Norman Foster has proposed having an architectural competition to design a new home for the UK parliament’s upper chamber, if it is relocated from London to York. “If the House of Lords is to be relocated north we must use the power of architecture to express our political and economic ambitions,” Foster said in a letter
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Hopkins Architects has completed the Buhais Geology Park Interpretive Centre on a former prehistoric sea in the emirate of Sharjah, UAE. The visitor centre is in the desert 30 miles south-east of the city of Sharjah, alongside the Jebel Buhais archaeological site within the Al Madam plain. “Our first sight of Jebel Buhais was in the late
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Mexican sculptor Pedro Reyes has built a bunker-like studio from prefabricated concrete and stone alongside his home in Coyoacán, Mexico City. Reyes, who trained as an architect before becoming an artist, designed the extension to his home to be the main workplace for his studio. “We prepared spaces for a wood shop, a metal shop, a
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Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has met Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro as part of a visit to investigate developing a tourism masterplan for the northeast region of the country. Bolsonaro met Ingels, described as “the most important architect of today”, earlier this week as part of a trip with investors from Mexican company Nômade Group. “The President
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Senegalese-American singer Akon says he has signed an agreement with the government of Senegal to build a city with a cryptocurrency-based economy named Akon City. “Just finalized the agreement for Akon City in Senegal,” Akon tweeted earlier this week. “Looking forward to hosting you there in the future.” The singer initially announced plans to create a city in
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Paper artist Marc Hagan-Guirey has recreated ten modernist buildings from folded and cut paper for his book Le Corbusier Paper Models: 10 Kirigami Buildings to Cut and Fold. The book, which is released next month, contains step-by-step instructions and material to recreate 10 of Le Corbusier’s most recognisable buildings in kirigami – a variation of origami that
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Over the past decade a succession of architects have designed holiday homes among the fisherman’s huts in the shadow of a nuclear power station on Dungeness beach, Kent. Here are seven of the most interesting. Black Rubber Beach House by Simon Conder Associates, 2003 Simon Conder Associates wrapped a fisherman’s hut built in the the
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Over the past decade a succession of architects have designed holiday homes among the fisherman’s huts in the shadow of a nuclear power station on Dungeness beach, Kent. Here are seven of the most interesting. Black Rubber Beach House by Simon Conder Associates, 2003 Simon Conder Associates wrapped a fisherman’s hut built in the the
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Dutch architecture studio OMA has unveiled the School of Science and Sports at a historic college in Brighton, which merges academic and athletic facilities in one building. The linear block, which is located alongside Brighton College’s main playing field, is OMA’s first sports building and its first major project at a secondary school. “Its always
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Danish architecture studio BIG is designing a “prototype city of the future” with wooden buildings and autonomous vehicles for Japanese car company Toyota near Mount Fuji in Japan. Named Woven City, the first phase of development on the site of a former car-factory will be home to 2,000 people who will test the vehicles, robotics and smart
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