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Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter reveals visuals of tiered copper tower for Norway

December 29, 2017 India Block 0

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has revealed renderings for a copper ziggurat-like housing tower designed for the site of a former military camp in the Norwegian town of Ski Vest. The Oslo-based architects designed the tower to be wrapped with linear terraces made from copper perforated with a lace-like pattern. The top floors are shown stepped back at

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Urban-Think Tank develops low-cost housing for South African slum

December 28, 2017 India Block 0

Urban-Think Tank has completed the next phase of its Empower Shack project, bringing safe low-cost housing to residents of South Africa’s informal settlements. The design strategy collective first started studying Khayelitsha, Cape Town’s second largest township, in 2012 and designed and built the first four prototypes alternative slum housing two years later. This year Urban-Think Tank added

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Architecture film is “a genre in the making” as festivals multiply

December 22, 2017 India Block 0

Architecture film festivals are booming, as filmmakers turn their attention to the genre, new events launch, and audiences grow. 2017 has been a particularly standout year for film festivals dedicated to architecture, with new festivals opening in London and Melbourne, and already established ones adding more dates and cities to their programmes. “I noticed that

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Architecture film is “a genre in the making” as festivals multiply

December 22, 2017 India Block 0

Architecture film festivals are booming, as filmmakers turn their attention to the genre, new events launch, and audiences grow. 2017 has been a particularly standout year for film festivals dedicated to architecture, with new festivals opening in London and Melbourne, and already established ones adding more dates and cities to their programmes. “I noticed that

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Herzog & de Meuron unveils plans for trio of residential towers in Basel

December 20, 2017 India Block 0

Swiss practice Herzog & de Meuron has won a competition to design a new masterplan for Basel’s Nordspitze area, including three residential skyscrapers. The masterplan by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Mueron’s Basel-based firm will transform a commercial area of the city into a new urban quarter, with high-density residential blocks and two new parks. Three slim, cylindrical towers are planned

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Steven Holl completes luminous Maggie’s Centre next to Britain’s oldest hospital

December 19, 2017 India Block 0

American architect Steven Holl has unveiled his Maggie’s Centre for cancer patients in London, featuring a facade of translucent white glass dotted with coloured panels. Imagined by New York-based Holl as a “vessel within a vessel within a vessel”, the luminous Maggie’s Barts features a concrete frame, a layer of bamboo wood and a skin of matt

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Kieran Timberlake completes £75 million “crystalline cube” for US Embassy in London

December 18, 2017 India Block 0

Kieran Timberlake has completed work on the US Embassy in London, a glass cube swathed in shimmering sails of plastic that is set on a plinth and surrounded by a moat-like pond on the edge of the River Thames. The Philadelphia-based firm won the competition to design an embassy to embody the “ideals of the American government”

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Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners begins work on Louvre art store in northern France

December 15, 2017 India Block 0

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has started building a new concrete-framed art storage facility for the Louvre museum in Lievin, France, which will be covered by a large green roof. The centre designed by the British architectural firm will be equipped to store 250,000 art works as well as conservation and study areas. Set entirely on one level, the Louvre collections facility

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Foster + Partners staggers limestone towers to create roof terraces with sea views in Beirut

December 12, 2017 India Block 0

Foster + Partners has completed its first project in Lebanon, a trio of limestone-clad residential towers in downtown Beirut with views out over the Mediterranean, and a McLaren car showroom in its base. The stepped blocks are part of 3Beirut, a city centre development designed by British architecture firm Foster + Partners for Lebanese luxury property developer Sea View

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RIBA reveals 62 projects vying to be named world’s best new building

December 12, 2017 India Block 0

A forest chapel in Japan, an oyster-shell-inspired ferry terminal in Italy and a grain silo converted into an art museum in South Africa are among the projects shortlisted for the second edition of the RIBA International Prize. The Royal Institute of British Architects has released a longlist of 62 projects vying for the RIBA International Prize 2018,

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