Architecture news

• Co-creating Architecture no. 1 – Nord Architects - ArchDaily

  22-04-2020 23:31
  
  Co-creating Architecture no. 1 – Nord Architects  ArchDaily
  
  Read more

• Co-creating Architecture no. 2 – Effekt - ArchDaily

  22-04-2020 23:29
  
  Co-creating Architecture no. 2 – Effekt  ArchDaily
  
  Read more

• Co-creating Architecture no. 2 – Effect - ArchDaily

  22-04-2020 23:29
  
  Co-creating Architecture no. 2 – Effect  ArchDaily
  
  Read more

• The Lookout House / Rowland+Broughton Architecture - ArchDaily

  22-04-2020 23:16
  
  The Lookout House / Rowland+Broughton Architecture  ArchDaily
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• "A non-healthcare building converted to a patient care space is not quite a hospital"

  22-04-2020 23:00
  
  While converting existing buildings into fully functioning hospitals is unfeasible, high schools and large hotels can be used as care space for coronavirus patients, says Jason Schroer, who is director of health at HKS's firm in Dallas. Here he explains how.The Covid-19 pandemic brings a unique challenge to all healthcare architects. It stretches our design paradigm and asks us to play a key support role in the trajectory of health outcomes in our communities.
  In just 10 to 14 days, a hotel
  
  Read more

• Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera premiere film exploring the visual landscape of Covid-19 at VDF

  22-04-2020 22:29
  
  Our VDF collaboration with The World Around concludes with the premiere of a new film by Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera, which charts the global impact of coronavirus on spaces across a wide range of different scales.Called The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19, the 13-minute film explores the coronavirus pandemic through a montage of images of spaces of different scales – from microscopic images of the virus, to maps showing its global spread.
  It documents dramatic transformation
  
  Read more

• Will coronavirus change city architecture and design? - Los Angeles Times

  22-04-2020 22:26
  
  Will coronavirus change city architecture and design?  Los Angeles Times
  
  Read more

• Architecture Professor Serves as Issue Editor for journal 'Technology | Architecture + Design' - UMass News and Media Relations

  22-04-2020 21:38
  
  Architecture Professor Serves as Issue Editor for journal 'Technology | Architecture + Design'  UMass News and Media Relations
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Cameron Sinclair and Facebook's Margaret Stewart feature in the third instalment of The World Around symposium

  22-04-2020 20:56
  
  Architect Cameron Sinclair and vegan fashion designer Mats Rombaut are joined by Facebook's director of product design Margaret Stewart in the third part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day.The World Around's Earth Day 2020 symposium, which we are broadcasting today as part of Virtual Design Festival, features talks, presentations, films and essays by over twenty visionaries at the forefront of ecological design.
  Cameron Sinclair will presen
  
  Read more

• How Leonardo Nam Went From Architecture School in Australia to Starring on 'Westworld' - Backstage

  22-04-2020 19:19
  
  How Leonardo Nam Went From Architecture School in Australia to Starring on 'Westworld'  Backstage
  
  Read more

• NAC Architecture is hiring a Project Architect in Los Angeles, CA, US - Archinect

  22-04-2020 19:08
  
  NAC Architecture is hiring a Project Architect in Los Angeles, CA, US  Archinect
  
  Read more

• "It's hard to yearn for a return to a pre-pandemic normal" says Design Earth

  22-04-2020 19:00
  
  El Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn of collaborative architecture practice Design Earth discuss how to engage with the climate emergency in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in this interview with architecture writer Carson Chan, which forms part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day.
  The World Around's Earth Day 2020 symposium, which we are broadcasting today as part of Virtual Design Festival, features talks, presentations, films and essays by over twe
  
  Read more

• Architects, not Architecture: Daniel Libeskind - ArchDaily

  22-04-2020 17:29
  
  Architects, not Architecture: Daniel Libeskind  ArchDaily
  
  Read more

• Latest Architecture Billing Index Signals Major Downturn in Commercial Construction - Architectural Record

  22-04-2020 17:20
  
  Latest Architecture Billing Index Signals Major Downturn in Commercial Construction  Architectural Record
  
  Read more

• Green buildings: 18 examples of sustainable architecture around the world - CNN

  22-04-2020 17:04
  
  Green buildings: 18 examples of sustainable architecture around the world  CNN
  
  Read more

• Part two of The World Around's Earth Day symposium features Aric Chen and Thomas Thwaites

  22-04-2020 16:50
  
  Curator Aric Chen and designer Thomas Thwaites discuss their work in the second part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around, which also features short films by Kalyanee Mam and Apichatpong Weerasthakul.
  The World Around's Earth Day 2020 symposium, which we are broadcasting today as part of Virtual Design Festival, features talks, presentations, films and essays by over twenty visionaries at the forefront of ecological design.
  The second session starts with a
  
  Read more

• Canadian's Tridel tech savvy signature residence: the future of condominium living

  22-04-2020 16:30
  
  Expanding on Tridel’s robust smart home integration features within Ten York, the Innovation Suite merges technology and design seamlessly, providing connectivity, comfort, and convenience for residents
  
  Read more

• Saez Pedraja adds small studio to a fashion designer's stucco Santa Monica residence

  22-04-2020 16:04
  
  California architect Juan Saez Pedraja has added a studio fronted with large aluminium and cedar shades to the backyard of this remodelled Santa Monica residence.Ramar Residence and Studio is located on a hill in the city's Sunset Park neighbourhood approximately one mile (1.6 kilometres) from the Pacific Ocean.
  Saez Pedraja designed the renovation to a 2,150-square-foot (199.7-square-metre) house, which was built in 1958, for a fashion designer. The project included updating the existing s
  
  Read more

• Saez Pedraja adds small studio to a fashion designer's Santa Monica residence

  22-04-2020 16:04
  
  California architect Juan Saez Pedraja has added a studio fronted with aluminium panels and cedar shades to the backyard of a remodelled Santa Monica residence.Ramar Residence and Studio is located on a hill in the city's Sunset Park neighbourhood approximately one mile (1.6 kilometres) from the Pacific Ocean.
  Saez Pedraja designed the renovation to a 2,150-square-foot (199.7-square-metre) house, which was built in 1958, for a fashion designer. The project included updating the existing structur
  
  Read more

• Natural History Museum launches national UK programme to protect urban nature

  22-04-2020 15:10
  
  Natural History Museum launches ambitious project to reimagine five-acre of gardens surrounding the museum in South Kensington, London
  
  Read more

• Kunlé Adeyemi and Nelly Ben Hayoun feature in the first session of The World Around symposium

  22-04-2020 14:50
  
  Our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day kicks off with a series of conversations with designers including Nelly Ben Hayoun and Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi.The World Around's Earth Day 2020 symposium, which we are broadcasting today as part of Virtual Design Festival, features talks, presentations, films and essays by over twenty visionaries at the forefront of ecological design.
  Cooking Section will present its Climavore installation on the Isle
  
  Read more

• In conversation with LWK + Partners: enlightening future retail experiences

  22-04-2020 14:15
  
  What do future retail spaces look like? What possibilities can design offer to future ways of living and people's relationship with places? LWK + Partners has some answers
  
  Read more

• Live video interview with The World Around curator Beatrice Galilee

  22-04-2020 13:52
  
  In this live interview, Beatrice Galilee speaks to Dezeen about the online symposium she has curated as part of Virtual Design Festival's partnership with The World Around for Earth Day.From 2:00pm (UK time) today, Virtual Design Festival will host a series of online talks, interviews, short films and essays exploring ideas that could "shape the future of our relationship with the planet", according to Galilee.
  In this live interview to introduce the symposium, Galilee speaks to Dezeen's editor-
  
  Read more

• On Earth Day, We Reflect on Architecture's Relationship with the Planet - ArchDaily

  22-04-2020 13:40
  
  On Earth Day, We Reflect on Architecture's Relationship with the Planet  ArchDaily
  
  Read more

• Elisabeth Polzella creates structural-stone covered market in Lamure-Sur-Azergues

  22-04-2020 13:35
  
  French architect Elisabeth Polzella has built a covered market from structural stone and timber for the town of Lamure-Sur-Azergues in the Rhône region of central France.
  Built alongside Lamure-Sur-Azergues' town hall, the open-sided building is designed to host the weekly market and to be a gathering place for the people of the town.The simple market hall structure has a large timber roof of Douglas fir supported by eight structural stone columns, which are made from a local type of
  
  Read more

• "The current crisis has exposed the structural shortcomings of our healthcare systems"

  22-04-2020 13:15
  
  The coronavirus has exposed fundamental problems with our healthcare systems that we should not forget once the pandemic passes, warns Reinier de Graaf in a letter to the present from the future.How will we look back on today once the current crisis has panned out? How "new" will the new normal be? While the current crisis offers compelling reasons for change, history also cautions against premature conclusions.
  This is my report on the present from the future:
  In Europe we were living longer th
  
  Read more

• "The current crisis had exposed the structural shortcomings of our healthcare systems"

  22-04-2020 13:15
  
  The coronavirus has exposed fundamental problems with our healthcare systems that we should not forget once the pandemic passes, warns Reinier de Graaf in a letter to the present from the future.How will we look back on today once the current crisis has panned out? How "new" will the new normal be? While the current crisis offers compelling reasons for change, history also cautions against premature conclusions.
  This is my report on the present from the future:
  In Europe inkiuik 2020 we were liv
  
  Read more

• Expanding JZA+D team adds architecture, interiors and marketing skills

  22-04-2020 13:12
  
  Design firm Joshua Zinder Architecture + Design (JZA+D) has announced four new hires, as the firm looks to expand its portfolio in the hospitality, retail, workplace, institutional and residential sectors
  
  Read more

• Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 22 April - Dezeen

  22-04-2020 12:52
  
  Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 22 April  Dezeen
  
  Read more

• Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 22 April

  22-04-2020 12:52
  
  Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes delays to work on Notre-Dame Cathedral and an intensive care unit in a shipping container.Vivviene Westwood and Christopher Kane create hopeful coronavirus posters
  Artists and designers including Vivienne Westwood, Christopher Kane and Wolfgang Tillmans have created protest-style posters about coronavirus for Dazed Media (via Dezeen).
  Notre Dame restoration delayed due to coronaviru
  
  Read more

• Two new principals for Champalimaud Design

  22-04-2020 12:50
  
  Firm recognised for visionary concepts spanning hospitality and residential sectors welcomes Matoula Karagiannis and Kajsa Krause
  
  Read more

• Kunlé Adeyemi, Nelly Ben Hayoun and Cameron Sinclair feature in VDF's collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day

  22-04-2020 12:00
  
  Today is Earth Day! To mark the occasion, VDF has collaborated with The World Around to host a series of talks, interviews, short films and essays exploring ideas that could "shape the future of our relationship with the planet".Today's programme features designers Nelly Ben Hayoun and Thomas Thwaites and architects Kunlé Adeyemi, Cameron Sinclair and London studio Cooking Sections, whose Climavore installation is pictured above, plus curator Aric Chen and more. See the schedule below for
  
  Read more

• Winner announced as Make Architects fund research to tackle loneliness

  22-04-2020 11:14
  
  Make Architects challenged Sydney University students to produce design proposals to help combat loneliness and improve social connections in cities
  
  Read more

• Peter Besley uses pale bricks and thick mortar to create monolithic facade of Brisbane's Couldrey House

  22-04-2020 11:00
  
  Mortar oozes between the off-white bricks that clad this house in Brisbane, which architect Peter Besley has designed to look "immensely heavy".
  Couldrey House measures 320 square metres and is situated west of central Brisbane, nestled in the foothills of Mount Coot-tha.Besley wanted the house's heavy materiality to contrast vernacular residential architecture in Australia, which he thinks is too-often built with lightweight materials that constantly need to be repaired.
  It's also meant to styl
  
  Read more

• Peter Besley and HNNA use pale bricks and thick mortar to create monolithic facade of Brisbane's Couldrey House

  22-04-2020 11:00
  
  Mortar oozes between the off-white bricks that clad this house in Brisbane, which studio HNNA and architect Peter Besley have designed to look "immensely heavy".
  Couldrey House measures 320 square metres and is situated west of central Brisbane, nestled in the foothills of Mount Coot-tha.Besley, who completed the project while at London architecture studio Assemblage, which has recently rebranded as HNNA, wanted the house's heavy materiality to contrast vernacular residential architect
  
  Read more

• Peter Belsey uses pale bricks and thick mortar to create monolithic facade of Brisbane's Couldrey House

  22-04-2020 11:00
  
  Mortar oozes between the off-white bricks that clad this house in Brisbane, which architect Peter Belsey has designed to look "immensely heavy".
  Couldrey House measures 320 square metres and is situated west of central Brisbane, nestled in the foothills of Mount Coot-tha.Besley wanted the house's heavy materiality to contrast vernacular residential architecture in Australia, which he thinks is too-often built with lightweight materials that constantly need to be repaired.
  It's also meant to styl
  
  Read more

• HNNA and Peter Besley use pale bricks and thick mortar to create monolithic facade of Brisbane's Couldrey House

  22-04-2020 11:00
  
  Mortar oozes between the off-white bricks that clad this house in Brisbane, which studio HNNA and architect Peter Besley have designed to look "immensely heavy".
  Couldrey House measures 320 square metres and is situated west of central Brisbane, nestled in the foothills of Mount Coot-tha.Besley, who worked on the project while at London architecture studio Assemblage, which has recently rebranded as HNNA, wanted the house's heavy materiality to contrast vernacular residential architect
  
  Read more

• Architecture firm to renovate vacant Hickory building for headquarters - Hickory Daily Record

  22-04-2020 11:00
  Architecture firm to renovate vacant Hickory building for headquarters  Hickory Daily Record
  
  Read more

• Everyone in the creative industries is "wondering what our role is" says Beatrice Galilee

  22-04-2020 10:31
  
  Beatrice Galilee has curated an online design symposium for Virtual Design Festival, which will be broadcast from 1:00pm UK time later today. In this video message, she questions the role of the creative industries during the coronavirus pandemic.
  Galilee is a co-founder and curator of The World Around, an architecture and design conference, which had its first edition in January 2020 in New York.
  Galilee has curated a series of interviews with architects and visionaries working on environmental
  
  Read more

• Pursuits Four Virtual Tours for Architecture Fans to Take - Prestige Online

  22-04-2020 09:35
  
  Pursuits Four Virtual Tours for Architecture Fans to Take  Prestige Online
  
  Read more

• IN SITU: Conversations on Architecture and Beyond - AS/COA Online

  22-04-2020 09:00
  
  IN SITU: Conversations on Architecture and Beyond  AS/COA Online
  
  Read more

• BIG creates spiral museum for Audemars Piguet in the Swiss mountains

  22-04-2020 03:00
  
  Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet is a spiral-shaped building rising up out of the landscape of Vallée de Joux in Switzerland designed by BIG for the watchmaker to house its collection of timepieces.
  The curved glass walls and the green roof of the BIG-designed pavilion sit next to the original Audemars Piguet workshop, which was set up in 1875.
  This historic building has been restored by Swiss architecture office CCHE and connected to the new museum, which was also real
  
  Read more

• Should I go international to study for architecture - Archinect

  22-04-2020 02:06
  Should I go international to study for architecture  Archinect
  
  Read more

Follow @newsl_architect on Twitter!