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House of Music in Budapest
In Budapest’s City Park, Sou Fujimoto’s transparent House of Music is an interim climax to a controversial cultural megaproject.
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Singapore as a Model Green City of the Future
Almost 6 million people live in Singapore on 730 km2 – an area as large as Hamburg. According to Richard Hassell, the co-founder of Woha archit...
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Two Museums in Lausanne
In Lausanne, Aires Mateus and Itten + Brechbühl combined two museums into one sculptural structure. Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus are known f...
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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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Building Affordably? Building Simply! – Interview Florian Nagler
Many of Florian Nagler’s buildings seem austere and rooted within the region, based on their traditional appeal. However, they possess global r...
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Residential Complex near Porto
The Portuguese village community of Vale de Cambra is located 40 km southeast of Porto. Surrounded by dispersed houses and halls with red sheet metal...
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Social Housing in Paris
The elegant building containing 15 social housing units is located in the 12th Arrondissement, a quiet residential area on the eastern urban fringe of...
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Concrete Block Manufacturer in Murcia
The new headquarters of concrete block manufacturer Montalbány Rodriguez is located in Murcia in southern Spain, in a commercial area surrounded by un...
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Workshop Building in Mechelen
There are many ways to reduce costs in architecture. Only very few lead to such a convincing result as in the case of the building for a social enterp...
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Kindergarten in Liberec
Located in Liberec in the Czech Republic and featuring a transparent facade consisting of corrugated fibre glass panels, the building is reminiscent m...
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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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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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