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Central Library Oodi in Helsinki
The Detail Prize 2020 goes to the Central Library Oodi in Helsinki by ALA Architects. In a conversation with Samuli Woolston, Juho Grönholm, and Antti...
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People’s Pavilion in Eindhoven
bureauSLA and Overtreders W won the Detail Prize for their People’s Pavilion in Eindhoven. Peter van Assche explains his vision for zero-waste c...
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Buga Fiber Pavilion
The Detail Prize for Students and Architecture Schools 2020 has been awarded to the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and the ...
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University Campus in Patiala
With their winning project for the Detail Readers’ Prize, McCullough Mulvin and Designplus Associates have reinterpreted local building traditio...
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Marine Education Centre in Malmö
Fifteen striking elements crown the flat roof of the Marine Education Centre in Malmö. The low building appears to nestle among the sand dunes to the ...
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Electric Charging Station in Fredericia
The growing number of electric cars calls for a corresponding infrastructure in the form of charging stations. For the joint venture by Eon Drive and ...
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Visitor Centre Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The new visitor centre for Yorkshire Sculpture Park sits unassumingly in the gently hilly landscape of meadows that extends between Leeds and Sheffiel...
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Single-Family House near Geneva
The architects conceived of this unusual single-family house in Lancy, a suburb of Geneva, as a kind of hovering factory to live in. The elevated buil...
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Berlin Metropolitan School
Copper-clad rooftop elements have been added to Berlin Metropolitan School in the centre of Berlin. The three wings of the existing, prefabricated, re...
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An Emblematic Double Spiral
The Swiss watch manufacturer’s museum twists up in a spiral that emerges from the ground. The architects from BIG and the engineers from Lüchin...
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Structural Design and Engineering
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Bridges
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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 ...
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Essay: Bridge Construction, Quo Vadis?
Today’s designs should be based on the experience and knowledge of both earlier and historical bridge construction.
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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.
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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