Materials

Netherlands | VLISSINGEN
In this south-western Dutch city, Marlies Rohmer designed a building with three schools, a double gymnasium, a nursery, 38...
Colour, Metal

Sweden | LUND
It all began with an open international competition in 2004 for a visitors' centre for Lund's cathedral. The winner was Carmen...
Colour, Metal

United Kingdom | GLASGOW
Although little remains in Glasgow of the building of ships and railway engines which made the city world-famous in the 19th...
Colour, Metal

Switzerland | OBERWENINGEN
Is it its monolithic form, the greyish colour, or the visible seams on the cladding? Whatever the case may be, at first glance...
Colour, Facade, Metal

Germany | HAMBURG
Hafencity is today one of the best-known examples of how a former harbour area can be 'given back' to the city by means of...
Colour, Facade, Stone

United Kingdom | EDINBURGH
The Scotsman Steps are an enclosed public thoroughfare that connect the older upper town of Edinburgh to the lower 'new' town;...
Colour, Stone

Italy | MILAN
This museum, designed by Italo Rota and Fabio Fornassi with light designer Alessandro Perdetti, is located in the centre of...
Colour, Conversion, Interior, Light

Hungary | HÉVÍZ
Just as human skin alters under the influence of sunlight, temperature differences, gravity and age, so this new beauty centre...
Colour, Glass, Light

Greece | THESSALONIKI
London-based Andy Martin Studio created a serene black environment for 'Chan', a pan-Asian restaurant at The Met hotel in the...
Colour, Interior, Light

Netherlands | AMSTERDAM
On Steigereiland, a recent addition to the IJburg island development in East Amsterdam, LLarch architects designed a...
Colour, Interior, Wood