Museums, theatres, libraries and concert halls: project documentation and technical articles on cultural buildings, from room acoustics to materiality.
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.
The Glasshouse Theatre adds a fifth venue to the heritage-listed Queensland Performing Arts Centre. It can be flexibly used for concerts, operas, and dance and theatre performances. The glass facades of the deeply cantilevered foyer visualise the theatrical art of illusion on the exterior.
In their restoration of the Monastery of Santa María of Sijena, Pemán y Franco and Sebastián preserve traces of destruction, rebuilding, and decay spanning 800 years. Recently, they remodelled the east and north wings into an exhibition space for the convent’s valuable artworks.
The commissioned conversion of a metal workshop in Madrid goes far beyond architecture. With its combination of office space, cultural offerings, and catering, the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation is making a - rather ambitious - statement about process culture in the construction industry.
From yoga to retro parties: with the Markelfingen multi-purpose hall on Lake Constance, Steimle Architects have designed a meeting place for all generations. Beneath the widely cantilevered coffered ceiling, adaptable spaces have been created using timber construction.
Annabelle Selldorf believes that a good detail is efficient, intelligent, and tactilely intelligible. In this interview, the Cologne-born, New York-based architect explains why architecture has a lot to do with listening.
The founder of MAD Architects talks about the Fenix Museum in Rotterdam, the hutong that shaped his childhood, and the limits of AI in design.
Originally, only an artistically designed service station was planned along the tourist route in the hilly countryside of southern China. Luo Studio has transformed this into an exhibition building that celebrates the region's historic bridge-building heritage.
For a long time, an undeveloped plot of land lay next to Corbara Church. The new village square with its community centre not only blends in perfectly with the local topography - its retaining walls and facades were also constructed using earth excavated from the building site.
In Garrison, New York, Studio Gang has created the first permanent venue for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare theatre company. The Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center is a valuable addition to the entire performing arts scene.
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have shaped contemporary architecture like few others, with an impressive portfolio of nearly 700 distinctive built and unbuilt projects.
Ansgar Schulz supervised the construction of the Mother-of-Pearl Immersive Museum in Adorf, Saxony, from the very beginning. In our interview he describes which challenges the realisation of the hypar shell entailed and why rain played a central role in addressing them.