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Royal College of Art in London
Herzog & de Meuron’s extension for the Royal College of Art in London reflects the art, technology, and making that happens within its wall...
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Wuju Opera on a Stony Stage
Natural stone quarries have a long tradition in Jinyun in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. More than a thousand years ago, people were minin...
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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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Living with Water
Architects and planners can play a huge role in climate change as we think about the built environment and how to design for the future. But that que...
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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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Houses for trees
Height, floor space, and the number of units are the usual key figures in investor-financed high-rise construction. But 800 trees, 4,500 shrubs, and 1...
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Shiroiya Hotel in Maebashi
Guests who visit the Shiroiya Hotel in the Japanese industrial city of Maebashi are offered the choice of sleeping in a dramatically gutted post-war b...
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Office Building RATP Habitat in Paris
In the east of Paris Atelier du Pont has built an unconventional office building for the housing association RATP Habitat. Located in a courtyard, the...
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Maggie’s Centre in Leeds
A grassy hillock near the carpark was almost the last piece of land left unsealed or undeveloped in the grounds of St James’s Hospital in Leeds....
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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...
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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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Olympic Buildings
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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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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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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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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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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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