Reading architecture: 10 contemporary library projects Today is Italy’s National Day for the Promotion of Literature, an event established in 2009 to promote reading in all its forms. We’ve selected ten library projects previously featured on our site that will give you a small overview of what cultural architecture looks like today. Hot Heart: artificial islands designed for recreation and thermal energy storage Carlo Ratti Associati Hot Heart, a project developed by Helsinki Energy Challenge–winner Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA), has been designed to reduce the CO2 impact of the Finnish capital’s heating systems to reach 2030 targets. Iris Ceramica Group’s new platform: continuous learning opportunities The new web platform webcast.irisceramicagroup was born thanks to the longstanding collaboration between THE PLAN and Iris Ceramica Group. Don’t be fooled; this is not just a simple website, rather a proper Online Learning Academy that offers architects the opportunity to carry out simultaneously their professional activity and high-level training thanks to courses approved by AIA CES-USA and CPD-UK for RIBA members. ACTIVE SURFACES, ceramics that fight Coronavirus The innovative antibacterial solution ACTIVE SURFACESTM by Iris Ceramica Group is subject of a study carried out at the University of Milan to verify its antiviral properties. Lacaton & Vassal are the Pritzker Prize 2021 winners Martha Thorne, Executive Director of the Pritzker Prize, has announced in an Instagram live the winners of the Pritzker Prize 2021: Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal. The 15–minute city: Milan focuses on its suburbs for a polycentric future The 15-minute city is a concept developed by Carlos Moreno, scientific director of the Entrepreneurship, Territory, Innovation program at the Sorbonne in Paris. So, what do this theoretical city and Milan have in common? Everything, because of all the cities in the world, Milan is among the best placed to experiment with new ideas. The Voxel: a green cabin created for lockdown Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) Valldaura Labs The Voxel is a prototype technologically advanced green building, built exclusively with locally sourced natural materials to support the development of a circular bioeconomy in the construction industry. FC-Campus: a glazed façade like an iPhone screen 3deluxe Working with its client FC Ingenieure and tech company Merck, architecture firm 3deluxe has successfully combined innovation, sustainability, and efficiency in a new smart façade by using a technology normally reserved for iPhone screens. Sony World Photography Awards 2021's Professional Contest Finalists The Sony World Photography Awards 2021 finalist photographers for Architecture and Design Architecture on Netflix: Caterpillar House co-stars in Malcolm & Marie Feldman Architecture Netflix’s Malcolm & Marie is one of the first films made entirely during the Covid-19 pandemic. With the cast comprising just two actors, Zendaya and John David Washington, there was plenty of room left for a third star: architecture. Arch NextGen: Mino Caggiula Architects, the new generation of architects on the international scene Architecture, lifestyle, design, living, technology, wellbeing. This is Arch NextGen. The first episode is dedicated to Mino Caggiula, founder of the Swiss architecture practice Mino Caggiula Architects. Pausing for breath: three perfect places for yoga Everyone has their magical place. A place where the spell of childhood has never been broken. A place that, through the simplicity, authenticity, and dreams that still live inside and outside of us, can lead us back to our true essence. Gemeinsam größer II: a prefabricated ecological residential complex on a human scale agmm Architekten + Stadtplaner | Hable Architekten Designed by agmm Architekten + Stadtplaner with Hable Architekten, the “gemeinsam größer II” residential development in Munich was conceived to encourage social interaction between residents and save on transport costs. Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology: the smart city of the future in Nevada Tom Wiscombe Architecture | EYRC Architects Jeffrey Berns, CEO of Blockchains LLC, is ready to build the smart city of the future in Nevada, basing it on blockchain technology. Cascina Merlata: a new way to live in Milan ACPV Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel Cascina Merlata, a residential complex in Milan designed by international architecture and design studio Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel (ACPV), is poised to transform MIND, the Milano Innovation District. The completion date is set for March 2021. Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Center, a future architecture to exhibit Chinese arts Zaha Hadid Architects Zaha Hadid Architects designs the Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Center, the new pole of contemporary creativity in Zhuhai, China, in one of the most modern regions in the world. Mies van der Rohe Award 2022, the 21 Italian projects Italy is competing for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2022 with 18 works created on national soil and 3 abroad MoMA, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America On view from February 20 through May 31, 2021, the exhibition and accompanying publication will examine contemporary architecture in the context of how systemic racism has fostered violent histories of discrimination and injustice in the United States. RENAZCA Madrid: competition winners set to transform Madrid’s AZCA financial district Diller Scofidio + Renfro | Gustafson Porter + Bowman | b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos The team of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Gustafson Porter + Bowman, and b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos won the private tender, offered by RENAZCA, to revitalize the public spaces of Madrid’s sprawling AZCA financial district. The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall changes the face of New York Penn Station SOM | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), an international design studio behind some of the most advanced buildings in the world, is responsible for the new expansion of New York’s famous Penn Station. ‹ 1 2 ... 60 ... 76 77 ›
