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Best of 2022

The various book series in the Edition Detail selection range from construction atlases to monographs featuring building details, as well as the Detail praxis books, which provide information about implementing specific building tasks. These three books have particularly inspired our readers this year.

Small is beautiful

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.

To learn from nature

The new research facility of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) was built on a 130-hectare former farm.

Best of 2022

At the end of the year, we present three urban housings that have convinced our editorial team in every respect.

Typological diversity on the outskirts of town

This two-part building complex in northeast Helsinki demonstrates the quality of public housing in Finland. In terms of both typology and facade design, the architects favoured the greatest possible degree of diversity.

Fireproof living in a grid

The Frame House by Mork-Ulnes Architects is a single-family home in California. After wildfires ravaged the client’s family home, this new house is armoured against future disasters.

DETAIL Award 2022

Boltshauser Architects won the Detail Award 2022 with their kiln tower for the Brickworks Museum in Cham.

DETAIL Award 2022

With its 34 living units and many communal areas, this wood-hybrid construction by Einszueins Architektur was planned participatively. We would like to introduce the winner of the Detail Award 2022.

Sustainable learnscapes

With the Infanteriestrasse primary school in Munich, Behnisch Architekten have transformed a former barracks into an educational ensemble consisting of a five-track school, all-day childcare facility and gymnasium.

Pilot project for self-sufficiency

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) has been operating a research and teaching campus on a converted farm outside Barcelona for several years. Now the students have added a greenhouse to the property.

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Radical reduction

In Madrid, architects Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño of Takk Architecture have transformed this 110-m² apartment owned by a family of three into one that meets passive-house standards.

Printed habitats

A different way of cohabitation: The Symbiotic Spaces Collective investigates how humans and non-human creatures can live together in the city.

Expansion according to the knapsack principle

With their renovations in Babylon, a town on Long Island, New York architects Architensions have created a subtle, subversive counterpoint to the monotony found in American settlements of single-family dwellings.

Innovation meets low-tech

With Casal Trinitat Vella, Haz Arquitectura have realized a community centre in Barcelona made (almost) entirely of wood. An intelligent energy concept completes the structure and minimizes its carbon footprint.

Exhibition

The House of Architecture in Graz looks at the work of Snøhetta.

Sustainable living space

The Valldaura Labs on the outskirts of Barcelona created Tova, Spain’s first 3D-printed loam construction, in just seven weeks.

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