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A vibrant place to study
Town House, Kingston University in London
London Kingston University's new central entrance building by Grafton Architects has just won the Mies van der Rohe Award 2022.
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Homage to the 100th birthday
Happy Birthday, Otl Aicher!
Thinker, designer, typographer, teacher and much more: on 13 May, Otl Aicher would have been 100 years old. His designs still shape the way we communicate every day.
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Sculptural courtyard apartment building
Ilot Queyries in Bordeaux by MVRDV and Flint
In Bordeaux, the Ilot Queyries residential complex by MVRDV and local co-architects Flint saw its completion last autumn.
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Culture in Brooklyn
Art Campus on Three Blocks by SO-IL
The north side of Brooklyn is currently undergoing transformation from an industrial area into a residential district. The Amant Art Campus, where art is created and displayed, is providing an impulse for this shift.
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Timber construction premiere in Gothenburg
Nodi Office Building by White Arkitekter
The Nodi office building by White Arkitekter, the first constructed in wood in Gothenburg, demonstrates both the climatic and visual merits of the natural material.
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Translucent cube
Taipei Performing Arts Centre
Taipei’s new centre for performing arts by OMA und Kris Yao | Artech offers flexible spaces for a wide variety of performance formats.
Cultural Centre in China by Zone of Utopia and Mathieu Forest
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A folded roof
Addition in Catalonia by Taller Sau
In the Catalan village of l’Esquirol, the architects from Taller Sau have expanded a multi-storey row house by a small addition with a V-shaped roof.
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A plug-in city for culture
Taipei Performing Arts Centre by OMA and Kris Yao | Artech
Taipei’s new centre for performing arts combines three very different auditoria, some of which can be combined with each other, into a flexible whole.
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Sacred curve sketching
Church Addition in Leipzig
In Leipzig, Irlenbusch von Hantelmann Architekten have expanded the Zuckelhausen church not only with a new sacristy, but a parish room as well.
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New book release
New BIG Monograph with 20 Projects
The new monograph published by Edition Detail shows the design, construction and technical means with which BIG's buildings have been transformed into reality. The volume documents 20 built projects.
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Modular Construction
Even before the most recent German parliament elections, it was clear that a lot more space was needed due to the many overhang seats resulting from the country’s proportional representation system. But where could all the new delegates and their staff go? There was little time to erect a new building and ambitious efficiency and sustainability targets to meet. The answer is Luisenblock, a seven-story building accommodating 400 delegates in the nation’s capital of Berlin. Thanks to its modular design, planning and construction took only two years. Designed by Sauerbruch Hutton, the flagship office building opened its doors in December 2021. Not only did it stay within its 70 million euro budget, its sustainability concept includes a “woodcycle” component: the 2,500 m³ of wood used for construction will be offset by planting an equivalent amount of new trees. The building on Berlin’s Spree River is one of many compelling modular construction examples presented in our May issue. We document outstanding examples worldwide with their diversity of materials, structural details, and building typologies. Happy reading! Sandra Hofmeister
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Affordable housing
La Borda Cooperative Building
The first cooperative building in Barcelona has just been awarded the Mies van der Rohe Award "Emerging Architect".
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Inflatable structures
Hans-Walter Müller’s Pneumatic Architecture
In recognition of a lifetime devoted to inflatable structures, the Tyrolean Architecture Centre is staging an exhibition on the pioneer of air-supported volumes and his oeuvre.
Best of David Chipperfield Architects
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BIM strategies in architectural offices
BIM as a Driver for Communication
Simon Wiesmaier of David Chipperfield Architects Berlin states that BIM drives connectedness − even beyond the limits of the office and project.
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Project completion
David Chipperfield’s Restoration of the Procuratie Vecchie in Venice
A venerable frame for a painstaking renovation: even after the restoration, the Procuratie Vecchie will preserve the face of the Piazza San Marco.
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A digitally planned landmark
Elbtower in Hamburg by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin
Once completed, the Elbtower will set an exclamation mark into the east end of Hamburg’s HafenCity. In planning the tower, David Chipperfield Architects combined parametric tools with a BIM model right from the start.
Unsere Buchempfehlungen
Best of Digital Lab
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Taiyuan Botanical Garden
A Trio of Domes for Species Conservation
Delugan Meissl provides nature and civil engineering a spectacular showcase at Taiyuan Botanical Garden.
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BIM strategies in architectural offices
No One Can Learn to Walk for You
As an architecture studio, you should have taken your first steps with BIM before you encounter the method as a client requirement, says Matthias Pfeifer of RKW Architektur +.
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Where 132 concrete flowers bloom
Digital Structural Engineering for Little Island in New York
Little Island – a structure about 1 ha in size in the Hudson River – is undoubtedly the most extravagant park in New York. Three-dimensional parametric models were indispensable for the planning of the 132 tulip-shaped concrete piles that support it.