Beijing: a metropolis straddling past and future

The Beijing Olympics focused the world’s attention on a handful of headline buildings. Herzog & de Meuron’s National Stadium, Foster + Partners’ Airpo

# China # Steven Holl Architects # Herzog & de Meuron # Kengo Kuma and Associates # OMA # GMP - Von Gerkan, Marg und Partner #MADA S.P.A.M. #Paul Andreu # Foster + Partners

#Highlights

High school #9

Coop Himmelb(l)au

The Viennese practice Coop Himmelb(l)au - in particular its charismatic founding partner, Wolf Prix - has long been enamored with Los Angeles. From the legendar

# United States of America #Coop Himmelb(l)au # Education

#Letter from America

Uda Architetti Associati

UdA Architetti Associati

In 1995, even before they graduated, Valter Camagna, Massimiliano Camoletto and Andrea Marcante decided to open a firm of architects. They called it UdA (standi

#UdA Architetti Associati

#Made in Italy

Mumuth, house for music and music theatre

UNStudio

Architecture encompasses an appreciation of the most ordinary items of daily life. It lays down a “moral geometry” that keeps us mindful of our place in the

# Austria # Theater - Auditorium # UNStudio

#Architecture

House in Crevenna

Marco Castelletti Studio di Architettura

This detached family residence designed by Marco Castelletti is located in the undulating countryside of Crevenna, in the northern Italian province of Como, an

# Italy #Marco Castelletti Studio di Architettura # Residence

#Architecture

Cultural Center

Pesquera Ulargui Arquitectos

Ibiza’s multipurpose Convention, Exhibition and Cultural Centre is a huge architectural commitment for completion in two stages: the great Auditorium seating

# Spain #Pesquera Ulargui Arquitectos # Cultural center

#Architecture

Atelier Fleuriste

ElasticoSPA

Coming across the Atelier Fleuriste in a quiet street of Chieri, a small town near Turin characterised by 1960s apartment blocks and the odd local playing field

# Italy #ElasticoSPA # Commercial - Retail # Residence

#Architecture

Parque Biblioteca España

Giancarlo Mazzanti Arquitectos

Inaugurated in 2007, the public library “Parque Biblioteca España” in the Columbian city of Medellín combines symbol and function: it bears witness to a c

#Giancarlo Mazzanti Arquitectos #Colombia # Cultural center

#Architecture

Polygreen House

Bellemo & Cat

Designed by Michael Bellemo & Cat Macleod, this studio home for architects investigates a recurrent topic in modern architectural theory and practice: low-c

#Bellemo & Cat # Residence # Australia

#Zoom

Summerhouse

UllmayerSylvester Architects

This 35 sq m holiday cottage is only a short walk away from the owner’s north London home - at the bottom of the Victorian garden of the main house. It has be

# United Kingdom #UllmayerSylvester Architects # Residence

#Zoom

Frener & Reifer Headquarters

BRT Architekten

Designed by the Hamburg’s BRT Architekten, the new head office of building-component manufacturer Frener & Reifer in Bressanone, northern Italy is a state

# Italy #BRT Architekten # Offices

#Focus

Hotel Hyatt

Ukraine’s economic and cultural centre, Kiev, is undergoing rapid tourist development at present with many hotel chains deciding to set up in the capital.

#Design

The Sclera Pavilion

American Tulipwood, or Liriodendron tulipifera of the Magnoliaceae family, is a fast-growing, abundantly available North American hardwood. Good forestry manage

#Report

Duravit Showroom

The German company of Duravit, founded at Hornberg in the Black Forest in 1817, today boasts nine factories producing bathroom fittings across the globe. To boo

#Report

Renovation Guggenheim Museum

Il Museo Guggenheim di New York, che nel 2009 compirà cinquant’anni ed è una delle icone dell’architettura del XX secolo, è sta

#Design

“Lama Sud”

The new infant school complex inaugurated in Ravenna in October comprises a nursery school and kindergarten for a total of 200 children.The competition held by

#Report

Logika

The exterior lighting system Logika is designed as an urban furniture component. Versatile and adaptable, Logika comprises luminaire, brackets and lamp posts th

#Design

Jolly Hotel

Inaugurated in October, the Jolly Hotel designed by Dominique Perrault for the new Fiera Milano Rho trade fair is part of an “architecture park” made up of

#Report

Planibel I-Top

Low-emission glass Planibel I-Top is a high performer in terms of thermal insulation, light transmittance and solar protection. It thus optimizes consumption in

#Design

Foundation Riccardo Catella

The headquarters of the Riccardo Catella Foundation in Milan’s Isola district sets out to be a new kind of social and cultural facility for the city, with dis

#Report

Mosaico+: colours evolution

Out of an alliance between Mapei, Emilceramica and Legend Pacific comes Mosaico+, the latest brand on the mosaic tiling market that proposes new techniques and

#Design

The Plan 032 [03-2009]

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