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Photography by Jose Manuel Ballester offers glimpse inside Norman Foster Foundation archive

February 25, 2018 India Block 0

Photographer Jose Manuel Ballester provides an intimate look inside the Norman Foster Foundation in Madrid for his book Spaces, detailing the architect’s vast collection that ranges from a car owned by Le Corbusier to a model of Apple Park. Founded in 1999, the Norman Foster Foundation supports the development of the new generations of architects, designers

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UNStudio plans new cultural centre with rooftop cinemas for Paris

February 21, 2018 India Block 0

UNStudio has won a competition to design a new cinema and cultural centre with weathering steel walls and green roofs as part of BIG’s EruopaCity masterplan on the outskirts of Paris. The three intertwined volumes of weathering steel comprising the Centre Culturel dédié au 7è Art will house a cinema and “cultural laboratory” featuring both indoor and outdoor screens. EuropaCity

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UNStudio plans new cultural centre with rooftop cinemas for Paris

February 21, 2018 India Block 0

UNStudio has won a competition to design a new cinema and cultural centre with weathering steel walls and green roofs as part of BIG’s EruopaCity masterplan on the outskirts of Paris. The three intertwined volumes of weathering steel comprising the Centre Culturel dédié au 7è Art will house a cinema and “cultural laboratory” featuring both indoor and outdoor screens. EuropaCity

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Johan Sundberg uses Siberian larch to clad gabled summer house on Sweden’s coast

February 21, 2018 India Block 0

Larch boards cover both the interior and exterior of this gabled holiday home by Johan Sundberg, which stands in a pine forest next to a white sandy beach in Österlen, Sweden. The Swedish architect designed the holiday home as a retreat for a family of four to use during the summer months in the southern Swedish province of

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Dubai tower with golden lattice spire named world’s tallest hotel

February 16, 2018 India Block 0

A 356.5-metre skyscraper topped with swimming pools and a golden latticed roof in Dubai has won the title of the world’s tallest hotel. Developed by the Al Attar Group on a plot measuring 30 square metres, the Gevora Hotel stretches almost a quarter of a mile into the air. The Guinness Book of World Records ratified its claim

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Architectural Association announces shortlist for new director

February 15, 2018 India Block 0

The search for a new leader of London’s Architectural Association has progressed, with the final three candidates in the running to replace interim director Samantha Hardingham announced. Robert Mull, Eva Franch i Gilabert and Pippo Ciorra have been shortlisted for directorship of the Architectural Association (AA). The role has not been permanently filled since former director

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Developer to remove signage from site of Nazi torture cellars following backlash

February 15, 2018 India Block 0

The developer of a luxury urban quarter in Hamburg has agreed to remove a sign designed “as a tribute to the 20s” after critics compared it to concentration-camp signage. The typographic entry sign, designed by Berlin-based agency Polyform, will be dismantled as soon as possible, developer Quantum told Dezeen. “All involved people were depressed because of the bad associations,”

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Dorte Mandrup to wrap heritage centre around second-world-war bunker

February 14, 2018 India Block 0

Danish architect Dorte Mandrup has planned a building on top of a second-world-war naval bunker, in a UNESCO World Heritage area on the German coast. Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter’s competition-winning design places four storeys of office and storage space above a historic former military building in Wilhelmshaven, and wraps a glass wall around the exterior. The project was winner in a

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O’Donnell + Tuomey to build red brick opera house in Shanghai

February 13, 2018 India Block 0

O’Donnell + Tuomey has unveiled plans for three interconnected, angular, red brick opera houses in Shanghai, on the site of the 2010 Expo. The Dublin-based architecture practice has designed three performance venues, each with planted gardens placed on their angled rooftops to create an undulating park for visitors. Conceived as a “city of opera”, the 1,800-seat opera hall,

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BIG and Carlo Ratti design Singapore tower with trees bursting through facade

February 12, 2018 India Block 0

Bjarke Ingels Group and Carlo Ratti Associati have started building a 280-metre-high skyscraper in Singapore, which will feature a four-storey vertical park complete with treetop cocoons. The tower, at 88 Market Street in the city-state’s financial district, will contain 29 floors of office space and 299 apartments, along with gardens spread through the building. BIG and CRA’s design shows the

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