Kengo Kuma’s Tokyo 2020 Olympics stadium and the Zaha Hadid-designed desert Bee’ah Headquarters are among Lizzie Crook’s picks of the most exciting new buildings opening in 2020. National Stadium, Japan, Kengo Kuma This year will see the opening of Kengo Kuma’s stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. It will comprise an oval, wooden-lattice
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Continuing our review of 2019, Lizzie Crook spotlights 10 of the best staircase designs from this year including concrete steps intended to attract Japanese spirits and stairs that double as a meeting space. Hapimag Headquarters, Switzerland, by Hildebrand A giant concrete staircase winds its way up through the the four storeys of this open-plan office by Hildebrand
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Continuing our high-tech architecture series we’ve rounded up 15 examples of the style that you should know, including high-tech highlights the Centre Pompidou, Lloyd’s building and the Willis Faber & Dumas building. Led by architects Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Michael and Patty Hopkins, Nicholas Grimshaw and Renzo Piano, high-tech architecture was the last major style of the 20th
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The Royal Institute of British Architects has published the Sustainable Outcomes Guide to help its members and the wider architecture industry avert the climate disaster. The publication concisely outlines the design principles and performance metrics that the architecture profession must follow in order to achieve a sustainable future. It supports the RIBA’s 2030 Climate Challenge, an
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COBE has completed the Halftime building at the Adidas headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany, which is distinguished by a giant rhomboid-shaped roof. The 15,500-square-metre Halftime building was designed by COBE as a multifunctional venue that provides staff, brand ambassadors and visitors to Adidas’ World of Sports campus with an array of formal and informal meeting spaces.
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David Adjaye has unveiled visuals of a multifunctional building and public square in Sydney that will be shaded by a perforated metal canopy, designed with Aboriginal artist David Boyd. The scheme, named Sydney Plaza, will be built by Adjaye Associates in the city’s central business district where the Circular Quay Tower by Foster + Partners
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Next up in our high-tech architecture guide, we look at Portcullis House in London, which demonstrated how the style could be used in historically sensitive locations. Built opposite the Palace of Westminster, Portcullis House is an office building designed by Michael and Patty Hopkins’ studio, now called Hopkins Architects, as offices for the UK Parliament. The
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BIG has unveiled visuals of The Portico that will mark the entrance to CityLife, a district in Milan that has buildings designed by Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind and Arata Isozaki. Distinguished by its giant sweeping rooftop, The Portico will fill the final two plots of the residential and commercial development that is located on the site
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The brick-clad Nithurst Farm contains grand concrete rooms that are modelled on the Soviet science-fiction film, Stalker. British architect Adam Richards designed the house, which replaced an old farmworker’s cottage in the countryside near the town of Haslemere, England, as his own home. It is intended to evoke the ruin of a Roman villa and contains
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Snøhetta and WERK Arkitekter have released visuals of a community centre for water sports on the coast of Esbjerg, Denmark, which will be made from wood. Named Lanternen, the circular facility is designed by Snøhetta and WERK Arkitekter to evoke “the geometry and craftmanship of boats” in a bid to set it apart from other
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