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Report: The White Villa in Graubünden
The forgotten village of Mulegns in the Alpine canton of Graubünden (Grisons) has seen better days. In the 19th century, it was an important stop on ...
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Report: Bellevue di Monaco in Munich
Another side of Munich: Thanks to a public initiative, an apartment building in the Glockenbach district was saved from demolition and now offers the...
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Report: Cultural Greenhouse near Brussels
Fruit growing has a long tradition in Pajottenland, a region located west of Brussels. Yet large greenhouses are rare – especially the kind bui...
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Interview: Michael Pawlyn Architects Declare: What to Do About the Climate Emergency?
More than 6,000 offices in 20 countries have joined Architects Declare since 2019, a manifesto against climate change and for biodiversity. Its co-in...
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Interview: Nora Sophie Griefahn C2C: Do We Have to Rethink Building?
Nora Sophie Griefahn is the executive director of C2C NGO, which she founded in 2012 while still a university student. She studied environmenta...
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Interview: Hermann Kaufmann HK Architekten: Do We Have to Rethink Building?
Hermann Kaufmann is an architect, ambassador and pionieer of timber construction. A native of the forested region of Vorarlberg, he has encouraged mu...
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Interview: Anders Lendager Lendager Group: Who Will Run the Urban Mines of the Future?
Anders Lendager is one of the most radical pioneers of circular construction. In this interview, he explains how architects can help end the throwawa...
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Interview: Amandus Samsøe Sattler, DGNB: When Will the System Change for Sustainability?
14 years after its foundation, the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) has made great strides, with much more on the horizon. In this intervie...
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Demountable Office Building in Delft
The office building created by the planners of cepezed in Delft follows the Cradle to Cradle principle. According to this principle, the required...
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CO2 Neutral Hotel in Ludwigsburg
In 2014 the city of Ludwigsburg received the National German Sustainability Award for their “integrated, systematic and dedicated sustainab...
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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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