Neutelings Riedijk

The whole process is predicated on an intuition. Appearance, form, and primary exterior features, even the building’s function and liveability all take their

# Netherlands # University #Neutelings Riedijk

#Architecture

Medical Faculties, Diego Portales University

Mathias Klotz

The Medical Faculties of the Diego Portales University in Santiago, Chile, completed in 2004 on an already densely built island block, had to follow the orienta

#Pilkington # Chile #Mathias Klotz # University

#Architecture

The Cyclops - Residential Complex

NIO Architecten

Twelve houses backed up against a noise barrier along a busy main road flanked by a bicycle path on the outskirts of Hilversum in Holland. A useful and necessar

# Netherlands # Residential Building - Complex #NIO Architecten

#Architecture

Residential and Office Complex

Titus Bernhard Architekten

The housing complex is located on a greenfield site of approximately 6,000 sqm outside Burgrieden, not far from Ulm, Germany. The aim was to combine the functio

# Germany #Titus Bernhard Architekten # Multifunctional Building - Complex

#Architecture

Max Mara Headquarters

John McAslan + Partners

The project to build the new Max Mara headquarters at Mancasale near Reggio Emilia, Italy was awarded by international competition in 1994. The 30 hectare site

# Italy # Rheinzink # Offices # John McAslan + Partners # Schüco

#Architecture

De Young Museum

Herzog & de Meuron

Yet again, the architects Herzog & de Meuron have made a building that might be termed paradoxical. Amid the lush foliage of San Francisco’s Golden Gate P

# United States of America # Kme # Herzog & de Meuron # Exhibition

#Letter from America

Interview with Odile Decq

ODBC Odile Decq - Benoit Cornette

Alessandra Orlandoni - In 1996, visiting the Ed Kienholtz exhibition at New York’s Whitney Museum, I was struck by the artist’s official acknowledge

#ODBC Odile Decq - Benoit Cornette

#Kaleidoscope

Ordrupgaard Museum Extension

Zaha Hadid Architects

Zaha Hadid’s new extension to the Ordrupgaard Museum in Copenhagen is her most feminine built form to date, an inviting, intimately scaled environment differe

# Denmark # Zaha Hadid Architects # Exhibition

#Point of View

Polini Motori Headquarters

Joseph di Pasquale

The trapezoidal shaped plot, with a main road running along one side, meant that the factory building had to be aligned along the former railway tracks of the V

# Italy # Offices #Joseph di Pasquale

#Zoom

Millau Viaduct

Foster + Partners

Bridges are often considered to belong to the realm of the engineer rather than that of the architect. But the architecture of infrastructure has a powerful imp

# France # Infrastructure #ArcelorMittal # Foster + Partners

#Structure

Leaf Awards 2005

In September, during the 3rd annual LEAF (Leading European Architects Forum) the winning entries for the pan-European LEAF Awards were announced. Nearly 250 sen

Consorzio Cooperative Costruzioni Headquarters

Open Project

The new Bologna headquarters of Consorzio Cooperative Costruzioni lies parallel to the main road, via Emilia Ponente. The 10-storey building, oriented in an eas

# Italy # Offices # Open Project

#Projects

Living with Art

When in the fifties, people asked philosopher Martin Heidegger what he thought about the housing crisis, a crucial problem in those post-war days, he replied wi

#Design

Tom Dixon’s Expressive Reductionism

When neo-baroque and neo-antique were in full flood (April 2005) and his contemporaries (Wanders, Urquiola, Boontje) were into lacework, crochet and marquetry,

#Design

Carving Centipede

Aldo Cibic

The garden behind Palazzo dell’Arte at Milan’s Triennale hosts the OpenAir Design sculpture exhibition whose subject is outdoor relaxation and work. Aldo Ci

#Aldo Cibic

#Design

The Plan 012 [12-2005]

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