Grimshaw redesigns historic Duke University’s West Campus Union with a millennials’ friendly glass box
Grimshaw Architects’ expansion and renovation project for Duke University’s West Campus Union was designed starting from millennials’ lifestyle.
Albert Adrià and RCR Arquitectes design mysterious ENIGMA restaurant in Barcelona
Renowned chef Albert Adrià and Pritzker Prize winners RCR Arquitectes inaugurate ENIGMA restaurant which will create ever changing menus inspired by mysterious interiors developed in collaboration with Neolith® by TheSize.
Neri and Hu’s Suzhou Chapel rises as an ethereal white cube
Suzhou Chapel by Neri and Hu features undulating brick walls leading to a floating white box which glows at night.
Jean Verville meshes art and architecture with three eclectic portrait-installations
Jean Verville’s portrait-installations and living environments reflect their own inhabitants’ personalities with a sharp combination of colours, materials and volumes.
Cutting Edge Pharmacy by Tetsuya Matsumoto conceal high-tech minimalism with serene interiors
Tetsuya Matsumoto’s Cutting Edge Pharmacy in Japan reflects patients’ trust in advanced medicine with a welcoming and essential architecture and linear interiors.
WAF 2017: World Architecture Festival announces 2017 Awards shortlist for its 10th edition
WAF 2017: Projects by Amanda Levete, BIG, Zaha Hadid Architects and Grimshaw have been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival Awards. Completed and Future projects based across 68 countries span from chapels to equestrian centers, exotic resorts and students housing.
Vo Trong Nghia completes Binh House merging foliage and concrete in Vietnam
Binh House by Vo Trong Nghia Architects brings tropical vegetation into Vietnamese urbanscape allowing breeze to whisper sustainably through a three generations-family building.
Ill-Studio redesigns Pigalle basketball court in Paris with 90’s-style iridescent hues
Brightly coloured walls and mind-bending geometric designs transform a Parisian basketball court sandwiched between a pair of apartment buildings into a futuristic sport venue.
Carlo Ratti’s responsive workspace for Fondazione Agnelli tunes new working habits with the internet of things
Personalized thermal bubbles, suspended nets and a co-working office in the orchard. Carlo Ratti Associati completed a digitally responsive architecture for Fondazione Agnelli. The new hub in Turin embraces new ways of net-working by using bigdata and the internet of things.
Asif Kahn and Brian Eno explore the origin of energy for the UK Pavilion at Kazakhstan Expo
A 40,000 pixels wide 360° panorama, a high-tech structure inspired by Kazakh nomadic tents and an immersive soundscape. Asif Khan and Brian Eno invite visitors of Kazakhstan Expo to the UK Pavilion exploring the origin of energy and the history of British innovation from the light bulb to future wonder materials.
2017 London Festival of Architecture: 7 experiences empowering nostalgia for a brighter future in the UK
Ghost stories, a doomed flour mill in the docklands and Battersea Power Station tours. 2017 London Festival of Architecture explores how the city’s architectural heritage can trigger reflection on nowadays challenges through memory.
Frank Lloyd Wright 150th Anniversary: a celebration through movies
From Blade Runner to Game of Thrones, but also Mulholland Drive, North by Northwest and The Big Lebowsky. Archipanic celebrates Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th Anniversary featuring 12 iconic movies filmed or inspired by the American Architect’s masterpieces.
Venice Biennale 2018 to focus on FREESPACE architecture
2018 Venice Biennale will focus on architecture as a civil society tool that provides FREESPACE, “gives shelter to our bodies and lifts our spirits” say curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara.
Welcome to Astana: discover the mesmerising (and eyebrow-rising) architecture of the capital of Kazakhstan
With 2017 World Expo just around the corner, Archipanic explores the wacky architecture of Astana featuring projects by international architects such as Fosters+Partners and Kisho Kurokawa… But also lollipops, beer cans and dog bowls-shaped buildings!
5 architecture and design-related collateral events at 2017 Venice Art Biennale
A Golden Tower on Canal Grande and a resurrected Murano glass furnace; a design dialogue between Ettore Sottsass and Carlo Scarpa. Archipanic selects 5 collateral events at 2017 Venice Art Biennale including Damien Hirst’s major exhibition inspired by a mythological shipwreck and giant hands supporting Venice endangered heritage.
2017 Venice Art Biennale celebrates art with 10 architecture-related pavilions
From Israel “molding” pavilion to US politically charged exhibition but also, floating shrines from Japan and a Bauhaus inspired recording studio. Archipanic picked up 10 architecture-related exhibitions at 2017 Venice Art Biennale.
The Hillel House, a brick cladded Jewish community center in Philadelphia
The vertical branches of menorah candelabrums and prayer garments inspired the Hillel House, Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects’ Jewish community center across Downtown Philadelphia.
Lost in architecture? Archipanic explores Tokyo contemporary urbanscape
Welcome to Tokyo! From the mother of all capsule hotels in Ginza to the Manga district, from Omotesandō flamboyant retail to Blade Runner panoramas and the famous Shibuya Crossing. Our guide features masterpieces by Le Corbusier, Kenzo Tange, Kengo Kuma, Herzog de Meuron and more, but also vertigo views, design museums and rollercoasters piercing skyscrapers.
Around the Corner Grain multi-apartments building conceals public and private with a welcoming attitude
Around the Corner Grain building by Eureka and MARU architecture combines 7 private apartments and public outdoor spaces at street-level.
TAKATINA Black Box house in Tokyo suburbs is wrapped by corrugated dark metal cladding
TAKATINA’s Black Blox house is a dark cladded monolith encasing a light-filled loft with a private garden in Tokyo residential suburbs.
Where They Create: Paul Barbera photographs Japanese creativity in the making
Where They Create photo essays by Paul Barbera explores working spaces and daily routines of 32 leading Japanese creatives such as Tadao Ando, Nendo and Schemata Architects.
Snøhetta redesigns Times Square, doubling the amount of public space
Snøhetta officially opens a 2.5 acres pedestrian plaza at Times Square. The most visited destination in the US welcoming over 45 million people each year, has been redesigned according to the needs and expectations of both New Yorkers and tourists.
Pyongyang architecture: Soviet imprint and North Korean regime influences
Raphael Olivier portrays Pyongyang austere towers and monuments which convey a brutalist sense of leadership weaved into the urban fabric of the North Korean capital.
Shigeru Ban’s CARTA collection for wb form is made of cardboard tubes
The CARTA collection by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban features tables, stools, chairs and chaise lounges made of paper tubes used to store architectural drawings and birch plywood frames.
L.A. residential? Three great stories aiming to curb Los Angeles homelessness emergency
LA residential housing, functional nomadic shelters designed by architecture students and a popular vote to raise $ 3.5 bn for those in need… How a creative and supportive attitude could contribute to curb Los Angeles homelessness issue.
RCR Arquitectes wins 2017 Pritzker Price as a team defeating hype and starchitecture
Unity of materials and the strength of the meeting of minds. These are the values of the founders of Catalan studio RCR Arquitectes who won 2017 Pritzker Prize by humbly avoiding international limelight.
Back in the USSR: Peter Ortner’s photo essay unveils the unexpected vernacular architecture of Soviet bus stops
Back in the USSR: Peter Ortner photographed bus stops from Moldova to Uzbekistan revealing an vibrant “architecture of waiting”.
Vitra Design Museum explores our love-hate relationship with robots
From Terminator to smart floor sweepers but also 3D printers for bridges and responsive fashion designs. Shall we trust robots? Vitra Design Museum looks into our complex relationship with intelligent machines that could either save our lives or steal our job.
Santiago Calatrava’s £ 1 billion plan for Greenwich peninsula, London, “will not go over budget”
3 tapering white towers, a 25 meters-high winter garden and 25% of affordable housing. According to London Mayor, Santiago Calatrava’s Greenwich Peninsula plan, his first project in London, proves that the city will still be open to investments after Brexit.
Bruno Gaudin and Virginie Brégal renovates the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris
Grand vaults and an alchemy of wood, cast iron and light. The historical site of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France has just reopened after ten years of renovation works by Bruno Gaudin and Virginie Brégal.