News from Architecture & Design
-
A rock formation at the confluence
Residential Complex by MVRDV in Rennes
In Rennes, MVRDV have erected the Ilot de l’Octroi residential complex. The polygonal passive-energy buildings are covered in thousands of tiles; the architects have connected the surfaces, colour gradations and shapes of these tiles with the surrounding environment.
-
Structural fire protection
Frame House in California
Mork-Ulnes are designing a single-family house that will withstand future disasters.
-
Best of 2022
The Instagram Favourites of Our Follower
These three articles have particularly inspired our Instagram follower this year.
-
To learn from nature
Greenhouse in Catalonia
The new research facility of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) was built on a 130-hectare former farm.
-
A fresh take on temporary buildings
Performance Space in Munich by Mahlknecht Herrle Architektur
The new "Schwere Reiter" theatre by Mahlknecht Herrle Architektur has been completed following its brief construction period. With its raw rusty facades, the interim building blends in effortlessly with Munich's creative quarter.
-
Culture amid the green
Museum Expansion by Benthem Crouwel Architects
Benthem Crouwel Architects have renovated and expanded the museum in Arnhem. They have painstakingly restored the historical existing structure and expanded it with a wing that juts spectacularly over the garden.
University Building by Augustin und Frank / Winkler
-
A curved production
University Expansion by Medium Architekten
With their expansion building for the Film University of Babelsberg, Medium Architekten have translated various constructive limitations and requirements into an unconventional building concept.
-
Fluid transitions
Single-Family Home near Tokyo
The shell of this house by Taiga Kasai + Chong Aehyang Architecture / Kach surrounds the interior spaces with two layers that flow smoothly into each other.
-
Small is beautiful
Residential Addition in London by Bureau de Change
In London, British architecture studio Bureau de Change have enhanced a home with a glazed addition that will not only enlarge the living space but also create a new connection between house and garden.
-
Perforated sheeting, teaching and learning spaces
University Building by Augustin und Frank / Winkler
For Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Augustin und Frank / Winkler have created a new building on the Leverkusen campus that will introduce a new era and combine several functions under one roof.
Publisher's offer
Find more than 3.800 captivating projects along with detailed construction drawings here!
The Path to a New Architecture
While compiling our personal favourites of the year in the Detail editorial office, I was surprised at the vast scope of projects my colleagues had experienced in 2022. For this issue’s review of the year, they describe their architectural observations in places like Jerusalem, Berlin, and Montagnana, Italy. Together, their discoveries form a kaleidoscope of surprises and thought-provoking insights. And so do our interviews with the architects of the winning projects of the Detail Award 2022. Are we indeed on the verge of a turning point that will fundamentally transform architecture? For Markus Zilker of Einzueins Architektur, who designed the Gleis 21 housing project, winning the Detail award is a call to action: “We must become much moreeffective if we want comprehensive social and ecological transformation,” says the Vienna-based architect. Our Documentation section focuses on this issue’s main theme of building envelopes. It highlights projects that have, each in their own way, already set out on the path to a new architectural era – also in terms of their construction details. We wish you all the best and a successful start to the new year! Sandra Hofmeister
-
Relaxation and safety
Spa in the Allgäu by Beer Bembé Dellinger
The planners from Beer Bembé Dellinger Architekten und Stadtplaner have conceived a new spa area for the Hubertus Alpin Lodge & Spa, a leading wellness hotel.
-
Architecture and engineering
Technoscape – The Architecture of Technology
Rome’s MAXXI Museum for contemporary art extends an historical arc over the connections between architecture, engineering and ecological, digital and technological innovation.
Best of Videos
-
To learn from nature
Greenhouse in Catalonia
The new research facility of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) was built on a 130-hectare former farm.
-
Regional typology
The Flowing Garden
In the Chinese province of Fujian, More Than Arch Studio have designed a courtyard house with a labyrinthine interior.
-
Nature on the roof
Maggie’s Centre Leeds by Heatherwick Studio
A lush, walkable garden is flourishing on the three cascade-like, layered roofs at Maggie’s Leeds. The supporting structure is formed with radially arranged fins made of glulam timber.
Unsere Buchempfehlungen
Best of Digital Lab
-
BIM strategies in architectural offices
We Never Stop Learning – Despite BIM
Even with BIM, “planning at the touch of a button” remains a dream. Anyone who wants to work successfully with the method must be willing to keep learning, says Frank Rudolph of KSP Engel.
-
Dome beneath a vaulted roof
New Museum Building Wisdome Stockholm under a Free-Form Roof
The Free Form roof of Wisdome Stockholm, a new technical museum for Stockholm, comes in a design by the Swedish architects Elding Oscarson along with the Norwegian structural planner Florian Kosche. Execution of the project took place in collaboration with the timber construction specialists at Blumer Lehmann.
-
Architecture and engineering
Technoscape – The Architecture of Technology
Rome’s MAXXI Museum for contemporary art extends an historical arc over the connections between architecture, engineering and ecological, digital and technological innovation.