The building boom in
Madrid (ES) is reaching a climax with the imminent completion of a high-rise
quartet Starchitects descend on
Ireland High-rises are
the talk of the town in flat Copenhagen (DK) Reality check: architect
Tarla Macgabhann comments on the finished Regional Cultural Centre in
Letterkenny (IE) Update: the new Dutch ‘Urban zig-zag’:
a piece of high quality contemporary urban ‘furniture’ in
Tirana (AL) Russia has once again
embraced the practice of holding design competitions, but now not only
in Moscow and St. Petersburg and more...
New projects
JDS Architects’
ski jump in Oslo (NO) is extending a tradition... to the sky! A Hungarian-Japanese team
has won the competition to rehouse Hungary’s ministries in Budapest
(HU) A crematorium in Schiedam
(NL) is Asymptote’s second opportunity to build in the Netherlands Rudy Ricciotti returns
to simple gestures with his ‘giant nest’ in Paris (FR) Erik Nobel’s design
for a broadcasting building in Tallinn (EE) is tasteful, but a missed
opportunity for innovation
Oleg Drozdov
In Ukraine, where people pay millions to spend their lives in ‘historical
fakes’, a European-oriented architect like Oleg Drozdov is seen
as an exotic exception. Working at an urban scale in several of the
biggest Ukrainian cities, he produces positive changes in physical surroundings
as well as in professional circles. Kseniya Dmitrenko investigates the
intellectual background of Drozdov’s work.
New buildings
Denton Corker Marshall’s
Civil Justice Centre in Manchester (UK) confirms the re-orientation
of the city Kalle Vellevoog reinterpreted
Pärnu’s (EE) famous white Funk in his design for a holiday
apartment building A wave-like roof announces
Alberto Nicolau’s new swimming pool in Valdemoros (ES) In a park in Grafenegg
(AT), the next ENTERprise have designed a stage for music festivals
and general lingering Suburban abstractionism
– Johannes Norlander’s first Swedish building, located in
Stockholm For a house extension
in Oelde (DE), Matthias R. Schmalohr finds a new ‘archaic’
form of expression for ecological architecture in the pueblos of New
Mexico If Marks Barfield have
been worried about being typecast by the London Eye, then their Lightbox
Gallery in Woking (UK) will probably do the trick Hin Tan designed Tirana’s
new Mother Teresa International Airport -the first building of modern,
transparent Albania In Vienna (AT), Adolf
Krischanitz and friends have created paradigms in concrete
Wood
Wood is the oldest building material known to architecture and one of
the materials provided by nature itself. Wood can be easily worked by
human hands into just about all the parts one needs to build a house:
the structural frame, the façade and roof cladding, the doors
and windows, the furniture, ornaments, down to most of the tools.
Materia's view on the latest materials
The science of biomimicry looks at how fascinating designs and processes
found in nature might be applied to other fields. How, for example,
the behaviour of red algae might be used to prevent bacteria from attaching
themselves to a surface. Nature-based solutions to technical problems
are being sought all over Europe.
Focusing on European countries, cities and regions
Maximum Security City:
finding solutions that strengthen the city 25 recent buildings worth
visiting in Istanbul (TR), the city that spans two continents and has
a population of over ten million people Home: Jorge Mestre’s
hillside house in Alella (ES)
Buildings from the margins of modern history
In the 1960s and 1970s, many German medium-sized towns that had profited
from the ‘economical miracle’ were building town hall towers.
Some are still standing, but none of them exudes the charm of the 1970s
with as much freshness and elegance as Offenbach am Main’s town
hall (1968-1971), designed by Maier, Graf & Speidel. Christian Welzbacher
takes a look at this triangular tower block with a glassed-over hall.
The building boom in
Madrid (ES) is reaching a climax with the imminent completion of a high-rise
quartet
