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Shangri-La Shougang Park in Beijing
To this day, cooling towers and a tall factory smokestack indicate the industrial prehistory of the five star hotel in Beijing’s Shougang Park. ...
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Guesthouse Rosana in Rosenheim
Timber, clay and wickerwork: The small guesthouse in the forest bordering the Mangfall river was built with natural materials. The expansion to an exi...
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Hotel Zoku Vienna near the Prater
The Prater Glacis ensemble consists of three buildings located directly next to the popular amusement park in Vienna’s second district. Two hosp...
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Hotel Seeloge in Eutin
The inclusion hotel Seeloge in Eutin, a city with a population of 17000 located between Kiel and Lübeck, lives up to its name: It is surrounded by pa...
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Guesthouse and Art Museum near Sydney
In the guesthouse of Bundanon, a three hour drive south of Sydney, the wonders of art and nature are close together. Towards the east, views are dire...
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Hostel Silo Erlenmatt in Basel
Many building types exist that the modern hospitality industry has not yet adapted for its purposes: treehouses, prisons, cranes, lighthouses and aban...
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Hotel Icaro in the Dolomites
The meadows of the Seiser Alm belong to Europe’s greatest high altitude plateau. It is situated in the UNESCO World Heritage natural site of the...
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What Type of Hotel are You?
Hotel or B&B? Deciding where to stay used to be reasonably straightforward, but for today’s travellers, the choice is often overwhelming. Pi...
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A Sleeping Giant Awakens
The Wintercircus in Ghent is a monument to the second glance: you have to look closer to get a true sense of its dimensions behind the rows of buildi...
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Analysis Tool for Urban and District Planning
Coup is an analysis tool for urban planners and architects to show in advance how their designs behave with regard to wind, noise, heat, heavy rain a...
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News from Building Research
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High Strength and Maximum Transparency
Schlaich Bergermann Partner (sbp) developed the world’s first carbon cable net facade for an artist’s studio and showed that the principle...
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Light Formwork for Complex Roof Geometry
The HiLo-Unit is a two-layer, double-curved concrete shell on the Nest research building in Dübendorf near Zürich. The HiLo research & innova...
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Micro-living Instead of Vacant Offices
Using exemplary floor plans in standard grids, a type catalogue shows how the conversion of vacant office buildings into age-appropriate living space ...
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Mother Earth in 3D Printing
A great deal of hype surrounds the 3D printing of concrete, but the old dilemma remains: even printed concrete requires some cement – and cement...
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Myco-architecture: Building with Mushrooms
Building with fungus-based materials could change the construction industry. Corresponding composite materials, growing components and hybrid construc...
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Developing a Sponge District
A water- and energy-efficient urban district based on multifunctional blue-green infrastructure is taking shape in Leipzig. The Leipziger BlauGrü...
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Transparent Heat Protection
Triple glazing units achievevery low U- and g-values with their various coatings and inert gasfilled glazing cavities. However, these glass constructi...
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House Made of Paper
One of the first questions asked when considering building a house of paper is whether it would collapse into an unsightly mound of pulp after the fir...
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Efficient Reuse of Construction Materials
In view of the amount of grey energy embodied in buildings, CO2 reduction is an increasingly pressing issue in demolition, new construction and refurb...
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Climate-Neutral Construction with Clay
Many people still have an aversion to clay. In their opinion: the material is primitive, sensitive to moisture and lacks strength. Is the widespread u...
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Natural Fibre Bridges
Bio-composite materials enable architects and engineers to create structurally optimised and elegant designs, especially in bridge construction. ...
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AI in the Design Process
New digital algorithms support architects by partially automating the generation and analysis of design variants in multi-storey residential building...
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Automotive Body Manufacturing Technology for Architecture
Among the traditional engineering disciplines, building and civil engineering has made least progress with respect to innovative manufacturing and con...
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Adaptive Skins and Structures
Adaptive skins and structures help save resources and reduce the building industry’s climate-damaging emissions. These elements can be experimen...
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Projects from BIG
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BIG Monograph
Order now ! Utopia and pragmatism – an inseparable unit. BIG is an internationally operating creative group of architects, designers, urb...
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Museum Atelier Audemars Piguet in the Swiss Jura Mountains
Swiss watches embody a tradition. Can these valuable timepieces, their history and peculiarity assume a spatial form, and if yes, how? For the Museum ...
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Kistefos Museum near Oslo
The art museum is a bridge that spans the River Randselva to the north of Oslo. It stands on the site of a former cellulose factory, which today is u...
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Report: Tirpitz Museum in Blåvand
Sparse pine and birch woods with sand dunes in between covered in grass and heather: at the end of 1944, in the midst of such a setting, the Wehrmacht...
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The Plus Factory Building in Norway
About 100 km east of Oslo, halfway between the headquarters of the outdoor furniture manufacturer Vestre and the company’s steelworks in Torsby,...
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Terrace apartments in Aarhus
Just a few years ago the pier between the Marina and Bassin 7 in the Port of Aarhus was merely a vacant concrete platform. The Iceberg, Julien de Smed...
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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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Housing Development in Stockholm
Stepped down to the southern corner of the site, this housing development with 169 dwelling units resembles a natural hill. With an outer skin of ceda...
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Manual of Structural Design
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Manual of Structural Design
Order now! 224 pages of design principles for modern load-bearing systems Decisions regarding the supporting structure have an influence on the des...
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House on the Hillside
For a long time, solid construction was the domain of mineral building materials like natural stone, brick and concrete. However, in recent years soli...
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Cowshed in Thankirchen
It is rare that a structure can be as clearly perceived as it is in this cowshed in the foothills of the Upper Bavarian Alps. The framework, featuring...
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Company Restaurant in Ditzingen
What is immediately striking about this company restaurant for 2,000 employees in the Swabian town of Ditzingen is its unconventional roof constructio...
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Sports Hall in Haiming
In line with the motto “less is more”, many designers have adopted as a guiding principle the achievement of high functionality through co...
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University Cafeteria in Mühlheim an der Ruhr
Next to timber and steel, on rare occasions reinforced concrete is also used as a material for trusses. In the cafeteria building on the campus of Ruh...
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Forestry Office in Stadtroda
The concept of environmental sustainability is largely ascribed to Hans Carl von Carlowitz of Freiberg in Saxony. Sylvicultura oeconomica, the book he...
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Ice Rink in Hof
The first project to be completed as part of the new leisure and sports centre “Am Eisteich” (At the Ice Pond) is an ice rink with a facil...
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Sports Centre in Sargans
Frame structures are characterised by rigid connections between beams and posts. This can aid in controlling the loads on building components, making ...
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Railway Terminal in Rotterdam
The structure of the new main railway station in Rotterdam is composed of two very different elements. With a grand formal gesture, the entrance hall ...
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Roof over Inner Courtyard in Amsterdam
Astonishing spans can be achieved using filigree, doubly curved steel and glass constructions. This is made possible through their shell-like load-bea...
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Multipurpose Building in Valencia
Space frames are usually composed of prefabricated nodes and members. Just like girder grids, they are counted among the non-directional structures. I...
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Building in Timber: Room Modules
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Building in Timber: Room Modules
This practical volume offers an overview, from the planning process to assembly, while contemporary examples show that building with room modules ...
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Hotel Katharinenhof in Dornbirn
The building, centrally located in Dornbirn, is an extension of an existing hotel. The prescribed, extremely short construction period resulted in the...
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European School in Frankfurt am Main
A short-term extension of the existing school became necessary due to the restructuring of the European Central Bank. The new building could only be a...
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Student Hostel in Heidelberg
The Heidelberg students union commissioned a general contractor on the basis of a competition to construct 158 flats for a total of 265 students. The ...
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Treet Residential Tower in Bergen
Located directly on the shore of an ocean inlet outside the city of Bergen, it was the tallest timber building in the world at the time of its complet...
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Puukuokka Residential Complex in Jyväskylä
The first eight-storey, timber-built residential building in Finland is a pilot project of the urban planning authority to create ecologically high-qu...
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Wohnen 500 Residential Complex in Mäder
A charitable housing society from Vorarlberg has succeeded in combining cost-effective and ecologically high-quality as well as well-designed housing....
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Refugee Accommodation in Hanover
In connection with the increased demand for refugee housing in 2015, the architectural firm was commissioned with the planning and short-term implemen...
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Office Building in Wabern
The extension of asylum interview department of the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration saw the approval of fifty new offices in 2008. These were to...
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Residential and care home with nursery school in Fieberbrunn
The building is located in the largest town in the Pillerseetal on a slope above the through road and is accessed from above via a side road. The spat...
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Olympic Buildings
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Otl Aicher Munich 1972
Order Now! Otl Aicher Munich 1972 Edition DETAIL is launching the card game “Otl Aicher. Munich 1972” with 32 pairs of cards on the occa...
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50 Years after Munich 1972
The 1972 Summer Olympic Games were held in Munich. It was a stroke of luck for the city that can still be felt today.
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Journal: Design Study − An Olympic Stadium for the 21st Century
How would an Olympic stadium for the 21st century look if it were designed by the likely main users of our future sports facilities? Prompted by the s...
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Velodrome in London
The velodrome for the 2012 Olympic Games in London is an elegantly curved shell structure with seating for 6,000 spectators. The overall form is divid...
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New Olympic Ski Jump Garmisch-Partenkirchen
The form of the new ski jump, which replaces the previous Olympic facilities, was developed from the dynamics of the sport and takes up the topography...
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Frei Otto
Order Now! Frei Otto No other architect provided as many ideas and inspiration to construction in the second half of the 20th century as Frei Otto. ...
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Technology: Renewal of the Suspended Ceiling at the Olympic Swimming Facility in Munich
The Olympic swimming facility in Munich was one of the structures erected for the 1972 Summer Olympics. More than 30 years later, the load-bearing cap...
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Olympic Stadium in Berlin
The football World Cup 2006 has focused international attention once more on the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. Nearly 70 years ago, it stood in the limel...
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Site and Main Sporting Arenas for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich
The main venue of the summer Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 is the “Oberwiesenfeld”. The central arenas comprise the Olympic Stadium, the sports hall...
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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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