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Climate Change as a Social Issue
For Tatiana Bilbao from Mexico City, diversity and a culture of care are needed to combat the climate crisis. In this interview, she describes how arc...
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Giovanna Dunmall: London's New Design Quarter
London’s new Design District is one of those places that on paper shouldn’t work. A group of eight different architects designing two fre...
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Science Fiction Will Soon Become Reality!
Bjarke Ingels and Kai-Uwe Bergmann from BIG on optimism in Covid-19 times, creating a habitat on the Moon, and architecture as a pragmatic utopia.&nbs...
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Overcast House in London
This Victorian terraced house in north London is home to a colour consultant and her husband. As the client works from home, she wanted to have a nort...
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Kunsthaus Göttingen
The lines of the combed plaster facade to the new building on Düstere Straße recall a stack of sheets of paper. And this image offers a first hint of ...
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Apartment House San Riemo in Munich
The colours and structure of the San Riemo apartment building emanate a sense of playful lightness: they include white corrugated metal, mint-coloured...
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Co-Housing in Denver
In this residential district consisting of loosely scattered houses, only three kilometres north of the centre of Denver, the entirely blue facades an...
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Béton House in Sheffield
The four blocks that make up Park Hill social housing estate were left to decay for decades. The external envelope was slowly disintegrating under a t...
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Z33 Art Centre in Hasselt
Brick facades in shades of red, ochre, brown and anthracite are ubiquitous in the town of Hasselt in eastern Belgium. This is especially true of the ...
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The Chapel in London
The function of a building isn’t always made obvious by its exterior. The surprise is particularly big when a sacred building conceals a home hi...
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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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