Architecture news

• Merge Architects builds dark corrugated steel housing facing Boston harbour

  13-05-2020 20:41
  
  Waves of corrugated steel and wood accents wrap around the Marginal Housing 3.0 block by Merge Architects located alongside Boston's harbour.The housing complex contains seven units, two duplexes facing the street, two flats in the middle and three townhouses at the rear of the plot.Merge Architects used materials and geometric shapes that were informed by its site located next to the harbour's shipyard.
  "The shape, texture, and materials of Marginal Housing 3.0 poetically mirror the dispar
  
  Read more

• Merge Architects builds bronze-coloured corrugated steel housing facing Boston harbour

  13-05-2020 20:41
  
  Waves of corrugated steel and wood accents wrap around the Marginal Housing 3.0 block by Merge Architects located alongside Boston's harbour.The housing complex contains seven units, two duplexes facing the street, two flats in the middle and three townhouses at the rear of the plot.Merge Architects used materials and geometric shapes that were informed by its site located next to the harbour's shipyard.
  "The shape, texture, and materials of Marginal Housing 3.0 poetically mirror the dispar
  
  Read more

• "We already had an office before we finished school" says Francine Houben in VDF lecture

  13-05-2020 18:00
  
  In our final lecture as part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Architects, not Architecture, Dutch architect Francine Houben talks about her influences and the founding of Mecanoo.
  The Architects, not Architecture talks give well-known architects a chance to discuss how they got where they are today. For Houben, it started with a childhood of constant moving around, as her father worked in the Dutch coal industry."We were always kind of living on buildings plots because we were mov
  
  Read more

• Florida's Residential Architecture: Understanding the Landscapes of American South - ArchDaily

  13-05-2020 17:05
  
  Florida's Residential Architecture: Understanding the Landscapes of American South  ArchDaily
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• New York's Poster House museum by LTL Architects contrasts "the rustic and the refined"

  13-05-2020 16:12
  
  New York studio LTL Architects has designed minimal grey interiors that contrast white neoclassical pillars for the USA's first major museum dedicated to the history of posters.
  The museum, called Poster House, is on the ground floor of an existing 10-storey building near Madison Square Park on the border of the New York's Chelsea neighbourhood.Spanning 14,500 square feet (1,347 square metres), the museum includes a lobby, gift shop, cafe and exhibition room and a cellar below with offices and o
  
  Read more

• Live interview with Ben van Berkel as part of Virtual Design Festival

  13-05-2020 16:00
  
  UNStudio founder Ben van Berkel will speak to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival today. Watch it here live from 3:30pm UK time.
  The Dutch architect will discuss the work of UNStudio with Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs.
  Van Berkel founded the studio together with Caroline Bos in 1988. It has previously designed proposals for a series of sustainable smart cities including a neighbourhood in the Netherlands where re
  
  Read more

• JOA's 'post anthropocene' series envisions architecture for future societies - Designboom

  13-05-2020 16:00
  
  JOA's 'post anthropocene' series envisions architecture for future societies  Designboom
  
  Read more

• We entered the Pompidou competition "against my will" says Richard Rogers in VDF lecture

  13-05-2020 15:46
  
  In the second talk as part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with Architects, not Architecture, architect Richard Rogers discusses his reluctance to enter the Centre Pompidou competition and liking the Lloyd's building.
  The idea behind Architects, not Architecture is for architects to discuss their path, influences and experiences.
  In his lecture in November 2017, Rogers explained that he'd been told he couldn't use buildings for his talk, as the main rule of the series is that a
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Copenhagen named 2023 World Capital of Architecture - Archpaper.com - The Architect's Newspaper

  13-05-2020 15:13
  
  Copenhagen named 2023 World Capital of Architecture - Archpaper.com  The Architect's Newspaper
  
  Read more

• A Virtual Landscape-Architecture Camp Introduces Girls to Careers They Didn't Even Know Existed - Next City

  13-05-2020 14:43
  
  A Virtual Landscape-Architecture Camp Introduces Girls to Careers They Didn't Even Know Existed  Next City
  
  Read more

• "I didn't want to become an architect at all" says Reiulf Ramstad in VDF lecture

  13-05-2020 14:05
  
  In the first lecture from today's collaboration with Architects, not Architecture, Norwegian architect Reiulf Ramstad discusses his background and how he originally wanted to become a dancer, not an architect.
  Ramstad, founder of Oslo studio Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter, spoke of how growing up with an architect made him want to chose a different career for himself."My mother had an architectural studio and I didn't want to become an architect at all," said Ramstad in the lecture in November 2
  
  Read more

• 2020 WIN Awards entry: Suzhou Yango Tanyuan Sales Center - Matrix Design

  13-05-2020 13:33
  
  Suzhou Yango Tanyuan Sales Center by Matrix Design is an entry in the Category Sports stadiums and sports centres of the 2020 WIN Awards
  
  Read more

• Zaha Hadid Architects reveals interiors of ME Dubai hotel at the Opus

  13-05-2020 13:30
  
  The newly opened ME Dubai hotel at the Opus by Zaha Hadid Architects features furniture by Zaha Hadid Design and curving sculptural balconies.Set in Dubai's Burj Khalifa district, the Opus is a mirrored glass building occupied by a hotel, offices, serviced apartments and several restaurants.
  Completed externally last year, the ME Dubai at the Opus is the only hotel in the world that can claim to have had both its exterior and interiors designed by the late Zaha Hadid.Externally the building appe
  
  Read more

• 2020 WIN Awards entry: Yango Nanjing Winner Land Mansion Sales Center - Matrix Design

  13-05-2020 13:09
  
  Yango Nanjing Winner Land Mansion Sales Center by Matrix Design is an entry in the Residential developments category of the 2020 WIN Awards
  
  Read more

• Archigram's Instant City concept enables "a village to become a kind of city for a week" says Peter Cook

  13-05-2020 13:00
  
  Architect Peter Cook explains Archigram's concept for a temporary city that can be set up overnight in the third instalment of our exclusive video series with the radical architecture group for VDF.Developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Archigram's Instant City concept is a transportable kit of parts that can be quickly assembled to provide the inhabitants of small towns with access to the resources and cultural attractions of a large metropolis.
  Archigram's Instant City concept aimed to p
  
  Read more

• 2020 WIN Awards entry: Poly Times Sales Center - Matrix Design

  13-05-2020 12:53
  
  Poly Times Sales Centerby Matrix Design is an entry in the Category Residential developments of the 2020 WIN Awards
  
  Read more

• "Incredible things are happening" in virtual reality say architects in lockdown

  13-05-2020 12:45
  
  Architects are turning to virtual worlds for both working and socialising during the coronavirus pandemic, with everything from site visits to social events happening in cyberspace.
  "Incredible things are happening," said Lara Lesmes of Space Popular, an architecture studio that has pioneered the use of virtual reality in its projects.
  "We spend a lot of time in VR," said the London studio's Fredrik Hellberg. "I think we probably both met more new people during the lockdown than we normally woul
  
  Read more

• 2020 WIN Awards entry: CIFI Nanchang Jade Garden Sales Center - Matrix Design

  13-05-2020 12:36
  
  CIFI Nanchang Jade Garden Sales Center by Matrix Design is an entry in the Category Cultural venues of the 2020 WIN Awards
  
  Read more

• "Rather than attempt to reconcile museums' contradictions, we should start again"

  13-05-2020 12:00
  
  Museums should use the disruption caused by coronavirus to fundamentally rethink how they operate and what their purpose is, says Owen Hopkins.In late summer 1939, in anticipation of the imminent start of the second world war, all the paintings in London's National Gallery were taken down and transported to an old slate mine in Wales for safe keeping. As the bombs rained on the city during the blitz, the gallery organised a series of lunchtime concerts taking place in its empty galleries.
  Once t
  
  Read more

• “Rather than attempt to reconcile museums' contradictions, we should start again”

  13-05-2020 12:00
  
  Museums should use the disruption caused by coronavirus to fundamentally rethink how they operate and what their purpose is, says Owen Hopkins.In late summer 1939, in anticipation of the imminent start of the second world war, all the paintings in London's National Gallery were taken down and transported to an old slate mine in Wales for safe keeping. As the bombs rained on the city during the blitz, the gallery organised a series of lunchtime concerts taking place in its empty galleries.
  Once t
  
  Read more

• Vikki's Place by Curious Practice is a family home for three generations

  13-05-2020 11:00
  
  Split-level flooring and slim wooden blinds separate the living spaces of this multi-generational home in the Australian city of Newcastle, New South Wales.
  The eponymous owner of Vikki's Place needed a home that could accommodate herself and her grown-up son, who comes to stay for long periods of time with his own family of four.
  Locally-based Curious Practice set about creating a cosy multi-generational home that "does not presume separation between family members".The home sits on flood-prone
  
  Read more

• Enterprise Architecture Software Market 2020: Business Opportunities, Current Trends and Restraints Forecast 2027 - Cole of Duty

  13-05-2020 07:55
  Enterprise Architecture Software Market 2020: Business Opportunities, Current Trends and Restraints Forecast 2027  Cole of Duty
  
  Read more

• Civil Architecture Market Growth by Top Companies, Trends by Types and Application, Forecast to 2026 - Cole of Duty

  13-05-2020 07:11
  Civil Architecture Market Growth by Top Companies, Trends by Types and Application, Forecast to 2026  Cole of Duty
  
  Read more

• Graduate wants to change the world through architecture - UTSA Today

  13-05-2020 06:38
  
  Graduate wants to change the world through architecture  UTSA Today
  
  Read more

• "Let's talk about the architecture of Super Mario Bros" - Archinect

  13-05-2020 05:09
  
  "Let's talk about the architecture of Super Mario Bros"  Archinect
  
  Read more

• Architecture, Engineering Consultants And Other Related Services Market Growth by Top Companies, Trends by Types and Application, Forecast to 2026 - Cole of Duty

  13-05-2020 04:52
  Architecture, Engineering Consultants And Other Related Services Market Growth by Top Companies, Trends by Types and Application, Forecast to 2026  Cole of Duty
  
  Read more

• Advanced Metering Architecture (AMA) Market to Witness Astonishing Growth With Landis+Gyr, Itron, Alcara Technologies (GE Meter), Honeywell Elster, Xylem Inc, Siemens, EKA Systems (Eaton), and Trilliant - Cole of Duty

  13-05-2020 04:46
  Advanced Metering Architecture (AMA) Market to Witness Astonishing Growth With Landis+Gyr, Itron, Alcara Technologies (GE Meter), Honeywell Elster, Xylem Inc, Siemens, EKA Systems (Eaton), and Trilliant  Cole of Duty
  
  Read more

• Israeli researchers unveil architecture secrets of ‘word's oldest temple’ - The Jerusalem Post

  13-05-2020 04:36
  
  Israeli researchers unveil architecture secrets of ‘word's oldest temple’  The Jerusalem Post
  
  Read more

• Rural Vietnamese preschool tops world architecture projects - VnExpress International

  13-05-2020 03:58
  
  Rural Vietnamese preschool tops world architecture projects  VnExpress International
  
  Read more

• Enterprise Architecture Tools Market Growth by Top Companies, Trends by Types and Application, Forecast to 2026 - Cole of Duty

  13-05-2020 03:42
  Enterprise Architecture Tools Market Growth by Top Companies, Trends by Types and Application, Forecast to 2026  Cole of Duty
  
  Read more

• Tbilisi Architecture Biennial to run online with focus on commonness - Agenda.ge

  13-05-2020 03:41
  
  Tbilisi Architecture Biennial to run online with focus on commonness  Agenda.ge
  
  Read more

• Architecture Design Software Market Growth by Top Companies, Trends by Types and Application, Forecast to 2026 - Cole of Duty

  13-05-2020 03:37
  Architecture Design Software Market Growth by Top Companies, Trends by Types and Application, Forecast to 2026  Cole of Duty
  
  Read more

• Business-Outcome-Driven Enterprise Architecture Consulting Software Market Growth by Top Companies, Trends by Types and Application, Forecast to 2026 - Cole of Duty

  13-05-2020 03:36
  Business-Outcome-Driven Enterprise Architecture Consulting Software Market Growth by Top Companies, Trends by Types and Application, Forecast to 2026  Cole of Duty
  
  Read more

• Curl la Tourelle Head proposes tent classrooms for socially distanced learning

  13-05-2020 03:00
  
  UK studio Curl la Tourelle Head has designed a concept for tent classrooms that would allow students to return to schools while maintaining social distancing guidelines.
  Curl la Tourelle Head envisions the pop-up teaching spaces being erected at schools to expand capacity for socially distanced learning and reduce the reliance on restricted circulation routes.
  "We designed the concept to assist pupils and staff with their return to school and to mitigate the possibility of infection by proper sp
  
  Read more

• Tresno House / Realrich Architecture Workshop - ArchDaily

  13-05-2020 02:49
  
  Tresno House / Realrich Architecture Workshop  ArchDaily
  
  Read more

Follow @newsl_architect on Twitter!