The new UCCA Clay Museum advances the millennia-old tradition of artisanal ceramics the Chinese metropolis Yixing is renowned for. An armour of red clay tile encloses the exhibition spaces and the open timber roof constructions above them – an expressive space for the presentation of modern ceramic art.
The design of the museum began with a largely cleared site, yet without an operator. Yutaka Terasaki and Bao Mengxian report on how Kengo Kuma & Associates planned the building without needing a detailed briefing.
Anyone who has spent years writing about conversions should try one at some point. So we rebuilt our own website while in use: detail.de and DETAIL Inspiration are now a single platform. Our aim is to be more useful in everyday practice and to offer good architectural journalism with DETAIL's familiar look behind the facade.
2027 brings a new edition of the Detail Architecture Award - and, for the first time, a prize for affordable housing. Entries close end of October.
EMI Architekt*innen from Zurich offer residential designs that allow for individual adaptation. Elli Mosayebi, a partner at the firm, explains how this approach fits perfectly into the age of globalisation and digitalisation.
Herzog & de Meuron has extended the Mandarin Oriental restaurant on Lake Como. Using local materials plus a new lighting and colour scheme, they draw attention to the surrounding landscape.