King’s Cross Station: a Soaring Concourse Revitalizes a Classic London Station

John McAslan + Partners

Britain led the world in the development of railways and, though it has fallen far behind other west European countries over the past 40 years, its vast network

# United Kingdom # Infrastructure # John McAslan + Partners

#Focus

Pierres Vives Form and Function fuse to create expressive and dynamic Civic Spaces

Zaha Hadid Architects

“I don’t design nice buildings,” says Zaha Hadid, “I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.” Those adjectives aptly describe Pierr

# France # Public # Zaha Hadid Architects

#Highlights

Day Nursery and Residence Pierre Budin

ECDM Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec

The urban context is the northern fringes of Paris, an unlovely jumble of disparate buildings, a tide line marking the end of the 19th century city and the begi

# France # Education #ECDM Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec #Il Cantiere

#Architecture

Italian Space Agency

5+1AA Alfonso Femia Gianluca Peluffo

With the Italian Space Agency (ASI) building in Rome, architects Alfonso Femia and Gianluca Peluffo of 5+1AA have definitely set aside what up to now had seemed

# Italy # AGC Flat Glass # Offices # 5+1AA Alfonso Femia Gianluca Peluffo # Fantoni #Castaldi Lighting # Schüco

#Architecture

Penleigh and Essendon - Grammar School

MCR McBride Charles Ryan

The new pavilion for the youngest pupils at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School in Melbourne, Australia is reminiscent of a fairy-tale cottage, a contemporary

#MCR McBride Charles Ryan # Education # Australia

#Architecture

The Brick Kiln House

Spasm Design Architecture

Located in a little village fairly near Bombay in the Indian state of Maharashtra, this country house set amidst luxuriant tropical vegetation is in keeping wit

# India # Residence # VM Zinc #Spasm Design Architecture

#Architecture

Natural History Museum of Utah

Ennead Architects | GSBS Architects

The programme for the new Natural History Museum of Utah meshes architectural design with museum-specific requirements within an overall framework of environmen

# United States of America # BEGA #Haworth # ERCO #Ennead Architects # Exhibition #GSBS Architects

#Architecture

The Platform of Arts and Creativity

Pitágoras

June 2012 saw the inauguration of a striking architecture and urban regeneration project in the historic northern Portuguese city of Guimarães, this year’s E

# Portugal # Cultural center #Pitágoras

#Architecture

Teatro Ristori

Aldo Cibic

Verona’s Ristori theatre started life in 1838 as a “huge shed for spectacles of all kinds”. Subsequently it became one of the city’s most exclusive thea

# Italy # Theater - Auditorium #Aldo Cibic # ERCO # Zumtobel Group

#Old & New

Out of the Woods

The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) has undertaken a project involving industrial students from the Design Products MA programme from London’s Roy

#Design

Sgarzi Winery

The Sgarzi Winery extension was done by Alberto Castellari of Archistudiø in Castel San Pietro Terme (Bologna). The design was based on the attentive use of ma

#Report

Helsinki Musik Centre

Finland’s music tradition stretches back thousands of years and remains an integral part of the country’s culture, with many people playing instruments or g

#Report

Private Chapel

Pininfarina Extra has designed a private chapel at Riardo (Caserta province) in a park encompassing hilly woodland. The design draws inspiration from the surrou

#Report

Easysteam - A Turkish Bath at Home

Talocci Design is behind Easysteam, one of the products in Effegibi’s Hammam project to create a simple, functional steam bath in a normal shower cubicle.

#Design

Frame - When technology meets tradition

Refin has joined forces with the visual and graphic communication practice Studio FM Milano to create Frame, a new tile collection that brings together the late

#Design

Energeto - Lightweight, high performance window and door frames

Diquigiovanni can trace it origins back to 1967, but these days the company specialises in PVC doors and windows that are renowned for their thermal and acousti

#Design

Essenza in a Hinged Version - All Types of Full-Glazed Windows

Essenza’s new hinged windows take the same concept used for the sliding versions to produce windows with maximised glazed areas - thanks to the hidden fra

#Design

The Syntesis® - System Pocket sliding systems for any setting

The wonderful old Lanificio Paoletti wool processing plant in Follina (Treviso province), originally from the time of the Venetian Republic, was the setting for

#Design

The Plan 062 [11-2012]

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