Articles by macnadusa

in lausanne, switzerland, danish architecture firm 3XN has completed ‘olympic house’ — the new headquarters of the international olympic committee (IOC). the building unites 500 employees, who were previously spread across lausanne in four locations, under one roof at a single site. following the IOC’s brief, the project is formed around five key objectives: movement, […]

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in 2016 — following a design competition with participation from zaha hadid architects, benoy, and HOK — grimshaw was chosen to develop the concept for heathrow’s ‘hub airport of the future’. now, the UK’s busiest airport has revealed its preferred expansion masterplan. the proposal involves a new runway as well as the addition of other […]

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15 projects from nine different countries are presented as part of the second edition of the bicycle architecture biennale (BAB). the show, which is now on view in amsterdam before beginning a global tour, examines the effect that cycling is having on our cities. the exhibition was curated by NEXT architects, with the individual projects […]

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architect kristoffer tejlgaard has designed and built a fully transparent 25-square-meter pavilion that resembles a water droplet. born out of a desire to create a high-quality contemporary alternative to traditionally glazed greenhouses, the structure is an engineered self-supporting dome, which can function as a garden pavilion, greenhouse, mobile exhibition pavilion, or a recreational space. to […]

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from now until august 4, 2019, tokyo’s TOTO GALLERY·MA hosts an exhibition by japanese architect hideyuki nakayama. titled ‘, and then’, the exhibition features various films that convey aspects of nakayama’s architecture that cannot be communicated through architectural models and drawings. ‘each of the films mainly features how each architecture we had built in the […]

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estudio galera sites its ‘casa divisadero’ in the coastal town of cariló, outside buenos aires. the dwelling exists as an autonomous artifact with no clear architectural identity. strictly respecting the site’s setbacks, vegetation, and natural topography, the inward-looking house generates its own world. realized in austere concrete as a rectangular prism along one level, three […]

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years ago, project managers everywhere were getting all creative on us, ditching their cushy air-conditioned offices for salt-of-the-earth shipping containers — but even those seem large and unnecessary when looking at the ‘site shack.’ at the foot of a mountain, or on the back of a truck in suburbia, this mobile workspace prototype (or off-grid living […]

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