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May 27, 2022
In the latest project Jinke City Light, Qionglai Sales Center & Model Room, AOD creates the lively epitome of community life with the concept of urban life. Located in the core area of Qionglai New town, with completed infrastructure, the designer endeavors to extend the upper classes’ ultimate expectation for future life and construct fine modern […]
May 27, 2022
The new building of the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest, Hungary, opened this week. A remarkable design feature is its curved shape that’s topped with a large green roof. Designed by Marcel FERENCZ of Napur Architect, the building has gently curving lines that enable the building to function as a gateway and a passage linking […]
May 26, 2022
Benedetti Architects has been selected to lead the refurbishment of the Royal Institute of British Architects’ headquarters at 66 Portland Place, London. The announcement follows an open call for expressions of interest for the project, which aims to modernise RIBA’s Grade II* listed headquarters in central London, improving its sustainability and accessibility. “We adore 66 […]
May 25, 2022
An AT webinar with The Rooflight Company exploring ways of improving the energy efficiency of our historic building stock is taking place on Wednesday 8th June. Refurbishment of New Court at Trinity College, Cambridge, by 5th Studio and Max Fordham (ph: Timothy Soar) Our built heritage makes an invaluable contribution to the quality of the […]
May 25, 2022
Danny Fitzgerald, National Architectural Manager at Schüco UK, in conversation with Architecture Today’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw, discusses the increasingly important role Cradle to Cradle design and certification is playing in the manufacture and use of the company’s facade, window and door systems. The Schüco FWS 50.SI (super insulated) façade system has been awarded the […]
May 25, 2022
Christian Brailey Architects has designed this renovation and addition for a house in England, that transformed a studio flat into a home for an architect and landscape designer duo, Christian Brailey and Faye Johnson. The extension, which is clad in Canadian Douglas Fir slats, forms a new L-shaped space that maximizes the light for the […]
May 24, 2022
Crossrail – now known as the Elizabeth line – has finally opened to passengers, stretching 118km to connect Reading and Heathrow in the west through central London to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east. The first Elizabeth line train left Abbey Wood station at 6:30am on 24 May, marking the official opening of the […]
May 24, 2022
Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has completed its much-anticipated new campus for the Royal College of Art in Battersea, south west London. Herzog & de Meuron’s project for the Royal College of Art comprises two new buildings – The Rausing Research and Innovation Building, and The Studio Building – together totalling 15,500 square metres. […]
May 24, 2022
May 24, 2022 ZAKAA Architecture has sent us photos of their latest project, a new house in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, that features a series of curved walls that form alcoves. The architects wanted to design a house for their clients by not copying what has already been built thousands of times in the city. Located in […]
May 23, 2022
As KAAN Architecten rounds off its two-decade transformation of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Louis Mayes gives his verdict on the complex insertion of contemporary exhibition and back-of-house spaces with the neo-classical building. KAAN Architecten has completed a near 20-year project for The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA). The proposal, initiated […]
May 23, 2022
A new publication from the Twentieth Century Society by historian Geraint Franklin charts John Outram’s extraordinary career. Charles Holland enjoys the first major study of a highly idiosyncratic architect who remains impossible to categorise. Isle of Dogs Pumping Station by John Outram John Outram gave one of the strangest lectures I have ever attended. It […]
May 23, 2022
Post Architecture Inc. has shared with us their latest project, a contemporary farmhouse-inspired home in Toronto, Canada. The home is a replacement of an old house that was on the property, with the new design including a two-story white gabled structure, as well as flat-roofed additions on three sides. Exterior materials include a white metal […]
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