Cube Berlin Office Building

Report: 13 Floors for Art

With the new Munch Museum on the shores of the Oslofjord, Estudio Herreros has made a grand statement with international reach. Together with th...

Report: Upstairs, Downstairs: Fidelio

Barkow Leibinger’s sculptural stage set was created from four interwoven and distorted spiral surfaces. Inspired by Piranesi’s “Car...

Report: Living in Singapore

The tropical, green, and populous city-state of Singapore has gone from being a small developing country to one of the world’s most modern citi...

Cube Berlin Office Building

In its facades, with triangular glazing elements set at different angles to each other, this office building reflects the lights and colours of the s...

Renovation of a Housing Complex in Antwerp

Glass railings that envelope all sides, also the flat roof in the form of a transparent parapet, converge along the edges, forming a continuous hull ...

L’ Arbre Blanc Housing Tower in Montpellier

The young architects Nicolas Laisné and Manal Rachdi, who were also invited to participate in the housing competition, asked Sou Fujimoto to join the...

Factory Hall in Vorarlberg

The open wooden facades and a peripheral canopy roof projecting out of them roughly halfway up lend what is really an industrial building the appeara...

Technology: Indiscernible Renewal - Mies’s Neue Nationalgalerie

David Chipperfield Architects Berlin have refurbished Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie with only minimal interventions. A partic...

Reports: From Cars to Hedges

Not long ago, Dusseldorf’s Schauspielhaus and Dreischeibenhaus were cut off from the city’s old town by an elevated highway. Today, new b...

Viewing Tower at Schönbuch Nature Park near Stuttgart

Schönbuch Nature Park to the south of Stuttgart has been one tourist attraction richer since summer 2018. On the top of the Stellberg Hill at 580 m ab...

St Philips Footbridge in Bristol

The new St Philips Bridge over the Avon in Bristol opens a convenient pedestrian and cycleway connection between two quite different parts of the city...

Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore

An elliptical volume in the shape of a flattened, glass torus forms the new centre of the airport at Singapore. The recently completed “Jewel Ch...

The Vessel in New York

Looking like a gigantic inverted beehive, “The Vessel” occupies the central public open space in Hudson Yards on the west bank of Manhatta...

Oodi Central Library in Helsinki

Helsinki’s new central library lies in the heart of the city, between the parliament building, Lake Töölönlahti and the main railway station. Th...

taz Publishing House in Berlin

Newspaper publisher taz moved into its new building at Friedrichstrasse 21, just a couple of hundred metres away from its former seat in Rudi-Dutschke...

Coal Drops Yard in London

BFWith an emblematic roof sculpture, the newly opened Coal Drops Yard shopping centre in Kings Cross, London, invites visitors to drop in, shop and st...

Experimenta Science Center in Heilbronn

The Experimenta Science Center opened in 2009 in a former warehouse by the River Neckar in Heilbronn, Germany. The objective was to make the natural s...

Meixi Urban Helix in Changsha

A conical, 30-metre-high double helix forms the new landmark of Meixi International New City. This new city development area in Changsha, a seven-mill...

Macallan Distillery in Aberlour

With a series of five artificial hills on a green roof, the new building for the Macallan Distillery blends into the Speyside landscape, an area of no...

Town Hall on the Faroe Islands

From the history of architecture, we are familiar with bridges on which watchtowers, houses and shops were built. But a bridge that also functions as ...

Essay: Bridge Construction, Quo Vadis?

Today’s designs should be based on the experience and knowledge of both earlier and historical bridge construction.

Discussion: The Architectural Expression of Moving Bridges

In a world in which physical systems of communication such as roads, railways, canals, rivers, etc. are used ever more intensively, bridges are vital ...

Report: Footbridge in Ditzingen

Completed in 2018, the new footbridge at the headquarters of the tool and laser machine specialist Trumpf in Ditzingen connects two parts of the compa...

Footbridge in Freising

The town of Freising has grown much larger over the years; mainly on the right bank of the Isar, the side of the river opposite the town centre. With ...

Report: Tanderrum Bridge in Melbourne

The 300 m long, 7.7 m wide Tanderrum Bridge creates a new pedestrian and cycleway link between the centre of Melbourne and Melbourne Park.

Queensferry Crossing near Edinburgh

Opened in September 2017, the Queensbury Crossing road bridge spans the Firth of Forth and connects Edinburgh with northern Scotland. It replaces an o...

Specialist know-how: Demolishing major bridges

The demolition of bridges over narrow valleys or close to superstructures carrying traffic requires new demolition concepts. As with new bridges, the ...

Kienlesberg Bridge in Ulm

Following a 2012 design competition won by engineers Krebs+Kiefer in a consortium with Knight Architects, the client, Stadtwerke Ulm, initiated bridge...

De Lentloper Bridge in Nijmegen

The capacity of watercourses in many parts of the Netherlands is being increased to prevent flooding. A sharp bend in the river Waal near Nijmegen was...