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The Shape of Things to Come

21 january 2019

Safdie Architects has completed a comprehensive renovation of Moshe Safdie’s unit at Habitat 67, icon of modern architecture and historic monument designated by the Quebec Ministry of Culture. The 10th floor duplex unit, which originally belonged to the Commissioner of Expo 67, is perched atop the residential complex, looking across the Saint Lawrence River towards downtown Montréal. The landmark interior was restored to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Habitat 67, in conjunction with a major 2017 exhibition of Safdie Architects’ work at UQAM, entitled “Habitat ‘67 vers l’avenir: The Shape of Things to Come”. 

New Type of Art Space

14 january 2019

Wrightwood 659 is an exhibition space in Chicago, designed by Tadao Ando, who has transformed a 1920s building with his signature concrete forms and poetic treatment of natural light. Wrightwood 659 will be devoted to exhibitions of architecture and socially engaged art. In a city rich with art institutions and internationally known for its architecture, Wrightwood 659 is a site for both intimate experiences of art and architecture, and thoughtful engagement with the pressing social issues of our time.

Living Building for All

24 december 2018

After more than a year of extensive testing and documentation, the Frick Environmental Center (FEC), Pittsburgh, United States, has achieved prestigious Living Building certification, the world’s most rigorous proven performance standard by the International Living Future Institute. Designed by renowned architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, the FEC is the first Living Building in the U.S. that is municipally owned and free and open to the public.

Kindergarten for Active Children

3 december 2018

Japanese architectural firm HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro, specializing in the design of preschool institutions, rebuilt an old decrepit kindergarten located at Izumi city in the south of Osaka. Izumi is a city which manufactures the textile as the main industry from long time ago.

The Shelter of Peace and Tranquility

26 november 2018

In the heart of the Northern California wine country sits a charming small town Sonoma surrounded for miles by the quintessential landscape of rolling, golden hills and rows of grapevines. Climb a nearby winding country road and one finds a scenic survey of the entire region.

House on… a Stalk

15 november 2018

At first glance, this house in Prague may look like a fanciful and whimsical work of art with little regard for practicality, but a deeper inspection reveals that careful computer modeling and budgeting actually informed its unusual design.

Library in Maple Dress

8 november 2018

Murado & Elvira Architects transforms an old 17th century hospital into a municipal Library, enveloping the inner structure in maple wood to accommodate readers while offering a sense of coziness and domesticity.

A Globe for Our Times

1 november 2018

Hardelot Elizabethan Theatre by Studio Andrew Todd revealed as the winner of the prestigious Wood in Architecture Award. Designed Paris-based British office Studio Andrew Todd, the Elizabethan theatre is located in the grounds of the historical castle Chateau d’Hardelot near Calais on the Cote d’Opal, northern France. The Elizabethan Theatre is France’s first permanent neo-Shakespearean theatre, its first naturally-ventilated complex arts building and the world’s first all-curved, exposed CLT building

Speed at Height

26 october 2018

This July marks the 25th annual Festival of Speed at Goodwood House in West Sussex, United Kingdom. The Festival of Speed is a major event in the world motorsport calendar, featuring the latest racers, championship drivers and incredible displays of classic cars. For these 25 years, British artist and designer Gerry Judah, has been commissioned to create the spectacular centerpiece sculpture for the event.

Comfort on Wheels

17 october 2018

They are known for their expertise in housing construction, office buildings and open space design – AllesWirdGut, the architecture firm based in Vienna and Munich. In keeping with the travel season, we present today a project of completely different scale: NILS – the Motorhome by AllesWirdGut. 

Go Outside and Play!

9 october 2018

The International Garden Festival in Grand-Métis, Canada, opens its 19th edition, and is having some fun. It’s fun for the designers – but mostly fun for visitors. The Festival continues its exploration of play with Playsages II – Go Outside and Play! Landscape architects, architects, artists and designers from across Canada and around the world responded to the call for proposals to imagine creative spaces. 

Faster than a Plane

2 october 2018

Cleantech pioneer and billionaire Elon Musk wants you to drive a Tesla electric car or truck, power your home with SolarCity solar panels and store renewable electricity with Tesla Powerwall battery packs. Oh yeah, he also wants to zip you from DC to NYC in less than 30 minutes via Hyperloop pods that can reach speeds of more than 600 miles per hour racing through evacuated tubes. 

Pushing the Boundaries of the Possible

25 september 2018

Stadium specialist Populous is planning to build large-scale spherical music and entertainment venues for the Madison Square Garden Company on both sides of the Atlantic, in Las Vegas and London. The distinctive venues will be branded MSG Spheres and will “feature an iconic design and will be equipped with game-changing technologies that push the limits of connectivity, acoustics, video, and content distribution”.