Browse through more than 4,000 projects in english language!
Project documentations from the current issue
-
Museum Expansion Sydney Modern
The expansion building of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney has the appearance of randomly placed and intersecting pavilions consisting of...
Open document Continue reading -
Nebelhorn Cable Car Station in Oberstdorf
The cable car leading to the Nebelhorn mountain is one of the most important tourist attractions in the alpine community of Oberstdorf. Following 90 ...
Open document Continue reading -
Open Air Museum Entrance in Hagen
The new entrance complex for the Hagen Open Air Museum consists of two typologically related building volumes with deeply overhanging, wedge-shaped s...
Open document Continue reading -
Centre for Glass Art in Meisenthal
A curved surface consisting of smooth concrete spatially unites the free-standing historic factory halls of the former glassworks in Meisenthal within...
Open document Continue reading -
House with Shed Roof in Kanazawa
The large, steeply sloped shed roof of the residential house in Kanazawa already indicates that the city experiences significant rainfall. The house i...
Open document Continue reading -
University Building in Vigo
Viewed from the exterior, the new inner city branch of the University of Vigo appears as a multi-part ensemble. Covered by longitudinal hipped roof st...
Open document Continue reading -
The Timber Roof of the TUM Campus in Munich
The TUM Campus is the greatest construction project developed in Munich's Olympiapark since the 1972 Olympics. The overall concept of the building and...
Open document Continue reading -
Colourful Quarter in Palma de Mallorca
Project Gomila is a micro-urban reconstruction initiative by the owners of the Spanish global footwear brand Camper. When completed, it will provide 6...
Open document Continue reading -
Copenhagen’s Climate- Neutral Path
What are your tasks as Chief City Architect of Copenhagen? I am an advisor to the politicians and to the administration, meaning that I see and touch ...
Open document Continue reading -
Adaptive Facade Systems
An interdisciplinary team of architects, structural engineers and mechanical engineers working on the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1244 at the ...
Open document Continue reading
Architecture in Barcelona
-
Barcelona - Urban Architecture and Community Since 2010
Buy now! This book presents the most exciting buildings that have been built in Barcelona since 2010. It takes its readers on a city tour to surpris...
Continue reading -
Caracol Housing near Barcelona
Self-confident and resembling a monument, the green rectangular volume is situated in the newly created park of Sant Boi de Llobregat, located between...
Open document Continue reading -
Cooperative Housing La Balma in Barcelona
La Balma is the first cooperative housing project in Barcelona based on a competition. Due to the participative planning process, the omission of park...
Open document Continue reading -
Sports Centre Turó de la Peira in Barcelona
The sports centre is located in a high density residential area at the periphery of Barcelona. Turó de la Peira is an urban quarter that lacks places...
Open document Continue reading -
Oliva Artés Museum in Barcelona
There is no mistaking old from new in this adaptive reuse project by Baas Arquitectura for the Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA) at Oliva Artés. The or...
Open document Continue reading -
Community Centre in Barcelona
Wood facades are seldom in Spain. Due to fear of fire hazards and scorching heat in summer leading to rapid deterioration, wood is not the first choic...
Open document Continue reading -
Factory Conversion in Barcelona
The site of the textile works Fabra i Coats in the district of San Andreu forms part of a restructuring programme of the city of Barcelona that embrac...
Open document Continue reading -
Essay: Prestressed Stone Towers for the Sagrada Família
Five generations and 137 years after its foundation stone was laid in Barcelona, the “Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família” i...
Open document Continue reading -
Temporary Apartments in Barcelona
Millions of shipping containers arrive in Barcelona’s harbour every year. After a relatively short period of use spanning roughly ten years the ...
Open document Continue reading -
Cristalleries Planell in Barcelona
This civic centre in the north-west of Barcelona is at first sight fascinating for its severe architectural stance. The two listed facades, which stan...
Open document Continue reading -
Research Institute in Cerdanyola del Vallès
The research institute on the campus of the University of Barcelona (UAB) focuses on environmental sciences and palaeontology. The demands made o...
Open document Continue reading -
Torre Agbar in Barcelona
This 142-metre-high headquarters of a water-supply undertaking was designed like a “fluid mass that shoots out of the ground under constant pressure”,...
Open document Continue reading -
Law-Courts District in Barcelona
This new urban district with courts of justice is situated on the border between Barcelona and l’Hospitalet, forming a city within the city. The...
Open document Continue reading -
Museum Can Framis in Barcelona
The Museum Can Framis presents itself in a pleasantly restrained way, situated among the mostly new multi-story commercial buildings within the former...
Open document Continue reading
Individual living
-
House on a Meadow in Carinthia
The idea of spending weekends and holidays in the place of your childhood might not appeal to everyone, unless, perhaps, it could offer such attractiv...
Open document Continue reading -
Town House in Linz
Generally, dilapidated buildings in inner city locations that are not under a preservation order are demolished and replaced by new buildings. With th...
Open document Continue reading -
Blasón House and Studio in Madrid
The small workshop on Calle Blasón is one of the few industrial buildings that still survive in the centre of Madrid. Increasingly stringent requireme...
Open document Continue reading -
Single Family Home near Tokyo
The residential house in Takasaki, about 100 km northeast of Tokyo, is not only home to a family of four. It also represents a sensual interplay of co...
Open document Continue reading -
Leyton House in London
A subtle interplay of light and shadow enlivens the interiors of the end-of-terrace house that architects Louise and Sean McMahon designed for a filmm...
Open document Continue reading -
Retirement Retreat in the Allgäu
Wood surfaces characterise the residence built by a couple from Berlin for their retirement in the small community of Oberreute in the Allgäu. On the...
Open document Continue reading -
House with Shed Roof in Kanazawa
The large, steeply sloped shed roof of the residential house in Kanazawa already indicates that the city experiences significant rainfall. The house i...
Open document Continue reading -
Earth House near Osaka
There is, in fact, no shortage of greenery here, but the client of Tomohiro Hata’s Earth House wanted more con- tact with nature and a building...
Open document Continue reading -
Holiday Home, Texel
The North Sea island of Texel is located off the northern Dutch coast, in the Frisian Wadden Sea. Its rich fauna and flora make it a popular holiday d...
Open document Continue reading -
House S near the Bavarian Alps
The single family house owned by the Schwab family is a monolithic brick building located in the village of Kottgeisering in the foothills of the Bava...
Open document Continue reading -
House Rosa in Dornbirn
The three-storey house that Vorarlberg architect Sebastian Brandner built for himself and his four-person family is only 5 metres wide but 17.50 metre...
Open document Continue reading -
House SO in Esslingen
With its facades that are closed on three sides the new home for a retired couple is more like a large garage than a small single-family house. In fac...
Open document Continue reading -
Villa L near Munich
Concrete, glass and oak – this restrained material selection characterises the house that Pool Leber Architekten created on the outskirts of Grä...
Open document Continue reading -
Conversion in Cuneo
In the early decades of the 20th century the Italian railway service built housing for its employees all across the country. Also southwest of Turin,...
Open document Continue reading
Construction for climate protection
-
Floating Office Rotterdam
Constructions with limited use life span should be built in a way that enables easy demolition and reuse of components. It is seldom the case that the...
Open document Continue reading -
School Building in Geneva
Shorter transport routes seem hardly possible: The material used for the loam bricks the load bearing walls of David Reffo’s school building in ...
Open document Continue reading -
Urban Mining Design in Practice
For Korbach’s town hall, the planning team implemented an Urban Mining concept that spans from reusing the concrete from the existing building t...
Open document Continue reading -
Plankstetten Abbey in Bavaria
Preserving creation is everyday living practice to the Benedictine monks of Plankstetten Abbey. Their monastery, located on a site between the cities ...
Open document Continue reading -
Office for Environment and Energy in Basel
Energy guzzler or passive house? Buildings don’t always tell which is which simply by looking at them. The Office for Environment and Energy in ...
Open document Continue reading -
Elys Cultural and Commercial Building in Basel
In order to transform the former Coop distribution centre in the Lysbüchel area of Basel into the Elys cultural and commercial building, the planners ...
Open document Continue reading -
City Hall Renovation near Brussels
With their new central administration facility, the municipality of Uccle, located south of Brussels and home to 80 000 residents, sets a signal for ...
Open document Continue reading -
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...
Open document Continue reading -
CO2 Neutral Hotel in Ludwigsburg
In 2014 the city of Ludwigsburg received the National German Sustainability Award for their “integrated, systematic and dedicated sustainab...
Open document Continue reading -
Energy-Plus Housing Block in Paris
In Paris, Avenier Cornejo Architects have created the first social-housing structure to be certified with the label Bepos Effinergie 2013. “Bepo...
Open document Continue reading -
Straw Bale Social Housing
Discussions that increasingly deal with resource conservation in the field of building and the carbon footprint of construction materials generate new...
Open document Continue reading -
St Gallen Agricultural Centre
Important for a high degree of sustainability and energy efficiency are the use of local, renewable materials, the exploition of natural resource...
Open document Continue reading -
Recycling House in Hanover
The single family home in a new development in Hanover is a striking sight: Between the uniformly rendered neighbouring houses, the compact ...
Open document Continue reading -
Gare Maritime in Brussels
Tour & Taxis, a 37 hectare site near the financial centre of Brussels, was one of Europe’s largest transshipment stations, well into the 198...
Open document Continue reading -
Deichman Library in Oslo
When it comes to introducing BIM methods in Europe, Norway plays a leading role. In 2008 the public building authority, Statsbygg, published an initia...
Open document Continue reading -
Ilse Wallentin House in Vienna
Clients from the public realm have high hopes for BIM, also in Austria. For the Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft, a quasi-governmental company that manage...
Open document Continue reading -
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,...
Open document Continue reading -
Student dormitory in Paris
The Quartier La Chapelle is located in the north-east of Paris. It offers a diverse and dynamic context for this student dormitory along the Rue Pajo...
Open document Continue reading
Projects from BIG
-
BIG Monograph
Order now ! Utopia and pragmatism – an inseparable unit. BIG is an internationally operating creative group of architects, designers, urb...
Continue reading -
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...
Open document Continue reading -
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...
Open document Continue reading -
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...
Open document Continue reading -
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 ...
Open document Continue reading -
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,...
Open document Continue reading -
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...
Open document Continue reading -
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...
Open document Continue reading
Olympic Buildings
-
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...
Continue reading -
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.
Open document Continue reading -
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...
Open document Continue reading -
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...
Open document Continue reading -
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...
Open document Continue reading -
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...
Open document Continue reading -
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...
Open document Continue reading -
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...
Open document Continue reading
Bridges
-
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 ...
Open document Continue reading -
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.
Open document Continue reading -
Essay: Bridge Construction, Quo Vadis?
Today’s designs should be based on the experience and knowledge of both earlier and historical bridge construction.
Open document Continue reading -
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 ...
Open document Continue reading -
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...
Open document Continue reading -
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 ...
Open document Continue reading -
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...
Open document Continue reading -
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 ...
Open document Continue reading -
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...
Open document Continue reading -
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...
Open document Continue reading