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Foster + Partners unveils curving office building at Battersea Power Station

February 28, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Architecture studio Foster + Partners has revealed 50 Electric Boulevard, an 18,580-square-metre workplace within London’s Battersea Power Station development. Located along Battersea Power Station’s pedestrianised high street, Foster + Partners designed the building and its interiors to function as flexible and adaptbale office space. “50 Electric Boulevard’s soft undulating form creates a varying floorplate, which

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AHMM to transform office into co-living space next to London’s Barbican estate

February 26, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Developer HUB and investor Bridges Fund Management have revealed plans to convert a 1950s office building in London into Cornerstone, a co-living residential scheme designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. Located on the edge of the Barbican estate, the Cornerstone project will draw from the iconic Barbican architecture to transform 45 Beech Street into 174

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Medprostor tops 12th-century church in Slovenia with folding roof

February 25, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Local studio Medprostor has covered and partially repaired a 900-year-old Romanesque church in Slovenia, placing an operable roof on top of the open structure to create a space “between a ruin and a reconstruction”. Medprostor crafted a series of modest interventions alongside the folding roof that aim to protect the significant monastic building, located inside

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Eight interiors celebrating the curated clutter of “bookshelf wealth”

February 18, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Dubbed the first major design trend of 2024, our latest lookbook collects cosy, lived-in interiors that embody the “bookshelf wealth” aesthetic movement taking over social media. While using books for interior decoration is not a new idea, it has been brought back into focus by a now-viral TikTok video posted in December by San Diego-based interior

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Concrete slabs will enclose national park pavilions by CEBRA in Albania

February 15, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Danish architecture studio CEBRA has revealed its designs for three visitor centres in Albania, which will be topped with protruding concrete slabs that reference “shifting tectonic plates”. CEBRA has designed the centres for Vjosa National Park – Europe’s “first wild river national park” – which was established in 2023 to preserve 13,000 hectares of the

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Herzog & de Meuron unveils sculptural concrete museum on Qatari island

February 12, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Cultural institution Qatar Museums has released visuals of the Lusail Museum, a robust, drum-shaped gallery and museum designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. Located on Al Maha Island near Doha, the museum will reference historic Islamic architecture throughout its interior, aiming to become a cultural destination for education, exhibitions and research. Herzog &

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Woven timber “roots” frame Brisbane high-rise by Koichi Takada Architects

February 9, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Australian studio Koichi Takada Architects has completed Upper House, a 33-storey high-rise in Brisbane designed to reflect the city’s tropical setting and First Nations history. Upper House contains 188 apartments and 1,000 square metres of communal amenities behind a winding timber facade described by Koichi Takada Architects as “architectural roots”. “The Brisbane lifestyle is enviable and

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Vector Architects designs concave Chapel of Music for Chinese seaside resort

February 8, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Chinese studio Vector Architects has completed a monolithic, concrete concert hall in the coastal resort of Aranya in Qinhuangdao. Located centrally within the town’s public square, the three-pronged concrete structure was designed as an intimate space for musical performances. Its three concave walls were informed by the Echo Wall that encircles the Imperial Vault of

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Vector Architects designs concave Chapel of Music for Chinese seaside resort

February 8, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Chinese studio Vector Architects has completed a monolithic, concrete concert hall in the coastal resort of Aranya in Qinhuangdao. Located centrally within the town’s public square, the three-pronged concrete structure was designed as an intimate space for musical performances. Its three concave walls were informed by the Echo Wall that encircles the Imperial Vault of

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UNStudio unveils Huawei flagship store in Shanghai with “petal-like” facade

February 2, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Dutch firm UNStudio has revealed a two-storey flagship store for Chinese technology company Huawei in Shanghai with a facade clad in ivory-coloured petal-like forms. Drawing from Huawei’s global operating system, named Harmony, UNStudio’s design aimed to generate biophilic associations between the brand and its technology by integrating organic geometric shapes throughout the scheme. “Among the

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