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Weathering steel panels create rusty walls for family home in Oslo’s old town

March 15, 2018 India Block 0

Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects has used a palette of Corten steel, concrete and plywood to create this low-maintenance family home in Oslo, Norway. The local architecture firm designed Rust House for a plot in Oslo’s Gamlebyen area, the old town in the eastern part of the inner city that dates back to medieval times. After a period of decline in

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Twisting band of copper-hued steel encircles sports centre in The Hague

March 15, 2018 India Block 0

A ribbon of bright, polished steel wraps around the curving roof of this sports centre by British practice Faulkner Browns in The Hague, Netherlands. Faulkner Browns designed the €50 million (£44,336,025) Sportcampus Zuiderpark to offer 33,000-square-metres of sports facilities, including a gymnastics hall, a beach sports hall with real sand, and a range of sports science

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Paris garden skyscraper by SOM will be “one of the most sustainable buildings in Europe”

March 14, 2018 India Block 0

Skidmore Owings and Merrill has proposed a 180-metre skyscraper in Paris that is designed to be zero-energy, and accessible via a garden bridge leading from the River Seine. The international architecture firm is part of the team that launched a masterplan for the Charenton-Bercy project at property event MIPIM in Cannes this week. Led by urban

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Stained glass dividers brighten London co-working space inside former church

March 14, 2018 India Block 0

Surman Weston has converted a Victorian church in London’s Islington into a colourful co-working space that doubles as the architecture studio’s own office. The British practice turned the former methodist church into an open-plan office, using stained glass screens and panels on the suspended staircase to allude to the building’s history. Harlequin-patterned panes of glass in muted green, blue,

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Holzer Architekten adds black extension to 1920s house in Stuttgart

March 13, 2018 India Block 0

A sliver of glazing separates a white house in Stuttgart from this black extension Holzer Architekten designed to create additional living spaces with plentiful garden views for its owners.  The local practice was asked to renovate the the 1920s house to suit the needs of a family of five, adding the two storey annex to the southwestern

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Architecture Schools Database launched to help students find the right course

March 8, 2018 India Block 0

The Architecture Foundation has launched a free schools database to help students discover architecture schools and their research projects. The Architecture Schools Database is a free-to-access platform that provides a fully searchable collated list of every educational facility in the UK that teaches architecture. It also has a function for academics and current students to register an account

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Haptic and Nordic to build “sustainable city of the future” at Oslo airport

March 8, 2018 India Block 0

Haptic Architects and Nordic Office of Architecture have released plans for a city next to Oslo Airport that is to be completely powered by self-produced energy and served by driverless electric vehicles.  The practices are masterplanning Oslo Airport City (OAC) for a 370-hectare site beside the airport – which was recently extended by Nordic Office of

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Bernardo Bader references traditional Alpine architecture in larch-clad home for an art collector

March 8, 2018 India Block 0

Bernardo Bader Architects has reinterpreted the traditional Alpine chalet using concrete and larch wood to create a home for an art and antique furniture collector on the edge of a village in the Appenzell region of the Swiss Alps. The Austrian practice was commissioned to create the house on the site of a farmhouse that had been

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OMA adds white concrete gallery tower to Fondazione Prada art centre in Milan

March 6, 2018 India Block 0

OMA has added another building to its Fondazione Prada complex in Milan, a white concrete tower that will showcase a collection of contemporary art. Torre is the last of three new buildings that Rem Koolhaas’ firm has added to the former distillery compound where the Fondazione Prada art centre is located, in Largo Isarco, southern Milan. Koolhaas and colleagues Chris van

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Honeycomb-patterned towers by Büro Ole Scheeren frame gardens in Singapore

March 6, 2018 India Block 0

A pair of skyscrapers with concave, honeycomb-patterned facades bracket planted plazas at Büro Ole Scheeren’s Duo development in Singapore, Malaysia. The architecture firm headed up by German architect Ole Scheeren designed the pair of glass skyscrapers to frame interlocking public spaces in the city-state’s Kampong Glam neighbourhood. At 186 metres, the tallest of the towers is entirely residential, comprising 660 apartments

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