Architecture

David Chipperfield Architects have transformed the former Préfecture de Paris into a city within a city while addressing themes such as mixed use, urban density and sustainable construction.

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects such as a great forgotten figure of Tropical Modernism: The multi-faceted work and impressive buildings of Italian-born Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi has greatly enriched Brazilian architecture.

The BMW headquarters in Munich (playfully known in Germany as the “BMW Four-Cylinder”) designed by Karl Schwanzer has been setting standards architecture for BMW for the past 50 years. Now this imposing head office has been integrated into a site that is constantly being updated by international architects.

His personality is as poised and natural as his buildings: A look at the architecture of this year's Pritzker Prize winner, Diébédo Francis Kéré.

Furniture from Renz was used at the headquarters of the logistics company EgeTrans in Marbach am Neckar, contributing to the successful atmosphere of the office building.

Villa Copenhagen combines luxury and resource-saving action. Various AXOR products in the hotel bathrooms also contribute to this, convincing through their interplay of aesthetics and sustainability.

A modern "village in village" is currently taking shape on land formerly used by the military in Andermatt, Switzerland. The project is a brainchild of entrepreneur Samih Sawiris and one element of it is "Mira", an apartment house designed by Ilg Santer Architekten and atelier 522, containing 18 duplex apartments. It is scheduled for completion by 2023.

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Tatiana Bilbao, whose credo is “Planning together, building together, living together”.

Floriade Expo 2022 in Almere sees itself as a showcase for a green, healthy and livable city. Part of the concept is a ropeway from Doppelmayr/Garaventa that not only provides access to the exhibition site but also gives a preview of future urban mobility concepts.

MVRDV designed the pavilion "Fuggerei NEXT500" as a reminiscence of the Fuggerei in Augsburg, which carries the concept of the oldest existing social settlement into the present.

With its sculptural vigor, Oscar Niemeyer’s posthumously realized pavilion in Provence provides yet another example of the Brazilian architect’s prowess.

The Ca l'Amo residential building on Ibiza brings nature and architecture together in a spectacular way. Products from Gira were also used for this, contributing to the purist appearance of the building.

Robert Stadler, an Austrian whose adopted home is Paris, has enriched the tradition-steeped KWM Krefeld with a coffee house that thoroughly lives up to the famed Viennese model. As an “gesamtkunstwerk”, it carries the spirit of productively combining art, craft, and industry forward into the Modern Age and playfully melds design and life, tradition and innovation.

In a current episode, the science series "Leschs Kosmos" on ZDF focuses on the fatal effects of cement production on the environment and shows which alternatives can effectively contribute to climate-friendly construction.

With the "Brugge Diptych", American architect Jon Lott has designed a pavilion that takes up the historical layers of Bruges and integrates them into its architecture.

For the design of a semi-detached house in Hamburg, the office of Architekt Reichwald GmbH was inspired by classical modernism. The approach to reduction is also evident in the bathrooms, where Geberit products were used.

The publication "Frauen Bauen Stadt" from Birkhäuser Verlag and the 3sat documentary "Frauen bauen. Wie Architektinnen die Baukunst erobern" show the work of female urban planners with international examples.

With the renovation of the Enrico Fermi School in Turin, Italy's BDR bureau is providing an example of what a successful educational building can look like.

In Tokyo, Masashi Miyamoto Architects/ mmar have designed a residential building that takes up the structure of the surrounding neighborhood and continues it in its interior.

For the extension of Drayton Green Chapel in London, Piercy&Company added a brick structure to an old chapel that skillfully interlocks with the existing building. Bricks from Petersen Tegl were used for this project.

In our new series "Spotlight on Women Architects" we will regularly present the work of female architects – starting with Marlene Moeschke-Poelzig and the construction of the "Villa Poelzig" in Berlin that ended up being demolished.

The renovation of the Walter Höllerer secondary school by Coplan AG convinces with its sustainable concept. For the façade, the architects opted for "öko skin" by Rieder, a cladding made of glass fiber concrete in lath format.

Buckle Street Studios: Grzywinski+Pons have integrated no fewer than 103 studio apartments, a co-working space, a café, meeting rooms and a concept store in a building in London. In addition to the architecture, the New York design studio is also responsible for the interior design and most of the furniture.

The DAM Prize 2022 goes to the cooperative housing project "San Riemo" in Munich, which impresses with its participatory housing model and flexible floor plans.

The new Volkstheater in Munich by LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei blends subtly into the existing neighborhood while serving as a cultural beacon for an adjacent urban development project.

Living, working and shopping in one place: On the status quo of Sauerbruch Hutton's project at Berlin's Alexanderplatz.

The "House For Artists" in London offers not only flexible apartments, but also studios and communal areas that are intended to act as social catalysts in the neighborhood.

Java Architecture have redensified a backyard in Paris with a micro-residential tower that cleverly shifts between proximity and distance.

The Senckenberg quarter in Frankfurt/Main by cma cyrus moser architekten is mostly completed.

In the project "Six houses and a garden" Fala Atelier has transformed two buildings in Porto into six micro-apartments that convince with a poetic composition.

The Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill died at the age of 82. Our obituary.

The Melopee School in Ghent by Xaveer De Geyter Architects is a typological experiment whose spatial grid creates space for additional outdoor facilities in an unconventional way.

It doesn’t happen too often that an historical architect like Sigurd Lewerentz is the subject of two publications appearing independently of each other at almost the same time. What’s more, an exhibition in Stockholm’s ArkDes Center for Architecture is dedicated to his life and work. So there must be something in the air prompting the current interest in Lewerentz. But what is it?

Richard Rogers was one of the great architects of the 20th century and a pioneer of hi-tech architecture. He has now died at the age of 88.

In London, Stephen Taylor Architects have designed 3.50-meter-wide terraced houses that exemplify what affordable and architecturally sophisticated housing can look like.