No Image

Fogo Island Shed / Saunders Architecture

November 30, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

Saunders Architecture’s new Fogo Island Shed expands the remit of the artistic and creative community on Fogo Island, Newfoundland. Starting with the opening of the award-winning Fogo Island Inn in 2013, Saunders Architecture has been the creative force behind the work of Shorefast, a charity established in 2003 by Zita, Anthony, and Alan Cobb to revitalize the Fogo Island economy.

No Image

ETH Zurich working with robots to evoke Hanging Gardens of Babylon

November 30, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Rendering of Semiramis hanging garden structure by ETH Zurich researchers

Researchers from ETH Zurich are building a tall architectural structure that will evoke the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, in a project that involves working collaboratively with robots. Called Semiramis after the Assyrian queen who is sometimes associated with the ancient garden, the project has been designed with the help of artificial intelligence and is being

The post ETH Zurich working with robots to evoke Hanging Gardens of Babylon appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

ArchDaily Selects the Best New Practices of 2021

November 30, 2021 David Basulto 0

As our world evolves at an unprecedented pace, the challenges that come with it are becoming more and more complex. The questions faced by the cities and networks of our global world, the physical and virtual environments where our evolution takes place, are making architecture more relevant than ever. 

No Image

House in Amatepec / Manuel Cervantes Estudio

November 30, 2021 Pilar Caballero 0

Amatepec is a house located in an area of Mexico City that has a determining topographic condition towards the ravine; In addition to the fact that the property has a very narrow front of 14 meters towards the street and a length of 77 meters, which made us analyze how we could achieve that all the spaces had good lighting and relationship with the outside.

No Image

Intervention at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion Reflects on the Rehabilitation of Large-scale Housing Blocks

November 30, 2021 Dima Stouhi 0

The Mies van der Rohe foundation presents “Never Demolish” a temporary intervention by curators Ilka and Andreas Ruby that explores the “Transformation of 530 dwellings in the Grand Parc Bordeaux” project by the Pritzker laureates Lacaton & Vassal architects, Frédéric Druot Architecture, and Christophe Hutin Architecture. Running until December 16th, the pavilion is transformed into a domestic space that allows visitors to “deepen the debate on housing and the rehabilitation model of the large-scale blocks of the 60s and 70s”.

No Image

Loader Monteith extends a remote stone cottage in the Scottish Highlands

November 30, 2021 Jon Astbury 0
Strone Glenbanchor cottage by Loader Monteith Architects

Scottish practice Loader Monteith Architects has used two volumes clad in locally-sourced black timber to extend this stone cottage in the Highlands. Strone of Glenbanchor, which sits at the edge of the Cairngorms National Park in central Scotland, was originally built as a cottage for a crofter – a person who would look after an

The post Loader Monteith extends a remote stone cottage in the Scottish Highlands appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

BIG Designs European AI and Cybersecurity Hub in Bratislava

November 30, 2021 Andreea Cutieru 0

Bjarke Ingels Group revealed the design for a tech campus in Bratislava, an urban village of interconnected buildings organized around a central courtyard that would foster a creative ecosystem for cybersecurity and AI innovation. Created in collaboration with Inflow, Pantograph, BuroHappold, and ARUP, the project features an undulating photovoltaic roof that unifies the twelve individual structures while defining the architectural silhouette on the backdrop of the Carpathian Mountains.