杂志
Headlines
on 2016/1/13
A team consisting of Robbrecht en Daem, Dierendonckblancke Architecten, VK and Arup, in collaboration with Bureau Bas Smets, Muller Van Severen and Grontmij, has been selected to design the new media building for VRT, the Flemish Radio and Television Broadcasting Company in Brussels. John Hill
Film
on 2016/1/12
Architect Steven Holl and choreographer Jessica Lang collaborated last year on Tesseracts of Time, which premiered in November at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Chicago. Watch the two discuss their collaboration, and watch excerpts from the first performance. John Hill
Works
on 2016/1/12
This project started with a mountain guide’s home. Because the house was originally self-built, it had a unique soul. Chevallier Architectes
Works
on 2016/1/12
Whether visiting alone, with a large group of guests or as a family, the owners were looking for a relaxed, welcoming environment, conceptually similar to a cottage yet more refined, particularly in the relationships among spaces and between people. Architecturama
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on 2016/1/11
The aptly named Tree House, designed by Matt Fajkus Architecture for a site in South Austin, wraps itself around a sizable oak tree, making it an integral part of the owners' daily lives. The architect sent us some photographs and drawings, and answered a few questions about the house.
Works
on 2016/1/11
On Noor Island, a lagoon island in the middle of the capital of the Arab Emirate Sharjah, German design studio 3deluxe is currently designing a 2.5 ha transmedia landscape park, interwoven with an ensemble of several themed pavilions and buildings. 3deluxe
Insight
on 2016/1/11
On Sunday, the exhibition Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie, closed at the National Academy Museum in New York. World-Architects eMagazine Editor in Chief John Hill visited the exhibition on the 2015 AIA Gold Medal winner and filed this report. John Hill
Works
on 2016/1/8
Kampo lounge is a new shape of herbal pharmacy where doctor prescribes based on oriental medicine and also those who are willing to take herbal medicine in their lifestyle are able to learn deeply about it. id-inc.
Found
on 2016/1/8
Is this a ceramic tile pattern? A painting? A quilt? No, it's a "public domain remix" of a small fraction of the 187,000 items the New York Public Library has made available for high-resolution download. John Hill
Headlines
on 2016/1/7
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a $22 billion plan to modernize transportation infrastructure throughout New York state, with $3 billion going toward a renovated Penn Station, the busiest – and considered the worst – train station in New York City. John Hill
Headlines
on 2016/1/7
Munich's HENN has won first prize in a competition to design a nearly 200-meter-tall office tower for software company Kingdee in Shenzhen, China. John Hill
Works
on 2016/1/6
In 2011, within the framework of its factory expansion projects, Aluminerie Alouette struck an accord with the Government of Quebec to finance the construction of a university building in Sept-Iles with the goal of improving access to graduate studies in the region. BGLA | Architecture + Design urbain
Works
on 2016/1/6
Zwolle recently saw the completion of a new community centre: Cultuurcentrum Het Anker. The new complex on the edge of town has a floor area of some 3,000 sm and links the districts of Westenholte and Stadshagen. MoederscheimMoonen Architects
Works
on 2016/1/6
The community center is located in the mountains of Taoyuan Park in Chongqing. The starting point is attempting to merge new building outline with the existing wavy topography. Vector Architects
Found
on 2016/1/5
Laurent Kronental's Souvenir d'un Futur, which documents senior citizens living in the "Grands Ensembles" around Paris – some of them designed by Ricardo Bofill in the 1980s – earned the photographer a 2015 Emerging Talent Award (Bourse de Talent) from the... John Hill
Works
on 2016/1/5
The animal rights activism art-based education facility, Museum of Compassion will be located in Louisville, Kentucky. Aaron Neubert Architects
Works
on 2016/1/5
66 Heathdale is a 3,200 square foot custom single-family residence located on the ravine of Cedarvale Park in Mid-town Toronto. TACT Design INC.
Works
on 2016/1/4
"C'è Luce" (There is Light) is the installation of "Andare Oltre Si Può," an association promoting the value, acceptance and inclusion of people with Down syndrome. Domenico Raimondi – thesignLab
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on 2016/1/4
Rising like crystals from its lakeside landscape, Taylor and Miller's Lake House appears to close itself from its surroundings. Actually the striking, contemporary home opens itself up strategically to frame vistas near and far and connect the residents to the Berkshires landscape. The...
Headlines
on 2016/1/4
In 2013 and 2014, the Building of the Week on American-Architects took a state-by-state look at American architecture, but last year we went overseas to see how US architects design for other countries – and the inverse, to see how foreign architects build in North America. Now it's... John Hill
Products
on 2016/1/4
The campus of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is known best for SANAA's Rolex Learning Center built in 2010. Dominique Perrault has just completed an adjacent building whose facade dissolves through the use of a custom, movable aluminum mesh. John Hill, Thomas Geuder
Film
on 2016/1/4
The Louisiana Museum of Art profiles Copenhagen's Henning Larsen Architects in "Building Ambitions for Soceity," a twenty-minute film from the Louisiana Channel. John Hill
on 2015/12/23
Yet another exciting year has passed. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the great support and trust in 2015. At World-Architects we are looking forward to the opportunities and challenges lying ahead in 2016.
Headlines
on 2015/12/22
One week after revealing the two finalists in the second design competition for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Stadium, the Japan Sports Council has selected the winner, a wood and steel structure designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. John Hill
Works
on 2015/12/22
Part of a triumvirate of derelict round buildings in Zhengzhou, Henan province, the 28,000 sm Soyoo Children Center presents to its community a new façade and landscape design as well as a completely refurbished interior. Crossboundaries
Headlines
on 2015/12/21
Today the Barack Obama Foundation issued RFPs (Requests for Proposal) to seven potential architects to design the future Obama Presidential Center (OPC) on Chicago's South Side. John Hill
Works
on 2015/12/18
The LMB bungalow is the first of a possible series of bungalows intended to be built on a large site in Tepoztlán - a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City. Cadaval & Solà-Morales
Works
on 2015/12/18
During the life of a such simple building, centuries old, we're just an instant: our work, our signs were added to those of our predecessors. Our purpose is to deliver a snapshot, a true picture of what we did. Everything is combined and composed by necessity corde architetti associati
Works
on 2015/12/18
With its curved cubic structure, diamond-shaped windows and spacious atrium featuring a 42-meter high glazed roof, the new Hilton Amsterdam Airport Schiphol hotel is an impressive landmark. Mecanoo
Works
on 2015/12/17
Sky walk is located very close to the cottage Slaměnka, at the top station of chair lift Sněžník, at an altitude of 1,116 meters above sea level. Taros Nove, Franek Architects
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on 2015/12/17
Architectural Lighting Group (ALG), the firm behind the lighting design at Toshima Ecomusee Town, frequently works collaboratively with architects to develop architectural lighting that is fully integrated with structures. This time, ALG joined forces with Kengo Kuma, an architect that the firm...
Works
on 2015/12/16
In Saigon, there is a story about Van Duong Phu, a masterpiece of architecture, built by Mr. Vuong Hong Sen, a culturist, an academic, and a famous collector of antiques. a21studĩo
Works
on 2015/12/15
Cultural Center La Gota is a hybrid building for exhibition spaces that aims to create a new focus of urban centrality in Navalmoral (Cáceres), showcasing the identity of the town. Losada García Arquitectos
Insight
on 2015/12/14
For our last Insight feature of 2015, World-Architects looks back – month-by-month, and week-by-week – at some of the headlines, projects, competitions, features and products of the last year, while we glance ahead to some projects slated for completion in 2016. John Hill
Headlines
on 2015/12/14
The Japan Sports Council has unveiled two competing designs for the 2019 Rugby Cup and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, following the shelving of Zaha Hadid's competition-winning design earlier this year. John Hill
评论
on 2015/12/13
On 12 May 2008 the devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province of China destroyed thousands of lives within minutes. The affected area lies just a little more than one hundred kilometres north of Chengdu at the foot of the Himalayan Mountains. More than 70,000 people were killed and an additional...