PLUS to DETAIL 12/2011 | page 1414

The long and narrow shape of the extension of the San Telmo Museum makes ultimate use of the limited space available between the existing buildings and Monte Urgull. Its green façade acts as a transition between nature and urban space.

PLUS to DETAIL 12/2011 | p. 1410

Barmbek is booming: as reported in DETAIL issue 12/2011, ten moorings for houseboats were allocated by the city of Hamburg in 2006 in a to-date unique procedure in Germany. In future, cities located close to water or with rivers flowing through them, are to use the water areas for urban development.

PLUS to DETAIL 10/2011 | page 1195

What looks like the shingle roof landscape of a prehistoric lake dwelling from afar, is in fact the new visitor centre for the Lancashire Wildlife Trust at Brockholes Nature Reserve.

»The best office tower in the world« was the brief given to Norman Foster by his client , the Hong Kong Shanghai Building Corporation. When we visited the building in 1992 and November 2007, it still looked as new as on the day it was finished in 1985. We wanted to know by Lord Foster himself though, what this building meant ...

PLUS to DETAIL 9/2011 | page 1041

Opened in 1984, Deutsche Bank’s twin towers have long become the symbol of Frankfurt’s banking sector. As well as redesigning the interiors, the building equipment will also be updated, with the aim of considerably improving the energy efficiency.

PLUS to DETAIL 7+8/2011 | page 884

Green-covered areas alternate with wooden ramps, a wooden stage, solar collectors and photovoltaic panels: the roof of the Environmental Unit Headquarters in Zaragoza, from Magén Arquitectos, serves as an extended park landscape as well as generating energy. See below for a selection of images documenting its construction.

PLUS to DETAIL 7+8/2011 | page 860

»If we are going to design a Buckminster Fuller exhibition, then I want to personally take care of reconstructing the Dymaxion Car«. What Lord Norman Foster announced at the Bucky Fuller exhibition in the Whitney Museum has now become reality.

PLUS to DETAIL 7+8/2011 | page 896

An expressive silhouette, an iridescent ceramic facade, the synagogue room with ornament relief made from Hebraic letters: the Jewish Community Centre from the architects Maunel Herz in Mainz, Germany, is a fascinating building that takes on a multilayered approach to the history of the Jewish community in Mainz and the meaning ...

PLUS to DETAIL 7+8/2011 | page 872

The metallic bubble in one of Beijing’s hutong districts is a real eye-catcher. Commissioned by an exclusive wine store, MAD architects expanded on the existing courtyard house with a new construction that includes the bubble. Acting as an enclosure for the stairs to the roof terrace, the bubble’s gleaming surface reflects its ...

PLUS to DETAIL 06/2011 | page 743

With their work on the youth hostel – located in a former silk factory – the architects are meeting measures for urban development and interior space with an extension to the building.