Kengo Kuma and Associates

Since architecture involves something inherently hard and heavy, there are times that the softness of cloth becomes intensely desirable, so spending time select

# Kengo Kuma and Associates

#Editorial Critique

Taipei MAPPING - a harmonious mix of assonance and dissonance

The CityPlan returns to the Far East, to Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. As usual, our survey starts with a look at the GIS-based maps that provide a significant

# Taiwan

#TheCityPlan

Taipei Identity: From Icon to Infrastructure

Taipei, or Taipei city, as it is now officially designated, is the capital and most important political, economic and cultural city in Taiwan. Seat of national

# Taiwan

#TheCityPlan

Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building - Facility Complex

Mecanoo Architecten | Sasaki Associates

The completion by a high-profile European practice of its first project in the United States is automatically something of a career milestone, inviting reflecti

# United States of America # Public # Mecanoo Architecten #Sasaki Associates

#Letter from America

Corning Museum of Glass Extension - A Celebration of Contemporary Glass

Thomas Phifer and Partners

In 1951 Corning Glass celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding by opening the Museum of Glass on its corporate campus in upstate New York. Thomas Phifer

# United States of America #Thomas Phifer and Partners # Exhibition

#Highlights

Urban Strategy and Nature Redesign

Urbanus Architecture & Design

The architectural term Urbanism has always been closely related to Modernism. Today, in a modern country like China, there is a great divide between rural an

# China # Library # Urbanus Architecture & Design

#Letter from China

Library - South University of Science and Technology

Urbanus Architecture & Design

Six years ago Urbanus Architecture & Design was invited to participate in the competition for the library project of the South University of Science and Tec

# China # Library # Urbanus Architecture & Design

#Letter from China

CSR Private House

Giuseppe Gurrieri | Nunzio Gabriele Sciveres

The renovation project of Casa CSR, an apartment in a 19th century patrician mansion in the old town of Ragusa in Sicily, required a thorough initial survey of

# Italy # Laminam # Residence # Velux #Giuseppe Gurrieri #Nunzio Gabriele Sciveres

#Old & New

International Congress Center

Tabanlioglu Architects

Located on Africa’s westernmost tip, Dakar, the capital of Senegal, hosted the 15th Francophonie summit in November 2014 attended by 75 heads of state.

# Public # Senegal # Tabanlioglu Architects

#Architecture

Ahmedabad University’s Institute of Engineering and Technology

Vir.Mueller Architects

While directly referencing the classical cloistered, academic quadrangle, the imposing building housing Ahmedabad University’s Institute of Engineering an

# India # University # Vir.Mueller Architects

#Architecture

Infrastructure, Architecture and Context

To all intents and purposes, an infrastructure project is also a project for the whole area on which that infrastructure will impinge. The changes brought ab

#Flash

Italian tiles - Metropolitan appeal

In a city, worn, weather-beaten tiles, perhaps with graffiti or printed words, have an undeniable appeal, with an interesting interplay of materials and images.

#Design

Como Lake Resort - Laglio, Italy

Venelli Kramer Architetti

The Como Lake Resort at Laglio on the western arm of Lake Como is a 14-apartment facility designed by Venelli Kramer Architetti and directly overlooking the lak

#Report

Skyway Monte Bianco Cable Car Facility

Roberto Rosset | Danilo Montovert

Skyway, the new Monte Bianco cable car facility in northeast Italy, required the building of three new stations at 1,300, 2,400 and 3,500 metres respectively. A

#Report

Bridge 129 plant

Giuseppe Innocenti

Bridge 129 by Giuseppe Innocenti in Reggio Emilia revamps an old craft building to the north of the city in a zone that is changing rapidly because of the nearb

#Report

Fassa Bortolo International Prize for Sustainable Architecture

The Fassa Bortolo International Prize for Sustainable Architecture is an award created and promoted by the Architecture Department at the University of Ferrara

#Report

Nestlé’s Italian Headquarters

Park Associati

Nestlé’s headquarters in the Milanofiori Nord area of Milan use permeability, reflection and the decomposition of volumes to become a unifying feat

#Report

Maxx Royal Kemer

Geoid

Maxx Royal Kemer opened this summer in the wonderful landscape of Kiriş, on the Turkish coast in Antalya Province. The resort nestles at the foot of a

#Report

ME by Starck - An essential approach to technology

Over the years, the collaboration between Duravit and Philippe Starck has brought to life numerous bathroom collections characterised by minimalist lines, techn

#Design

Renovation of a private apartment

Enrico De Mori

The loft in this revamping project by Enrico De Mori is part of an 18th-century building in the heart of Pieve di Soligo in Treviso province. The edifice, overl

#Report

Max Exterior - Colour and character for buildings

The new Max Exterior collection of external claddings and coatings from Fundermax offers designers and clients an array of solutions that can bring character an

#Design

Residenza Privata - Cannes, France

The wonderful hills gazing out onto the bay of Cannes are the delightful setting for this house in which inside-outside dynamics and the extremely fluid layout

#Design

Pixel Offices

Jems Architekci

Designed by Jems Architekci, Pixel’s Poznan office building - the first of what will be a five-volume complex - is located in a peripheral area south west

#Report

Architectural studio

Xavier and Rachel Fromont

Xavier Fromont’s architectural studio is located in Douvaine, in Haute-Savoie, and it is like a manifesto for the philosophy the architect and his wife -

#Report

Tree of Life

For Expo 2015, Mapei has supplied materials and technology to the companies building the national and cluster pavilions, the service buildings and the various i

#Design

The Plan 084 [09-2015]

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