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A unique experience of nature

The new Mon Repos Turtle Centre by Kirk is a visitor and research centre in one.

Spiral repetition

This residential building by the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in Aarhus is based on a modular concept and generous outdoor areas. It fits into the master plan for its district in the northern part of the Danish city.

Exhibition in Karlsruhe

Until June 2023, the ZKM Karlsruhe is hosting an exciting solo exhibition devoted to Ole Scheeren, a German architect known around the world for his residential and high-rise projects.

Dining in a maritime ambience

A team made up of Arquid Architects and designer Olga Quintana has transformed an old bazaar in Madrid into a design bar. A long curved counter made of steel and grey granite is the centre of attention.

The theory of digitisation

Over the past few years, digitisation in the building sector has mainly been examined from the technical perspective and accordingly dealt with on a pragmatic basis. An anthology compiled by three architects teaching at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) now takes things further by focusing on the cultural dimension of new design processes and how the analogue and digital spheres have come to intermesh in the meantime. 

Under water but rich in views

Due to its prominent location, the Water Drop Library in the coastal town of Pinghai draws more attention to the South China Sea than to the presented reading matter.

An optical shop and more

In the Japanese city of Maebashi, Yuko Nagayama & Associates have combined an optical shop with a café. Behind a striking copper facade, the new building unites shopping and leisure.

Surrounded by forests and lakes

North of Berlin, amid the far-reaching rural idyll of Brandenburg’s Uckermark region, an unusual building asserts itself with architectural sensitivity and transparency.

White marble for a green campus

The elegant white structures of the new administration building for the Universidad de Málaga are arranged in strict geometry around two inner courtyards. The new lecture hall, which can seat 800 people, is right next door.

Designed with photovoltaics and solar thermal energy

The design possibilities that photovoltaics and solar thermal energy systems can offer architecture are demonstrated by the winners of the Architecture Award for Building-Integrated Solar Technology, who were announced at the end of 2022.

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Resource-saving renovation

In renovating and expanding an old townhouse in Linz, the architects from Mia2 were able to reuse many building components.

Repurposing a prison

In the Catalan city of Reus, the architects from Josep Ferrando Architecture and Gallego Arquitectura have repurposed this prison building, which was built in 1929, into a social centre.

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Refurbishment

Apart from the ecological, social, and economic necessity to do so, adaptive reuse often raises unforeseen structural and detailing issues, which we address at the start of the year. We docu­ment seven selected projects energy-efficient renovations, the addition of new functions to existing buildings, the densification of inner-city areas, and conversion.

A touch of colour on the arterial road

Archetypal shapes and gleaming colours characterize Philippe Gibert’s design for six multifamily buildings featuring social housing in the eastern French city of Châlons-en-Champagne.