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Architecture | August 20, 2021
Anaheim wanted a transportation hub that would become an icon for public transit. It needed to encourage Orange County's three million residents and 50 million annual visitors to think beyond the automobile and toward a future of smart, sustainable travel. Read more
Architecture | August 6, 2021
The design grows from the dynamic between the site and the goals of the library program. The key concept is the interplay between the building's three individual floors. Read more
Architecture | August 2, 2021
The Xiamen convention exhibition center & sports precinct, a large-scale 600 hectare urban design masterplan and detailed architecture proposal, that forges a new center for Xiamen's cultural and civic heart in the city's Guiyuan district. Read more
Architecture | August 1, 2021
The Tianjin Juilliard School is a center for performance, practice, research, and interactive exhibitions, with communal spaces. Read more
Architecture | July 31, 2021
Ennead Architects, the acclaimed international architecture firm based in New York City and Shanghai, celebrates the grand opening of the Shanghai Astronomy Read more
Architecture | July 21, 2021
Apple Tower Theatre, Apple’s newest store in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, has opened to visitors. The design seeks to reinvigorate one of LA’s most historic movie theaters by giving the building a new purpose and restoring its lost glory. Read more
Architecture | July 17, 2021
The Jacques Rougerie Foundation - Institut de France unveils the winners of its 2020 International Architecture and Art Prizes. Read more
Architecture | July 13, 2021
The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach was built in 1941 to house the art collection of the industrialist Ralph Hubbard Norton and his wife, Elizabeth. The museum was laid out by the architect Marion Sims Wyeth as an elegant series of Art Deco inspired single storey pavilions around a central courtyard. Read more
Architecture | July 10, 2021
Heatherwick Studio, MNLA, and Arup announced the Opening of Little Island in New York City, Unlocking Over Two Acres of Public Park and Performance Space Above Read more
Architecture | July 8, 2021
Sweco's head office in Stockholm is no typical workplace. Here, Sweco's architects, engineers and environmental experts work together to plan and design the societies and cities of the future. Together with the property owner, we have reshaped the Sweco Building in line with the company's philosophy and commitment to sustainability, energy conservation, creative encounters and continuous change. The building supports our way of working and enables us to show that we practice what we preach. Read more
Architecture | July 7, 2021
Originally the context of this project was relatively straightforward. The mission was the renovation of a small villa built in the 1980’s, but without extension work or development of the existing volumes in order to avoid planning permission. Read more
Architecture | July 5, 2021
ICD Brookfield Place is an office and retail development located in the heart of the Dubai International Financial Centre district (DIFC). The mixed-use development includes a 53-storey tower featuring world-class workspaces, set within an urban setting that celebrates its location and makes a positive change to the area around it. Read more
Architecture | June 23, 2021
the Hardt Hyperloop Hub: a vision for the future of European Hyperloop stations, and a study of how the Hyperloop can incorporate itself into cities and towns of different sizes and contexts, brought to you by our UNSFutures team. Read more
Architecture | June 16, 2021
Department store (5,237.9 m2). Mitsukoshi is the first and oldest department store in Japan. Kengo Kuma and associates (Kkaa) renewed their main store in Nihonbashi to a "white and shiny forest". Read more
Architecture | June 9, 2021
KPMB Architects with Omar Gandhi Architect, Jordan Bennett Studio, Elder Lorraine Whitman (NWAC), Public Work and Transsolar have been selected as the winning team of the international design competition for the new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and Waterfront Arts District. The new Gallery and Arts District, located on the Salter Block of the Halifax Waterfront, will be a transformative arts destination for all to experience. Read more
Architecture | June 1, 2021
Although rural areas make up 93% of Poland’s territory, only 40% of the population lives there. This data is an accurate reflection of worldwide trends. Engulfed in spatial chaos, having so far remained on the sidelines of architectural interest, the countryside has become the subject of the exhibition in the Polish Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2021. Read more
Architecture | May 21, 2021
The United States Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia presents an exhibition exploring the ubiquity and aesthetic power of wood-framed construction in American architecture. Read more
Architecture | May 20, 2021
The focus of PLATFORM AUSTRIA is platform urbanism. Platform urbanism marks a highly significant upheaval in the design of our environment and its architecture. It concerns the changes that the rise of digital platforms is bringing to all spheres of our lives – from living, working and learning to health, recreation and culture. Read more
Architecture | May 19, 2021
Curated by Neyran Turan and coordinated by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), the Pavilion of Turkey presents Architecture as Measure at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, titled How Will We Live Together? and taking place from May 22 to November 21, 2021. Read more
Architecture | May 16, 2021
The Institut Ramon Llull presents Catalonia in Venice - air/aria/aire, a Collateral Event of the Biennale Architettura 2021 and an exhibition curated by architect Olga Subirós. The project reflects upon the central theme of the Biennale, ‘How will we live together?’, with an investigation into air as a common asset upon which our survival depends. Read more
Architecture | May 16, 2021
The central theme of this biennale is “How will we live together?” – a question that has become even more urgent due to the pandemic. The Dutch contribution answers this question with a counter-question: ”Who is we?” and makes the pavilion a powerful plea against monoculture in architecture and urban planning. Read more
Architecture | May 15, 2021
The Singapore Pavilion officially opens at its seventh showcase at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. Commissioned by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and DesignSingapore Council (Dsg) and curated by the National University of Singapore (NUS), the exhibition returns to the Sale d’Armi at the Arsenale in Venice, Italy, and will run from 22 May to 21 November 2021. Read more
Architecture | May 14, 2021
The Luxembourg Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia opened its doors to the public on Saturday 22 May 2021 with a silent opening. Read more
Architecture | May 13, 2021
“The Othernity for us is such a new, collaboration-based method, which helps us rethink our practice of heritage protection and, at the same time, it is such an architectural behaviour that can create a more responsible attitude towards profession and society.” Read more
Architecture | May 13, 2021
The British Council is delighted to open its commission for this year’s British Pavilion exhibition at the Biennale Architettura, The Garden of Privatised Delights, running 22 May - 21 November 2021. Read more
Architecture | May 12, 2021
This summer, Venice will host the Biennale Architettura 2021, the world’s most important exhibition in the field of contemporary architecture. On the initiative of the Flemish Community and commissioned by the Flanders Architecture Institute (VAi), Bovenbouw Architectuur will present the exhibition Composite Presence in the Belgian pavilion. Read more
Architecture | May 10, 2021
At the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the Nordic Pavilion is transformed into a full-scale section of a solid wood cohousing project designed by Helen & Hard architects in close collaboration with a group of residents. Read more
Architecture | May 10, 2021
Our everyday lives are becoming increasingly entangled with data technologies. The Irish Pavilion addresses the utopian fantasy of the Cloud, as a romantic metaphor: The cloud is material. Read more
