Digital Lab
Insights into architecture's digital laboratory
We report on the latest innovations and developments. With presentations on digital processes and tools, from 3D printing and additive manufacturing to building information modelling and building automation.
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Venice Architecture Biennale 2025
The Biennale, A Construction Site?
High-tech, low-tech, and AI: The 19th Architecture Biennale doesn’t refuse to showcase architecture – but does it meaningfully engage with the pressing realities its audience faces?
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When algorithms garden
The Avanade Intelligent Garden by Studio Weave
Studio Weave has teamed up with landscape architect Tom Massey and furniture designer Sebastian Cox to create an intelligent garden. This experimental urban garden uses artificial intelligence to extend the life of city trees.
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Robot chapel
Housing for a Milling Robot near Barcelona
Students at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Architecture (IAAC) designed an almost sacred-looking shelter for a milling robot on their university campus near Barcelona.
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Kinetic shading system
Sombra Pavilion in Venice by MVRDV
MVRDV and partners present the Sombra Pavilion – an architectural experiment in the dynamic control of light, heat and ventilation.
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Architecture Biennale 2025 in Venice
Saving the World Out of the 3D Printer?
Material experiments using 3D printers are booming at this year's Architecture Biennale. But what real problems of our world are they supposed to solve – and by when?
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Multifaceted meeting place
Company Headquarters with Curved Atrium in Switzerland
The Institute for Computer-Based Design and Construction (ICD) at the University of Stuttgart designed a curved, cross-laminated timber atrium for timber construction company Blumer Lehmann.
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Kinetic shading system
Sombra Pavilion in Venice by MVRDV
MVRDV and partners present the Sombra Pavilion – an architectural experiment in the dynamic control of light, heat and ventilation.
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Architecture Biennale 2025 in Venice
Saving the World Out of the 3D Printer?
Material experiments using 3D printers are booming at this year's Architecture Biennale. But what real problems of our world are they supposed to solve – and by when?
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Digital planning, robotic production
Willow Trees of Steel by Peter Haimerl
Two building-high, computer-generated willows of steel cover the transparent new building by Peter Haimerl and add a bit of shine to the market square of the northern Bavarian basket-weaving city of Lichtenfels.
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Robotic production
An Innovative Facade Garment for Textile Research
Reutlingen University has moved into Texoversum, the new building devoted to textile research. The robotically produced shell of fibrous composite materials represents a collaborative project by Allmannwappner Architekten, Menges Scheffler Architekten and the structural engineers from Jan Knippers Ingenieure.
Living
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Regional connections
Semi-Detached Houses in Catalonia by Taller Sau
In Vidrà, a small village in the Catalan foothills of the Pyrenees, Taller Sau have designed two semi-detached houses with a regional connection and a high level of structural efficiency.
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100 percent natural
BioHome3D from the University of Maine
The University of Maine's BioHome3D is the first house to be 3D-printed out of bio-based materials. It consists of wood fibres and bio-resin and is completely recyclable.
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Building on a large scale
100 Houses from the 3D Printer by BIG
Robots are constructing the world’s largest 3-D residential community: In the Texan city of Georgetown, the BIG studio is building 100 houses.
Books
Climate & Ressources
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Sensitive handling of existing structures
Pillows Grand Boutique Hotel by Office Winhov
A former laboratory and museum are being transformed into a five-star hotel in the park. The design strikes a sensitive balance between old and new, harmoniously combining history, architecture and park.
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A profiled glass shell
Energy Centre in Zurich by Graber Pulver Architects
In this infrastructure project in western Zurich, the building's structure and technical features are visible through a profiled glass facade. Graber Pulver has created a modern cathedral of energy supply.
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Industrial culture meets commercial ruin
Gate M West Bund Dream Centre in Shanghai by MVRDV
Located on the west bank of the Huangpu River, MVRDV has transformed the remains of an old cement factory and the ruins of a failed revitalisation project into the city's latest cultural and entertainment hub. The architectural firms Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Atelier Deshaus assisted them in this endeavour.