Kevin McGarry tracks down some of more salacious moments and art world scandals.
Welcome to the latest edition of the ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards, celebrating over 15 years of architectural excellence and innovation....
World Architecture Community News - RAW Architecture designs multi-purpose building addressing tropical climate in Indonesia
The Iranian architecture studio Rvad Studio designed the Tagh Behesht a mixed use building in Mashhad, Iran.
A new book explores the infinite architectural possibilities of an age-old material: brick
A low-tech housing system by the students of School of Architecture collaborating with students of the Building School of Siracusa, and studio AION.
Image 5 of 14 from gallery of Chris Precht Shares his Thoughts on the New Generation of Architects in ReSITE Podcast. Courtesy of Studio Precht
From the well-traveled Brooklyn Bridge to the lesser-known Ansonia Hotel, these are the best architectural landmarks to visit in the Big Apple
Image 12 of 36 from gallery of House of Windows / officePROJECT. Photograph by Qingshan Wu
Architect: MVRDV Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands taken in 2012. www.mvrdv.nl/#/projects/015wozoco architectureframed.blogspot.com/
More than 4 billion people live in urban areas globally. It’s now projected that by 2050, more than two-thirds of the world population will live in urban areas. So no wonder we pay more importance to the buildings and structures around us.
Darren Walker and Lisa Kim have decked out the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice in Midtown with contemporary art works that are meaningful to—and representative of—everyone. Interior Design sat down with them to discuss how art came to take center stage in what’s now an inclusive and eminently inviting space.
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Discover these amazing buildings devised by the Pritzker Prize–winning architect over the past five decades
Tadao Ando Animation at VWArtclub
A huge sphere appears to have imprinted the concrete facades of these buildings near Seoul designed by South Korean architect Moon Hoon
Lisa Licitra Ponti reports on the volcanic projects created by Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins. Him: an artist with a background in medicine and biochemistry; she: a poet and philosopher. After years in America and Japan, their forthcoming exhibit in Milan is set to bring them closer to Europe. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni
In our age of constant digital contact, connecting kids to nature seems more difficult than ever. Fortunately, intrepid thinkers, like aut- -aut, a team of Rome-based designers, are envisioning innovative ways to bring children closer to nature. Aut- -aut, which comprises Edoardo Capuzzo Dolcetta, Gabriele Capobianco, Davide Troiani, and Jonathan Lazar, recently won the AWR
Image 14 of 16 from gallery of De Klepperstee Park Central Building / Vakwerk Architecten. Photograph by Bart-Jan van der Gaag
KOSHINO HOUSE DESIGN BY TADAO ANDO KOSHINO HOUSE DESIGN BY TADAO ANDO Tadao Ando’s design for the Koshino House features two parallel concrete rectangular confines. The forms are partially buried into the sloping ground of a national park and become a compositional addition to the landscape. Placed carefully as to not disrupt the pre-existing trees on the site, the structure responds to the adjacent ecosystem while the concrete forms address a more general nature through a playful manipulation of light. The northern volume consists of a two-storey height containing a double height living room, a kitchen and a dining room on the first floor with the master bedroom and a study on the second floor. The southern mass then consists of six linearly organized children’s bedrooms, a bathroom and a lobby. Connecting the two spaces is a below grade tunnel that lies beneath the exterior stairs of the courtyard. Ando used the space within the two rectangular prisms as a way to express the fundamental nature of the site. This space reveals a courtyard that drapes over and contours to the natural topography. A wide set of stairs follows the sloping land into the enclosed exterior space and allows the light that penetrates through the canopy of trees into the sunken courtyard. This self-governing space represents the fold of nature that has been bound by the conditioned structures and become synthetic. Narrow apertures have been punched through the façades adjacent to the exterior staircase and manipulate complex crossings of natural light and shadow into the interior spaces. The patterns provide the only amount of ornament to the simple rooms. Other slots are cut from various planes of the two modules to produce the same effect of complexity throughout the entire house. Four years after the original construction, Ando designed a new addition to the compound. Placed to the north of the existing structures, the new cave-like space rests within the upward sloping piece of land. The study features a bold curve in contradiction to the rectilinear organization, initiating a completely new rhythm. Separate from the original courtyard design, the space between the addition and the original mass allows nature to remove the forms from each other. A patch of grass weaves its way between the concrete structures, while the curved wall extends from the building to define the exterior space. Similar to the other boxes, a slice of the ceiling plane along the curved wall is removed to add that bit of complexity and ornamentation to the interior; however, the curved patterns of light greatly differ from the linear patterns in the former building. Architect: Tadao Ando Location: Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan Project Year: 1980-1984 References: Yukio Futagawa, WikiArchitectura Photographs: Gonzalo Perez, Hoiol, Kazunori Fujimoto, Mariana, Simone Catania http://www.archdaily.com/161522/ad-classics-koshino-house-tadao-ando/ B TADAO ANDO Tadao Ando, born in 1941 is one of the most renowned contemporary Japanese architects. Characteristics of his work include large expanses of unadorned architectural concrete walls combined with wooden or stone floors and large windows. Active natural elements, like sun, rain, and wind are a distinctive inclusion to his style. He has designed many notable buildings, including Row House in Sumiyoshi, Osaka, 1976, which gave him the Annual Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan in 1979, Church of the Light, Osaka, 1989, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, 2001, Armani Teatro, Milan, 2001, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2002 and 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Tokyo, 2007. Among many awards he has received are; Gold Medal of Architecture, Academie d'Architecture (French Academy of Architecture) in 1989, The Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1995, Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects in 2002, and Gold Medal of Union Internationale des Architectes in 2005. Ando is an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He was also a visiting professor at Yale, Columbia, UC Barkley, and Harvard Universities. http://www.tadao-ando.com/bio_E.html
From afar they may look like massive satellites on these buildings, but they're actually designed for a completely different reason. This primary school buildin
Completed in 2011 in Moscow, Russia. Images by Peter Zaytsev . In the end of May, in the Russian capital, architectural biennale «АRCH Moscow» is traditionally held. za bor architects this year presented an...
Beckham Creek Cave Lodge offers a unique and luxurious lodging experience inside a living cave in
requiring only 6 weeks time and 9,000 dollars, the musician and photographer builds himself his own domed house in thailand.
a lightweight wood structure dissects a regular square into symmetrical geometries brought to light by filtered natural light.
Entre palais fantôme et folie visionnaire, Casapueblo déroule sa blancheur fantasque face au bleu de l’Atlantique. Une œuvre-hôtel signée Carlos Paez Vilaro.
An internet page has been set up devoted to the 'mistakes' of the architect Santiago Calatrava
Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes 2012 Rafael Moneo Vallés es uno de los representantes más notables de la arquitectura española contemporánea. Nació en Tudela, Navarra, en 1937. Cursó sus estudios en la Escuela Técnica Super...
An empty nester's brilliantly unconventional Clifton Hill home, designed by architect Murray Barker.
Image 10 of 14 from gallery of Flashback: Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum / Safdie Architects. Photograph by Timothy Hursley
‘The Architect's Studio: Anupama Kundoo' – a dedicated show on the Indian architect's work – opens at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark
Image 8 of 22 from gallery of Norfolk Burleigh Heads Residential Building / Koichi Takada Architects. Photograph by Paul Bamford
