Architecture news

• ‘We didn’t think they’d use the animals as trampolines’ – Assemble unleash squidgy mayhem

  11-05-2022 15:37
  
  The Turner prize-winning collective have brought the spirit of Lina Bo Bardi to Nottingham, thrilling kids with the shamefully neglected Brazilian architect’s visions of play A gigantic green ball is on the loose, being herded around by a gang of schoolchildren, who gleefully speed it towards a circle of squishy foam animals, crashing into a projector hanging from the ceiling along the way. Other kids leap between the vinyl-covered creatures, hopping from turtle to tiger, while one boy beg
  
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• Welcome to the jungle: inside Mexico’s groundbreaking natural art gallery

  11-05-2022 11:25
  
  Part building, part tropical grove, this forest art space in the Yucatan peninsula is a living, breathing masterpiece of its own Walking in, it is hard to tell where the jungle ends and the building begins. Thick green tendrils curl down from above, filtering light over paths of sinewy bejuco vine. Trees are everywhere: sprouting through the floor, bending polished concrete surfaces to their will and soaring towards the roof. The air is humid and carries a vegetal musk. It is less like being in
  
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• Bold Ventures by Charlotte van den Broeck review – architects of their own demise

  11-05-2022 08:30
  
  A poetic tale of 13 flawed buildings that spelled catastrophe for their designersLate afternoon, Friday 27 January 1922. The sky unzipped and snow began to fall in Washington DC. It came down steadily all night and right through the next day, shrouding the city. Trains were evacuated, cars abandoned in the street. By 8pm on Saturday, 28 inches had fallen. Undaunted, 300 citizens decided to brave the translated streets to see the silent film Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford at Crandall’s Knickerb
  
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