tokyo based Schemata Architects kept traditional elements, such as the half wall

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FEA Studio designs “neighbourhood” of classrooms for primary school in Iran

September 5, 2020 India Block 0
The Noor E Mobin G2 Primary School by FEA Studio made of brick in Iran

The Noor E Mobin G2 Primary School by FEA Studio is a school in the desert near Bastaam, Iran, made up of a series of classrooms divided by courtyards and outdoor corridors. Iranian architecture firm FEA Studio designed the school for Noor E Mobin, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), as part of an educational complex in

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Durbach Block Jaggers and John Wardle Architects create brick-clad cultural centre in Sydney

September 4, 2020 India Block 0
Phoenix Central Park gallery and performance space by Durbach Block Jaggers and John Wardle Architects in Sydney, Australia

Phoenix Central Park is a gallery and a performance space in Sydney designed by Durbach Block Jaggers and John Wardle Architects. The performance space, which was designed by architecture studio Durbach Block Jaggers, is shaped like a bell with stepped walls formed by curving horizontal timber louvres. Connected to the auditirium is a gallery space designed

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Guallart Architects designs post-covid housing for new city in China

September 2, 2020 India Block 0
Self-Sufficient City proposal by Guallart Architects for Xiong'an New Area in China

Self-Sufficient City by Guallart Architects is a concept for a housing development in Xiong’an New Area, China, which would be able to produce its own energy and food during another coronavirus lockdown. Spanish studio Guallart Architects included greenhouses for growing food, large sloping roofs covered in solar panels, and workshops filled with 3D-printers in its

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Richard Rogers steps down from Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners after 43 years

September 1, 2020 India Block 0
Portrait of Richard Rogers

Pritzker Prize-winning architect and high-tech architecture pioneer Richard Rogers has retired from Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the practice he founded in 1977. British-Italian architect Rogers, who is aged 87, has stepped down from the board of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. His name will be dropped from the practice within the next two years, per the studio’s founding

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OMA creates three open-air terraces for Prince Plaza in Shenzhen

September 1, 2020 India Block 0
Prince Plaza skyscraper by OMA in Shezhen

Dutch architecture firm OMA has built Prince Plaza in Shezhen, an office skyscraper with three cut-outs for terraces lined with golden hexagons. Located on the waterfront in Shenzhen’s Shekou district, the 200-metre-tall tower was built for property company China Merchants Shekou Holdings (CMSH). OMA created the open-air terraces – called “sky decks” – high above

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Studio PKA turns heritage building in Mumbai into own architects’ studio

August 29, 2020 India Block 0

Architecture firm Studio PKA has transformed part of a disused 100-year-old building in Mumbai into its own contemporary office space. Called The Loft, the adaptive reuse project focused on the fourth floor of a Victorian-era warehouse in the city’s South Bombay, an art district nicknamed SoBo. The architecture studio gently “peeled away” decades worth of

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