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Rooftop renovation in Aachen
A row house in Aachen, built in the 1960s, was completely modernised in 2018 and now offers room for a young family. To achieve this, the architects o...
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Report: Living in Vienna
Alt Erlaa is a blend of vertical garden city, high-rise, and village square, with a very high level of satisfaction among its residents.
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Report: All’s Well That Ends Well?
After years of delay, the Berlin airport BER is finally opening. What lessons can be learned from this project, which is unique in so many ways? ...
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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 ...
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Memorial in Saxony-Anhalt
The Feldscheune Isenschnibbe memorial site in Gardelegen serves to commemorate the more than 1000 victims who were forced into a barn on 13 April 194...
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Holiday Home on Fanø
By adopting the aesthetics of raw, unfinished materials the young, Copenhagen-based architects reinterpret the traditional long houses of Fanø. ...
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Commercial Building in Thalgau
The architects achieved this aim by creating a thrilling interplay between existing and new construction. They maintained the overall impression of t...
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Technology: Houses without Heating
A concept is catching momentum. It calls for buildings to provide a pleasant room climate without the help of conventional heating, cooling and venti...
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Green: Residential area in Norwich
In autumn 2019, Britain’s largest certified passive house residential complex was the first social housing ever to be awarded the country&...
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Report: 13 Floors for Art
With the new Munch Museum on the shores of the Oslofjord, Estudio Herreros has made a grand statement with international reach. Together with th...
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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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